The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s annual boxing fundraiser takes place tonight in Croke Park. One of the final events marking “Israeli Apartheid Week” is a fundraiser for the IPSC which is an independent, non party political organisation run by volunteers and committed to promoting a just peace in the Middle East. While the amateur boxing night is always entertaining, there is also music, raffle, auction and a late bar. Last … Read More
Banksy’s Back In Gaza.
Street artist Banksy has been back to Gaza and he’s created a parody travel advert to document his new work. Banksy has been busy in Gaza for a decade now and his subversive art highlights the vicious Israeli regime’s treatment of Gaza’s imprisoned people. For background and earlier artwork visit EI. Banksy’s site has a fuller catalogue of his recent Gaza work. If you’d like to support the Gaza Toy Drive check out their … Read More
The Art Of War.
Stephen Bourke visited The Gazing from Gaza exhibition in Dublin 8’s Back Loft gallery and found a Democratic world of dozens of palestinian artists channeling life, death and hope during wartime. When Mohammed Lubbad looks north out of the Gaza strip from his home in Beit Lahiya, he can see gasometers in the distance at the Dorad and Rotenberg power stations. Just beyond is Askalon, his family’s ancestral home. It’s … Read More
IDF Presents The Air Raid Dub.
One of the harder parts of the Gaza bombardment for people to get their heads around was the ghoulish glorification of war within Israeli society and military. Not to be out done by people gathering on hills to cheer bomb raids, Twitter users doing the “Gaza strip” or that strange sudden demand for solider spunk from people undergoing IV: the official IDF Youtube channel vomited up this god awful shitty mash up … Read More
Turning Paper Promises Into Practical Politics.
Eamonn McCann delivered this blazing speech at Saturday’s Dublin demonstration in solidarity with the people of Gaza. The Derry firebrand, who came to prominence during the birth of the Northern Irish civil rights movement and the Derry Housing Action Committee, argued that Palestine was on the historic front line of global justice today. Core to his speech was how to make the BDS campaign take off: “To make the boycott, … Read More
From Dublin With Love.
Thousands marched in Dublin today to show solidarity with the Palestinian people and to call for action against the ongoing Israeli attacks. Speakers called for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions from the stage to extended applause as businesses which have publicly announced their own boycotts were also applauded. There were also calls to expel the Israeli Ambassador, Boaz Modai, and a further call from former MEP Paul Murphy who declared … Read More
Israel’s Dealings In Dodgy Diamonds.
As the Gaza death toll breaks the 1,000 mark and a full one tenth of the population find themselves homeless Fionka Gallivanti take a look at how the Israeli military benefits from the diamond trade. Your Facebook feed – like mine – is probably overflowing with shared and re-shared images of unimaginable horror: sobbing mothers, blackened bodies, cratered streets and the blank, wide-eyed stares of shell-shocked children. Maybe you join in … Read More
Israeli Heroes.
Amid the massacres in Gaza it can be easy to forget that not all Israelis back the slaughter. Meet Sahar Vardi a brave young Israeli who has dedicated her life to activism. The Nobel Women’s Initiative gives us this background: “Activism has always been a part of her family’s life. Sahar’s father refused to do his obligatory military service in the first intifada. During the second intifada he became active with Ta’ayush, … Read More
Israeli Sniper Kills Wounded Civilian.
During yesterday’s ceasefire, declared by Israeli forces following the massacre in the Shajiya district of Gaza, International Solidarity Movement workers made their way into the neighbourhood and were fired upon. The sniper killed a Palestinian man who was desperately searching for his family. Before the shooting they passed an ambulance that had been targeted during the assault, at least one medic and one photojournalist were killed on Sunday. Rina Andolini, an … Read More
Help For Gaza Begins At The Till.
Activists carried out some actions in solidarity with the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement which targets Israeli apartheid. Ronan Burtenshaw sent us this report from those involved. As Israel’s massacre in Gaza intensifies, activists carried out BDS actions after yesterday’s Dublin demo. Here they explain their motivations and encourage others to join the boycott campaign against Israel: This morning, after massive demonstrations of solidarity around the world with the … Read More
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