Gush Shalom Ad in Israeli paper

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Written by Gush Shalom Gush Shalom

Published: 13 December 2013 13 December 2013

Gush ad 13.12.13

After much hesitation,
Israel sent the
Knesset Speaker
To the funeral of
Nelson Mandela.

Speaker Edelstein
Lives in a settlement
In occupied territory,
Traveling daily
Over apartheid roads.

Nelson Mandela dies aged 95

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Written by Peter Miller Peter Miller

Published: 05 December 2013 05 December 2013

Nelson Mandela dies aged 95

From the Guardian: "South Africa's first black president died peacefully in company of his family at home in Johannesburg, Jacob Zuma announces"

       “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” ― Nelson Mandela

Portland Coalition launches SodaStream Boycott

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Written by Peter Miller Peter Miller

Published: 04 December 2013 04 December 2013

Black Friday (November 29th) saw the Portland Palestine SodaStream Boycott Coalition joining with national efforts to boycott SodaStream which is made in an illegal Israeli settlement.

Hundreds of flyers where handed out in downtown Portland, Oregon in front of Macy's and Target which both sell SodaStream.  The stores had received letters from the coalition detailing their concerns.

The coalition plans to leaflet every Saturday until Christmas.

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For more than a year, religious and human rights organizations across the country have urged Macy’s and Target to de-shelve SodaStream products because of SodaStream's complicity with Israel's occupation and settlements. This fall, Friends of Sabeel – North America began a “SodaStream 14” campaign to send letters to CEOs of Macy’s, Target and other corporations. Local Human Rights organizations and concerned citizens have also contacted the downtown Macy's and Target Galleria stores, providing information about SodaStream’s role in the military occupation of Palestine, and requesting that these stores de-shelve SodaStream products.  Leafleting and speaking with customers who shop at these stores is a logical and necessary next step. Click here to see the letters we sent locally to Target or Macy's. For more information about the SodaStream boycott campaign go to: www.sodastreamboycott.org

Israel to build security fence in the heart of the West Bank

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Written by Allison Deger Allison Deger

Published: 21 November 2013 21 November 2013

It’s barely 100 meters, but a fence Israel plans to build through four villages in the heart of the iconic hills of the West Bank shows how deep the occupation reaches into Palestinian life.

Earlier this month, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) ordered the construction of a separation fence in the north central West Bank on agricultural land belonging to four Palestinian villages. The “security fence,” or “security wall,” from the Hebrew and Arabic appropriation orders respectively, will run east-west along highway 5, near Tapuach Junction, a checkpoint between Ramallah and Nablus.

This fence is not an extension of the famous separation barrier. Rather it will be a free-floating chain linked plank in the heart of the West Bank. A miniature version of the wall, it separates nothing and can easily be bypassed on foot. It only stretches 3.8 dunums in length, well under one kilometer. Still this fence is part of a patchwork of barriers in the Nablus district that trace the highway system.

The fence is slated for construction on farms lands belonging to the hillside localities of Beita, Osrain, Qabalan and Yitma. Together the four villages form a square with two to the north and two to the south of an Israeli highway. The planned path of the fence lines the bisecting highway.

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