29 November is the United Nations’ international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people. This year, the day marks 75 years since the UN first debated the Question of Palestine. Since then hundreds of resolutions by the UN have gone without implementation, placing Israel “on a pedestal” above international law, as Desmond Tutu once said.
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2022 marks the year in which debate about Israel’s apartheid regime became mainstream. Following a string of groundbreaking reports from B’Tselem, Human Rights Watch, and other human rights organisations, Amnesty International’s February report was covered in every major newspaper around the world. Having led grassroots campaigning against Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid and occupation for over 17 years, the BDS movement is finally watching history in the making. Still, your support is needed now more than ever as apartheid Israel intensifies its criminal oppression.
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Arabic · French · Spanish The men’s World Cup starts in just a few days. The world will turn its attention to the largest sporting event on the planet.
Gambit. It’s the term for a chess opening in which a player sacrifices a piece. The International Chess Federation (FIDE) is planning to sacrifice Palestinian human rights by holding its 2022 World Team Championship in Israeli-occupied Palestinian East Jerusalem.
Dear International Chess Federation and participating 2022 World Team Championship participants, We are writing from the Palestinian Chess Forum of the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon to urge the International Chess Federation (FIDE) not to hold the 2022 World Team Championship in occupied East Jerusalem or anywhere under the control of Israel’s regime of military occupation and apartheid.
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) was launched in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt on 6 November, and as global leaders, governmental representatives and policy makers convened to negotiate climate justice, British-Egyptian human rights defender (HRD) and prisoner of conscious, Alaa Abdel Fattah, drank his last glass of water in an Egyptian prison after being on more than 200 days of partial h
In light of the overwhelming vote by 152 states at the United Nation’s First Committee for IAEA supervision of apartheid Israel’s nuclear facilities, Palestinian civil society calls for global pressure on the UN to force Israel to declare and dismantle under UN supervision all its weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). If it refuses, it should be subjected to targeted, lawful and proportionate sanctions to force it to.
Oman's Salam Air company withdrew from participating in the Bahrain International Airshow, and the Kuwait Finance House removed its logo from the list of sponsors of the exhibition, due to the participation of Israeli companies, according to a report published by the
The 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) will start on the 6th of November in Sharm el Sheik, Egypt.
Palestinians Urge International Chess Federation to Relocate Tournament from Occupied East Jerusalem
As part of the widest coalition of Palestinian civil society networks and organizations, we urge the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to urgently relocate the 2022 World Team Championship to a country not committing war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Palestinians call on all international music industry professionals to boycott the Israel Music Showcase Festival. The event is an explicit attempt by Israel’s apartheid regime to whitewash its colonial oppression against Palestinians and should be avoided by all progressives.