Journals

by -bat. I thought long and hard about how to write up this bit, because if I write it in the first person it becomes about me, and about one thing which happened to me once, but I want it ...

Tom Hayes Today Tubas prisoner’s society held a rally outside the Red Cross building in Tubas to commemorate prisoner’s week. Students at Al Quds Open University in Tubas also held a vigil for the families of prisoners in the university ...

Uri Avnery April 17th is recognized annually by Palestinians as Prisoner’s Day At this moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing. The term “negotiations” is really inappropriate. “Haggling” seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier ...

The Unbelievable Stench of Irony by Dan Glass, Brighton-Palestine, 10 April 2007 The look in their eyes gave it all away. They knew something was wrong – how could they not? Only sixty-five years ago my grandparents were running from ...

Re-Ignited in Palestine: Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians by The Shmoogster The Tel Rumeida Circus for Detained Palestinians had their first reunited circus extravanganza last night. Due to heavy rains, our flames were dampened 2 weeks ago when we ...

How Palestine became “Israel’s Land” by Sonja Karkar of Women for Palestine, 31 March 2007 For Palestinians, theirs is not the land of conquest, but the land of their roots going back to time immemorial. Such a lineage does not ...

UN Rapporteur compares Israel to Apartheid South Africa The Electronic Intifada, 27 February 2007 John Dugard The UN’s Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, John Dugard, has issued a harshly critical report on Israel’s human rights ...

The crime of being born Palestinian by Anna Baltzer Dawud Fakaah, father of six-month-old Khalid who died at Atara checkpoint outside Ramallah. 21 March 2007 for full text and photos, click HERE Almost two weeks ago, my friend Dawud, a ...

Bikes vs. Bombs by Martinez It started out to be a magnificent afternoon here in Ramallah. Being an avid bicyclist back home in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, biking against oil wars, my eyes lit up like a small child in ...

By Saif AbuKeshek In memory of Fadi AbuKeshek, was murdered on the March 21, 2007. They run from a house to another, they invade the towns, camps, and cities and then they say security reasons. Israel is trying to live ...