Badia Dwaik is Deputy Coordinator of Youth Against Settlements, a grassroots Palestinian organization that organizes demonstrations and educational events as part of a nonviolent struggle to resist the Israeli occupation of Hebron. Here he reflects on growing up in Hebron while his father was in an Israeli prison. 

Israeli right wing Likud government and Labour (peace maker!) President and other Zionists are alarmed and angry because Palestinians are going ahead to request state membership of the UN. The US President(Nobel peace!), administration and the congress are also upset. The Zionist lobbies, Aipac and Jstreet are all up in arms to frustrate the Palestinian move.

Urgent Appeal: Travel Ban against Human Rights Defender Yousef Habash

Ramallah, 5 July 2011 - Addameer is gravely concerned about the imposition of a travel ban on a member of its Board of Directors, Yousef Habash, a long-time human rights defender working for the Health Work Committees (HWC) in addition to his activities with numerous other Palestinian civil society organizations.

Press release
London 2 July 2011

Representative of the Egyptian Independent Union Federation: "We call on the global trade union movement to cut links with the Histadrut and to support the Palestinian Trade Union Coalition for BDS".