Antifascist and anti-Nazi protest in Vilnius, Estonia, January 2013. The full text of the sign at the right (only partially visible on the photo) reads: "Better shit on the head than Nazis in the government."

Communist Parties Denounce EU-Backed Anti-Communist Fiesta

Scores of communist and workers’ parties from around the world issued the following communique last week. The Communist and Workers’ Parties denounce the anti-communist fiesta being organized by the Estonian Presidency of the European Union (EU), in the framework of the so-called “European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Totalitarian Regimes” which the EU…

Salah Hamouri

Field Researcher Salah Hamouri Seized by Occupation Forces

Salah Hamouri, Addameer’s field researcher and advocate for Palestinian prisoners’ rights, was arrested by Israeli occupation forces in a pre-dawn raid on his home in the neighborhood of Kufr Aqab on Wednesday, August 23. Later, Hamouri was taken to Russian Compound Israeli interrogation center in west Jerusalem, where his detention was extended until Sunday, August  27, for…

The school at the Palestinian village of Jub a-Dib after its demolition

Israel Demolishes School in Jub al-Dib on Eve of New School Year

On Tuesday evening, August 22, at around 7:00 pm, Israeli Civil Administration officials and security forces arrived at the Palestinian village of Jub al-Dib, southeast of Bethlehem. The forces demolished the community’s recently constructed school building. The demolition, which ended around midnight, took place the night before the start of the Palestinian school year, and left 80 pupils without an educational facility. In previous years, the children of Jub al-Dib…

Medical supplies to Venezuela

Palestinian Authority Sends Medical Supplies to Venezuela

The Palestinian Authority (PA) sent on Sunday, August 20, three truckloads of medical supplies to Venezuela, following instructions from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Riad al-Malki told the Ma’an News Agency that the truckloads of medicine were dispatched on Sunday from warehouses in the northern occupied West Bank district…