by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Eurovision organisers, on Wednesday, rebuked one of the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 opening acts for wearing a Palestinian scarf during the first semi-final on Tuesday night, Anadolu Agency reports. Swedish singer, Eric Saade, was one of three former...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Pro-Palestinian protests sweeping across US colleges have spread to the UK, with students from several universities demonstrating on campus Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reports. Demonstrators from Newcastle University, Bristol University, Warwick University,...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Five individuals were arrested during a pro-Palestinian march in London, the first of its kind under the new Labour government on Saturday, Anadolu Agency reports. Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, where...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, says countries who advocate women’s rights must ‘walk the talk’, applying their principles consistently and without selective advocacy by avoiding arms transfers that facilitate the killing of...
by Roots and Resistance Resistance | Sep 5, 2024 | Palestine Updates
Over a dozen Israeli prison facilities have been transformed into a network of camps “focused on the mistreatment of detainees” since the onset of Israel’s war on Gaza, Israeli rights group B’Tselem said in a new report. “Welcome to Hell” includes testimonies from 55...
