December 2011
2 posts
In Gaza, lives shaped by drones
View Photo Gallery — Israel’s close-quarters conflict with Palestinians in the relatively accessible Gaza Strip offers a vivid view of the remote-controlled combat, and of the lives of those affected by these tools of modern war.
By Scott Wilson, Published: December 3
GAZA CITY — The buzz began near midnight on a cool evening last month, a dull distantpurr that within moments...
In Gaza, lives shaped by drones
View Photo Gallery — Israel’s close-quarters conflict with Palestinians in the relatively accessible Gaza Strip offers a vivid view of the remote-controlled combat, and of the lives of those affected by these tools of modern war.
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By Scott Wilson, Published: December 3
GAZA CITY — The buzz began near midnight on a cool evening last month, a dull...
June 2011
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Selling Israeli Militarism Like Toothpaste →
May 2011
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International Demonstrations in Solidarity with...
PROTEST IN BOSTON:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210024405683124
PROTEST IN OTTAWA: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=1201080314020437 PROTEST IN MONTREAL: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210007529021118 PROTEST IN WASHINGTON DC: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=198061640238199 PROTEST IN MIAMI: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113229285427304 PROTEST IN NEW YORK...
Witty tweets from @BoycottAHAVA and the...
Anna_Baltzer - Can #AHAVAReborn heal white phosphorus burns suffered by #Gaza civilians? #IllegalWeaponsofWar #StolenBeauty gu.com/p/24tyj/tw @BirchBox avinunu - #AHAVAReborn? I’d rather apply coarse sandpaper to my skin then use Apartheid Cosmetics made from stolen resources. SydWalker - “I am a #Gazan looking to buy cure for white phosphorous burns for my family, any...
April 2011
6 posts
Demonstrations in all over the world in front of...
الى اصدقاء الحرية والعدالة .الى محبي السلام الى كل اصدقائنا نرجوا منكم المشاركة في المظاهرات في جميع انحاء العالم امام السفارات الاسرائيلية .للتاكيد على حق الشعب الفلسطيني بالعيش بحرية كباقي شعوب العالم .واننا في يوم النكبة اذ نؤكد على ان الشعب الفلسطيني يريد السلام ويبحث عن السلام .ولكنه في نفس الوقت يرفض الاستسلام .ونرفض ان نموت بصمت . اللجان الشعبية فلسطين To the friends of freedom and...
UPDATE: "Stay human" convoy to Gaza - dates,...
www.vik2gaza.org CONTACT Email: vik2gaza@autistici.org Mobile Italy: 0039.333.3666713 Mobile UK: +44 776 8553 982 Mobile French: +33 6635 92028 DATES: We aim to be at the Rafah crossing on May 12th. Departure from Gaza is scheduled for May 16-17. We plan to meet in Cairo on May 11th. Departure time from Cairo will be defined in the next few days. We are also ...
ISM appeal for activists in Gaza
The International Solidarity Movement is appealing for activists to join our team in the besieged Gaza Strip. We are hoping that this coming month’s Freedom Flotilla along with the Italian Stay Human convoy will bring an influx of activists into Gaza who will help carry on the important work that Vittorio Arrigoni was an essential part of before his death. After being barred from Gaza...
Five Non-Monetary Ways to Support Antiwar.com
by Angela Keaton on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 11:56am
1. Like these Facebook pages and suggest them to friends:
Antiwar.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/Antiwarcom/6319907573
Antiwar Radio http://www.facebook.com/antiwarradio2
Causes: Antiwar.com http://www.causes.com/causes/58774
2. Take Antiwar.com materials to your peace events. E-mail akeaton@antiwar.com or erin@antiwar.com with...
Finkelstein Provides Evidence of Israeli War...
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ACTION ALERT April 7, 2011 Contact: news_editor@wrmea.com
Finkelstein Provides Evidence of Israeli War Crimes
The old Richard Goldstone found evidence that Israel committed war crimes in Gaza,
The new Richard Goldstone suggests it didn’t.
Here’s the evidence.
Decide for yourself where is the truth.
An...
alling for experienced activists to come to Gaza
**please circulate widely**
The International Solidarity Movement is appealing for activists to join our team in the besieged Gaza Strip. In recent months numerous people have managed to cross into Gaza through Egypt, so at present, there is a small window of opportunity to enter.
