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We provide links to articles we think will be of interest to our supporters, informing them of issues, events, debates and the wider context of the conflict. We are sympathetic to much of the content of what we post, but not to everything. The fact that something has been linked to here does not necessarily mean that we endorse the views expressed in it. _____________________

BBC4 – Monday 3rd March


Tonight !!!

The Village that Fought Back: Five Broken Cameras

Oscar-nominated film compiled from the video diary of a Palestinian farmer who documents unrest in his West Bank village. Emad Burnat starts filming with his first camera following the birth of his fourth son.
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Action Alerts


Support Freedom of Expression! Oppose Intimidation!
Petition circulated by Judith Butler & Rahid Khalidi

Stop killer drones - End EU support for Israel’s arms companies

Sign the Drinking water in Gaza petition

Demand release and proper medical care for ill Palestinian prisoners

The BEDOUIN

We have posted more than 30 articles on The Bedouin of the Naqab/Negev over the last three years

URGENT action is needed on this issue now. Please do the things listed here (click on each item).

See the JfJfP briefing note on Bedouin Palestinians of the Naqab and download the new leaflet on the Prawer plan

* Support Rabbis for Human Rights financial appeal to fight the Bedouin evictions

* Lobby Foreign Secretary Hague to stop the Prawer Plan

* Support the Amnesty International appeal: "Don't evict tens of thousands of Bedouin citizens"

* Sign the Avaaz petition

* Get your MP to sign the EDM 306, "Ethnic Cleansing of Bedouin People in Israel"

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Did you know?



Settlements Generate Virtually No Economic Activity
"A recent Israeli government report estimated there are…$250 million in annual exports — [only] 0.55 percent of the national total — from the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, territories the international community generally considers illegally occupied."
Jodi Rodoren cited by Richard Silverstein, 22 Jan 2014

Daily acts of violence committed by Jewish Israeli citizens against West Bank Palestinians
"These incidents — now particularly heightened during the olive harvest season — are not the aberration from the norm, but a regular feature of life in the occupied West Bank. In 2012, over 7,500 Palestinian olive trees were destroyed. In the 5-year period between 2007 and 2011, there was a 315 percent increase in settler violence."
Mairav Zonszein, Israel Must Stop Settler Violence, 8 November 2013
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Police impunity
After their own investigations establishing a prima facie violation, Btselem has lodged over 280 complaints of alleged police violence in the oPt since the start of the second Intifada: "we are aware of only 12 indictments" Btselem April 2013
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Runners in the first ever Bethlehem Marathon were forced to run two laps of the same course on Sunday 21 April 2013, as Palestinians were unable to find a single stretch of free land that is 26 miles long in Area A, where the PA has both security and civil authority. See Marathon report
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30th March, land day.
On 30 March 1976, thousands of Palestinians living as a minority in Israel mounted a general strike and organised protests against Israeli government plans to expropriate almost 15,000 acres of Palestinian land in the Galilee.The Israeli government, led by prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and defence minister Shimon Peres, sent in the army to break up the general strike. The Israeli army killed six unarmed Palestinians, wounded hundreds and arrested hundreds more, including political activists. All were citizens of Israel.
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* Out of 103 investigations opened in 2012 into alleged offences committed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied territories, not a single indictment served to date
Yesh Din, 3 Feb 2013
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* In total, out of an area of 1.6 million dunams in the Jordan Valley, Israel has seized 1.25 million − some 77.5 percent − where Palestinians are forbidden to enter.
Haaretz editorial, 4 Feb 2013
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JfJfP comments


2014:

16 Jan: EJJP lobbies EU in support of the EU Commission Guidelines, Aug 2013–Jan 2014

2013:

29 November: JfJfP, with many others, signs a "UK must protest at Bedouin expulsion" letter

November: Press release, letter to the Times and advert in the Independent on the Prawer Plan

September: Briefing note and leaflet on the Prawer Plan

September: JfJfP/EJJP on the EU guidelines with regard to Israel

14th June: JfJfP joins other organisations in protest to BBC

2nd June: A light unto nations? - a leaflet for distribution at the "Closer to Israel" rally in London

24 Jan: Letter re the 1923 San Remo convention

18 Jan: In Support of Bab al-Shams

17 Jan: Letter to Camden New Journal about Veolia

11 Jan: JfJfP supports public letter to President Obama

Comments in 2012 and 2011

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Lobby MPs/EDMs:


* A how-to-lobby guide

June2012 EDM:
G4S

May 2012 EDM:
Living in the Holy Land and the national curriculum

May 2012 EDM:
Administrative detention in Palestine

Jan 2012 EDM:
Proposed EU legislation on financing of illegal activity in the West Bank

Oct 2011 EDM:
Prisoner exchange and Palestinian child prisoners

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions:
* Tell BT to hang up on the Occupation
* Stop Veolia
* Boycott Ahava
* End the trade in settlement goods
* Stop Arming Israel

Misc:
Buy fairtrade Zaytoun Palestinian olive oil
Some previous Appeals

Contacts:
Israeli government officials
Israeli Press
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Posts

Newsletter 31 Aug 2008

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Summary Big news of the week was the arrival, the celebrations and the successful return to Cyprus of the two Gaza boats, SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty, this time with some Palestinians seeking medical treatment or to be united with their families. Israeli ambassador Ron Prosor couldn’t resist having a go in the Guardian [...]

August 31st, 2008 | Category: News |

Newsletter 24 Aug 2008

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Summary Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s national poet, died on 9 August 2008 as a result of complications following open-heart surgery and thousands turned out for his funeral in Ramallah. The good news is that the two boats SS Free Gaza and SS Liberty have, to much surprise and acclaim, broken the blockade and reached Gaza The [...]

August 24th, 2008 | Tags: , , , | Category: News |

Newsletter 10 Aug 2008

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Summary Not much good news really in recent weeks. Below we carry some reports of non-violent resistance in Israel and the generally violent response it is evoking. Also news of the Break the Siege boat trip from Gaza to Cyprus, due to sail about now. Meanwhile the occupation is extending its tentacles with the likely [...]

August 10th, 2008 | Tags: , , | Category: News |