Solidarity and Activism

Israel challenges the world: I am an Apartheid state, what are you going to do about it?

By Professor Kamel Hawwash | MEMO | July 23, 2018 Remember the date, 19 July 2018 is when Israel’s pretense of democracy, the Knesset  passed the Nation State Bill, which could more aptly be called, the “Jewish State Apartheid Law” where Jews dominate the Israeli Palestinian Arabs who are lesser than them, even if they […]

Pro-Israel group loses ‘anti-Semitism’ case against Leicester council

Jewish colonists stealing Palestinian olives in the West Bank MEMO | July 4, 2018 Leicester City Council has “won its long-running legal battle” against a pro-Israel advocacy group over a motion backing a boycott of Israeli settlement produce, reported the Leicester Mercury. In a ruling issued Tuesday, the Court of Appeal rejected the arguments brought […]

Israel diplomats say Irish bill banning settlement produce will ‘empower terrorists’

MEMO | July 4, 2018 The Israeli embassy in Ireland has claimed that a draft bill calling for a ban on the sale of goods made in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) will “empower terrorists”. The Control of Economic Activities (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 was launched by Independent Senator Frances Black […]

German Protesters Fed Up With US Wars Blockade Ramstein Air Base

Sputnik – 02.07.2018 About 2,500 people gathered outside the largest US base in Germany over the weekend as the Trump administration considered a possible US withdrawal from the country. Sputnik Deutschland contributor Marcel Joppa was on the scene for Saturday’s protest, joining people of all ages including seniors as old as 80 years old, who […]

Presbyterian Church Confronts US Legislation Targeting BDS

IMEMC News & Agencies | June 23, 2018 The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States approved, during its meeting last week in St. Louis, Missouri, by unanimous consent, an action opposing congressional and state anti-BDS (Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) laws, according to a press release. According to WAFA, the newly approved […]

Cambridge University students protest ‘war criminal’ Ehud Olmert

MEMO | June 21, 2018 Students at the University of Cambridge protested a talk given by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Judge Business School on Wednesday night, denouncing the former leader as a “war criminal”. According to Varsity, “a poster campaign condemning his [Olmert’s] actions and declaring that he is ‘not welcome […]