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The Bill To Silence The Like Of Us
Tuesday, 15 November 2011, 10:18 am | Gush Shalom
The Funding Prohibition Bill is aimed at peace and human rights orgs. Foreign right-wing extremist millionaires are not touched: Moskowitz can continue financing settler invasion of Palestinian neighborhoods; Adelman continue maintaining a free daily ... More >>
Join Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike for one day
Tuesday, 11 October 2011, 10:07 am | Gush Shalom
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails started a hunger strike on September 27th, 2011. Every day, the more and more prisoners are joining. Their health is deteriorating due to the hunger strike, and prison authorities are not providing necessary medical ... More >>
Netanyahu made sure America can't broker historical peace
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 4:42 pm | Gush Shalom
Palestine will not arise tomorrow—but this is a historical day. Abu Mazen offered negotiations during a settlement freeze and peace based on the 1967 borders. Netanyahu rejected this, packing his intransigence in security rhetoric. More >>
Boycott Law is unconstitutional and anti-democratic
Monday, 18 July 2011, 10:16 am | Gush Shalom
Gush Shalom, which in the 1990's was the first Israeli body to lead a boycott of settlement products, presented today (Tuesday, 12.7) an appeal to the Supreme Court against the "Boycott Law", approved last night by the Knesset plenum. The petition ... More >>
Gush Shalom petitions Supreme Court
Wednesday, 13 July 2011, 6:00 pm | Gush Shalom
Gush Shalom, which in the 1990's was the first Israeli body to lead a boycott of settlement products, presented today (Tuesday, 12.7) an appeal to the Supreme Court against the "Boycott Law", approved last night by the Knesset plenum. The petition ... More >>
"Fly-In" Activist Welcome Update - Instead A 5pm Protest
Saturday, 9 July 2011, 9:44 am | Gush Shalom
After it tuned out that police at Ben Gurion Airport intend to arrest on the spot anyone coming to welcome the peace activists from abroad, organizers decided to cancel the welcome which they intended to carry out at Ben Gurion Airport at 1pm, and hold ... More >>
Israeli Minister defames Tel Aviv Airport Fly-in Activists
Friday, 8 July 2011, 4:14 pm | Gush Shalom
Dear Sir, According to reports in the media, the Prime Minister has entrusted you with handling what is known as the "Fly-In," i.e. hundreds of peace activists from abroad who are scheduled to land at Ben-Gurion Airport this Friday. You have been ... More >>
Statement of Support for the Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla
Tuesday, 5 July 2011, 9:55 am | Gush Shalom
We, Israeli organizations, Jews and Arabs, full-heartedly support Freedom Flotilla, aim of sailing to the Port of Gaza with the proclaimed goals of breaking through the sea and land siege and blockade of Gaza, which is a manifestation of a continuing ... More >>
Israel: "Anti-boycott" bill--hypocrisy and double standards
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 4:44 pm | Gush Shalom
"The "anti-boycott" bill is an assault on the freedom of expression and political association, an attempt to gag the opposition. It would greatly accelerate the process of Israel's de-legitimation in the international arena. Boycotting the settlements ... More >>
Netanyahu rejects peace and promotes a fictional Palestine
Thursday, 26 May 2011, 1:43 pm | Gush Shalom
The speech of PM Netanyahu in the US Congress was composed of dozens of colorful gimmicks and empty cliches, talk of a peace which he does not intend to conclude and of a fictional Palestinian state which he has no intention of seeing become reality. More >>
Conference in West Bank is violation of International Law
Monday, 9 May 2011, 11:10 am | Gush Shalom
Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, today (Sunday, May 8) sent letters to Israeli and international criminologists who are to lecture at a conference due to be held later this month at "University Center" in the Israeli settlement of Ariel on the ... More >>
Israeli peace group welcomes Hamas-Fatah reconciliation
Friday, 29 April 2011, 9:18 am | Gush Shalom
Gush Shalom welcomes reconciliation agreement between Hamas and Fatah. Avnery: "Palestinian unity is a top Israeli interest. Netanyahu's rejection of the agreement proves that his government has no program and no solution". More >>
Gaza border residents demonstrate against escalation
Friday, 8 April 2011, 9:30 am | Gush Shalom
Last Friday, the IDF carried out a "liquidation" in the Gaza Strip, and immediately the alert level was raised in our region for fear of a Palestinian retaliation leading to escalation. More >>
The Prime Minister denies his blunder
Monday, 4 April 2011, 10:48 am | Gush Shalom
"In the Prime Minister's smug and self-satisfied speech there was not a single word of apology for the serious blunder to which Mr. Netanyahu is personally responsible: his decision not to cooperate with the Goldstone Commission, which resulted in the ... More >>
Israel is becoming a liability to the United States
Sunday, 20 February 2011, 12:13 pm | Gush Shalom
Israel is becoming a liability to the United States, bringing US into the same international isolation into which Israel itself was cast. More >>
“Islam is the Solution”
Monday, 6 December 2010, 10:32 am | Gush Shalom
I am not going to write about the Wikileaks. I like gossip as much as the next (wo)man. The leaks provide a lot of it, interspersed with some real information. But there is nothing really new there. The information only confirms what any intelligent person ... More >>
Israeli security forces practice suppression
Wednesday, 13 October 2010, 12:18 pm | Gush Shalom
This week Israel's security forces practiced the putting down of mass demonstrations and protests among Israel's Arab citizens and their imprisonment in a large detention camp to be established at Golani Junction in Galilee. The exercise was based on a ... More >>
All Quiet On The Eastern Front
Sunday, 1 August 2010, 1:33 pm | Gush Shalom
PEOPLE ENDOWED with sensitive political ears were startled this week by two words, which, so it seemed, escaped from the mouth of Binyamin Netanyahu by accident: "Eastern front". More >>
Gush Shalom: The Gaza Blockades
Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 2:27 pm | Gush Shalom
"It took the killing of nine people at sea and the blackening of Israel's name throughout the world to make the government decide to stop interfering with what the people of Gaza may or may not eat. It apparently would have been too much to expect from ... More >>
Only a government that crossed all red lines
Monday, 31 May 2010, 11:39 pm | Gush Shalom
"Only a crazy government that has lost all restraint and all connection to reality could something like that - consider ships carrying humanitarian aid and peace activists from around the world as an enemy and send massive military force to international ... More >>
