Irish Lawmakers Call for Arms Embargo on Israel

In a letter published in the Irish Times newspaper, Minister of State Finian McGrath and fifty other Irish TDs and Senators have called for…

July 5, 2018 / Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) The Council of the Socialist International (SI) has called for Boycott, Divestment…

Israel is carrying out murderous assaults against protesting Palestinians, with its armed forces killing and maiming demonstrators who pose no…

Sixty-four public figures, including seven Nobel Peace Prize winners, published a letter in the British Guardian newspaper calling for an…

Amnesty International has called for a UN-mandated investigation into international violations committed during the ongoing Israeli air strikes across Gaza,…

Former U.S President Jimmy Carter, described the EU’s position towards the Palestinian-Israeli conflict ‘ supine’, urging the EU to break…

El antiguo Presidente de los EEUU Jimmy Carter, describió como ‘supina’ la posición de la UE hacia el conflicto Palestino-Israelí,…

El Primer ministro palestino en Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, cuyo partido, Hamas, fue ilegalizado en Junio por el Presidente Mahmoud Abbas,…

The growth of the Palestinian economy will continue to be stunted so long as Israel continues to impose restrictions on…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he is optimistic over possible end to internationally-imposed economic embargo. Abbas’s remarks came during a…

In a press conference at the Belgium Foreign Ministry, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that he is optimistic that the…

Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmad Abuelghait, voiced hope yesterday that the international economic boycott imposed against the Hamas-led government would come…

The Arab transitional parliament hopes that a national unity government can be formed as soon as possible, in accordance with…

A private meeting between a group of senior British MPs and prominent members of the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority took place…

Russia called yesterday for an end to the international embargo which is imposed on the Palestinian people, and urged the…

Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, said on Wednesday that he received assurances from the United States that the formation of a…

In a report published Wednesday, the World Bank stated that the economic crisis caused by the Israeli-imposed blockade of all…

A new report issued today by the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor documented dozens of deliberate killings and field executions carried…

“There’s nothing to sustain life” in northern Gaza city; Biden admin ignores illegal use of US weapons in genocide” –…

Joint Statement: Standing with the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese in Face of Israeli-Led, Western-Backed, Intensified Attacks Amid Ongoing Genocide…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  Thursday was the twentieth consecutive day of the Israeli occupation forces’ aerial, ground, and naval…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  Tuesday was the eighteenth consecutive day of the Israeli occupation forces’ aerial, ground, and naval…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  Monday was the seventeenth consecutive day of the Israeli occupation forces’ aerial, ground, and naval…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  Gaza’s health ministry stated, “The Israeli occupation committed two massacres of families in Gaza, resulting…

The UK, France, Germany and Italy released a joint statement condemning the multiple and ongoing Israeli attacks on United Nations…

Palestinian Territory, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor – The Israeli occupation army is using booby-trapped robots equipped with tons of explosives to commit…

The images of the past year are seared into my memory. The worst one I remember was the image of…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  In war-battered Gaza, Israeli forces killed 36 Palestinians in the past 24 hours. A major…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff  At least 48 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on…

Compilation of news reports by IAK staff  Death ‘the only certainty’ for Gazans, says UN official The New Arab reports:…

Polio epidemic begins; new flyers about Gaza to distribute; just 11 percent of Gaza for Gazans; Israeli settlers carry out…

Food aid in southern Gaza next to zero; Israel has killed over 2,000 Palestinian babies; Israel’s intensifying attacks on Gaza’s…

In Gaza, airstrikes continue, food rations drop, polio threat grows; in Israel, calls to punish not the rapists, but the…

Calls to end the “unbearable cruelty” inflicted by Israel; death, crowding in Gaza’s shrinking “safe zones”; EU slams Israel over…

2 million Gazans are squeezed into 20% of their land, as Israeli bombers and snipers keep killing; UNICEF vehicles hit…

Baby born after mother killed in Gaza; Israeli raids in West Bank tripled; Palestinians at the Olympics; Israel gets weapons…

by Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh [References at end] This was said 30 years ago: “This is a unique colonialism that we’ve…

Palestinians in Rafah and across Gaza grapple with ongoing Israeli violence, starvation; UN experts call for embargo, sanctions; another expert…

Following the call for an arms embargo on Israel, passed by the United Nations’ top human rights body Friday, international…

UN leaders reflect on 6 months of slaughter; US on high alert for possible attack by Iran; Israel admits to…

United Nations: Speakers in Security Council Condemn Deadly Israeli Airstrikes on Aid Workers in Gaza, Urge Immediate Action to End…

On Thursday, Day 181 of the ongoing genocide of the Palestinians in the destroyed and devastated Gaza Strip, the Israeli…

Egos, assumptions, denialism accompany passage of UN Security Council resolution; meanwhile, another confirmation of genocide by Israel; German support for…

In full view of the world, the US is facilitating “some of the worst crimes of our age,” an action…

On Friday, as Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians of the devastated Gaza Strip enters its 154th day, Israeli missiles and…

RAMALLAH, Monday, February 26, 2024 (WAFA) – The Israeli government has failed to comply with at least one measure in the legally…

70-80% of Gaza civilian infrastructure in ruins; another massacre of men, women & children; prisoner negotiations are reportedly progressing; UN…

The US Representative at the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, made an eerie reference to a “Final Solution” in her remarks…

The following is a statement released by the Palestinian Authority on Monday February 12th: The State of Palestine calls on…

Biden admin (and Israel) still in denial about genocide in Gaza; Israeli bombardment in Gaza not slowing down; more white-flag…

