Ma’an – August 20, 2017 BETHLEHEM – Over 40 Portuguese photographers, teachers of photography and photography students pledged on Saturday, which marked World Photography Day, not to accept professional invitations or financing from Israel, and to” refuse to collaborate with Israeli cultural institutions complicit in Israel’s regime of occupation, colonialism and apartheid,” according to the […]
Press TV – August 20, 2017 A group of five pro-Palestinian activists in the UK face possible prison sentences after being arrested during protests outside an Israeli-owned weapons manufacturing company. Charged with a breach of the Trade Union and Labor Relations Act, the protesters face at least six months in prison and a fine of […]
By Kary Love | CounterPunch | August 18, 2017 I am a lawyer. My pro bono clients are often those who offer nonviolent resistance to wrongs committed by our own government. I read that, this week past, some nonviolent resisters entered a nuclear weapons storage facility in Germany. Damn if it is not a list […]
MEMO | August 16, 2017 Four artists have cancelled their scheduled performances at an international festival in Berlin citing the festival’s partnership with the Israeli embassy and their support for the Palestinian call for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The Pop-Kultur festival, which is due to take place in Berlin next week, is […]
Sputnik – 15.08.2017 LONDON – Anti-war activists from across the United Kingdom plan to gather in the UK capital in September for a week-long event in opposition to London’s Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI), one of the world’s largest arms fairs, a spokesman for Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) group, told Sputnik. “As far […]
RT | July 24, 2017 Four Australians who were found guilty of vandalism for removing a brass sword from a war memorial told a court that their actions were inspired by Pope Francis, referencing a message in which the pontiff said that religion cannot be used to justify war. The men were convicted on Monday […]
RT | July 24, 2017 The escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict isn’t religious, it’s about the rights of Palestinian people to be free from the longest occupation in modern history, says Mustafa Barghouti, the General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended all ties with Israel on Friday after deadly clashes […]
Photo by ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER | CC BY 2.0 By Jack Heyman | CounterPunch | July 21, 2017 The ink wasn’t even dry on the West Coast longshore contract when the head of the employers’ group, the Pacific Maritime Association, proposed an additional 3-year extension to the president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), […]
MEMO | July 17, 2017 A group of Palestinians from the UK, besieged Gaza, occupied West Bank and Israel have co-authored a letter to the British rock band, Radiohead, over their controversial decision to hold a concert in Israel later this week. The band’s decision to go ahead with the concert is a “slap in […]
