Tag: Free Gaza Movement

Samouni Inter-Trade Palestine (SIP) is a social enterprise international trade mission. We endeavour to catalyse the end of Gaza’s charitable dependency through import and export trade.

Is there any sane, right-minded person who supports the blatant and brutal collective punishment of the people of Gaza? So why would it carry on? There is only one reason, because we allow it. I say we carry on with what the people of Egypt started, they got rid of the dictator, let us, people of conscience, once and for all smash to pieces the abominable Egyptian blockade of Gaza.

It is not enough that humanitarian activists on the Mavi Marmara were illegally boarded and attacked in international waters on a peace mission to Gaza....

Captain Israel—A Sickening Hasbara Magazine for Jewish Diaspora Youngsters Update: Jerusalem Post says:  omic book artist Eli Valley as a sort of parody of the image...

Today our team in Gaza met the Awaja family from Thabat. There were nine members of this family, seven children aged 1 to 12 years old, but one son was murdered during Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), so seven children is now six. Today we visited a few days in the life of this family, courtesy of a magnificent Palestinian mother named Wafaa.

- This is dedicated to the brave Turkish and American martyrs on the Mavi Marmara, May 31, 2010, and to the 34 murdered American...

Some people wonder why we put ourselves on boats and sail across the Mediterranean to Gaza. We face one of the most vicious armies...

- Echoes of the work American civil rights attorneys Arthur Kinoy and William Kunstler as human rights lawyers fight for Gaza freedom fighters - From...

- Israeli Piracy Continues, Terror State Issues No Apologies - As news broke that the Israeli navy engaged in yet another act of piracy of nine Jewish activists off...

- Israel, in an lie absurd by its own propaganda standard, congratulates itself as having the most moral military in the world - Journalist Lauren Booth was on...

- Whose side are we on? - By Ken O'Keefe I will be returning to America in the next 36 hours as a publicly accused “terrorist...

We Americans are all Palestinians. From the two small boats that landed on August 23, 2008, we grew to six ships in the last flotilla, and will have nine to twelve in the flotilla this fall as we go back to Gaza. To borrow from Dr. King who gave a beautiful anthem for justice in Washington D.C., the Free Gaza movement knows that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. Let us see the day when we can say: "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Open Letter to the Panorama BBC Team from Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate (www.peacepeople.com)  Dear BBC Panorama Team  I write to you regarding your programme of 16th...

But then, how could Netanyahu offer an apology for a premeditated intention. Because that what the Israeli commandos raid was all about. It was a premeditated killing. Netanyahu wanted to send a strong message to the world. The world was forced to see Gaza as an Israeli private property and trespassers were not allowed by any means.

- Will there be another Massacre in the Mediterranean; does Israel dare? - By Greta Berlin at witnessgaza.com They said it couldn't be done, that Americans...

Could you also determine if the State Department has made a demarche to the Israeli government concerning the circumstances surrounding the commandos deadly shooting of unarmed 19 year old American citizen Furkan Dogan, who was shot 5 times, several times to the head?

By the Free Gaza movement, and most of the world Stockholm, Sweden -- It has been over two months since Israel’s 31 May 2010 deadly...

 - You cannot blockade civilian populations for political purposes in international law. That is a war crime, and contrary to Israeli assertions, it would be...

By Greg  Dropkin in CounterPunch Three weeks after the massacre on the Freedom Flotilla, ILWU dockworkers in the San Francisco Bay area delayed an Israeli...

From Gaza Friends, see the faces of the Massacre on the Mediterranean at Free Gaza. - The terrorists on board that ship as well as the...

- U.S. Marine Ken O’Keefe said that two activists were already dead when he helped to disarm the first commandos that boarded the Mavi...

In the face of Israel's defiance of the world community, international law, refusal to negotiate, and deplorable human rights record including recently killing an unarmed American...

By Vittorio Arrigoni, Gaza City, Gaza Ketchup, mayonnaise, thread and needles are the items that were included last week by Israel on the list of...

Lift the Blockade of Gaza Now! Independence for Gaza. Targeting: The President of the United States, Susan Rice (US Representative to the United Nations) and Hillary...

By Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada The Palestinian Authority attempted to neutralize a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution condemning Israel's deadly attack on the...

From the Huffington Post: By Phyllis Bennis Turning points occur in every campaign for human rights and equality. There are moments when, before victory is certain...

There's a joke of sorts among Israel observers that the Massacre on the Mediterranean epitomizes Israel's weakness—Turkish human rights workers try to calm down over-weight...

- And why should ye not fight in the cause of Allah and of those who, being weak, are ill-treated (and oppressed)?― men, women,...

Via Steve Clemons, here is  the White House statement on Gaza following the announcement that Israel unveiled steps to ease the Gaza blockade, hailed as...

By Ercan Yavus Ankara—Tension that broke out between Turkey and Israel when the latter killed eight Turkish citizens and a US citizen of Turkish origin...

Corporate-Controlled Media Under Attack by Truth Tellers and Independent Journalists Seeking to tell the Real Story The Age of Information Wages War with Old Skool Control...

President Obama has made it clear that he is taking sides in this macabre campaign carried out by Israel. And he may soon learn that the righteousness...

There can be no doubt that whatever the misgivings of some of the U.S. military brass about Israeli militarism, President Obama though his actions...

Amid doubt that the 1.5 million Gazans suffering from an illegal Israeli blockade will gain support from the regional Arab and Persian dictators comes...

Via the Washington Note - This is a guest note by Fadi Elsalameen, Executive Director of The Palestine Note. This piece originally appeared in Haaretz. By...

From the Project on ExtraJudicialExecutions: Today, Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, released a statement calling for any Israeli inquiry into...

Editor's Note: Please view this. Be enraged. VT is in touch with a Gaza Friends human rights group that has photographic and video evidence of an "Israeli soldier...

For updates, see Al Jazeera and Witness Gaza. By Noam Chomsky Haymarket Books Press Release, June 2010 Hijacking boats in international waters and killing passengers is, of...

Iara Lee, The Electronic Intifada In the predawn hours of 31 May, I was aboard the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara, part of a convoy of...

By John Feffer Last year, Lauren Rosenberg was walking across a four-lane highway in Utah when she was hit by a car. Now she's suing...

From the Free Gaza movement and allies: Thousands of words have already been written about the Freedom Flotilla, Israel is out with its talking heads...

The most recent attempt to highlight Israel’s criminal blockade and illegal occupation of Gaza was met with more Israeli piracy. See Al Jazeera and Witness...