Palestine
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Video leading to capture of Cynthia McKinney and Spirit of Humanity
Video taken on the boat “Spirit of Humanity” of Israeli Navy approach and threat before capture of Cynthia McKinney and FreeGaza. Continue reading
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The journey to Gaza begins by Michael Prysner
9 July, 2009 — Dandelion Salad After five days in Cairo, we are ready to set off with vehicles and medical supplies Help the ANSWER Coalition continue its work in the struggle for a free Palestine! We can’t do it without your help! Your financial contribution is urgently needed. You can make a contribution through… Continue reading
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International Journalists Union Expels Israel After Fight Over Politics and Money By Alex Weisler and Nathan Jeffay
The Israeli group –— the National Federation of Israel Journalists — was ousted June 7 in a unanimous vote of the international union’s executive committee. The vote immediately raised the specter of another effort by international unions to boycott Israel for political reasons; recently, a number of academic unions around the world have voted to… Continue reading
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Video: Palestine: I Resist (Never Before Campaign)
Video: “The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”- Woodrow Wilson Continue reading
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Palestine: I Resist (Never Before Campaign)
Video: Palestine – Summarizing different aspects of resistance in 3 minutes is not easy. This video gives a pretty good picture Continue reading
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Action alert for Jenny and Natalie – “You will never leave Gaza”
Since the end of May Jenny has been trying to leave and return home via the border crossing at Rafah into Egypt. She keeps getting turned away, most recently under pretty extreme circumstances, as outlined below. Natalie also needs to leave Gaza in order to take up her place at a British University. The Egyptian… Continue reading
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Cynthia McKinney honored America on July the 4th By Franklin P Lamb
Cynthia Mckinney, without support from her own government, stood up for the principals on which her country was founded 233 years ago and spent Independence Day inside a foreign jail. All people of peace and good salute her and her colleagues who sailed the Freegaza Spirit of Humanity with the universal message of self determination. Continue reading
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The Raids on the Resistances Bookstore Zionist Fanatics Practice Serial Vandalism in Paris By DIANA JOHNSTONE
In the early afternoon of Friday, July 3, five men, mostly masked, stormed into the “Resistances” bookstore located in a quiet residential neighborhood of the 17th arrondissement in northwest Paris. To the startled women working in the shop, as well as two customers, they announcing that they were from the Jewish Defense League and began… Continue reading
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Palestine: Letter from an Israeli Jail By Cynthia McKinney
During Operation Cast Lead, U.S.-supplied F-16’s rained hellfire on a trapped people. Ethnic cleansing became full scale outright genocide. U.S.-supplied white phosphorus, depleted uranium, robotic technology, DIME weapons, and cluster bombs – new weapons creating injuries never treated before by Jordanian and Norwegian doctors. I was later told by doctors who were there in Gaza… Continue reading
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Israel Calls on Jewish Fanatics to ‘Save’ Galilee Nefesh B’Nefesh announced a programme to offer financial incentives to new immigrants By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth
Ariel Atias said he considered it a ‘national mission’ to bring ultra-Orthodox Jews — or Haredim, distinctive for their formal black and white clothing — into Arab areas, and announced that he would also create the north’s first exclusively Haredi town. The new settlement drive, according to Mr Atias, is intended to revive previous failed… Continue reading
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‘Freegaza21’ deportees to arrive at Heathrow 13.30 hours Monday 6th July’
On Sunday 5th July the six British crew and passengers of the Spirit of Humanity were moved to detention cells at Ben Gurion Airport, following a court hearing at which the orders for their deportation from Israel were made. The captain of the Spirit, Denis Healey, and the other five British human rights activists, are… Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: We are NOT the Story, Its Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers. Palestine, the world’s largest open-air prison- Episode 5
Video: Since its founding in 1948 the State of Israel has regularly kidnapped and tortured Palestinians, throwing them into forgotten prisons where they can languish for years. Today, over 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners without benefit of due process, some never even charged – men, women, and children endure torture and isolation in Israeli jails, outdoor… Continue reading
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Gaza activist talks to Al Jazeera from Israeli jail – 4 July, 2009
The Israeli prison guards are denying the right for Mairead to access her medicine. Continue to email and call Mark Regev and Shlomo Dror and express your outrage over the treatment of the FreeGaza21 while they are imprisoned. The women have no access to their luggage or their clothing. Continue reading
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Free Gaza Movement, 4 July, 2009 – Report from the Kidnapped Passengers in Ramle Prison, July 4, 2009
The majority of the group ended up in Ramle Prison. Those of us who are Free Gaza organizers had been hearing some news from them, statements, interviews and letters since they arrived. From the first night, the Free Gaza 21 have been busy trying to get news out of the prison about the illegality of… Continue reading
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Al Jazeera Video Story: “Israel sells Palestinian refugee property” – Adalah
Adalah to Attorney General and Custodian of Absentee Property: Israel’s sale of Palestinian refugee property violates Israeli and international law Continue reading
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Prison Cell, Givon Jail, Ramle, Israel: Interview from a kidnapped passenger, Adie Mormech
This is not about us here in the cells, it’s about the denial of human rights to the people of Palestine, and in particular the inhumane blockade of Gaza. People must not forget about what is happening to Gaza. At the moment they are even being denied food and medical supplies. After the carnage of… Continue reading
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Video: Cynthia McKinney calls WBAIX from Israeli prison
Cynthia and 20 others were detained after being seized by Israeli Navy while in international waters. They were attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. For More Propaganda Countering News Goto Dprogram.net – http://dprogram.net http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/Groupvideo.2868571 more about “Cynthia McKinney calls WBAIX from Isr…“, posted with vodpod Continue reading
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“For Once, the Yes Men Say No” and withdraw their movie from the Jerusalem Film Festival
In the 1980s, there was a call from the people of South Africa to artists and others to boycott that regime, and it helped end apartheid there. Today, there is a clear call for a boycott from Palestinian civil society. Obeying it is our only hope, as filmmakers and activists, of helping put pressure on… Continue reading
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Shmuel Amir – Two Speeches: Obama in Conflict with Netanyahu?
The content of the speech itself was fairly typical of those given by previous prime ministers, its primary purpose being to explain to the world, Israelis included, that it is impossible to put an end to the occupation and settlement. The reason for this is not “God forbid!” that Israel wants to continue the occupation… Continue reading
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UK: Israel kidnaps 21 human rights workers – contact your representatives now
Please email NOW to David Miliband (msu.correspondence@fco.gov.uk) and send a copy to your MP (www.writetothem.com) Continue reading
