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Video: Veolia AGM – BDS Action For Palestine
On Tuesday 17th May 2011 10 BDS activists from the UK, from various groups including London BDS, Palestine Solidarity Camapign, the BDS National Committee, as well as Innovative Minds travelled to Paris to show solidarity and support for french BDS activists in their action outside the Veolia AGM. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 May, 2011: CCR Launches Lawsuit In Connection With Last Year’s Raid of Flotilla Bound to Gaza
26 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Vice-PM Shalom Against Opening Gaza Crossing IMEMC – Thursday May 26, 2011 – 17:08, Israeli Vice-Premier Silvan Shalom has spoken out against the easing of the blockade on Gaza through relaxed restrictions at the Egypt-Gaza crossing at Rafah, according to the Jerusalem Post. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 25 May, 2011: America’s Coming Nakba
25 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Amnesty International Demands End To Destruction Of “Unrecognized” Villages In Israel IMEMC – Wednesday May 25, 2011 – 16:27, Amnesty International has called on Israel to cease the demolition of the Bedouin village of al-‚ÄòAraqib in the Negev desert in southern Israel. Continue reading
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Scandal at the IMF and the Gaza Flotilla Selected Articles
24 May 2011 — Global Research Scandal at the IMF Former Head of IMF Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuses Vladimir Putin of Being Part of a Plot to Have him Fired from his Post – 2011-05-23 Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 24 May, 2011: Israel Cancels Controversial Visit To Josephs Tomb
24 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli TV: “Netanyahu Crushed Abbas During His Congress Speech” IMEMC – Wednesday May 25, 2011 – 02:10, Israeli TV, Channel 2, quoted several Israeli political analysts stating that, during his congress speech on Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, crushed Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 23 May, 2011: Israeli Officials Approve Settler Invasion into Nablus on Tuesday
23 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Activists challenge annual meeting of Zionist lobbying group in Washington DC IMEMC – Monday May 23, 2011 – 21:30, Protesters held a number of events over the weekend to challenge the annual meeting of the largest Zionist lobby in the US, the American Israel… Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: Humanitarian Ship to Enter Gaza Territorial Waters, Break the Blockade By Michel Chossudovsky and Julie Lévesque
23 May, 2011 — Global Research UPDATE Monday 23 May At 8.33am EDT (14.33pm local time) The Spirit of Rachel Corrie lifted anchor and started sailing towards Gaza. UPDATE: 9:53pm EDT, Egypt time 3:53pm “The Egyptian Navy is forcing us out of their territorial waters and has asked us to go to international waters. One Egyptian… Continue reading
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BBC is ‘confusing cause and effect’ in its Israeli coverage By Tim Llewellyn
More than two years after Operation Cast Lead, the BBC continues to confuse cause and effect – Israeli attacks are always reported as retaliation to Palestinian violence or rockets, and the idea that Palestinian rockets, however ineffective, are armed resistance to Israel’s hammering from land, sea and air is rarely broadcast. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 22 May, 2011:
22 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli settlers dump sewage in Palestinian town IMEMC – Sunday May 22, 2011 – 19:07, Sewage and wastewater from the Israeli settlement of Ariel, the largest settlement in the West Bank, has polluted the Palestinian village of Bruqin, which sits adjacent to the settlement. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 21 May, 2011: Demonstrations in the Arab World: Reason for Introspection
21 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Two young men wounded; dozens suffer gas inhalation in Bil’in weekly demonstration IMEMC – Saturday May 21, 2011 – 09:42, On Friday, in the weekly march in Bil’in organized by the Popular Committee Against the Wall with the participation of Sa’di Tameezi, the Palestinian… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 20 May, 2011: PCHR Weekly Report: 2 children killed, 144 civilians wounded this week by Israeli forces
20 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israeli Military On Alert After Friday Prayers IMEMC – Friday May 20, 2011 – 14:49, According to Israeli media group, YNet, the Israeli military has been employed to the border with Syria in the Golan Heights and declared the area a restricted military zone.… Continue reading
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On an old anniversary, a new sense that change is possible By Jonathan Cook
Waving Palestinian flags, the marchers braved a minefield, then tore down a series of fences, allowing more than 100 to run into Israeli-controlled territory. As they embraced Druze villagers on the other side, voices could be heard saying: ‘This is what liberation looks like.’ Continue reading
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BDS update: ‘I went because I needed to go’ By Eric Walberg
International boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activities got a boost at the founding conference of the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS in Ramallah on 30 April. It called on trade unions around the world to sever all links with the Israel labour federation Histadrut. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 18 May, 2011: One Lawman With the Guts to Go After Wall Street
18 May, 2011 — Information Clearing House Israel and Palestine Here comes your non-violent resistance By The Economist What will it take to make Americans recognise that the real Martin Luther King-style non-violent Palestinian protestors have arrived, and that Israeli soldiers are shooting them with real bullets? www.informationclearinghouse.info/article28120.htm Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 18 May, 2011: Amnesty International Calls For Investigation Into Nakba Killings
18 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Prison Protest Expands IMEMC – Wednesday May 18, 2011 – 18:33, Protests against conditions in Israeli jails have continued recently, with two additional institutions joining the hunger-strikers’ action. Continue reading
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TO GAZA WITH LOVE – THE AUDACITY OF HOPE
The U.S. Boat to Gaza Campaign is collecting thousands of personal letters to the people of Gaza from people like you in the U.S., in an act of friendship and solidarity. These letters will be carried as our cargo on the U.S. Boat to Gaza when it sets sail in June 2011 in the next… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 17 May, 2011: Israel’s Nightmare: Nonviolent Palestinians
17 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Local Palestinian Elections Due To Be Delayed IMEMC – Tuesday May 17, 2011 – 15:00, The Palestinian Authority has stated it will delay local elections due to be held in July. The elections are now due to be held on the 22nd of October… Continue reading
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An Empire of Terror – Selected Articles
17 May, 2011 — Global Research The “International Criminal Court”: Prosecuting Gaddafi With Questionable Evidence While Ignoring NATO-Israeli Atrocities – by Andy Dilks – 2011-05-17 Continue reading
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BREAKING NEWS: Israel’s Attack on Humanitarian Ship to Gaza – Updated Report
The Spirit of Rachel Corrie (officially known as FINCH) carrying a humanitarian cargo to Gaza was attacked by an Israeli naval patrol within the so-called Palestinian Security Zone on May 15, at 10.54pm EDT. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 May, 2011: Egypt and Israel Heading for Crisis
5 May, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Hamas To Allow Fateh Leaders To Travel To Ramallah IMEMC – Friday May 06, 2011 – 02:11, The Hamas-led government in Gaza retracted, on Tuesday evening, a previous decision preventing Fateh leaders from leaving the Gaza Strip to attend an official meeting of the… Continue reading
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