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  • 2 Feb 2013
    United Methodists asked to avoid SodaStream products

    United Methodists have been asked to avoid SodaStream products advertised during the Super Bowl, as part of a boycott of illegal Israeli settlements.

  • 15 Jan 2012
    Religious row over gender segregation in Israel

    Should Israel allow segregation by gender in the public sphere simply because one religious group - ultra-Orthodox Jews - demand it?

  • 11 Oct 2011
    New survey shows dissatisfaction among Israeli Jews

    Some 80 per cent of Jewish Israelis are dissatisfied with how the government handles issues of religion and state, a new survey suggests.

  • 30 May 2011
    Armenian Genocide and Israeli recognition

    If the motion for recognition of the Armenian Genocide was successful this year in the Israeli Knesset, despite his misgivings, Harry Hagopian - alongside scores of other Armenian and non-Armenian scholars, activists, sympathisers and grassroots - will rejoice at this moral and equitable achievement.

  • 27 May 2011
    Israel is holding the Kirk's work hostage

    The Church of Scotland General Assembly agreed, under threat, to withdraw a resolution calling for a UK ban on goods from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. Paraic Reamonn says that the ethnically-defined nature of the current Israeli state, its treatment of Palestinians and what its policies are doing to the identity of Jewish people should be a matter of priority concern to Christians and others of goodwill.

  • 11 Jan 2011
    UN chief deplores razing of East Jerusalem hotel for new Israeli settlements

    The UN Secretary-General has deplored the destrustion of an hotel in occupies Est Jerusalem to make way for new Israeli settlements.

  • 1 Sep 2010
    WCC condemns killing of Israelis in the West Bank

    The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches has condemned the killings of the four Israeli settlers near Hebron in the West Bank.

  • 14 May 2010
    Agencies concerned about the impact of Israel joining the OECD

    Israel joining the OECD at a time when civil society in the country is increasingly under threat is a matter of real concern, say development and human rights NGOs.

  • 28 Jan 2008
    UK and world protests call for end to Gaza blockade

    Tens of thousands of protestors, including demonstrators in five cities across the UK, joined an international day of action on Saturday 26 January in support of the 1.5 million people blockaded in Gaza by Israeli military action.

  • 18 Jul 2007
    Palestinian shepherds refuse eviction by Israeli settlers

    Shepherds in the Palestinian village of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills have been working to preserve their livelihood in the face of threats from Israeli settlers, Christian Peacemaker Teams at At-Tuwani reports.