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Occupied Palestinian Territories

  • 10 Feb 2013
    Palestinian settlements: Political irony, existential cruelty

    Israeli politicians should forsake their land-grab policies and in the process help sow the seeds of hope and peace for two peoples who vie for legitimacy and rights over the same small parcel of land, says Dr Harry Hagopian, regional experts and Ekklesia associate. After all, it is axiomatic that citizenry rights are redundant unless they are vested with sovereignty, too.

  • 20 Aug 2012
    United Church of Canada backs boycott of goods from Occupied Terriotories

    The United Church of Canada has agreed to boycott products produced in Israeli settlements located within occupied Palestinian territory.

  • 1 Feb 2012
    UN call for an end to home demolitions in the West Bank

    The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for occupied Palestinian territory has called for an immediate end to the demolition of Palestinian homes by the Israeli authorities.

  • 30 Jan 2012
    Alarm at increased settler attacks against Palestinian villages

    Asira Al-Qibliya residents are experiencing increased, organized attacks by Jewish settlers on their West Bank village, say Ecumenical accompaniers.

  • 14 Dec 2011
    Record number of Palestinians displaced by Israeli demolitions

    Israeli authorities have stepped up unlawful demolitions in the West Bank including East Jerusalem over the past year, 20 leading aid and human rights groups say.

  • 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.

  • 5 Apr 2011
    Quakers are boycotting Israeli settlement goods. Now for the lies and abuse

    British Quakers have announced that they are calling for a boycott of goods from Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. This is a brave decision, given the volume of abuse, hate mail and downright lies that faced the Methodist Church when they made a similar decision. With this in mind, there are important points that must be remembered about the Quakers' position.

  • 26 Feb 2011
    World churches' body criticises US over UN resolution veto

    The WCC has expressed “deep concern and disappointment” at the recent US veto of a UN Security Council resolution against settlement in the Palestinian Territories.

  • 9 Feb 2011
    Quakers in Britain consider Palestinian call for boycott

    Quakers in Britain are considering a challenging call from Palestinian Quakers in the West Bank to consider a boycott over the Occupied Territories.

  • 25 Dec 2010
    Netanyahu and the West Bank moratorium

    Will he, or won't he? Harry Hagopian explores the politics and posturing behind Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's decision regarding a further three-month extension to the moratorium on the construction of Jewish-only Israeli settlements on Palestinian occupied land.