Sharing the pain. Building hope. On the evening of Memorial Day, Combatants for Peace Movement in coalition with the Bereaved Parents’ Circle, will conduct the 11th Israeli-PalestinianMemorial Day Ceremony. The event will be held today, April 30th 2017 at Shlomo Group Arena, Tel Aviv (Drive In Arena, near the Tel Aviv Fairgrounds) at 9:00pm. The … Read more
The hunger strike of the Palestinian prisoners for freedom and dignity reached its 22nd day, and the strikers reached the stage of grave danger to their lives. They also face frequent incursions, isolation, torture and threats by the occupation government and its repressive apparatus to break the strike using forced feeding.We are obliged to answer … Read more
Indeed, the Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, now heading a mass hunger strike in the Israeli prisons, was sentenced by an Israeli court to five life terms. The New York Times was ready to publish this fact after the high-level protests made by the Government of Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu and his ministers should be reminded … Read more
The trial of poet Dareen Tatour will resume in Nazareth Magistrate’s Court today, Thursday, April 27, at 12:00, before Judge Adi Bambiliya. In this hearing the last prosecution witness is due to testify, after all defense witnesses were heard in March. This is expected to be the last hearing before the verdict. Poet Tatour was … Read more
We`ll start at the end: We’re embarking on a struggle for Israeli society, for peace, and an end to the occupation. This struggle will start in Jerusalem on Saturday night, April 1. We`re going to march in Jerusalem, the city that the right wing claims is ‘united,’ that Mayor Nir Barkat is trying to make … Read more
In response to Police Minister Gilad Erdan’s announcement, that he is setting up a unit in his ministry to compile names of Israelis who boycott settlements and include them in a computerized database, already more than a thousand Israeli citizens singed the petition “Gilad Erdan, note it down: we, too, boycott the settlements !!” The … Read more
Some time ago, the right-wing Knesset majority enacted the “Boycott Law” making it possible to file a civil suit and demand heavy compensation from anyone calling for a boycott of Israel – and incidentally, also call for a boycott of the settlements was declared to be “a form of boycotting Israel”. A more recent law … Read more
The trial of poet Dareen Tatour will resume in Nazareth Magistrate’s Court on Sunday, March 19, at 11:30 am, before Judge Adi Bambiliya.In this hearing the defense witnesses are due to testify, including translator Dr. Yoni Mendel and Professor Calderon, an expert on literature.There are three court hearings set for the coming weeks: Sunday, March … Read more
Freedom March at South Hebron Hills / A thousand Israelis & Palestinians hold grassroots negotiations in Tel Aviv / Protesting at the Jerusalem Marathon / Jaffa sale for the Gaza children 11111111111111111111 Today, Friday, March 17th, the Freedom March is coming to the village of At-Tuwani, south of Mt. Hebron. We will march for peace, … Read more
Tomorrow, Wed. March 15March 15 – and also on March 19 and 29 and on April 2, between 10:00 – 17.00, the Be’er Sheba District Court will deliberate on the case of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Gazan whose three daughters and niece were killed in an Israeli shelling of their home. Abuelaish, now residing in … Read more