Palestine
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Expanded Military Powers of Deportation in West Bank; Palestinian Leaders Charge “Ethnic Cleansing”
A military order to take effect April 13th so drastically expands the IDF’s power to deport people from the West Bank that it threatens mass arrests and exile, according to Hamoked Center for the Defense of the Individual in Israel. Continue reading
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Breaking in with intent to terrorise, by Haggai Matar
It was about 8 years ago. I was active for the Shimnistim Letter (a statement of refusal by conscientious draft objectors), and I was one of those tasked with coordinating the signatories’ name lists. One day, my parents’ home was broken into, and my computer was taken. Nothing else. Computers belonging to other family members,… Continue reading
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IDF order will enable mass deportation from West Bank By Amira Hass
A new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, or their indictment on charges carrying prison terms of up to seven years. When the order comes into effect, tens of thousands of Palestinians will automatically become criminal… Continue reading
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Israel’s shock doctrine
This week, the OECD will decide whether to include Israel as its 31st member state. The OECD is an organization of the developed nations of the world and in January it conducted its first economic review of Israel. Continue reading
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Israel’s Negev ‘frontier’ By Ben White
On this year’s Land Day, tens of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel marched in Sakhnin, an Israeli city in the Lower Galilee, to protest against past and present systematic discrimination. But with the focus on Israel’s policies of land confiscation, there was significance in a second protest that day. In the Negev (referred to as… Continue reading
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NYT Bronner Tries A Less Biased Path to Reporting on Palestine –and Trips Up
Bronner makes several big mistakes. First, he ignores the long history of Palestinian nonviolent struggle against colonization, beginning in the 1930’s, and characterizes current nonviolent protest against the Occupation in the West Bank as a “new approach.” And second, he credits the movement entirely to the efforts of Fatah political leadership and the business community Continue reading
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Israeli Occupation Archive: Communal Groups Mobilize Against ‘Delegitimizers’ of Jewish State
As always, the organized Jewish Community first tries to label us “anti-Semites” or “Self-Hating Jews,” but this doesn’t work nearly as well these days. Since the completion of the Reut ‘study’ — a consulting project conducted by propaganda experts for the Netanyahu government — the new term, “delegitimizers,” is in vogue. Much like the others,… Continue reading
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Israel Destroys Gaza Dairy For Second Time By Rami Almeghari
It was not a chemical plant, nor a nuclear facility, nor a manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction. But almost all the rubble of the entirely destroyed factory was covered in white, with white chunks everywhere. These were pieces of cheese, butter and yoghurt — some of the products made by the Dalloul dairy factory… Continue reading
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Scottish PSC ‘racism’ case thrown out!
Sheriff James Scott ruled the protest was “clearly directed at the State of Israel, the Israeli Army, and Israeli Army musicians”, and not targeted at “citizens of Israel” per se. “The procurator fiscal’s attempts to squeeze malice and ill will out of the agreed facts were rather strained”, he said. Continue reading
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No Such Thing As Israeli Nationality
Israel refused to recognize an Israeli nationality at the country’s establishment in 1948, making an unusual distinction between “citizenship” and “nationality.” Although all Israelis qualify as “citizens of Israel,” the state is defined as belonging to the “Jewish nation,” meaning not only the 5.6 million Israeli Jews but also more than seven million Jews in… Continue reading
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Gaza Friends: One last plea before we sail
We are hard at work collecting the cargo… cement, books for children and universities, paper for printing books, water filtration equipment, and medical equipment, all being denied the people of Gaza by Israel’s brutal blockade. So we ask one last time for a $25.00-$100.00 donation from each of you, a donation that will be used… Continue reading
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How Israel Gagged on its own Gag Order By Gila Svirsky
This is a big story, but until today no Israeli newspapers could publish it because a judge issued a gag order at the Shin Bet’s request. But go ask Henry Miller about banned books. Thanks to the ban and Israel’s inability to control cyberspace, the story has taken on vastly greater proportions. Every news outlet… Continue reading
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Doc Jazz live at Al Quds University Video
This great clip shows excerpts from the perfomance given by Doc Jazz in Jerusalem on 4 October 2009. There are moments from the concert, some Q and A and the atmosphere is amazing! He’s one of the best musicians writing material about Palestine, freedom and resistance. Continue reading
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Al-Haq Action Alert: Human Rights Defender Arbitrarily Detained and Tortured by Israeli Occupation Forces
On 15 March 2010, Umar Mousa Muhammad Ala-al-Din, a 25 year old Palestinian student from the village of al-Masara, near Bethlehem, was taken by Israeli Border Police and detained for seven days, until 22 March 2010. Ala-al-Din is a member of the Popular Resistance Committee of al-Masara village and an organizer of non-violent protests against… Continue reading
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GazaFriends: Coalition to Break the Blockade on Gaza Announced
Istanbul, Turkey – Following months of preparation, a coalition bringing together a number of organizations and movements working to break Israel’s illegal blockade on Gaza was announced yesterday in Istanbul. The coalition, comprised of the Turkey-based IHH (Insani Yardim Vakfi) organization, the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza (ECESG), the Greek Ship to… Continue reading
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Extensive media coverage of JQ protest, Wigmore Hall
As some of you know, there has been extensive coverage of our protest v the Jerusalem Quartet on Monday, in the printed and audio media. Continue reading
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Activist leaders targeted in E.Jerusalem
In recent weeks, municipal police in Jerusalem have been targeting key activists who fight against the settler take-overs of Palestinian homes in Sheikh Jarrah. A neighbourhood of East Jerusalem, Sheikh Jarrah has hosted weekly protests for nearly a year by a broad coalition of Israelis and Palestinians. Saleh Abo Dayeb was among the leaders who… Continue reading
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Movie: Jaffa the orange’s clockwork by Eyal Sivan
The film is a political essay excavating the entwined visual and political history of that famous citrus fruit originating in Palestine and known worldwide as the ‘Jaffa Orange’. Continue reading
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Talal Shihadeh – Palestinian Land Day
On 30th March each year, the Palestinian people commemorate the anniversary of Land Day, the day in March 1976 on which the Zionist occupation government confiscated thousands of dunums* of Palestinian land in the Galilee, leading to the displacement of the Palestinian people living inside the 1948 occupied territories (so-called Israel). A general strike and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 