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NGO Action News
21 October 2013

EUROPE

  • ?organized a??on?11 October 2013?in Luxembourg, on the blockade of the Gaza Strip as well as two movie??on?15 and 16 October 2013. The association will also organize several different? throughout the month of?November 2013.
  • ?published on?9 October 2013?a new? allowing its supporters to send a message to members of the European Parliament and ask them to take action to support the recently approved EU guidelines on Israeli settlements.
  • ?convened a??on?11 October 2013?in Dublin on?The International Criminal Court and beyond. Two esteemed experts on international law and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,?Shawan Jabarin?(Al-Haq) and?Dr. Michael Kearney?(University of Sussex) were invited to speak.

NORTH AMERICA

  • ?is organising two protests in New York City on?27 October 2013?, against Idan Raichel, self-proclaimed Israeli propagandist and army supporter – and on?29 October 2013? against the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • ?will celebrate its 10th?Anniversary at its? taking place in Washington on?29 October 2013.
  • ?is presenting on?30 October 2013?the event??at the Columbia University Low Library Rotunda. Renowned scholars?Judith Butler?and?Cornel West?will take part in the event. RSVP?.
  • ?hosted a discussion on?9 October 2013?on the theme?. FMEP also organized on?17 October 2013?the event?, presenting Israeli historian Yigal Kipnis new book.
  • ?and the??are organising on?31 October 2013?a??entitled?Is peace possible now? The current?Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative. Scheduled speakers are?Tal Becker, Principal Deputy Legal Adviser at the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and?Ghaith Al-Omari, Executive?Director at the American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP). The discussion will be moderated by?Ethan Bronner, Deputy National Editor of The New York Times. Tickets are available using this?.
  • ?and??have put together a??to mark the 20 years since the signature of the Oslo Accords, entitled?What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-State paradigm, investigating the current state of thinking about one-State and two-State solutions. Their latest??Once the one-State reality in Israel/Palestine is recognized, the basis for a comprehensive peace will be clear?has been published on?17 October 2013.
  • ?organised on?17 October 2013?at the University of California/Berkeley a??with?Josh Ruebner?(US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation) presenting his new book??and representatives of?.
  • New Yorkers Against the Cornell-Technion Partnership (NYACT)?will be hosting on?23 October 2013?in New York a??on?Militarization, Domestic Spying, and the Boycott of Israel with?David Swanson?(RootsAction),?Fahd Ahmed?(Desis Rising Up and Moving – DRUM),?Riham Barghouti?(Adalah-NY) and?Anna Calcutt?(NYACT).
  • ?urges the American pop artist Rihanna to? her concert in Tel Aviv scheduled on?22 October 2013.
  • ?organised on?19 October 2013?in New York its?, on the theme?We Refuse to be Enemies: Voices of Conscience from Israel and Palestine.
  • ?published on?10 October 2013?their latest??Uprooted, denouncing the 800,000 olive trees uprooted in Palestine since 1967.
  • ?presented on?12 October 2013?its new??featuring a discussion with?David Klein, professor at California State University Northridge who has been targeted by Zionist groups for his support of the??movement. The music closing the programme, entitled?They’re Building a Wall, was performed by the Jewish American folksinger?David Rovics.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

  • ?will organize its? from?22 to 27 December 2013.
  • ?launched a new??targeting the EU through its?.
  • ?is organizing the? from?21 October to 7 November 2013?in different Palestinian cities.
  • ?published the??of its Eighth International Conference on Nonviolent Popular Struggle entitled?Towards the Mobilization of Popular Resistance: adopting a unified strategy.?
  • ?released on?10 October 2013?its weekly? covering the period from 3 to 9 October 2013.
  • ?published its latest??on?17 October 2013?stating there was a 70 percent increase in West Bank settlement construction in the first six months of 2013 compared to last year.

UNITED NATIONS

  • ?released on?12 October 2013?its latest? covering the period from 1 to 7 October 2013.
  • The Working Group of?the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People?is organizing an event on?21 October 2013?at the United Nations, with?Avner Gvaryahu?from??who will present the collective testimony book,?.
  • ?issued a new??on?2 October 2013?entitled?West Bank and Gaza Area C and the Future of the Palestinian Economy.