The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting Friday morning New York time to discuss the catastrophic situation in Gaza.…

On October 14, I lost nine members of my extended family after Israeli air strikes targeted the house of my…

RAMALLAH, Wednesday, February 22, 2023 (WAFA) – Eight-eight Palestinian, regional and international civil society organizations welcomed the announcement by the…

Report By Amnesty International: Israeli authorities must be held accountable for committing the crime of apartheid against Palestinians, Amnesty International…

MAY 15, 2021: For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin:  A huge crowd gathered as The Derry Branch of the Ireland Palestine…

By: Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC): For more than eleven consecutive nights, the Israeli military forces have bombed Gaza, terrorizing its two…

For IMEMC News, Niall Ó Brolcháin:  Some of the crowd who gathered in Derry to protest against Israel’s proposed illegal…

By: Burak Bir for Anadolu Agency The heart of the Palestinian cause is Jerusalem, and what is happening today in…

12-10-19 / Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) / Palestine On the anniversaries of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and…

In a historic step, Oslo’s newly installed City Council is banning Israeli settlement goods and services from public procurements. The…

“The UK has, for the first time, officially invited the Israeli government to participate in the world’s largest arms fair…

photo: Day of protest taking place outside Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) in London on 2nd September, where arms…

Thirty Palestinians in Israeli jails, have joined a hunger strike in solidarity with six detainees who have themselves been refusing…

On Tuesday, 30 July, 20 more Palestinian prisoners joined the eight administrative detainees already on hunger strike as Mohammed Abu Aker, Mustafa…

On 9 July, 33 press freedom and media development organizations met in London, in advance of the Global Media Freedom…

Expressing deep concern over the British Government’s decision to continue to exporting arms and ammunition to Israel, the Euro-Mediterranean Human…

May 24, 2019  by Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)  Germany, Palestine Through statements issued by both the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole…

From DazedDigital.com: The Eurovision song contest is a gay institution, an international marquee event affectionately dubbed the ‘Gay Olympics’ –…

May 10, 2019 / Israeli Apartheid Week / Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Arab World, Palestine Thanks to your support, Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) was an even…

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are marking Land Day and the one-year anniversary of Gaza’s Great March of Return by…

March 18, 2019 / Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)  / Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America Global Actions Follow Record Turnout at Palestinian National…

February 28, 2019 / By Israeli Apartheid Week  / Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America The 15th Annual Israeli Apartheid Week of actions will take…

The following article by Khaled Barakat, Palestinian writer and coordinator of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat, was originally published on…

Ashraf Na’alwa, Saleh Barghouthi, Majd Mteir (l-r). Graphic: Quds News Via the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. On 13 December,…

With an overwhelming majority, the National Congress of Chile approved a resolution demanding the government “forbid the entry of products…

Last March, outgoing Jewish Agency chair Natan Sharansky declared that the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign had “been almost fully defeated”.…

Dr. Abdullah al-Qishawi, the head of the Kidney Branch at the Shifa Medical Center in Gaza, has warned that the…

Palestinian civil society issues a statement urging the UK Labour Party and trade unions to reject IHRA’s false, anti-Palestinian definition of…

The American linguist, historian and thinker Noam Chomsky says that the administration of US President Donald Trump, despite all its…

TRNN’s Shir Hever discusses his book on the privatization of Israeli security, the role of the Palestinian Authority as a…

August 8, 2018 / Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) Here are 70 highlights of solidarity and BDS for Palestine…

Via BNC official: We, Palestinian cultural organizations, municipalities and human rights campaigns, call for the boycott of Meteor Festival in Israel, scheduled…

Following a global campaign, Adidas is no longer sponsoring football teams in illegal Israeli settlements. Palestinians call on new sponsor…

Awni Farhat and Youssef Sammour, two Palestinian passengers on the Freedom Flotilla, discuss their longing to return home. Dimitri Lascaris…

Adidas responded to the March 12, 2018 letter from more than 130 Palestinian football clubs and sports associations demanding that Adidas drops its sponsorship…

“[BDS] campaigns around the world present the most promising way to overcome the failure of world governments to stand up…

Hamas’ chief in the Gaza Strip vowed, on Wednesday, to use military force against Israel if the blockade on the…

The Israeli military killed over 60 and wounded over 2,000 Palestinians protesters in one day, as Ivanka Trump and Jared…

In response to Israel’s horrific massacre of dozens of unarmed Palestinians, and wounding of thousands, in Gaza, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity…

May 14, 2018 Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) Reversing decades of US foreign policy, the Trump administration is…

Photo: Lara Khalidi On World Press Freedom Day 2018, the Journalist Support Committee held a conference in London on the…

Israeli snipers have been shooting Palestinian protesters within the Gaza Strip, claiming that, in doing so, they are protecting Israel’s…

(PNN) India was the greatest market for Israeli arms last year, amid an increase in sales to the Asia-Pacific region…

~Mersiha Gadzo By the time he was transferred to Istishari Arab Hospital, in Ramallah, after undergoing seven surgeries in Gaza, there…

The Israeli occupation army has refused to disclose their rules for opening fire on Palestinian protesters along the eastern borders…

“Any decisions and actions which purport to have altered the character, status or demographic composition of the Holy City of…

The Israeli government is currently preparing a blacklist of local and international organizations and activists who call for boycotting Israeli…

Download / Listen Here Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org,…

On Wednesday, 4th October, 2017, the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign presented the Irish Government with over 23,000 signatures to a petition…

Official statement from the BNC: The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society that leads…