Whose Garbage Is This Anyway?
HEBRON, West Bank — It was not your usual Holy Land tour, but surely one of the most revealing I’ve ever had. A team from Friends of the Earth Middle East took me around to…
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Sainsbury’s stop trading with agricultural companies that support Israeli apartheid
On February 9th 2013, in response to the call from Palestinian civil society, the Sainsbury’s campaign was launched calling on Sainsbury’s to cease all trade with companies complicit in the colonisation of Palestinian land. We call on…
BBC finally admits bias over pro-Israel commentator
The BBC has finally admitted that it breached its own impartiality guidelines when it presented a pro-Israel commentator as if he was neutral. The finding published yesterday by the BBC Trust, the highest level of…
A Star Stumbles in the Settlements; Scarlett Johansson’s defence of her sponsor is naive.
The decision by actress Scarlett Johansson to stop being an ambassador for Oxfam, the social justice charity, and continue as brand ambassador to SodaStream, an Israeli company that makes home-carbonated drink dispensers at a plant…
Israel Needs to Learn Some Manners
OXFORD, England — On Jan. 14, the Israeli defense minister, Moshe Yaalon, told the daily Yediot Aharonot, “Secretary of State John Kerry — who arrived here determined, who operates from an incomprehensible obsession and a…
OCHA Protection of Civilians Weekly Report | 14-20 January 2014
Key issues ● 15 Palestinian children were injured by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. ● Two Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley were confined to their homes due to military training.…
Palestinians to reject Kerry peace plan, launch diplomatic war on Israel
Palestinian Authority setting up teams to battle Israel in every conceivable international forum, Israeli TV report says. The Palestinian leadership has reportedly decided to reject Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposals for an Israeli-Palestinian peace…
Protest vigil – 5 years on from the end of Israel’s 2008/9 massacre in Gaza
Saturday 18 January 2014 12noon to 2pm Opposite the Israeli Embassy in London, Kensington High Street, W8 5NP London (exit High Street Kensington Underground station – turn right and walk for 3 minutes). End Israeli Attacks…
He may be getting somewhere, after all
John Kerry may be gradually persuading enough Israeli right-wingers that a Palestinian state is worth striving for. FEW believed that John Kerry, the American secretary of state, would manage to haul the Israelis and Palestinians…
The Rev, the Bishop and Bethlehem
Dear Members, The very brave Rector of St James’ Piccadilly, the Rev Lucy Winkett, is now under attack. For the 12 Days of Christmas her church has run a Palestinian Festival, Bethlehem Unwrapped. But the highlight…
Largest Dutch pension fund boycotts Israeli banks over settlement ties
PGGM cites policy of ‘social responsibility’ in decision to divest millions of euros from Israeli banks that have West Bank branches and offer financing for settlement construction. The Netherlands’ largest pension fund management company has…
G4S contracts in Israeli occupied territories face major investigation
OECD to examine the controversial firm’s alleged supply of surveillance kit. G4S, the security company which has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past two years, is facing an investigation by international authorities into…
Bethlehem wall is erected in Piccadilly
IN THE pouring rain at six p.m. on Tuesday night, in the heart of London, workmen in hard hats, elevated eight metres above the ground, were not quite finished. Nevertheless, just the top of the…
Assailing the right, Livni says settlements harm Israel’s security
Israel’s lead peace negotiator tells business conference in Tel Aviv that continued conflict harms economy. ith her most intense and confrontational style of delivery, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni on Monday said that “the settlements are…
Church protest reveals realities of life in modern Bethlehem
The Rev Lucy Winkett is having trouble sleeping. This is because her church on Piccadilly has decided to erect a full-size copy of the Israeli separation barrier to block off her Christopher Wren church. And…