A message from Kevin Ovenden – Viva Palestina convoy leader
“The level of support internationally for this mission has been tremendous. We`ve been understandably in a bit of a bubble – especially when we were barricaded in at the port of Al Arish. But we´ve got some sense of the scale of solidarity events and of [...]

Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada, 4 January 2010

A scene from To Gaza with Love.

To Gaza with Love is a documentary by Aki Nawaz for Iran’s English-language channel Press TV. It is an account of the first boats that successfully broke the siege of Gaza in August 2008. The filmmakers traveled to the Gaza [...]

Something odd, almost bizarre, is going on in Egypt these days.
About 1400 activists from all over the world gathered there on their way to the Gaza Strip. On the anniversary of the “Cast Lead” War, they intended to participate in a non-violent demonstration against the ongoing blockade, which makes the life of 1.5 million inhabitants [...]

Cairo – Some of us reached Gaza and participated in the Gaza Freedom March as planned. All of us significantly raised the profile of dissent – particularly, American dissent – against the blockade of the people of Gaza imposed by Israel and Egypt, with the backing of the United States and the acquiescence of Europe. [...]

CAIRO — Protest leaders stranded in Cairo accepted an Egyptian offer on Tuesday to allow only 100 out of about 1,300 protesters into blockaded Gaza after the activists staged demonstrations and a hunger strike.
The decision split delegates from more than 40 countries who came to Cairo planning to reach the Palestinian enclave, which shares the [...]

Says 85-year-old Hedy Epstein insists ‘we have to try everything’ to break siege of territory
BEIRUT: An 85-year-old Holocaust survivor entered the second day of her hunger strike on Tuesday, in protest over the Egyptian government’s refusal to allow an international Palestinian solidarity march to enter the Gaza Strip. American peace activist Hedy Epstein came to [...]

Humanity’s march to Gaza this for you my little.
Ask the comrades and citizens, and friends and all those he touched on the distribution of this letter as soon as possible and as widely as to contribute to all of us in the battle of good old national.
Brother Fadi Madi, a cell crises and mobilizing the [...]

The law is clear. The conscience of humankind is shocked. Yet, the siege of Gaza continues. The people of Gaza have exhorted the international community to move beyond words of condemnation. It is time for us to take action!
The Long March toward Freedom
To mark the anniversary of Israel’s bloody 22-day assault on Gaza the International [...]

A number of rallies, peaceful demonstrations and activities will be organized in Europe and North and South America on the first anniversary of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
(GAZA STRIP) – The international anti-globalization movement is planning a massive solidarity march on 27 Dec. 2009 that would start in Cairo and end in the [...]

By Khalid Amayreh in Ramallah
There seems to be a perfect conformity between Gabi Ashkenazi and his last name. The Israeli chief of staff is considered one of the main Israeli  war criminals responsible for the virtual genocide against the Gaza Strip during the past winter. On his murderous hands, he carries tons of innocent blood, [...]

Palestinians and foreign activists have torn down segments of Israel’s separation wall in a demonstration marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the town of Qalandiya in the occupied West Bank, a group of masked activists using a lorry pulled down a two-metre cement block before Israeli security forces confronted them [...]

Mahmoud Abbas, the beleaguered head of the Palestinian Authority, has finally but belatedly admitted that  the so-called Peace process with Israel has completely  failed and that the Palestinian people will have to seek an alternative to it.
In a speech in Ramallah Thursday evening, Abbas rightly blamed Israel for the collapse of the political process, saying [...]

by Khalid Amayreh
Mahmoud Abbas’s decision to defer the adoption of the Goldstone report by the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva  last week was more than an innocent diplomatic error or classical example of political misjudgment.
It was rather a brazen act of national irresponsibility bordering on breach of trust or outright treason.
I realize that one [...]

An Open Letter to the Toronto International Film Festival:
September 2, 2009
As members of the Canadian and international film, culture and media arts communities, we are deeply disturbed by the Toronto International Film Festival’s decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the [...]

“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world.
A short time earlier, US-supplied Israeli F-16 warplanes [...]