The Wall
On the morning of Wednesday 8 May Irish multinational CRH will held their Annual General Meeting in the Royal Marine Hotel, in Dun Laoghaire. The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a small protest outside the venue. The IPSC organised this protest because CRH owns 25% of the Israeli company Mashav Initiative and Development Ltd which, in turn, owns Israel’s sole cement producer Nesher Cement Enterprises Ltd. Nesher provide up to 90% of all cement sold in Israel, including cement used in the construction of Israel’s illegal separation wall in Palestine and illegal settlements and checkpoints. We are calling on CRH to … Continue reading →
Posted May 12, 2013 in Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, BDS, Campaigns, CRH, Divestment, Event Report, Human Rights, National Rights, Photos, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest, The Wall, War Crimes, West Bank.
Yesterday, March 27th, the complicity and criminality of Irish multinational cement giant CRH in aiding and abetting the occupation was highlighted at the notorious Israeli checkpoint at Qalandia in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian activists mounted a large banner on Israel’s illegal Apartheid-Annexation Wall condemning CRH’s role in providing cement through Nesher Israel Cement Enterprises Ltd for the Wall, the building of illegal settlements and Jerusalem light railway and other illegal projects in breach of the Geneva Conventions. Video courtesy of Tommy D. Image courtesy of Haitham Khatib.
Posted March 28, 2013 in Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, BDS, CRH, Divestment, Event Report, Human Rights, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Protest, Settlements, The Wall, West Bank.
Occupied Palestine, 15 February 2013 – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), a broad coalition of the largest Palestinian civil society organizations, trade unions and NGO networks, supports the outcomes of the UN Fact Finding Mission on Israeli Settlements[1] that calls for boycotts and sanctions as measures required to end the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise. The BNC calls upon states, members of the Human Rights Council, to adopt the report, and on all governments and business enterprises to implement its recommendations. The BNC also calls upon conscientious citizens and civic organizations worldwide to use this report as … Continue reading →
Posted February 19, 2013 in Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, BDS, BNC, Boycott, Economic Boycott, Human Rights, Jerusalem, National Rights, Political Rights, Press releases, Sanctions, Settlements, Settler Violence, Statements, The Wall, United Nations, West Bank.
The announcement of 200 new jobs in an economically deprived area of West Belfast has been widely welcomed. Unfortunately the company providing these jobs, Caterpillar, has a record that is not something to celebrate. Caterpillar is the subject of an international divestment campaign because its equipment has been routinely used by Israel to demolish Palestinian homes and destroy farmland. It is also used in the building of illegal settlements and wall in the occupied Palestinian territories. Furthermore, Caterpillar bulldozers have also killed several people, including the crushing to death of US human rights activist Rachel Corrie ten years ago next … Continue reading →
Posted February 18, 2013 in Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, BDS, Belfast, Caterpillar, Divestment, Home Demolitions, Human Rights, Press releases, Settlements, The Wall, War Crimes, West Bank.
We would like to express our wholehearted support for the University of California Irvine student government’s stand for human rights and justice, in the form of its November 2012 divestment resolution. This resolution is a firm, clear sighted statement based on a commitment to justice and an understanding of the importance of ensuring that international companies comply with human rights and international law. The companies mentioned in the resolution all have an ongoing record of complicity in illegal Israeli practices in the occupied Palestinian territories. They are all engaged in well-documented and flagrant breaches of basic human rights norms, and … Continue reading →
Posted February 4, 2013 in Apartheid, BDS, CRH, Divestment, Human Rights, Jerusalem, Open Letter, Press releases, Statements, The Wall, West Bank.
A “thought for Christmas”, posted by the Israeli Embassy in Dublin on its official Facebook page this week, said that if Jesus Christ and his mother Mary were alive today they would “probably end up being lynched in Bethlehem by hostile Palestinians”. After an outcry and backlash at the racism on display, the post in question was removed and replaced with a mealy-mouthed apology. Subsequently, the entire ‘Israel in Ireland’ Facebook page was removed, at least temporarily. However, for those familiar with Israeli policy and public statements by official Israeli spokespeople and politicians, such derogatory words and overt displays of … Continue reading →
Posted December 19, 2012 in Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, BDS, Bethlehem, Gaza, Hasbara, Human Rights, Jerusalem, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Press releases, Prisoners, Settlements, Settler Violence, Siege of Gaza, The Wall, United Nations, War Crimes, West Bank and tagged Bethlehem.
Below are some recently issued reports on the Palestinian issue that will be of interest to our supporters. 1. Caabu – The Council for British-Arab Understanding: “Palestinian Prisoners: No Security in Injustice” (September 2012) 2. B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories: “Arrested Development: The Long Term Impact of Israel’s Separation Barrier in the West Bank” (October 2012) 3. Addameer – Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association: “Eyes on Israeli Military Court: A Collection of Impressions” (October 2012) 4. Gideon Levy in Haaretz: “Survey: Most Israelis support an apartheid regime in Israel” (October 2012) … Continue reading →
Posted November 5, 2012 in Adalah, Addameer, Al-HAq, Alternative Information Center, Apartheid, Apartheid Wall, B'Tselem, CAABU, Child Prisoners, Christian Aid, Crisis Action, Divestment, Economic Boycott, EU, Factsheet, Human Rights, Israel Democracy Institute, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Prisoners, Report, Sanctions, Settlements, Settler Violence, The Wall, Trocaire, UN Report, United Nations, West Bank.
The Russell Tribunal on Palestine is an International People’s Tribunal created in response to the international community’s inaction regarding Israel’s recognized violations of international law. Following the sessions in Barcelona (which focused on EU complicity), London (on Corporate Complicity) and Cape Town (on the crime of Apartheid), the New York Tribunal will go back to the root of the conflict and focus on UN and US responsibility in the denial of the Palestinian right to self-determination. There will be live streams from New York on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th October (starting at 3pm Irish Time every day) – use … Continue reading →
Posted October 5, 2012 in Academic Boycott, BDS, Boycott, Cultural Boycott, Divestment, Event, Gaza, Human Rights, Multimedia, National Rights, Palestinian Citizens of Israel, Political Rights, Press releases, Russell Tribunal on Palestine, Sanctions, Sporting Boycott, The Wall, Video, War Crimes, West Bank.
The acclaimed documentary film about the nonviolent resistance movement to Israel’s apartheid wall and settlements in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, Five Broken Cameras, has notched up another award – this time as part of the Irish Film Institute’s ‘Stranger Than Fiction’ documentary film festival. The film by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, won the Audience Award – meaning it was voted by film-goers as the best film in the festival. Several IPSC members and supporters went along to the screening in Dublin on Friday 17th August and can confirm that the film is a deserving winner of this year’s … Continue reading →
Posted August 21, 2012 in Apartheid, CRH, Event Report, Film Premiere, Press releases, The Wall, West Bank.
Statement from Palestinian Boycott National Committee (BNC) Occupied Palestine, 9th July 2012 Seven years after the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel was launched, the global BDS campaign has become stronger, more widespread, more effective and certainly more diverse than ever—a true cause for celebration by all those groups and conscientious citizens of the world who contributed to this success. However, Israel’s intensifying violations of international law and basic Palestinian rights, the direct threat Israel poses to the freedom of peoples across the region, and the impunity that Israel still enjoys are cause for … Continue reading →
Posted July 10, 2012 in Academic Boycott, Apartheid, Arms Embargo, BDS, BNC, Boycott, Campaigns, Cultural Boycott, Divestment, Economic Boycott, Human Rights, National Rights, PACBI, Political Rights, Press releases, Sporting Boycott, Statements, The Wall, War Crimes, West Bank.
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