Danish Security Firm G4S Remains Complicit in Israel’s Prison System
Siham Nuseibeh | 22 May 2013
The below is a statement from the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC)… Palestinian Prisoners Day [in April was] marked with actions in 11 countries protesting the complicity of British-Danish security company G4S in Israel’s prison system. The company provides equipment and services to prisons at which Palestinian political...The Nakba: 65 Years and Ongoing
Siham Nuseibeh | 15 May 2013
Today is the 65th anniversary of the Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe”, which saw between 700,000 and 1,000,000 Palestinians expelled from their homes. The Nakba continues to this day as land annexations, house demolitions, settlement expansion, incursions, invasions, and killings continue to be employed to against the occupied Palestinian populations. The...Press Release: Shareholders File Response to CREF’s Refusal to Allow Vote on Divestment From Companies Supporting Human Rights Abuses
Siham Nuseibeh | 1 May 2013
(Photo: Daniel Strum/Adalah NY) The following is a press release from the We Divest Coalition… [Monday], lawyers for the We Divest Coalition filed two letters (see here and here) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in response to retirement fund giant TIAA-CREFF’s continued refusal to allow a shareholder vote on a proposal to divest from...Press Release: TIAA-CREF Should Hold a Vote on Divesting from the Israeli Occupation
Siham Nuseibeh | 17 Apr 2013
The We Divest campaign is a coalition of organizations demanding that financial services giant, TIAA-CREF, divests from all companies that profit from the Israeli Occupation. The following is a press release from the We Divest campaign. The campaign is a coalition of organizations demanding that financial services giant, TIAA-CREF, divests from all companies...Fact Sheet: Palestine’s Christians
Siham Nuseibeh | 3 Apr 2013
The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, or the Church of the Resurrection by Eastern Christians, is a church within the Christian Quarter of the walled Old City of Jerusalem. The church has been a paramount – and for many Christians the most important – pilgrimage destination since at least the 4th century, as the...Mortal Moments: A Conversation with Cartoonist Joe Sacco
Yazan al-Saadi* | 22 May 2013
Joe Sacco Joe Sacco is a rare breed in his dual fields of cartoons and journalism. Over three decades, he successfully married the two to such a degree that he has been dubbed a pioneer of a new school of journalism...The Malaga Statement on Compensation for Palestinian Victims of the Israeli Occupation
Siham Nuseibeh | 8 May 2013
[www.palestinecampaign.org]Below is a statement from a gathering of representatives from 13 Palestinian, Israeli, and international organizations, as well as lawyers and legal experts who gathered in Malaga, Spain...Excerpts: 2012 US State Department Country Report on Israel & the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Siham Nuseibeh | 24 Apr 2013
A Palestinian boy climbs through an opening in Israel’s controversial barrier in Shuafat in the West Bank near Jerusalem. REUTERS/Baz Ratner (WEST BANK) Last Friday saw the release of the US State Department’s...Fact Sheet: Israeli Independence & the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Siham Nuseibeh | 10 Apr 2013
The military blueprint for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine was called Plan Dalet (or Plan D) and was formally approved by the Zionist leadership on March 10, 1948. (Source: http://www.1948.org.uk) The following...Fact Sheet: Does Netanyahu Really Support the Two-State Solution?
Siham Nuseibeh | 20 Mar 2013
Israel’s Prime Minister and Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File). The following is a fact sheet from the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)… Opposition to...
