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teleSUR English
April 29, 2018
After protests by human rights activists, the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League, or ADL, will no longer be part of the anti-racial bias training that ... Following the announcement by Starbucks, Jewish Voice for Peace started a petition calling for dropping ADL from program, garnering more than 10,000Ãâà...
Haaretz
April 29, 2018
I was brought up in the heart of the Israeli peace camp; I was raised by a Mizrahi mother, an Ashkenazi father in a mixed Jewish-Arab community where I was exposed daily to Palestinian life, history and identity. The Israeli narrative (on the right as well as on the left), as it's taught both in Israel and theÃâà...
teleSUR English
April 28, 2018
On Friday, while the protests were taking place and several were being shot by Israeli snipers with live ammunition, human rights organization Amnesty International echoed the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement's call for an arms embargo against Israel. The organization said Israel wasÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
April 27, 2018
Fourteen protesters were arrested by police outside Senator Chuck Schumer's Midtown office in New York City yesterday in an action organised by Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). According to reports, JVP “held a traditional Jewish mourning ceremony for those who have died in Gaza outside Schumer'sÃâà...
Haaretz
April 26, 2018
Yamit Eriksson, a co-founder of the Israeli Regional Initiative, was the first director of the Social Congress. The organization believes in a regional-based approach to the conflict. She recalls how she and her colleagues met leaders of Israel's so-called peace camp in, but that the experience was veryÃâà...
Haaretz
April 18, 2018
At Tuesday's ceremony, among the speakers, all bereaved relatives, the daughter of a long-time peace activist and Israeli war veteran who was killed in a 2002 terror attack spoke of her struggle to continue to choose the path of reconciliation after her father's death. A Palestinian woman whose brother wasÃâà...
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
April 12, 2018
An estimated 30,000 Gazans participated in the March 30 rally commemorating “Land Day,” when on that day in 1976 Israeli soldiers killed six Palestinians protesting the Israeli takeover of their land. This year's rally also marked the beginning of a six-week remembrance of the 1948 Nakba (catastrophe), when IsraelÃâà...
Jacobin magazine
April 7, 2018
that allowed them to counter Israel's stranglehold over their lives. Workers realized the Israeli economy was massively dependent on the cheap labor of Palestinian migrants, giving them leverage over Israel's occupying society. Israeli peace activists, following the lead of Palestinian activists, activelyÃâà...
Breaking Defense
March 26, 2018
That all changed when Israeli commandos raided the so-called Gaza Freedom Flotilla in May 2010 in international waters of the Mediterranean. On one of the Turkish ships, the Mavi Marmara, Israeli Navy commandos faced resistance from about 40 of the 590 passengers. Some of the activists were armedÃâà...
CityLab
March 26, 2018
Her proposal, “Call to Halt the Nuclear Arms Race,” was endorsed by peace activists in 1979; and her so-called “Freeze” resolution was endorsed by more ... After growing up in Israel, Klein served in the Israeli army and was stationed in the city of Dimona, home to the Negev Nuclear Research Center andÃâà...
The Hill
March 25, 2018
While Israeli tourism in Egypt has surged during periods of calm, Egyptian tourists have only trickled into Israel, partly because Egyptians who visit Israel ... of the Egyptian activists who catalyzed the January 2011 “Arab Spring” cut their political teeth by participating in anti-Israel protests during the SecondÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 23, 2018
The Civil Administration in the West Bank has increased the information it requires from peace groups that organize face-to-face encounters between ... they request permits to enter Israel, as well as information on the sources of the groups' funding, the training of their activists and the selection criteria forÃâà...
Jewschool
March 23, 2018
Activist, politician, academic, writer, and founder of several women's peace initiatives, Naomi Chazan is one of Israel's most respected and seasoned peace .... Archive series of profiles of Israeli peace activists, based on interviews about the relationship between American Jewish and Israeli peace activism.
Forward
March 20, 2018
An email said Jewish Voice for Peace, a group that backs the movement to boycott Israel, was also among the participating organizations, but no ... facing attacks from pro-Israel activists over her support for a petition backing Israeli artists who were refusing to perform in the West Bank settlement of Ariel.
Haaretz
March 20, 2018
Actress and liberal activist Cynthia Nixon, one of the stars of the "Sex and the City" television series and movies, announced on Monday she would run for governor of New York, challenging ... She has collaborated with Israel haters Jewish Voice for Peace and Vanessa Redgrave in boycotting Israel. Do notÃâà...
Forward
March 20, 2018
Organizers of the Global Call for Peace said 11,000 callers from around the world, including Israel, participated in the Sunday launch. ... is already facing attacks from pro-Israel activists over her support for a petition backing Israeli artists who were refusing to perform in the West Bank settlement of Ariel.
