april 24, 2013 · 11:47 am
PALESTINE ACTIVISTS CALL ON THE NETHERLANDS PRINCE TO DISSOCIATE
FROM JNF WATERPROJECT
Submitted by Adri Nieuwhof on Thu, 04/18/2013 – 19:41
Demonstrators in Jerusalem protest the Jewish National Fund’s colonization projects in the Naqab/Negev desert, February 2011.
(Anne Paq / ActiveStills)
Palestinian boycott activists are calling on the Netherlands’ Prince Willem-Alexander to reconsider his decision to lend his name to a water project undertaken by the Jewish National Fund Netherlands in the Naqab/Negev desert in the south of present-day Israel. The project is in honor of the prince’s inauguration as king later this month.
Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights activist and a founder of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, told The Electronic Intifada: “The [JNF] has played a key role in the dispossession of the Palestinians and in colonizing their lands. Today, [the JNF] continues its explicitly racist practices against Palestinians and rejects any notion of equal rights for all. Palestinian civil society appreciates the prominence that equality and non-discrimination have in the Dutch constitution and based on this, appeal to Prince Willem-Alexander to reconsider his decision to lend his name to a project of the JNF.”
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april 22, 2013 · 5:38 am
This 153-page report describes the role of the Burmese government and local authorities in the forcible displacement of more than 125,000 Rohingya and other Muslims and the ongoing humanitarian crisis. Burmese officials, community leaders, and Buddhist monks organized and encouraged ethnic Arakanese backed by state security forces to conduct coordinated attacks on Muslim neighborhoods and villages in October 2012 to terrorize and forcibly relocate the population. The tens of thousands of displaced have been denied access to humanitarian aid and been unable to return
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april 6, 2013 · 2:56 am
BURMA: ROHINGYA MUSLIMS FACE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
Fears of Long-Term Segregation of Displaced Population
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A soldier patrols through a neighbourhood that was burnt during recent violence in Sittwe on June 14, 2012.
© 2012 Reuters
Burmese government restrictions on aid to Rohingya Muslims are creating a humanitarian crisis that will become a disaster when the rainy season arrives. Instead of addressing the problem, Burma’s leaders seem intent on keeping the Rohingya segregated in camps rather than planning for them to return to their homes.
Phil Robertson, deputy Asia director