ISM Gaza was reinstated in August 2008, when volunteers traveled aboard the historic, siege-breaking voyage of...
September 2010
1 post
The Palestine Center - Reports and Commentary:...
REPORTS & COMMENTARY From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following recently published articles are worth reading. Israel: Extend Settlement Freeze (Human Rights Watch) Israel should make permanent and total the partial “freeze” on construction in West Bank Jewish...
August 2010
5 posts
First Murder, then Theft and Lies from the...
[London, August 21, 2010] An investigation revealed by Israeli news sources confirms that an Israeli military officer and soldiers stole and sold laptops belonging to passengers on board the Freedom Flotilla, which was illegally boarded by Israeli forces on May 31, 2010.
The Israeli military now claims that “[t]he IDF did not receive complaints of stolen computers after the Navy raid on the...
Support ISM work in Palestine
** please circulate widely ** The ongoing suppression of the Palestinian grassroots resistance has included targeting international solidarity activists. Numerous volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement have been arrested or deported in past months. A tactic of challenging the occupation and the Israeli authorities is via legal measures. As Israel’s crackdown on popular...
Action Alert: Israel May Drag U.S. into Another...
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ACTION ALERT August 5, 2010 Contact: newseditor@wrmea.com
The Council for the National Interest asked us to forward to our readers the following important warning from retired U.S. intelligence officers. We’ve already seen Israel stirring up trouble on its border with Lebanon this week. The United...
"Big Shopping Malls" and "No Humanitarian Crisis...
http://www.prwatch.org/Gaza_Lap_Of_Luxury
“Big Shopping Malls” and “No Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza”
Submitted by Steve Horn on July 26, 2010 - 3:30pm.
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Photo by Kenny Rae, Oxfam America Recently, the newest batch of Israel-related hasbara was released on a mass scale by the Israeli news website,...
The Gaza "shopping mall": reality and hasbara
http://aliabunimah.posterous.com/the-gaza-shopping-mall-reality-and-hasbara
When he came to Washington a few months ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was touting the multiplex cinemas and shopping malls that have supposedly sprouted up in the West Bank as evidence of the “economic renaissance” going on there. There is no such economic renaissance — it is a...
June 2010
7 posts
ADC and MPAC Thank Ambassador Edward Peck for...
ADC and MPAC Thank Ambassador Edward Peck for Insightful Remarks Washington DC | June 25, 2010 | www.adc.org | The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) were privileged to welcome Ambassador Edward Peck and thank him for speaking at the Wednesday, June 23, 2010 event, “Set the Truth Free: The Freedom Flotilla & the Future of...
This is not a Poem; A Massacre is not a Massacre
Ghassan Hage DesertPeace Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:15 EDT
© Anne Paq/ActiveStills Occupation is not occupationI don’t write poems but, in any case, poems are not poems. Long ago, I was made to understand that Palestine was not Palestine; I was also informed that Palestinians were not Palestinians; They also explained to me that ethnic cleansing was not ethnic cleansing. And...
Jewish Boat to Gaza is sailing soon
Press Release Jewish Boat to Gaza is sailing soon In a harbour in the Mediterranean a small vessel is waiting for a special mission. She will be sailing to Gaza during the second half of July. In order to avoid sabotage, the exact date and name of the port of departure will be announced only shortly before her launch. “Our purpose is to call an end to the siege of Gaza, to this...
DID ISRAEL DELIBERATELY MURDER CIVILIANS ABOARD...
PRESS BRIEFING - WitnessGaza.com
DID ISRAEL DELIBERATELY MURDER CIVILIANS ABOARD FREEDOM FLOTILLA?
Israeli Ambassador to the United States admits that ships were “too large to stop with nonviolent means.”
On May 31st, 2010, elite Israeli military commandos stormed six humanitarian aid ships taking part in the ‘Freedom Flotilla’ to Gaza, killing between 9-20 civilian...
Update on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
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ACTION ALERT June 1, 2010 Contact: newseditor@wrmea.com
Update on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
The UN Security Council has called for an impartial, credible investigation of Israel’s raid on the international aid flotilla, in international waters, which left 10 civilians dead. The council began its emergency...
