BDS
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign actions will be taking place in Dublin, Cork and Limerick on Saturday November 30th to protest Israel’s biggest act of ethnic cleansing since 1967, as part of an international day of action called for by Palestinians. Dublin – 1pm @ The Spire, O’Connell Steet, Dublin 1 Cork – 1pm @ Daunt Square, Cork City Limerick – 2pm @ Bedford Row, Limerick City The so-called Prawer Plan will see the forced removal of some 40,000 Palestinian Bedouin from their ancestral homelands in the Naqab/Negev Desert, in the south of the Israeli state, and relocation in a series of … Continue reading →
Posted November 26, 2013 in Action Item, Apartheid, BDS, Bedouin, Demonstration, Ethnic Cleansing, Event, Human Rights, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest.
In July 2013, the European Commission announced new guidelines that aim to prevent Israeli projects in illegal Israeli settlements from receiving research grant funding and prevent Israeli companies and institutions that operate inside illegal Israeli settlements from participating in financial instruments such as loans. The new guidelines were broadly welcomed by Palestinian and European civil society organisations. But now Israel and its supporters are apply severe pressure on the EU to drop the new guidelines. There is a very real risk that the Commission will cave in to this pressure and decide to continue the funding of, and support for, … Continue reading →
Posted October 9, 2013 in Apartheid, BDS, EU, EU Guidelines, Horizon 2020, Human Rights, Jerusalem, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Settlements, War Crimes, West Bank.
Dr. David Landy of Academics for Palestine and the IPSC looks at the latest Times HES survey of world university rankings which reveals some surprising truths about the state of the Israeli academy. One reason we are always told that we can never ever boycott Israel is because of its sterling academic reputation. Israel, we have heard on countless occasions, is a paragon of science, medicine and humanities. If we boycott Israel we’ll be boycotting the cutting-edgiest of high-tech, the most miraculous research in medicine, the inventors of… well, just about everything Well, it seems that such talk of Israeli … Continue reading →
Posted October 4, 2013 in Academic Boycott, Academic Freedom, Analysis, BDS, Boycott, education, Hasbara, PACBI, Press releases.
In the past three days, two Israeli soldiers have been killed by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. These attacks have generated countless headlines, both in Israel and internationally. Alas, the same cannot be said for the 7 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in the weeks since the Palestinian-Israeli ‘peace talks’ reopened at the end of July last (or indeed, the 11 other Palestinians already killed this year). Of course, in the Israeli press and polity, the killings have led to denunciations of Palestinians as not being ‘serious’ about peace. Ignore for a moment the fact that the killings were … Continue reading →
Posted September 23, 2013 in Addameer, B'Tselem, BDS, Child Prisoners, Gaza, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, Impunity, Infographic, Media Bias, National Rights, PCHR, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Settler Violence, Siege of Gaza, West Bank.
The Israeli human rights organization Yesh Din last week published statistics regarding investigations by the Israeli Military Police Criminal Investigations Department (MPCID) into the circumstances surrounding the death of Palestinians since September 2000, as well as figures for convictions and penalization relating to these incidents. This is what those figures look like: According to B’Tselem, at least 6,660* Palestinians have been killed to date by the Israeli occupation military forces in the occupied Palestinian territories since September 2000. The figures published by Yesh Din show that the MPCID opened only 179 criminal investigations concerning the killing of Palestinians by Israeli … Continue reading →
Posted September 2, 2013 in Apartheid, B'Tselem, BDS, Child deaths, Gaza, Human Rights, Impunity, Infographic, Jerusalem, Multimedia, Press releases, War Crimes, West Bank, Women, Yesh Din.
In open letter issued today Monday 19th August, Roger Waters of Pink Floyd urged fellow artists to respect the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel until it ends its occupation of Palestinian lands and complies fully with its obligations under international law. The 69-year old musical veteran and co-founder of rock legends Pink Floyd was prompted to issue the letter following the BBC’s decision to censor words supportive of Palestinian human rights spoken by violinist Nigel Kennedy during a live broadcast. In the letter, appended below, Waters addresses his “brothers and sisters in the family of Rock and … Continue reading →
Posted August 19, 2013 in Apartheid, BDS, BNC, Campaigns, Cultural Boycott, Culture, Ethnic Cleansing, Human Rights, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, The Wall, UN, War Crimes and tagged Roger Waters.
Violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy has hit out at the BBC for planning to censor words spoken during a live broadcast of the Proms 2013 on August 8th on BBC Radio 3. For the BBC Four television rebroadcast, a line spoken by Kennedy is to be edited out. Along with The Palestine Strings, a group of young Palestinian musicians from the Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, Kennedy performed Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to rousing applause. At the end of the performance, Kennedy, who is a long-standing supporter of the Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel, spoke to the audience … Continue reading →
Posted August 20, 2013 in Apartheid, Audio, BBC, BDS, Cultural Boycott, Culture, Human Rights, Media Bias, National Rights, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Press releases and tagged Edward Said National Conservatory of Music, Nigel Kennedy, The Palestine Strings.
