For the first time in Israel’s history, a political movement has been declared an unlawful association on the basis of government claims that are not grounded even ostensibly in security rationales, but instead are based on ideological reasons. The Israeli defence minister’s administrative order outlawing the northern branch of the[…]
Israeli forces have killed four Palestinians in in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, taking the total Palestinian death toll since the start of October to 134. Thursday’s killings come on the heels of months of escalated violence in Israel and the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the[…]
The South African government is facing a storm of criticism over the choice of water cannons used by the South African Police Services (SAPS) to curb local protest action. On Sunday, the City Press newspaper reported that water cannons used on demonstrators during the recent wave of #FeesMustFall protests may[…]
By Nabila Ismail – The Media Review Network (MRN) notes with great disgust and disappointment the South African Police Services (SAPS) purchase and use of riot-controlling (water cannons) vehicles from the Zionist Apartheid State of Israel. According to weekend newspaper reports the vehicles used by SAPS during the #FeesMustFall campaign[…]
The Israeli authorities on Monday announced measures aimed at relaxing severe movement restrictions on Palestinian Christians during the Christmas holidays. Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said in a statement that the measures would “facilitate” visits by Palestinian Christians to and from the occupied Palestinian territory to[…]
Over 25 local municipalities and regional governments in the Spanish State, including in Catalunya and the Basque Country, have endorsed the BDS boycott of Israel and similar resolutions. Recent municipalities include Diputación of Sevilla, Badalona, Terrassa, Santiago de Compostela and last month in November, Cabildo of Gran Canaria. One year[…]
As South African scholars, we want to pledge our support and commitment to the Palestinian people.” This was the declaration from Prof. Robert van Niekerk of the Rhodes Palestine Solidarity Forum and a signatory of a new campaign, which will see 200 South African academics from the country’s top tertiary[…]
Palestinians have denounced Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon’s announcement that there is not “enough proof” to prosecute Jewish settlers who burned alive a Palestinian family in late July. The arson attack took place nearly five months ago in the occupied West Bank village of Duma and killed three members of[…]
Israeli forces on Wednesday shot dead two Palestinians during a predawn military raid in the Qalandia refugee camp near Ramallah, locals and medics said. Locals in the occupied West Bank refugee camp told Ma’an that hundreds of Israeli soldiers and dozens of military vehicles stormed the area around 1 a.m.,[…]
Some 204 South African academics have signed a declaration committing themselves to supporting the rights of the Palestinian people. Expressing concern with “Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land” and “the intolerable human rights violations that it inflicts on all sections of the Palestinian people”, the academics pledge not to accept[…]
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