Studium Generale ‘Een recente discussie over de djihad’

ag 27 januari 2012 Tijd 19:00 tot 21:00 Op vrijdag 27 januari zal een tweede lezing plaatsvinden in teken van de lezingenreeks Studium Generale aan de Islamitische Universiteit Europa. De eerste lezing werd verzorgd door Prof. dr. Maurits Berger, met als thema ‘Sharia in het Westen’. Voor meer details van die lezing, zie:http://www.iueurope.com/nl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=262%3Asharia-in-europa&catid=1%3A-mededelingen Emeritus hoogleraar Prof. dr. [...]

Three Years after the Bombs Fell

  Gaza children remember ‘Cast Lead’ via art. (UN) January 13, 2012 It’s exactly three years ago that 1,417 innocent Palestinians lost their lives in Gaza while the whole world kept silent. And it’s three years ago -to the day- that humanity and everything about it was squashed down to invisibility. It’s exactly three years [...]

BDS Action in London – Protest Against Veolia at Natural History Museum

Wanneer zaterdag 28 januari 2012 Tijd 12:00 tot 14:00 Waar Exibition Road Entrance , Exhibition Road (Nearest tube South Kensington), London, United Kingdom Veolia is once again sponsoring the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum. Saturday, 14 January, between 12:00 – 2:00pm, we’ll be engaging visitors in a public education campaign outside the Exhibition [...]

14 January 2009 – Muhammed Mousa

  Mahammed Mousa 14 January 2012 |Palestinian Centre for Human Rights “We would stay up late at night talking with each other about what had happened over the day, we were brothers, if ever I needed anything I could go to them and they would help me out” On 14 January 2009, at approximately 21:00, [...]

Blast kills PRC operative in south Gaza

Medics wheel a wounded Palestinian man into a hospital in Rafah GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — An explosion in the southern Gaza Strip killed a member of the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the group said late Saturday. Khalid al-Qaisi, 38, died and five others were injured in the blast at the al-Qaisi home [...]

Money transfer stoppage ‘tightening Gaza siege’

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) — Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have told Ma’an that the recent restrictions on Western Union money transfer services are tightening the siege on the coastal strip. The currency wire service enabled residents to avoid lengthy bank transfer procedures, and the monitoring of transactions by Israel and the US, experts said on [...]

Palestinians for Dignity: Saeb Erekat, Go Home

  More pictures of today’s protest can be found here Under the pouring rain, Palestinians for the first time took part in a protest right in front of the Palestinian Authority compound Al-Muqata’a, which has become to symbolize, as one of the more lavish foreign funded state-building projects, an illusion of authority under the Israeli occupation. In [...]

Arab League Chief Calls for Pressure on Israel

CAIRO, January 14, 2012 (WAFA) – Secretary General of the Arab League, Nabil el-Araby, said Saturday that the international community must pressure Israel in order to push forward peace efforts. He said that the international community represented by the United Nations Security Council and the US must exert pressure on Israel to force it to [...]

Demolitions in W. Bank villages reflect settlement upsurge

On Monday, January 9, Israeli authorities shut down “the only road leading to Khan al Ahmar elementary school,” the Palestinian news agency WAFA reports. The move came a day after Israel issued a number of stop-work orders in Umm al Kheir.  Structure that received stop work order in Umm al Kheir (photo: Operation Dove) Both Khan [...]

Miles of Smiles Aid Convoy (8) in Gaza

After many delays Miles of Smiles Aid Convoy (8) in Gaza     Gaza, (Al-resalah.net)–Miles of smiles convoy 8 arrives at the Gaza Strip via Rafah border crossing on Saturday evening, after being repeatedly hampered in Sinai due to Egypt elections. Dr. Isam Yusuf, the convoy coordinator, said that “30 Activists from Tunis, Morocco, Bahrain, [...]