Israeli youths reject army call-up

Some Israeli youth see conscription as a tool by which their state oppress a dispossessed people
More than 80 Israeli students have announced their refusal to serve in the Israeli military because of what they call their nation’s track-record of oppression in the occupied territories.
The conscientious objectors issued a letter declaring their determination not to join [...]

VIDEO: Palestinians celebrate prisoners’ release – 2 Oct 09

GAZA REMEMBERD: Long live Palestine!!!

Join Ta’anit Tzedek – Jewish Fast For Gaza

The Jewish Fast for Gaza is an ad hoc group of rabbis, Jews, and people of conscience who have committed to undertake a monthly daytime fast in support of the following goals:
1. To call for a lifting of the blockade that prevents the entry of civilian goods and services into Gaza;
2. To provide humanitarian and [...]

Suheir Hamad Poetry: On the Brink of… for Rachel Corrie

Rachel Corrie – Interview
Footage from Rachel’s interview conducted by Middle East Broadcasting Company on March 14th, 2003, two days before she was murdered by the Israeli Defense Forces.

rachel corrie website
Photostory: Israeli bulldozer driver murders American peace activist

FIGHT ISRAHELL: Viva Palestine in Gaza

Viva Palestina Email Alert
19.00 (GMT) Tuesday 11th March
THE ‘ANGELS’ ARE IN TOWN
Gaza woke up this morning not to the sounds of F16s and the awful smells and white smoke of phosphorous bombs, but to the amazing sights of those ‘angels’ who have defied the odds to be with them in this time of great need.
Today [...]

IDF reservist refuses to fight in Gaza over civilian deaths – one of few israeli heros nowdays…

An Israel Defense Forces reserves soldier, taking part in Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip which entered its 17th day on Monday, has refused to enter the Hamas-ruled territory along with his unit in protest of the killing of Palestinian civilians.

On Monday it emerged that the soldier has been jailed for 14 days in a [...]

‘Anarchists’ block entrance to IAF base in protest of Gaza strikes – We who resist are everywhere!

Twenty-one members of the “Anarchists Against the Wall” group were arrested Friday morning after they blocked the entrance to the Sde Dov Israel Air Force base in North Tel Aviv.
The protestors, wearing white masks and covered in fake blood, laid on the street and played dead.
They said they were arrested after they left the road [...]

Stop the massacre of Gaza – Twenty-six things to do to bring peace with justice:

(courtesy Destert peace)
“The Israeli air-strikes on the Gaza Strip represent severe and massive violations of international humanitarian law as defined in the Geneva Conventions, both in regard to the obligations of an Occupying Power and in the requirements of the laws of war.”
The UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian
(1) First [...]

FOLLOW UP: Gaza relief boat ‘rammed’ by Israeli vessel (Virtous Israel and its Dignity)

An Israeli patrol boat struck a boat carrying medical volunteers and supplies to Gaza early Tuesday as it attempted to intercept the vessel in the Mediterranean Sea, witnesses and Israeli officials said.
The Dignity arrives in Tyre, Lebanon, after it was reportedly rammed by an Israeli military vessel Tuesday.
CNN Correspondent Karl Penhaul was aboard the 60-foot, [...]