by Adam Shapiro Originally published in The Nation On March 7, 2004, an Associated Press photographer in the West Bank village of Beit Dukou captured an image of a Palestinian woman during a protest against the wall Israel is constructing ...
Read More »Solidarity Against Occupation
by Stefan Christoff I travelled to Jordan from Montreal, Canada, at the end of November with plans to cross the Israeli controlled border into Palestine to work with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). I was refused entry into Israel after ...
Read More »On the West Bank, a Hint of Resistence Without Blood
By James Bennet Originally published in the New York Times West Bank – The barrier Israel is building against West Bank Palestinians has had a striking, if unintended, effect: It has stirred a sustained, bloodless protest movement among Palestinians for ...
Read More »It Must Come Tumbling Down
Land-grab wall or security fence, Israel’s new project is a barrier to Mideast peace By Ayed Morrar Originally published in the Globe & Mail From the West Bank’s olive groves to the hearing that continues in a Hague courtroom, Palestinians ...
Read More »The Peaceful Way Works Best
By Gideon Levy http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/393347.html There’s a remote little village in the West Bank that decided to behave differently. A village whose residents decided not to lament and not to blow themselves up. They chose another way between violence and surrender. ...
Read More »The Village Against the Fence
By Amira Hass http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/392934.html A serious-looking black dog, whose eyes looked almost hollow, freely crossed the naked strip of land west of the villages of Qibiya and Budrus, which stretches from the village of Rantis, about five kilometers to the ...
Read More »Guardian Obituary: Tom Hurndall
An aspiring photojournalist and committed peace activist By Carl Arrindell Originally published in The Guardian In the spring of 2002, Tom Hurndall made a journey around Europe, which then took him on to Egypt and Jordan. He was young, a ...
Read More »Tom Hurndall was a young man with a dream…he paid for it with his life
A young British photographer shot by an Israeli soldier on the Gaza strip has died after nine months in a coma. Sally Pook and Nicola Woolcock report. Originally published by The Telegraph. Tom Hurndall left England with a dream to ...
Read More »Speculative Journalism: The making of “The Death of Rachel Corrie”
By Phan Nguyen Mother Jones demonstrated how low it could set its standards for investigative journalism when it hired Newsweek reporter Joshua Hammer to surf the web and write a 7000-word feature story on Rachel Corrie and the International Solidarity ...
Read More »Expanding Settlements Invade Palestinian Lands
by Patrick Connors Originally published by CommonDreams.org At the White House last Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon again pledged to remove West Bank settlement outposts. But despite similar promises, and televised images of Israeli soldiers wrestling with Jewish settlers ...
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