Why Palestine Matters, The Struggle To End Colonialism, contextualizes the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people within other global justice struggles.
With a foreword by Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, the book is grounded in international law and brings Palestine into focus through a lens of intersectionality, calling all those who struggle for justice against oppression to consider the challenge of seeing Palestinians in the context of other justice struggles.
Why Palestine Matters demonstrates that the project of human emancipation is not limited to Palestine, but it also cannot proceed without Palestine.
The book is a 108-page, full-color publication with visuals on every page, a discussion guide, and maps.
A companion website features enhanced resources for study, including video clips and discussion guide: WhyPalestineMatters.org.
Published by theIPMN.org, The Israel Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) whose General Assembly mandate engages them "toward specific mission goals that will create currents of wider and deeper involvement with Israel/Palestine.”
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WAC-MAAN makes progress in unionizing, promoting employment of Arab women, and improving safety for construction workers
The first half of 2018 has seen WAC-MAAN surge forward in unionizing and defending the rights of workers and the unemployed, in promoting the employment of Arab women, and in its activities against workplace accidents in construction. During this period WAC also initiated three public conferences.
Unionizing
B’Tselem: Joining WAC-MAAN in March 2018 were 40 Israeli and Palestinian employees of the human rights NGO B’Tselem, including several Palestinian field researchers who are citizens of the Palestinian Authority. Since B’Tselem is an organization that documents human rights violations by Israeli settlers and the army in the occupied territories, and since many of WAC’s activities are on the seam of the conflict, WAC is the natural place for B’Tselem employees to go for unionizing and regulating their job conditions. WAC is currently in negotiations with the NGO’s management for a collective agreement, based on equality of employment terms between Israelis and Palestinians. For B’Tselem see here https://www.btselem.org/
The Train Theatre: In April 2018, some 40 members of the Train Theatre joined WAC. This is a unique group of performing artists who until now had been taken on as service providers, not employees. Negotiations are expected to begin soon for a collective agreement which will establish them as employees and enable them to have a say in decision-making.
The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants: In July 2018, 20 workers from the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants asked to join WAC. This organization is the leading NGO defending migrants and refugees in Israel, including asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan. The management responded well, and negotiations are expected to begin in the coming weeks.
Israel verwoest cultureel centrum in Gaza
Israel destroys Gaza cultural center
Rights and Accountability 10 August 2018
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-destroys-gaza-cultural-center
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It is a war against every part of Palestinian identity’: Israel destroys popular Gaza cultural center
It is a war against every part of Palestinian identity’: Israel destroys popular Gaza cultural center
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| Nidal Eissa, Deputy Director of the Said al-Mishal Foundation for Culture and Science standing on ruins of the cultural center. (Photo: Mohammed Asad) https://mondoweiss.net/2018/08/palestinian-identity-destroys/?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=d50480a6dd-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-d50480a6dd-398575789&mc_cid=d50480a6dd&mc_eid=5f653231a8 |
Israel doodt medisch medewerker tijdens Gaza-protesten
Israel kills medic during Gaza protests
Maureen Clare Murphy Rights and Accountability 10 August 2018
Two Palestinians lost their lives on Friday as Israel used lethal force against Great March of Return protests along Gaza’s eastern perimeter.
One of those killed, Abdallah al-Qatati, 22, was a volunteer medic on duty at the time of his fatal injury in eastern Rafah, southern Gaza.
The Israeli rights group B’Tselem found that medic Razan al-Najjar, killed on 1 June, was deliberately targeted by an Israeli sniper east of Khan Younis, also in southern Gaza.
Al-Najjar’s death came two weeks after the killing of Mousa Jaber Abu Hassanein, who like al-Najjar and al-Qatati, was wearing clothing identifying him as a medic when he was shot.
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