Truth-Out
March 20, 2018
Sanders -- who was joined on Sunday at the #CallForPeace event by Korea expert and peace activist Christine Ahn, Raed Jarrar of Amnesty ... and Iran and their proxies in places like Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen; and it undermined American diplomatic efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
+972 Magazine
March 19, 2018
Jewish anti-occupation activist Olivia Zemor faces a lawsuit from a pro-Israel group after calling for celebrities to boycott Israel. Here's why I'm going to France to ... I am going to testify as an Israeli Jew, and as an advisory board member of Jewish Voice for Peace, for two reasons. The first and most obviousÃâà...
Palestine Chronicle
March 18, 2018
Entitled, “No More Mr. Nice Guy: White Male Israeli Activists Exploiting Palestine Solidarity”, the article details a degree of exploitation of Palestinian solidarity by .... discourse of the Zionist movement (which was and remains dedicated to the erasure of the Palestinian identity) nor the stifling political discourse of the “peaceÃâà...
International Middle East Media Center
March 18, 2018
Friday, 15 years ago, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that was preparing to demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. Corrie has since become an icon of global solidarity with the people of Palestine. Born on April 10, 1979 in Olympia, Washington,Ãâà...
International Middle East Media Center
March 17, 2018
The Palestinians, accompanied by international peace activists, have been holding weekly processions against the illegal Israeli colonies and the Annexation Wall, and demanding the army to reopen the town's main road, which was blockaded fifteen years ago, to enable easy access for colonialist settlersÃâà...
Middle East Monitor
March 17, 2018
Fifteen years ago Friday, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that was preparing to demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. Corrie has since become an icon of global solidarity with the people of Palestine. Born on 10 April 1979 in Olympia,Ãâà...
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
March 16, 2018
Activists from Code Pink, Jewish Voice for Peace and other groups rallied March 3 outside Washington, DC's Walter E. Washington Convention Center, where inside the ... The protesters demanded Israel release Ahed Tamimi and the other more than 400 Palestinian children from Israeli prisons and detention centers.
+972 Magazine
March 15, 2018
A plea bargain left him only with charges for organizing unauthorized marches and disturbing the peace. Amirah is the chairman of the Palestinian Popular Committees in the West Bank and has organized countless nonviolent protests against the occupation alongside many other activists. The terms of hisÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 6, 2018
11 interview with Israel Hayom, the president said, “Right now, I would say the Palestinians are not looking to make peace. ... to ignore the option, a movement calling itself Two States, One Homeland — founded several years ago by Israeli and Palestinian peace activists — consistently advocates for it.
International Middle East Media Center
March 6, 2018
Jabour also stated that Abu Qbeita family must cross the military roadblock everyday whenever they leave their home or return to it, and that international peace activists constantly accompany them to ensure their safety, as they are subject to frequent attacks. In related news, Israeli soldiers installed twoÃâà...
The Catalyst
March 5, 2018
On Feb. 21, the Colorado College branch of Jstreet U, which is a national organization that works primarily toward a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, invited two representatives to give a presentation on their experience of joining the activism scene in Palestine through Combatants for PeaceÃâà...
Lewiston Morning Tribune
March 4, 2018
With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to visit Washington this coming week, the mix of politics, personalities and historical grievances that has ... Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference, which brings thousands of pro-Israel officials, lawmakers, activists and academics to Washington.
Arab News
March 4, 2018
Israeli border policemen detain a foreign activist during a protest on Friday in the West Bank village of Bil'in, west of Ramallah. ... AMMAN: Palestinians fear that plans for a major new Jewish settlement will place further strain on a West Bank city already surrounded by Israel's controversial separation wall.
International Middle East Media Center
March 3, 2018
Morad Eshteiwi, the media coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Annexation Wall and Colonies in Kufur Qaddoum, said dozens of locals, accompanied by Israeli and international peace activists, marched from the center of the town, heading towards their lands near the illegal Kedumim colony.
NPR
February 13, 2018
Tamimi was arrested and indicted after a public outcry in Israel when a video of an altercation with the soldiers, posted by her mother, went viral. ... into the small courtroom Tuesday morning, appearing calm, as a large group of reporters, foreign diplomats and some Israeli peace activists crowded the area.
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Last August 2, a 19-year-old Yatta resident, Ismail Abu Aram, stabbed Niv Nehemia, the deputy manager of a supermarket in the Israeli city of Yavneh, wounding him .... Ibrahim, who's 52, describes himself as a peace activist, which is possibly why he's been denied entry to Israel for the past 20 years.
Ricentral.com
December 31, 1999
Over the course of the film, the combatants transform from soldiers to peace activists, leading to the creation of Combatants for Peace, an Israeli-Palestinian NGO and bi-national, grassroots movement committed to nonviolent action against the Israeli occupation and all forms of violence in Israel and theÃâà...
