Statement: Trade Union Friends of Palestine (ICTU). June 5th 2008

Photo: Maan Images. Palestinians in Gaza take cover during clashes with Israeli troops during demonstrations marking 60 years of Palestinian dispossession from their homeland. May 15th 2008.
At its Biennial Delegate Conference in May 2008 the public sector union IMPACT passed two motions criticizing Israeli suppression [...]

Call to support the first major student union in Quebec or Canada to back
the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions on Israel…

Montreal May 2008: Across the world grassroots movements struggling in opposition to Israeli apartheid are marking the 60th year of the Palestinian Nakba (”catastrophe”) – 60 years of dispossession, ethnic cleansing and [...]

Al-Ahram. May 2008.

Photo: Cairo open sky.

In May 1968, student protests in Paris challenged the foundations of the social order in the heart of the industrially advanced West. Al-Ahram Weekly investigates what remains of the wave of student activism that swept the world 40 years ago and recalls events at the time in Egypt…
On 20 February [...]

Adam Hanieh. Socialist Project: the Bullet.

Photo: Active Stills. Demonstration against Apartheid wall, Bil’in, Palestine.

In July 2005, over 170 Palestinian organizations urged the world to adopt a campaign of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel in the manner of South Africa Apartheid. This call was signed by all the main Palestinian trade union federations, as [...]

Broadcasts from Beirut IV: An interview with journalist Anthony Shadid.

Photo: Lebanese soldiers patrol Beirut.

A Tadamon! interview project aiming to highlight progressive voices from the ground in Lebanon on the ongoing conflict, voices independent from major political parties…

An interview with Bilal Elamine in Beirut, Lebanon.

Photo: Al-Akbar, youth protests in Beirut.

Conflict in Lebanon has spread in the past week beyond Beirut, to mountain areas above the capital city, to Tripoli in Northern Lebanon. Throughout Lebanon a tense political stand-off remains between the U.S.-backed government lead-by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and a political opposition [...]

Interview with activist and publisher Samah Idriss in Beirut, Lebanon.

Photo: Lebanese gunman in Beirut.

Bold claims about Middle East peace from
London ring hollow in the empty streets of Gaza.

Sami Abdel-Shafi, Gaza City, the Guardian. Saturday May 3 2008

It is a strange feeling: after working as a productive professional in Gaza for five years, I have become a black market junkie. I make several phone calls a day hunting for [...]

May Actions Against Israeli Apartheid in Montreal.

Join in Actions & Events taking place in Montreal throughout the month of
May 2008, which marks sixty years of struggle against Israeli apartheid.

Benito Pérez, Jeudi 10 Avril 2008

April 2008.

Sign on Statement and Appeal for Solidarity.

April 2008: We the undersigned organizations congratulate the Canadian Union of Postal workers (CUPW) for joining the international boycott of Israeli apartheid. We call on workers and labour unions worldwide to join CUPW in creating a strong and effective labour movement in solidarity with struggles against Israeli apartheid [...]

How did a Jewish state founded 60 years ago
end up throwing filth at cowering Palestinians?

by Johann Hari, the Independent, Monday, April 28th.

When you hit your 60th birthday, most of you will guzzle down your hormone replacement therapy with a glass of champagne and wonder if you have become everything you dreamed of in your youth. [...]

Open letter, Dr. Haider Eid, 25 April 2008

Following is an edited open letter from Gaza lecturer Dr. Haider Eid
to Nobel Prize-winning South African author Nadine Gordimer…

I am a Palestinian lecturer in Cultural Studies living in Gaza. I happen to also have South African citizenship as a result of my marriage to a citizen of that [...]