by Adam Horowitz on January 26, 2010 · The following letter is being circulated in advance of Shimon Peres’s visit to Germany to commemorate international Holocaust Remembrance Day.     January 2010   Shimon Peres Does Not Speak for Us !   We are writing this letter as Israeli citizens. Some of us are 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation Holocaust survivors, and … [read more]

The biggest European Parliamentary Delegation comprised of 55 MEPs and MPs from across Europe visited Gaza between 14 and 18 January 2010. The visit was prepared by the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza and The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC). The biggest European Parliamentary Delegation comprised of 55 MEPs and MPs from across Europe visited Gaza between 14 and 18 January 2010. The … [read more]

By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent Fifty-four members of the U.S. Congress have signed a letter asking President Barack Obama to put pressure on Israel to ease the siege of the Gaza Strip.   The letter was the initiative of Representatives Jim McDermott from Washington and Keith Ellison from Minnesota, both of whom are Democrats. Ellison is the first American Muslim to ever … [read more]

by The Palestinian Return Centre As Palestinians continue to suffer in occupied Palestine, actions and events escalate in the UK and Europe. University of Bradford Union (UBU), Palestine Return Centre and Let Palestinians Study are organizing Palestine Awareness Week (PAW) and remembrance in Bradford city.   The PAW starts from Monday 1st February with a live graffiti about … [read more]

PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 466, Jan 15, 2010 HIGHWAY 443 FULFILLS AN ISRAELI NATIONAL DREAM: TO MAKE PALESTINIANS INVISIBLE IN THEIR OWN LAND   First Israel expropriated Palestinian land in the West Bank and paved Highway 443. Then it prevented the "local population" from using the road. And then Israel built a wall with drawings of creeks and meadows on it so that … [read more]

Donation of dozens of corneas went down the drain The Israeli authorities at Erez checkpoint this week prevented the exit of 17 sight-impaired patients, suffering from various eye diseases, from the Gaza Strip in order to undergo cornea transplants, a treatment that is not available in the Gaza health system. Because of this delay, the medical window of opportunity to perform the transplants … [read more]

PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) #465, Jan 8th, 2010 The World Likud Movement held a cornerstone-laying ceremony yesterday for the expansion of the neighbourhood of Nof Zion, despite - or possibly because of - American pressure against building in East Jerusalem. The Jewish settlement is in the middle of the Arab village of Jabal Mukkaber. Meanwhile, the Jerusalem municipality razed two … [read more]

Press Release, Friday 8th January British MP George Galloway was officially deported from Cairo today (Friday), when Egyptian ununiformed plane clothes police officers bundled him onto a London plane. Galloway had been trying to return to Rafah after news broke that seven of the Viva Palestina convoy members were said to be arrested.     Police - who at one point were numbered … [read more]

A week of Events across UK in Remembrance of Gaza and Palestinian Victims Palestine Memorial week will be lunched with the first anniversary of the indiscriminate war against the besieged people of Gaza approaching, a number of organizations based in the UK and Europe are preparing for a week of events and actions. The events which will last one week will remember the victims killed in more … [read more]

distributed by the International Action Center, 5th Jan 2010 One Year After the Gaza Massacre: Tell Egypt and the U.S. to Stop the Attack on Viva Palestina! Let the Convoy into Gaza! End the Blockade Now!   Video from the attack: http://tahyyes.blogspot.com/2010/01/blog-post_06.html   IN NYC: EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION Wednesday 6th Jan 2010 - 4:30 pm at the … [read more]

from: PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity) # 464, Jan 2, 2010 Tzipi Livni orchestrated massacre in Gaza in 2008   Senior officials in Israel have confirmed that a British court issued an arrest warrant against Israeli opposition chairwoman Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating Israel's military offensive in the Gaza Strip in 2008. Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak and Livni were the top … [read more]

For immediate release, January 1, 2010 (Cairo) Gaza Freedom Marchers approved today a declaration aimed at accelerating the global campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israeli Apartheid. Roughly 1400 activists from 43 countries converged in Cairo on their way to Gaza to join with Palestinians marching to break Israel's illegal siege. They were prevented from entering … [read more]