Call for Action by the Palestinian BDS National...
Call for Action by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
1 June 2010
Palestinian civil society calls for intensifying boycott and sanctions as Israel massacres humanitarian relief workers and international solidarity activists
Occupied Palestine, 1 June 2010 - The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) strongly condemns last night’s fatal attack by the...
May 2010
11 posts
A message from Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia McKinney Mourns the Dead of the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza: People of the U.S. and the world must end Israeli impunity now! I am outraged at Israel’s latest criminal act. I mourn with my fellow Free Gaza travelers, the lives that have been lost by Israel’s needless, senseless act against unarmed humanitarian activists. But I’m even more outraged that once again,...
Emergency Rally - NYC
Emergency Rally Monday, May 31, 3 pm, 47th Street & 7th Avenue Follow-up Rally Tuesday, June 1 , 5pm, 42nd Street & 2nd Avenue Israeli Forces Murder Ten Human Rights Activists and Injure Scores More,New Yorkers plan street action and demand immediate freeze of aid to Israel. On Memorial Day, as Americans mourn the loss of lives in our nation’s wars, people in the US and around the...
Israelis Kill 3, Injure Dozens in Assault on Gaza...
Israeli commandos surround convoy, fire live ammunition upon Mavi Marmara, with hundreds of aid workers and activists aboard, including Chicago activist Fatima Mohammadi. Media contacts:
Kevin Clark, Free Gaza Movement/Midwest: FGMinchicago @aol.com, cell 312-259-4380
Fatima Mohammadi, Chicagoan on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Satellite phone: +8821636619168; email: fatmoh@gmail.com
...
Flotilla Welcomed by Israeli War Ships
(Cyprus, May 31, 2010) At 11:00 pm Cyprus time and in international waters off the coast of Israel, the boats were contacted by the Israeli navy. “Who are you and where are you going?” Our reply was that we were part of a flotilla and we were going to Gaza to deliver humanitarian supplies.
On the radar, the boats could see three Israeli war ships shadowing us, and 15 minutes later, a...
Egyptian Statement in Solidarity with the Flotilla
Dear all,
I am writing to you on the behalf of the “We are all resistance” movement (Kollona Muqawama). We salute all of you and each and everyone involved in organizing the Gaza flotilla. We also issued a statement in this occasion that a 234 Egyptian political leaders, members of parliament, labour activists, and student activists signed in support of the mission, all belonging to various...
Emergency numbers for UK people to use re Gaza...
British Govt emergency phone numbers, being circulated around UK e lists. Please forward on to any UK contacts.
Please circulate widely
Free Gaza freedom flotilla. Emergency numbers to phone in the case of concern about the risk to British nationals:
Emergency 24 assistance for British nationals abroad. Foreign office 24 hour number: 020 7008 1500
British Embassy in Tel...
Gaza Freedom Flotilla - We're On Our Way
Saturday, May 29, 2010
After tremendous pressure from the Greek Cypriots, reneging on their agreement with us http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/cyprus-stops-mps-joining-gaza-flotilla/20100529, we were forced to take our MPs and activists to Famagusta yesterday, on the Turkish/Cypriot side of Cyprus. We spent all day going from one port to the next, surrounded by helicopters and police. Clearly...
Minnesota group buys block of radio ads for...
The group of Minnesota activists that organized late last year around the Gaza Freedom March are buying radio ads for an action alert urging their fellow Minnesotans to call the White House, asking for Obama to do something to ensure the safety of the Free Gaza flotilla and its cargo of badly needed medicines, medical supplies, and construction materials, and the passengers of those ships...
Gaza Freedom March Prepares Emergency Response for...
Gaza Freedom March Prepares Emergency Response for Freedom Flotilla As the remaining boats of the Freedom Flotilla left for Gaza yesterday, Israel continues to conduct training exercises to stop the convoy “at any cost.” The Freedom Flotilla is expected to arrive at its destination within 48 hours. A violent response from Israel will breathe new life into the Palestine solidarity...
WRITE! for Justice, International Law, and Human...
