Press release by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign 5/6/2014 The annual general meeting of global security company, G4S, was severely disrupted today by campaigners protesting about the company’s alleged complicity in human rights abuses and breaches of international law. Instead of discussing issues such as capital growth, the AGM was dominated by the subject of G4S’s …
Category: Occupation
No more ‘we must avoid any act that will derail the peace process’ please
Image from the Guardian Western powers have been adamant over the years that they will not firmly criticise, let alone sanction Israel because any act could derail the peace process. Let us out to one side the fact that the process has become an illusion that has not led to peace. In fact it has …
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Is Israel’s reliance on unconditional backing coming to an end?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Image from the Telegraph I am not jumping to conclusions and assuming the US, or the EU for that matter, is making a radical change in policy towards Israel. Should a veto be required in the UN Security Council, the US Index finger will rise without hesitation. But for the …
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Palestine: a vital issue for Trade Unionists
Will be speaking at GMB Conference Fringe meeting in Nottingham
Abu Hayya, an example of the brutality of the IDF
Wattan News Agency today carried a story about how the IDF arrested and abused wounded prisoner Abu Hayye. Daoud Abu Hayye (27) from Nablus described how he was arrested by the Israeli army to the Prisoners' club lawyer who visited him in Alramle prison surgery. On the 11th of March an Israeli force raided his …
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Which Norman Finkelstein turned up to Aljazeera Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan?
I attended the recording of Aljazeera's Head to Head with Professor Norman Finkelstein at the Oxford Union on the 30th of May. Finkelstein is a well known supporter of an end to the occupation of Palestine. He has been writing and speaking about this iussue for 30 years and believes that his anti-occupation stance has damaged his …
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To Palestinians, Israel is a colonialist, racist, ethnic cleansing, occupying, Apartheid state
Not a day passes without Israel doing something or planning something that angers me. The most recent revelation was reported by Amira Hass in Haaretz yesterday, 21 May. IDF uses live-fire zones to expel Palestinians from areas of West Bank, officer admits. I sat back and wondered what kind of a state does this to …
Abuse of power by IDF commanders: it is official
The online Israeli news website Ynet, reported that IDF ombudsman report reveals abuse of power among commanders . It reports "A career soldier who poured bleach on another soldier's head, an officer who checked his soldiers' body wastes, a commander who forced soldiers to drink until they vomitted and an army doctor who told a …
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Israeli Journalist Amira Hass describes the occupation in 2006.
Here is an excellent description of what the military Israeli occupation means for Palestinians. Haaretz reporter, Amira Hass who lives in Ramallah, uses examples of what this means to her own friends. From Occupation to Enclosure: Fragmenting the Palestinian State
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