Nawajaa, the General Coordinator of the Palestinian National BDS Committee, was arrested by Israeli soldiers in the middle of the night from his home in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah on July 30th.
Annexation and the need to be proactive
“The Israeli decision to establish 1,000 new settlement units in the E1 area between Jerusalem and the Jordan Valley was basically the announcement of the start, to all intents and purposes, of the annexation and Judaisation process. Some analysts thought that this had been postponed or stopped, despite Benjamin Netanyahu reiterating almost daily that it is on the table for further investigation and implementation.”
Palestine Talks - Paul Heywood-Smith
29 July 2020
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) and the validation of BDS
Palestine Talk's topic for July 2020 was:
AFOPA has supported BDS now for many years. In recent years anti-BDS state repression leading to the criminalization of BDS has occurred in Europe, particularly in France and Germany. Now the ECHR has set aside one such conviction by France's highest criminal court. What are the ramifications?
Paul Heywood-Smith is AFOPA’s patron and distinguished previous Chair of the Association