On Thursday 1st August, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) will held a demonstration at The Spire on O’Connell Street in Dublin to protest Israel’s biggest planned act of ethnic cleansing since 1967, as part of an international day of action called for by Palestinians. The so-called Prawer Plan will see the forced removal of some 40,000 Palestinian Bedouin from their ancestral homelands in the Naqab/Negev Desert, in the south of the Israeli state, and relocation in a series of townships. The aim of this act is to remove the Bedouin from the land so it can be utilised for ‘Jewish … Continue reading →
Posted August 6, 2013 in BDS, Bedouin, Ethnic Cleansing, Event, Event Report, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, Nakba, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Petition, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest and tagged Prawer Plan.
Dear Minister Gilmore, We in the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign are writing to bring to your attention the situation facing the Palestinian Bedouin citizens of Israel. The Israeli government is in the process of passing into law the so-called ‘Prawer Plan’. If implemented, the plan will see tens of thousands (estimates vary between 30,000 and 70,000) of Bedouin citizens forcibly displaced from their ancestral homelands in the Naqab (Negev) desert, and forced into a series of ‘Bedouin townships’. Were such an action to take place, it would be the largest act of ethnic cleansing carried out by the Israeli state since … Continue reading →
Posted August 1, 2013 in Adalah, BDS, Bedouin, Campaigns, Crime Against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, EU, Euro Med, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, Irish Government, National Rights, Open Letter, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Press releases, Sanctions.
“The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) strongly condemns the Israeli ‘Prawer Plan’, which will dispossess and expel the indigenous Palestinian Bedouin inhabitants of the Naqab (Negev) Desert and resettle the area with Jewish residents, in the state’s biggest act of ethnic cleansing since 1967,” IPSC Chairperson Matrin O’Quigley said today, calling it “a racist act, pure and simple”. Under the current regime almost half the Bedouin population of the Naqab (40,000 people) live in 35 villages on ancestral land that constitutes less than 5% of the total area. The majority of these villages pre-date the establishment of the Israeli state, yet Israel … Continue reading →
Posted July 19, 2013 in Apartheid, BDS, Bedouin, Campaigns, Ethnic Cleansing, EU, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, Irish Government, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Press releases, Sanctions and tagged Prawer Plan.
Statement from the Palestinian BNC: New European Union guidelines will prevent Israeli ministries, public bodies and businesses that operate in occupied Palestinian territory from receiving loans worth hundreds of millions of Euros each year from the European Investment Bank, it emerged today. The EU will also stop awarding grant funding to Israeli ministries, public bodies or private businesses for activities that take place in occupied Palestinian territory, even if they are headquartered inside Israel’s pre-1967 borders. . According to a leaked version of the guidelines, the EU aims to ensure that its own institutions respect the obligation to not recognize … Continue reading →
Posted July 18, 2013 in BDS, BNC, EU, Human Rights, Jerusalem, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Sanctions, Settlements, Statements, West Bank.
Statement by the Palestinian BDS National Committee, Occupied Palestine, 9 July 2013: The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) condemns the racist and colonial “Prawer Plan” which was adopted by the Israeli government as official policy and recently passed by parliament (Knesset) in the first reading. This plan calls for ethnically cleansing tens of thousands of Bedouin Palestinian citizens of Israel by confiscating hundreds of thousands of dunams [1] of land that they have owned for generations in the Naqab and destroying their homes and communities to expand Jewish-only settlements in the Naqab. On today’s 8th anniversary of the Palestinian BDS … Continue reading →
Posted July 9, 2013 in Apartheid, BDS, Bedouin, BNC, Boycott, Human Rights, Inter-Parliamentary Union, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Palestinian Culture, Political Rights, Press releases, Statements.
As more than 150 Palestine solidarity and social justice organizations from across the world, we stand in solidarity with all of the French campaigners for Palestinian rights facing legal action and repression for participating in demonstrations calling for a boycott of Israel.French campaigners have faced criminal charges for their solidarity activity since 2009. Despite a previous ruling that advocating boycott is not illegal and should be permitted as part of the right to freedom of speech, three activists were brought to trial earlier this month in Perpignan, seven more will attend court on June 27 in Alencon and further trials … Continue reading →
Posted June 27, 2013 in BDS, Human Rights, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Statements.
On Saturday 15th June 2013, thousands of people took to the streets of Belfast to take part in the Big March for a Fairer World, organised by the ICTU as part of the Fairer World Festival in opposition to the G8 meeting taking place across the province in Enniskillen. The Belfast branch of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, along with the local Trade Union Friends of Palestine branch and many supporters from around the country marched as part of the ‘Palestine Bloc’, along with an impressive float. Afterwards, a successful film screening, with chat and delicious Palestinian food, took place in … Continue reading →
Posted June 24, 2013 in BDS, Belfast, Demonstration, Event Report, Human Rights, Nakba, National Rights, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Protest, Public Meeting.
Civil society organisations and leading human rights activists in South Africa this morning issued a statement calling for Israel to be excluded from the international diamond regulatory body – the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS), which South Africa chairs in 2013. (READ THE FULL STATEMENT HERE) The call comes just 24 hours before the international body charged with ending the trade in diamonds that fund human rights violations begins a four day meeting in the city of Kimberley where the KPSC was established ten years ago. The statement highlights the role of the diamond industry in Israel in funding the … Continue reading →
Posted June 3, 2013 in Apartheid, BDS, Boycott, Campaigns, COSATU, Diamonds, Human Rights, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases.
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