February 2010
26 posts
Letter from the Ofer Military Jail - Abdallah Abu...
Dear Friends and Supporters,
It has been two months now since I was handcuffed, blindfolded and taken from my home. Today news has reached Ofer Military Prison that the apartheid wall on Bil’in’s land will finally be moved and construction has begun on the new route. This will return half of the land that was stolen from our village. For those of us in Ofer, imprisoned for our protest against...
Palestinians fight Jewish-only housing in Jaffa →
“Although Jaffa is only a stone’s throw from the bustling coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv, Arab residents say their neighborhood has become the unlikely battleground for an attempted takeover by extremist Jews more familiar from West Bank settlements.
Small numbers of nationalist religious Jews, distinctive for wearing knitted skullcaps, have begun moving into Jaffa’s deprived...
Omar Qassis in support of the Irvine 11 →
Background: 11 UC Irvine students disrupted a speaking event for Michael Oren recently, and were arrested by campus police in an effort to put down free speech. A student from the West Bank wrote in to support and thank them for their moral stance:
I am a Palestinian student studying in Birzeit University, I am a former political detainee and would first of all like you to carry the following...
Would Sanctions Imposed on Israel Help... →
“Whatever the long-term dangers, Israelis right now don’t see any negative consequences for maintaining the status quo. The Palestinians are under siege in Gaza and walled off in the West Bank. Terror attacks are rare today and most Israelis are scarcely aware that the Palestinians exist.”
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“The situation may be intolerable for the Palestinians, but for Israel...
Israel turns down bid to teach Palestinian poems... →
“The Education Ministry has decided not to publish an academic paper recommending that high school students study both Jewish and Palestinian poems about Jerusalem in their literature classes, even though the journal to which it was submitted had previously accepted the paper.”
On Why Zionism Dehumanizes Its Enemies
“When Zionists get an attack of the vapors over some nefarious deed the Palestinians are accused of doing, but are then found to have done the very same things themselves, it is important to point this out. And not just to show that Zionists are a bunch of hypocrites, or because it’s fun to say neener neener neener, you do it too.
The reason for crying foul when Zionists carry out the...
WatchJoe Sacco speaks about his comic journalism in Gaza, on GritTv
The apartheid will end when Israelis have to face... →
“Mr Olmert and Mr Barak, of course, raised the spectre of “apartheid” to remind Israelis that they could face international isolation if they remain indifferent to the fate of the Palestinians. Sometimes, such warnings from Israelis come as if attached to a demographic time-bomb – the idea that once Palestinians become a majority of the population between the Jordan River and the sea, Israel...
WatchPalestinian Families Appeal to UN Over Israeli Construction of “Museum of Tolerance” on Jerusalem’s Historic Mamilla Cemetery
Hope for Middle East peace talks? →
Video here.
Abunimah: Jews can report on Palestinians, but the...
From Mondoweiss:
I have been of course following all the absurd defenses and excuse-making from Jeffrey Goldberg, Ron Kampeas, Andrew Sullivan, Joe Klein, etc for Ethan Bronner and the New York Times, as well as your recent comments. They insist that there is no bias in Bronner’s reporting and that his son’s service in the occupation army presents no conflict of interest. Here are the issues they...
WatchSheikh Jarrah - Jerusalem’s Ground Zero
A RENEWED ICAHD CALL FOR BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT AND...
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) was the first Israeli organization to endorse a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign and to formulate a statement, issued in January, 2005, calling on the international community to support it. Over the past decade and a half ICAHD has played a key role in expanding the BDS campaign and working with groups around the world in...
In the West Bank's stony hills, Palestine is... →
“Area C doesn’t sound very ominous. A land of stone-sprinkled grey hills and soft green valleys, it’s part of the wreckage of the equally wrecked Oslo Agreement, accounting for 60 per cent of the Israeli-occupied West Bank that was eventually supposed to be handed over to its Palestinian inhabitants.
But look at the statistics and leaf through the pile of demolition orders lying...
