Kick Settlements Out of Football at FIFA’s Upcoming Congress!
FIFA will make a decision on Israeli football teams based in illegal settlements at their upcoming Congress on May 11, 2017. This is our chance to...
Petition – Gaza in Crisis: A Political Choice, Not a Natural Disaster
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The world knows Gaza is in crisis. No clean water, only 3-4 hours electricity a day and not enough medicine. Nearly 2...
Global South speaks out on Gaza, calls for military embargo:
Building on from the Latin America Militarism conference, organizations from Latin America and Asia issued a joint statement condemning the attacks on Gaza in...
Palestine Just Trade
Palestine Just Trade Inc. was established in 2018 to bring distinct, quality Palestinian products into Canada on the basis that all of its activities...
Campaign Calls on UN to Release Names of Companies Involved in Settlement Activities
Al-Haq Human Rights organization launched an action alert urging the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Human Rights Council and Member States to abide...
Petition to Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
End the Occupation
June 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the occupation of the West Bank, and the 10th anniversary of the blockade of Gaza....
UN experts deplore increase in arbitrary detention of Palestinian activists
Two United Nations experts have deplored daily violations of human rights and international law by the Israeli regime in the occupied Palestinian territories, warning...
UN – either endorse the UN-ESCWA report on Israeli apartheid or disprove it.
The report released by UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UN-ESCWA), was compiled by distinguished internationally recognised academics, and after indepth research,...
Jewish Students and Scholars Object to “Antisemitism Awareness Act”
Jewish scholars and students have released statements urging the US House of Representatives and President Obama to reject the controversial “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act”.
In a recent...
Peace Now Submits Petition to Block Allocation of A-Nahla (E2) Land to Build Settlement
Peace Now and over a dozen Palestinian landowners petitioned the High Court against the allocation of about 1,200 dunams of a-Nahla land, in the...
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How the West Stole Democracy From the Arabs, by Elizabeth F. Thomson. (Photo: Book...
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This edition of Palestine Updates brings you a collection of short but powerful poems by Dennis J Bernstein,...
Palestinian Citizens in Israel: A History Through Fiction, 1948-2010
In the aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, Palestinians have had to contend with different forms of erasure and fragmentation of Palestinian identity, while acquainting...