Monthly Archives: July 2009

Open Letter to Amnesty International July 30, 2009 In May, the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) called on singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen to heed thePalestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel and avoid complicity with Israel’s violations [...]

Whenever the possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state is mentioned by Israeli politicians, they take for granted that their interlocutors understand that the future state would have to be demilitarized and disarmed, if an Israeli consent for its existence [...]

On 9 July Harvard University‘s Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research (HPCR) invited Colonel Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, former Israeli military legal adviser, to their online Humanitarian Law and Policy Forum. The stated aim was to bring "objective" discussion to the [...]

Palestinian supporters are planning to stage a protest outside the Odyssey Arena this weekend.They are staging the demonstration as part of a worldwide campaign to force the Grammy-winning artist to cancel his scheduled appearance in Israel later this year.The Canadian [...]