Activism News
The Activism News section of EI reports on Palestinian and Palestine-related activism around the world, including the work of the International Solidarity Movement and other groups. Quality submissions are welcomed.
Egypt government feels its people's ire
Per Bjoerklund, The Electronic Intifada, 5 January 2009
Thousands of Egyptians have taken to the streets to protest the continuing Israeli aggression against Gaza and the participation of the Egyptian regime in the isolation of its population. Last Wednesday, the state responded with a major crackdown in which tens of protestors and journalists were assaulted and arrested. Per Bjoerklund reports from Cairo. [MORE]
US academic group decries the targeting of schools in Gaza
Statement, California Scholars for Academic Freedom, 4 January 2009
California Scholars for Academic Freedom, a group of 100 scholars at 20 California institutions of higher learning, condemns in the strongest possible terms the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip that have targeted the Islamic University and other educational sites. While we decry Israeli war crimes and violations of human rights, and condemn the massive Israeli bombardment of Gaza which has caused hundreds of deaths, as educators in California institutions of higher learning, we are especially appalled at the destruction of educational institutions and student casualties. [MORE]
Photostory: World demonstrates for Gaza
Photostory, The Electronic Intifada, 3 January 2009
Around the world people took to the streets outraged by the scenes of death and destruction in the Gaza Strip that began when Israel bombarded the coastal territory on 27 December. The below images were sent to The Electronic Intifada from around the world and document various actions, demonstrations and vigils in solidarity with Gazans under siege. [MORE]
Photostory: World demonstrates for Gaza, pt. 2
Photostory, The Electronic Intifada, 3 January 2009
Around the world people took to the streets outraged by the scenes of death and destruction in the Gaza Strip that began when Israel bombarded the coastal territory on 27 December. The below images were sent to The Electronic Intifada from around the world and document various actions, demonstrations and vigils in solidarity with Gazans under siege. If you have images to which you hold the rights documenting Palestine, Palestinian life, politics and culture, or of solidarity with Palestine, please email images and captions to photos A T electronicintifada D O T net. [MORE]
New York City labor group condemns attacks on Gaza
Release, NYLAW, 3 January 2009
New York City Labor Against the War joins millions around the world in condemning Israel's ongoing murder and maiming of hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza. Israel claims that it is fighting "terrorism" -- the same hollow excuse with which the United States tries to justify wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the erosion of civil liberties and labor rights at home.
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Union urges immediate boycott following Gaza university bombing
Appeal, Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees, 30 December 2008
The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees condemns in the strongest possible terms the bombing of the campus of the Islamic University in Gaza. This wanton destruction of an academic institution is only the latest in the ongoing lethal campaign launched by the Israeli government and army against Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. [MORE]
Gaza carnage sparks protests throughout Palestine
Mel Frykberg, The Electronic Intifada, 28 December 2008
RAMALLAH, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Anger, shock and revulsion at the continuing carnage in Gaza has ignited spontaneous demonstrations and riots across the West Bank and Israel, sparking concerns of a possible third Palestinian uprising or intifada. More than 300 Palestinians were killed and at least 900 wounded following an intensive Israeli air bombing campaign over the Gaza strip through the weekend. [MORE]
Palestinian leaders in Israel declare strike, call for boycott
Appeal, The Higher Follow Up Committee for Arab Citizens of Israel, 28 December 2008
In the presence of all national alliances, an urgent meeting for the Follow up Committee was held today declaring Sunday 28 December 2008 a general strike in protest of the Israeli massacres committed against Palestinians in Gaza. The meeting called for the organization of demonstrations and marches in every Arab town in al-Naqab [Negev], the Triangle, the Galilee areas and coastal towns as a symbol of the rage and severe grief of the Palestinian nation upon the loss of hundreds of its citizens in Gaza. [MORE]
Boycott committee: "Stop the massacre in Gaza - boycott Israel now!"
Press release, Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, 27 December 2008
Today, the Israeli occupation army committed a new massacre in Gaza, causing the death and injury of hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including a yet unknown number of school children who were headed home from school when the first Israeli military strikes started. This latest bloodbath, although far more ruthless than all its predecessors, is not Israel's first. [MORE]
Quebec supporting apartheid?
Stefan Christoff, The Electronic Intifada, 23 December 2008
Quebec inked an economic partnership agreement with Israel this fall in Jerusalem. Attracting little attention from major media outlets, Quebec's bilateral accord was signed during a government-led delegation to Israel that included high-level state officials and corporate representatives this past September, amidst Israel's ongoing siege of Gaza. Quebec's accord with Israel stands in contrast to the growing international calls for an economic boycott of the Israeli government. Stefan Christoff comments.
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