The “Nakba law” passed in a first reading last Tuesday . The law forbids mourning the Nakba on Israel's Idependence Day. Breaking the law will result in high fines and withdrawal of gevernmental financing from municipal authorities.
The “Nakba law” passed in a first reading last Tuesday . The law forbids mourning the Nakba on Israel's Idependence Day. Breaking the law will result in high fines and withdrawal of gevernmental financing from ...
by Rory McCarthy Evictions and planning decisions on the ground are jeopardising prospects for a two-state Middle East peace deal
from: http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=63995&s2=09
March 8, 2010
In the brochure handed out by the mayor's office in Jerusalem last week, there were pretty sketches illustrating a development that would turn a poor, crowded area into a park, with streams, restaurants and hotels. It talked of ...
by Pam Rasmussen, t r u t h o u t, March 8, 2010
from: http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=63996&s2=09
When I wrote last, I was still in Cairo, beginning to lose hope. However, shortly after, a friend at the UN Relief & Works Agency (UNRWA) was miraculously able to get me into Gaza through Israel's Erez Crossing. In a shockingly quick two days, I was in! Among my first activities was this protest....
The Israelis call ...
Growing Israeli trend towards anti-democratic legislation, PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 474, March 12, 2010
Leaders of the Arab minority in Israel warned this week that they were facing an unprecedented campaign of persecution designed to stop their political activities. The campaign is backed by the right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu.
The warning came after Said Nafaa, a Druze member of the Israeli parliament, ...
Palestinians working inside Israel have been defrauded of more than US $2 billion say Israeli economists PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 473, March 5th, 2010
Jerusalem - Israel has defrauded Palestinian workers of more than US$2 billion by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to which they were never entitled, Israeli economists revealed this week.
A new report, "State Robbery", says the theft continued ...
For the Return of the Palestinian Refugees and for the Democratic Secular State in Historic Palestine 28-30/5/2010
Call for participation in the preparations
For more than a hundred years, our Palestinian people suffer from the robbery of their national and human rights. The majority of Palestinians are refugees dispersed all around the world. Gaza, which stands strong in its resistance to the occupation, is subjected to intense criminal ...