Hull Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Wednesday, 22 July 2009

As if the IDF, after killing so many civilians and bragging about it, wasn't full of enough cowards as it is, the son of Israels PM will have a body guard protecting him as he serves his mandatory 3 years in the 'most moral army in the world'. (haaretz.com)

Wednesday, 15 July 2009

VIGIL; Tuesday 21st July, St Stephen's, Hull.

Many thanks to those who atttended, gave out leaflets and to those who stopped to talk.

VIGIL: Tuesday 21st July, 5pm, St Stephen's, Ferensway, Hull.
IN MEMORIAM - Marwa al-Sherbini, stabbed to death in a savage racist attack, in a Dresden court - by a neighbour, for wearing a headscarf. She was pregnant and her husband was also injured in the attack.

The Story of Marwa al-Sherbini

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CIA: Israel will fall in 20 years (easenews.net)

Testimonies: An Israeli sniper killed a Palestinian man in order to mark a “score” with his gun. Soldiers fired at houses out of boredom. A commander expressed satisfaction that Gaza hospitals were full. (theglobeandmail.com)

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

PSC HULL MEETING: 14 July, Jericho Cafe, Hull

Israeli combat soldiers have acknowledged that they forced Palestinian civilians to serve as human shields, needlessly killed unarmed Gazans and improperly used white phosphorus shells to burn down buildings as part of Israel's three-week military offensive in the Gaza Strip last winter. (miamiherald.com)

Israel and EU Clash Over Settlements (ipsnews.net)

Israelis set fire and destroy 37 Acres of Palestinian owned land in southern West Bank (uruknet.com)

Viva Palestina Convoy: Egyptian authorities have held up the international humanitarian aid.

UK cuts Israel weapons contracts - And about time!

Israeli shirts promoting the killing of Palestinians

Sunday, 5 July 2009

Cynthia McKinney returns to Gaza!

McKinney has now joined George Galloway and the convoy to Gaza in Egypt.

Cynthia McKinney (Green Party Presidential candidate) returns home after being held in Israeli jail for 6 days. (counterpunch.org)

At a check-point, in shame she opens her top to a female Israeli soldier to show that her breasts have been removed in an attempt to beat cancer. Despite this, she is refused entry to Israel on security grounds. (tinyurl.com)

'The Israelis hijacked us,' M cKinney says in call from prison (rawstory.com)

UPDATE: Cynthia McKinney (Green Party USA) calls from inside an Israeli prison cell: "I was carrying a suitcase of crayons for Gazan Children!"

Saudis Give Nod to Israeli Raid on Iran (timesonline.co.uk)

Rogue State Commits Act of Piracy in International Waters

Pirates of the Mediterranean

Israel Kidnaps Peace Boat Crew

By Paul Craig Roberts

On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the “Spirit of Humanity,” kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction materials, and children’s toys that were on the way to the Mediterranean coast of Gaza. The “Spirit of Humanity,” along with the kidnapped 21 persons, is being towed to Israel as I write.

Gaza has been described as the “world’s largest concentration camp.” It is home to 1.5 million Palestinians who were driven by force of American-supplied Israeli arms out of their homes, off their farms, and out of their villages so that Israel could steal their land and make the Palestinian land available to Israeli settlers. (more)