Monthly Archives: October 2008

The Gaza Community Mental Health Program's Fifth International Conference will be held in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO). Rajiah Abu Sway of the WHO's office said that only a few of the foreigners planning to come had cancelled [...]

The union, whose membership numbers approximately 120,000 higher and further education staff around Britain, instead argues that it is within its legal rights to express concerns about its member's links with Israel – especially concerning the ongoing moral and political [...]

Rami Abdu, who last month succeeded in crossing the Rafah border to take up his PhD in finance at Manchester Metropolitan University, is one such victim. “I got a full scholarship to Manchester one and a half years ago. I [...]

The rights coalition Adalah-NY has called for a boycott of Leviev’s businesses due to their human rights abuses and unethical practices in Palestine, Angola, Namibia and New York. In January, 2008, Oxfam denied claims by Leviev that he supported Oxfam [...]

Some said such tactics were "harmful" to the Palestinian struggle. Others opined that BDS would undermine the so-called Israeli "peace" movement. Others, still, stated that boycotting Israel would invite accusations of anti-Semitism and betrayal of the Holocaust victims, thereby setting [...]

The trigger for the outbursts occurred on the night of Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. The country effectively shuts down for 24 hours as religious Jews fast and abstain from most [...]