As Israel fires on activists, BDS movement claims victories Report, The Electronic Intifada A home in Nabi Saleh village is occupied by Israeli soldiers, 22 October 2010. (ActiveStills) At least fifteen Palestinians were injured in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on Friday, 22 October, when Israeli forces opened fire at a demonstration against the wall and ongoing land confiscation. Villagers "marched alongside Israeli and international supporters towards the village lands, where Israel is building the wall," the Palestinian News Network...
OECD and Israel's "tourist" colonization of Syria's Golan
Charlotte Silver Israeli tourists visit an abandoned army post from the 1967 war in the occupied Golan Heights. (Moti Milrod/MaanImages) On 20 and 21 October, the 86th session of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) tourism committee was held in Jerusalem. Leading up to the conference, there was conjecture on how the member countries in attendance would handle Israel's tourism policies regarding the occupied territories: the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip and the Syrian Golan Heights. The Palestine Liberation...
Egyptian song and dance lift Gaza weddings
Rami Almeghari Members of the Samara dance troupe. (Rami Almeghari) Samara is the name of a new Palestinian-Egyptian dance troupe in the Gaza Strip. The word samara is also the equivalent of "black" in English, and the troupe members chose it because the majority of them are black, and were born, raised and perform in nearby Egypt. For the past four months, Samara has playing at weddings across the Gaza Strip -- their performances characterized by Egyptian-style songs, dances, flutes and drums which differ markedly from the more familiar Palestinian...
Police repress convergence on UK weapons factory
Bridget Chappell Police cordoned off activists and outnumbered them three to one. (Tom Wills) As Israeli warplanes flew over Gaza on 13 October, activists converged on Brighton, United Kingdom for the annual mass action against the local EDO/ITT factory that produces components used in weapons by the Israeli Air Force, amongst others, to devastating effect. Faces clad, dozens of protesters attempted to break through police lines. Outnumbered by police three to one, the activists were chased down, detained and arrested. The surreal background symphony continued:...
Ardent Zionist turns boycott advocate
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, Yonatan Shapira (Mel Frykberg) Occupied East Jerusalem (IPS) - A former captain in the Israeli Air Force, previously an ardent Zionist who lost many members of his family in the Holocaust, has been labeled a psychopath and denounced by many Israelis for the moral stand he has taken against the Israeli occupation. Yonatan Shapira, 38, was fired from his job, has been verbally abused in public, subjected to death threats in newspaper talk-back comments, called a traitor by many Israelis, falsely charged with...
Tutu urges South African opera to boycott Israel
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday urged the Cape Town Opera to abandon a trip to Israel next month, saying Palestinians would not have equal access to the performance.
"Cape Town Opera should postpone its proposed tour next month until both Israeli and Palestinian opera lovers of the region have equal opportunity and unfettered access to attend performances," he said in a statement.Tutu, who served as archbishop of the Anglican Church in Cape Town during apartheid, compared the situation of Palestinians to that of South Africans under white minority rule.
"Just as we said during apartheid that it was inappropriate for international artists to perform in South Africa in a society founded on discriminatory laws and racial exclusivity, so it would be wrong for Cape Town Opera to perform in Israel," he said.
"Only the thickest-skinned South Africans would be comfortable performing before an audience that excluded residents living, for example, in an occupied West Bank village... while including his Jewish neighbours from an illegal settlement on occupied Palestinian territory."
Tutu retired from public life this month on his 79th birthday, bringing down the curtain on a celebrated career spent advocating non-violent protest in the pursuit of social change.
The archbishop won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his struggle against apartheid, and has since travelled the globe to promote peace efforts from the Middle East to the Solomon Islands.
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