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In 2016 gate48’s main partner and financial supporter for the past 8 years will stop supporting our activities. We therefore need to other resources so we can continue our work. These are in part other funds that have supported us in the past and through which we have already secured part of our activities for …

Together with Radi Suudi Erella spoke in the program about Jerusalem, the connection of the violence to the situation of many young people in the Occupied Territories and about the whether or not to call this a ‘Third Intifada’  as many do. They also talked about how the idea of killing any Palestinian attacker without …

In zijn laatste toespraak bij de VN repte president Obama met geen woord over het Midden-Oostenconflict. Logisch, zou je denken, de wereld barst van de dringende problemen – IS, Syrische vluchtelingen – terwijl het Israëlisch-Palestijns conflict tot vermoeiens toe doorsuddert. Er gebeurt helemaal niets. Het tegendeel is waar. Er gebeurt juist heel veel, althans in de …

Friday 11 September 18:30 in Nieuwland Amsterdam

During the whole month of …

This morning Ali Dawabsha, a 18 month old baby was burned to death by an extremist Israeli Jewish group called “Tag Mehir”, price tag.  Ali Dawabsha was murdered and his family was very severely injured during the attack on their house in the village Duma in the occupied Palestinian territories. This is one of many attacks …

In April 2014 a Dutch multidisciplinary expert group published the original (Dutch language) version of its report ‘Palestinian Children and Military Detention’. The report was presented on the 17th of April 2014 at the foreign affairs committee of the Dutch parliament. This report addresses the practices and consequences of arrest, interrogation, detention and trial of Palestinian …

Vandaag zal het Amsterdamse gemeentebestuur zich weer beraden over de kwestie van mogelijke samenwerking met Tel Aviv en Ramallah. In Het Parool van 18 juni j.l. roemt Ronny Naftaniel Tel Aviv als een multiculturele stad waarin verschillende bevolkingsgroepen naast elkaar in harmonie leven, een schoolvoorbeeld van economische en technologische ontwikkeling. Als Israëliërs die vaak lang …

On June 8th, 2015 Tel Aviv University academics held a first ever discussion on BDS. The following is an address given by Dr. Hilla Dayan at the conference: Dr. Hilla Dayan is a lecturer at Amsterdam University College in the Netherlands, and a co-founder of gate48, platform for critical Israelis in the Netherlands. Her talk was published …

In mid-June Salwa Duaibis and Rawan Zahran from the Palestijnen Women’s Centre for Legal Aid en Counselling (WCLAC) were visiting the Netherlands by the invitation of gate48 and Palestine Link. The purpose of their visit was the presentation of the new WCLAC report “Jerusalem: a City on Edge”. In their visit Duaibis and Zahran shed …

On May 20, 2015 the parliament held a debate on “the situation in Israel and Gaza.” One of the topics discussed was the bad situation of Palestinian children being taken into detention by the Israeli army. The Netherlands organize at the end of this year a Cooperation Forum at which the economic cooperation between the …

Persverklaring n.a.v. het bezoek Nederlandse mensenrechtenambassadeur Van Baar aan Israël/Palestina van 11 – 14 mei. De Nederlandse coalitie voor Palestijnse kinderen in Israëlische gevangenschap heeft kennis genomen van het bezoek van de Nederlandse mensenrechtenambassadeur Kees van Baar aan Israël/Palestina van 11 tot en met 14 mei 2015. Tijdens het bezoek zal hij ook de zorgen van …

With: Omar Barghouti, founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Eyal Sivan, Israeli filmmaker, Honorary Fellow – European Center for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter, UK Anne de Jong, assistant professor anthropology, University of Amsterdam The discussion addressed different questions in relation to the growing global boycott movement like: Should culture and art …