UK Indymedia - UK Palestine Newswire Archive

Israeli activist to be jailed for caring unless the world protests

08-05-2009 09:43

Neve Gordon highlights the case of an Israeli human rights activist, Ezra Nawi, who is set to go to prison for protesting peacefully against the demolition of Palestinian homes – unless an international public outcry saves him.

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Were you arrested on May 4th in Brighton

08-05-2009 08:37

we know of three people who were arrested at the Mayday! Mayday! Street Party

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Palestine Today 050709

07-05-2009 15:13

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday May 7th 2009.

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Shutting down ITT/EDO: A day at the seaside

07-05-2009 13:41

Photos from the Mayday Smash EDO demo. There's a timeline by Last Hours at

http://twitter.com/lasthours

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Dawn raids against activists in relation to Gaza demos

07-05-2009 13:14

This morning, 15 people were arrested across London and possibly other parts of the country under the Terrorism Act, apparently in relation to the demonstrations in support of Gaza in January this year.

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Gaza Eyewitness Testimony, Bristol

07-05-2009 09:32

Ewa Jasiewicz has been on the ground in Gaza since November 2008, having arrived on the siege breaking Free Gaza boat. She has been working on ambulances and reporting the reality of lives under siege and military assault.

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Mayday Mayday, Smashing EDO in pictures.

06-05-2009 21:53

Another eventful day by the seaside.

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Palestine Today 050609

06-05-2009 14:17

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday May 6th 2009.

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Palestinian Today 050509

05-05-2009 15:40

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Tuesday May 5th 2009.

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Gaza Under Attack: Eyewitness Reports and What Is To Be Done?

04-05-2009 17:11

Ewa Jasiewicz and Caoimhe Butterly have been on the ground in Gaza since November, having arrived on the siege breaking Free Gaza boat. They will be reporting the
reality of lives under siege and under military assault.

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Indymedia dispatch for Brighton Mayday

04-05-2009 00:46

may the 4th be with you

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May 16th, Day for Gaza

03-05-2009 17:34

Dont let the fight stop. STWC rally for gaza. big turn out please.

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extra infolines set up for the Mayday! Mayday! mass street party

03-05-2009 13:30

FOR UP TO THE MINUTE UPDATES ABOUT THE DEMO - call the Mayday! Mayday! infoline - Save these numbers in your phone as this will be one of the only ways to find out the meeting point for the demo

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When, Where the Pope Inspires No Hope

03-05-2009 11:23

Pope will be stepping into “a diplomatic minefield,” where the Catholic highest spiritual authority will be unmercifully scrutinized by the protagonists of the one hundred year old Arab – Israeli conflict for the Holy Father’s every step, word and handshake, which would force him into the defensive in an impossible balancing act that will rule out any hope his presence is supposed to inspire.

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Join ISM's Summer Campaign in Palestine

02-05-2009 20:42

The International Solidarity Movement is issuing a call-out for internationals to volunteer as field activists and office workers in the West Bank, Gaza, and occupied East Jerusalem this summer.

Whether you can come for only few weeks or several months, your presence is needed to support Palestinian communities who are nonviolently resisting the Israeli occupation. Freedom Summer 2009, which will run from June 6th until August 15th, aims to challenge the continued theft of Palestinian land for the rapid expansion of illegal Israeli settlements and their infrastructure in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

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Palestine fundraiser

02-05-2009 13:49

Fundraiser for the International Solidarity Movement, May 16th (night of the big palestine rally in London).

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Zionism Is America’s Existential Threat:

01-05-2009 23:08

We The People of the United States need a new “Declaration of Independence from Religious Oppression” in all its forms and insinuations. Zionism is based on the “delusion” that some “questionable” psychological character who once posed mythically as a high-god deity “gave,” or ordained, the Israel tribal lineage of people to the territory in Canaan at a particular historical point. We are supposed to be “past” the turbulent and insane ages of divine right for kings and it is equally time to recognize that we are also concomitantly past a time for divine right for nations.

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