UK BANNED Press TV: RIBA has passed a motion calling on the International Union of Architects to boycott the Israeli Association of United Architects. The motion was passed by 23 votes to 16 with 10 abstentions.
RIBA says it is against expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Angela Brady, the former head of RIBA, told members of the institute that failure to back the motion “would send a clear message to the world that we as an institution turn a blind eye or by inaction support what’s going on – land grabs, forced removals, killing the… human rights, and reinforcement of apartheid.”
The vote follows a similar motion earlier in the week by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland.
Earlier this month, Students of the National University of Ireland passed a motion supporting the anti-Israel boycott.
The motion says “NUI Galway Students’ Union actively supports the campaign of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” against apartheid Israel.
More than 120 Irish academics have also signed a pledge to join a boycott of Israeli institutions.
The Teachers’ Union of Ireland became the first educational union in Europe to adopt a boycott of Israeli academia in April 2013.
On March 4, students at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada, also passed a resolution supporting the campaign.
Amid international outcry, Israel is reportedly pushing ahead with plans for more than 2,000 new illegal settler units in six settlements in the occupied West Bank. Israel’s settlement activities remain the main obstacle to the peace in the region.
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Israeli Regime Green Shirts Murdered
3 More Palestinians
Israeli death squads have killed three Palestinians in a nighttime attack in the occupied West Bank gulag.
UK BANNED Press TV: Palestinian security officials said Israeli soldiers carried out the
fatal attack on a house in the Jenin refugee camp during the early hours
of Saturday to arrest a member of the resistance movement of Hamas.
Israeli troops stormed the building and killed the man after he refused
to leave. 3 More Palestinians
Israeli death squads have killed three Palestinians in a nighttime attack in the occupied West Bank gulag.
The incident was followed by a clash between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces where two young Palestinians were killed.
Meanwhile, medical sources said over a dozen Palestinians were also wounded and two of them are in critical condition.
The fatal incident came three days after Israeli troops killed a Palestinian youth elsewhere in the West Bank.
Israeli forces carry out incursions into the West Bank on an almost daily basis, regularly attacking Palestinian houses and arresting activists and civilians mostly without any charges.
The Saturday fatalities bring to 60 the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli troop since the resumption in July of talks between the Palestinian Authority and Israelis.
More than 900 Palestinians have been wounded in clashes with Israeli forces since.
The last round of Israeli-Palestinian talks broke down in 2010 after the Tel Aviv regime refused to halt its settlement construction.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has called on the Palestinian Authority to extend talks with Israel beyond April.
The Palestinian Authority says the extending of talks is conditioned on a halt on Israel’s settlement constructions in the occupied territories.
The West Bank has been under Israeli military occupation since 1967. There are hundreds of checkpoints in the region that have made life difficult for Palestinians.
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