The Free Gaza flotilla is on its way to bring much needed supplies to Israeli occupied and blockaded Gaza. Unlike previous Free Gaza boats, this flotilla includes large vessels and will be carrying substantial amounts of reconstruction, medical and school supplies along with 800 passengers from 50 countries. It cannot afford to fail. This is an opportunity to denounce the inhumanity of...
Chicagoans to demonstrate outside Israeli...
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Chicagoans to demonstrate outside Israeli consulate
Thursday, 27 May 2010 at 12 PM: Chicago human rights activists will gather to protest against Israeli intention to illegally block the Gaza Freedom Flotilla from their destination.
A demonstration endorsed by numerous local pro-Palestinian groups will be held outside the Israeli consulate...
March 2010
1 post
"CAT" BDS Initiative - time is limited - forward...
The Stop CAT Coalition, part of Chicagoans Against Apartheid in Palestine (CAAP) are ready to publicly announce our initiative for this year’s Caterpillar shareholder meeting. This announcement has been delayed until now in order to ensure the success of our plans and give Caterpillar the least amount of time possible to react. Unfortunately, this means we need YOU to act fast to help our...
September 2009
4 posts
Call upon President Obama to stand by his promises... →
Dear CCR Supporter, This week the international community has a chance to change course in the fight for justice and peace in the Middle East. We need your help to make it happen. Today, the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, headed by Justice Richard Goldstone, submitted its Report to the U.N. Human Rights Council that documents war crimes including deliberate and...
Divestment can work →
Divestment can work
The targeted boycotting of businesses involved in Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian Territories is legitimate
Seth Freedman
guardian.co.uk, Monday 7 September 2009 16.30 BST
Article history
The Norwegian government’s divestment from Elbit Systems is an entirely appropriate response to Elbit’s business involvement with the...
B'Tselem publishes complete fatality figures from... →
PCHR Publishes ‘Targeted Civilians’ a...
Ref: 40/2009
Date: 08 September 2009
PCHR Publishes ‘Targeted Civilians’ a Comprehensive Report on the Israeli Military Offensive against the Gaza Strip
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) today published ‘Targeted Civilians’ a comprehensive report on the latest Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip (27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009). The report is the...
August 2009
7 posts
Religious Fundamentalism In Israel →
Join the Free Gaza Movement as we mark our First...
“When our governments fail to act, we –the citizens of the world- must stand up and make our voices heard” Free Gaza Movement
On August 23 2008, 44 ordinary people from 17 different countries sailed to Gaza on two small wooden boats, the FREE GAZA and the LIBERTY. We did what our governments would not do - we broke the Siege of Gaza. For the first time in over 40 years, international...
Israel Seeks Ways to Silence Human Rights Groups ... →
Israel Seeks Ways to Silence Human Rights Groups
First Goal is to Stop Gaza War Crimes Revelations
by Jonathan Cook / August 4th, 2009
In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel’s winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.
It has begun by targeting one of the...
PDF resources on Palestine, the occupation, and...
Weekly
Bitterlemons.org: Palestinian/Israeli Crossfire - http://www.bitterlemons.org
Palestinian Center for Human Rights: Weekly Report on Israeli Human RIghts Violations in the Palestinian Occupied Territory - http://www.pchrgaza.org/
Monthly
This Week In Palestine: Monthly Edtion - http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com
Bimonthly
Foundation for Middle East Peace: Report on Israeli Settlement...
Handala.org - Links →
Resources you can use to learn more about Handala, Naji Al-Ali, and the Palestinaian cause.
Stop the Wall (www.stopthewall.org)
US Campaign to End the Occupation (www.endtheoccupation.org)
Breaking The Silence (www.shovrimshtika.org)
International Jewish Solidarity Network (www.ijsn.net)
Institute for Mid east Understanding (www.imeu.net)
Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice...
Israel's Discriminatory Land Policies →
http://www.soundofegypt.com/palestinian/adult/massa... →
July 2009
12 posts
Civilians must now ‘take up task’ of breaking Gaza... →
London, July 29, 2009 (Pal Telegraph) - When governments fail to protect human rights, civilians must step up, human rights group Free Gaza Movement said during a talk at the American University of Beirut on Tuesday.
“Civilians have a very important role to play, especially when government institutions fail to do their job in upholding the law and human rights,” Huwaida Arraf, Chairperson of the...