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On Sunday March 18, 2012, at the Cartoons Festival of Rome, a group of 20 activists of the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel requested, and were granted by the organizers, the possibility to speak See more details
Palestine - Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture
The Palestine-Israel Journal is an independent quarterly that aims to shed light on, and analyze freely and critically, complex issues dividing Israelis and Palestinians. The Journal's purpose is to promote rapprochement and better understanding between the Palestinian and Israeli peoples, and it strives to discuss all issues without prejudice and without taboos. Articles in the Journal represent the authors' views and do not necessarily reflect those of the Editorial Board.
A documentary to be broadcast tonight charts the heartbreaking journey of two brothers from the Krakow ghetto to Israel and of their eventual deep reconnection to each other.
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7 Feb 2012: Kieron Monks: 'Professionalising' Occupy in response to rightwing catcalls would be a serious error. This is the 99%, not the 75%
Kieron Monks | guardian.co.uk
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The 8th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week 2012 | Israeli Apartheid Week
Feb - March 2012 In an open letter dated October 21-2011 , Palestinian students wrote “we hope you put BDS at the forefront of your campaigns and join together for Israeli Apartheid Week, the pinnacle of action across universities worldwide”. In response, organizers across the globe are gearing up for the 8th annual Israeli Apartheid Week in support of Palestinian Civil Society's call for Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS). Last year’s IAW was incredibly successful with 97 cities participating. To accommodate various university schedules across regions, IAW will take place at slightly different times between February and March. Here is a list of dates for the regions confirmed so far:
Intro | arenaofspeculation.org
Access, 2011 (left to right): Israeli ID, West Bank ID, Gaza ID, stateless Palestinian refugee With the continued absence of a credible political process, it has become evermore crucial to view the dominant structures of spatial power in Israel-Palestine as an entrenched reality rather than a passing aberration. This website was born from the pressing need to expose and confront the long-term spatio-political implications of these structures and, more broadly, to engage in forms of agency with the potential to counter them, and to establish paths towards possible alternatives. The term ‘arena of speculation’ was coined by Decolonizing Architecture , referring to an intellectual space of critical debate on the spatial futures of Israel-Palestine.
Israel/Palestine « settler colonial studies blog
John Docker, ‘Instrumentalising the Holocaust: Israel, Settler-Colonialism, Genocide (Creating a Conversation between Raphaël Lemkin and Ilan Pappé)’, Holy Land Studies 11 (2012). With the appearance in 2010 of an essay by Martin Shaw, ‘Palestine in an International Historical Perspective on Genocide’, Holy Land Studies has taken the hermeneutic initiative in bringing together into the one [...] settler colonial studies (‘Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine’), and a new collection, The Case for Sanctions against Israel are to be launched at University of Southern California on 20 April.Richard Falk on the 63th anniversary of the Nakba - Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine
Human Rights Council votes to dispatch a fact-finding mission to investigate the effects of Israel's settlements on Palestinians; Netanyahu calls council 'hypocritical' and out of touch with reality. The United Nations' Human Rights Council voted on Thursday to appoint a panel charged with evaluating the effects of Israeli settlement construction on Palestinian human rights in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. According to the text of the decision, the UN will "dispatch an independent international fact-finding mission, to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council, to investigate the implications of the Israeli settlements on the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights of the Palestinian people throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem."
Russell Tribunal on Palestine
“May this Tribunal prevent the crime of silence “… …declared Lord Bertrand Russell to define the spirit and the objective of the International War Crimes Tribunal constituted in 1966 to investigate crimes committed in Vietnam and judge them according to international law. Initiated by Lord Russell, Nobel Prize of literature in 1950, and supported by eminent intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre, who chaired the Tribunal, Lelio Basso, Guenther Anders, James Baldwin, Simone de Beauvoir, Lazaro Cardenas, Stokely Carmichael, Isaac Deutscher, Gisèle Halimi, Laurent Schwartz…, this Tribunal was named the Russell Tribunal. The Russell Tribunal has no legal status but acts as a court of the people, a Tribunal of conscience, faced with injustices and violations of international law, that are not dealt with by existing international jurisdictions, or that are recognised but continue with complete impunity due to the lack of political will of the international community.
Some 25 Palestinian organizations have invited pro-Palestinians to join in the campaign “Welcome to Palestine” between April 15 and 25. Israel, which has already beefed up security at Ben Gurion Airport, has declared it would detain and deport the activists. Already, British airline Jet2.com has canceled the flight tickets of three women who planned to travel to Palestine on April 13, while Lufthansa canceled dozens of passengers who signed up join the Welcome to Palestine campaign. A Luthansa spokesperson said they were following Israeli directives not to allow these passengers on flights.
MIFTAH
The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee was formed by prominent activists in the popular committees from all over the Occupied Territories and across the Palestinian political spectrum. Popular committees present a unique form of community based organizing and resistance in the tradition of the first Palestinian Intifada. These diverse, non-partisan committees lead community resistance to Israeli occupation in various forms, such as marches, strikes, demonstrations, direct actions and legal campaigns, as well as supporting boycott, divestment and sanctions.