Despite the EU's call for a ceasefire, the brutal Israeli bombing of Gaza continues (Reports, 3 January). Nonetheless, the EU is preparing to upgrade its existing agreement to give Israel even more privileged access to European institutions. ...more

As evening closed in on Saturday 3rd January 2009 F-16 fighter planes
 renewed their bombing of one of the most densely populated areas ofland in the world, killing more Palestinian civilians. In seven days Israel has killed over 500 Palestinians and injuring thousand of innocents. And now it has embarked on a full scale ground invasion. ...more

Bethlehem - Ma an - The Palestinian Association of University Teachers in Gaza calls upon all peace-loving, freedom-loving nations, NGOs, universities, intellectuals, cultural and academic institutions, trade unions and syndicates, as well as human rights organizations all over the world to: ...more

My visit back home to the Galilee coincided with the genocidal Israeli attack on Gaza. The state, through its media and with the help of its academia, broadcasted one unanimous voice -- even louder than the one heard during the criminal attack against Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Israel is engulfed once more with righteous fury that translates into destructive policies in the Gaza Strip. This appalling self-justification for the inhumanity and impunity is not just annoying, it is a subject worth dwelling on, if one wants to understand the international immunity for the massacre that rages on in Gaza. ...more

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. ...more

The Turkish public has reacted with anger to the Israeli air strikes on Gaza by appearing in huge numbers at rallies aimed at condemning Israel for the onslaught, which has taken the lives of almost 400 Palestinians. ...more

British telecommunications firm FreedomCall has terminated its cooperation with Israel's MobileMax due to the IDF operation in Gaza. ...more

WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States calls for an immediate end to Israel's bombing attacks on Gaza, which in the past four days has already caused at least 364 deaths, including Palestinian women and children, with hundreds more wounded. ...more

With 345 Palestinians killed and an additional 1,450 wounded by three days of Israeli bombing of the densely populated Gaza strip as of Monday evening, at least half of them civilians including five children killed while sleeping in their home, Israel saying the strikes are a reprisal for Hamas rocket fire on Israel, and Hamas having been ready to renew a ceasefire had Israel lifted a blockade of food and other vital supplies that was slowly draining the life out of Gaza's 1.5 million residents, it's appropriate to ask whether Israeli dance companies should be subjected along with other cultural and academic institutions to an internationally recognized peaceful means of resistance and protest: The boycott. And while one company should not be singled out over another -- just as dance should not be singled out over other cultural institutions -- an ongoing North American tour by Israel's leading troupe, Ohad Naharin's Batsheva, scheduled to culminate in March at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, makes the question even more pressing and prescient. ...more

The Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees condemns in the strongest possible terms the bombing today 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. This murderous rampage has caused over 300 deaths and the injury of close to 1500 Palestinians. And the carnage continues with impunity. ...more