Palestinian activists Manar Raje and Haya Abu Shukhaidem speak to Oisin Challen Flyn about the growing movement over violence against women in Palestine. This is an article from the current issue of Middle East Solidarity magazine – help us continue our work by donating £2 for a digital copy online Across Palestine a new slogan…
Years of blockade have left people highly vulnerable to the impact of Covid-19 Gaza resident Ibtisam tells Dave Clinch. Ibtisam began by telling me that there were two reported cases of Coronavirus in Gaza. Because of the blockade since 2006 the health system is extremely weak. There are only sixty ventilators at the moment in…
By Miriram Scharf Campaigners in Tower Hamlets organised a successful public meeting on 6 November, addressed by Clare Short and Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal, Rob Ferguson, Jewish activist and author of the pamphlet “The Far Right, Zionism and the Left” and several local councillors in an ongoing battle over the council’s ban on…
A selection of photographs by Sasha Simic from the World Social Forum in Tunis, ending with images of the 15,000 strong demonstration which closed the forum on Saturday, 30 April 2013. The demonstration was in support of Palestinians and the main slogan was “Land, liberty, dignity.” The marchers made their way from the Habib Bourguiba Avenue…
Click here for the English version of this statement “Trade Unionists’ declaration on Palestine and the Arab Revolutions“ ندين الإعتداء الإسرائيلي الأخير على غزة الذي قتل حتى الآن أكثر من 20 شخصاً وجرح المئات. ليس هناك أي مقارنة بين قوة النيران للقوات الإسرائيلية و مقاومة الفلسطينيين ضد إحتلال مجرم وحصار. قتلت حرب إسرائيل على غزة…
*Updated with new signatures 20 November We condemn the latest Israeli assault on Gaza, which at the time of writing has killed more than twenty and injured hundreds. There is no comparison between Israeli forces’ enormous firepower and Palestinians’ resistance to an illegal occupation and siege. Israel’s ‘Operation Cast Lead’ against Gaza in 2008-9 killed…
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