Palestinian
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Palestine’s ‘last village’ faces the bulldozers: Lifta to make way for Jewish vacation homes By Jonathan Cook
Although most Israeli drivers barely notice the buildings, this small ghost town — neglected for the past six decades — is at the centre of a legal battle fuelling nationalist sentiments on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 9 July, 2011: Jerusalem Ad: Beautiful apartment, breathtaking view, Jews only
9 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Palestinian Woman Wounded After Army Fired At Homes In Northern Gaza IMEMC – Sunday July 10, 2011 – 04:14, Palestinian medical sources reported on Saturday at night that Israeli soldiers, based near the northern Gaza border, opened automatic fire at a number of… Continue reading
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Free Gaza Movement Supports Call for Military Embargo on Israel
The Free Gaza Movement welcomes, endorses, and supports the Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC) call for an immediate and comprehensive military embargo on Israel. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 8 July, 2011: Israel gives award to tank shell used against civilians in Gaza
8 July , 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Six Palestinians, Including Daughter Of Legislator IMEMC – Saturday July 09, 2011 – 03:30, Israeli soldiers kidnapped on Friday three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank including the daughter of a female legislator from the central West Bank city of Ramallah.… Continue reading
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Ibrahim Hewitt: Israel’s fifth columnists silence Sheikh Raed Salah
Thousands of words have been written about the scandalous arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah by the British government in what is being seen as an attempt to silence him at the insistence of the pro-Israel Lobby. Supporters of the Sheikh from all sides of the political and religious divide in Palestine and beyond have stepped… Continue reading
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Egypt independent trade unions endorse BDS By Hossam el-Hamlawi
London – Representative of the Egyptian Independent Union Federation: “We call on the global trade union movement to cut links with the Histadrut and to support the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS”. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 July, 2011: People are Awakening: The Revolution Has Begun
6 July 2011 — Information Clearing House Palestinian People Power By Alan Hart Marching to the borders of pre-1967 Israel is what the Palestinians should now do, and not only the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip prison camp. They should be joined by Palestinian refugees from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and… Continue reading
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Debate between Omar Barghouti and Jonathan Freedland Why Boycott Culture?
Where basic freedoms are denied and democratic remedies blocked off, cultural boycott by world civil society is a viable and effective political strategy; indeed a moral imperative. Continue reading
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Sheikh’s arrest is an attempt to sabotage the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause Ahmad Chaker Jomaa
What is truly appalling, though, is that Sheikh Salah was arrested after he had already attended a round-table discussion in Parliament on Monday and before he was due again as a guest on Wednesday. Continue reading
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Former IDF Gen Rothschild gets red carpet treatment while Sheikh Raed Salah gets prison cell By Dr Hanan Chehata
With what is appalling timing, given the arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah a week ago on the order of the Home Secretary Theresa May, a certain Maj-Gen (ret) Danny Rothschild spoke in London on Jul 4 at the Royal United Services Institute in Whitehall; he followed this on Jul 5 with a speech in parliament… Continue reading
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PRESS RELEASE: Mr. Raed Salah’s Appeal Lodged
“While the government is doing its utmost to change the British laws on Universal Jurisdiction to make it easier for suspected Israeli war criminals to visit the UK without the fear of arrest warrants being issued against them, at the same time they are happy to arrest Palestinian leaders who have committed no crime but… Continue reading
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Netanyahu’s big fat Greek Wedding By Barak Ravid
Netanyahu has invested in his relationship with Greece over the course of the past year-and-a-half, and his gamble has finally paid off as Greece blocks Gaza-flotilla-bound departures from its ports. Continue reading
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Why is the flotilla heading for Gaza to break the blockade? Nadezhda Kevorkova on Flotilla Free Gaza 2
In May, Egypt announced that it was lifting the blockade of Gaza from its side. This has prompted many to wonder why the upcoming Gaza flotilla is necessary. We found some compelling reasons. Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 30 June, 2011: Fake video accusing ‘Freedom Flotilla’ of bias published from Israeli PM’s Office
30 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Flotilla activists say Irish boat sabotaged in same way Norwegian boat was damaged IMEMC – Thursday June 30, 2011 – 11:39, According to activists on the Freedom Flotilla of aid ships to Gaza, a second boat has been severely damaged by unknown saboteurs who… Continue reading
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Britain accused of collaborating with Israel over Salah arrest
Arab Israelis and Palestinians say arrest of Sheikh Raed Salah in London is ‘strange’ and ‘illegitimate’, and call for his release Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 29 June, 2011: Israel passes draft law requiring Palestinians to pay for their own home demolitions
29 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Israel Remove Structures In Illegal Settlement IMEMC – Wednesday June 29, 2011 – 14:38, Five structures and two tents were raised in the illegal settlement outpost of Ramat Migro in the Northern West Bank on Wednesday morning. Two teenage girls were arrested for allegedly… Continue reading
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Arresting Sheikh Raed Salah: An Israeli trap for Britain By Haneen Zoabi
In arresting Sheikh Raed Salah, the UK authorities support the persecution of Arab citizens of Israel Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 26 June, 2011: What’s Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research? Exposing Israel’s Most Dangerous Secret
26 June, 2011 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Protesters dismantle section of wall in Bil’in village; 7 injured by Israeli troops IMEMC – Saturday June 25, 2011 – 02:42, Protesters in Bil’in village continued dismantling a section of the Israeli Wall that the Israeli army began removing earlier this week, in accordance… Continue reading
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Israel Proves that Flotillas Work By Huwaida Arraf
Israel’s announcement of authorization for construction materials for 1,200 homes and 18 schools in Gaza is the latest achievement by the Freedom Flotilla, scheduled to sail next week. Continue reading
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Israel High Court of Justice vacates verdict in Cast Lead Case
On Wednesday, 15 June 2011, the Israeli High Court of Justice vacated (cancelled) a previous judgment dismissing a case brought by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, and litigated by Advocates Michael Sfard and Carmel Pomerantz, on behalf of 1,046 victims of Operation ‘Cast Lead’. Continue reading
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