![In community remembrance of the Nakbah, Sabastiya villagers observed 15-minutes of a full light-out. Instead, villagers gathered in the village center, a municipal park area, to remember Palestinian displacement from 1948 Palestinian villages. [Photo by Sabastiya local]](http://palsolidarity.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sabastiya-65-2-150x150.jpg)
22th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Sabastiya, Occupied Palestine
In community remembrance of the Nakba, Sabastiya villagers observed 15 minutes of a full lights-out.
Photo Essay: Sabastiya remembers 65 years of the Nakba
A Steadfast Prelude to the Nakba: Duheisha resists
15th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Hebron, Occupied Palestine
By Team Khalil
On the 14th May 2013 , a day before the Nakba, on the edge of Bethlehem, a demonstration to remember the day of the catastrophe in 1948 marched from Duheisha refugee camp to the entrance of the village of Al-Khader. Demonstrators then clashed with the Israeli military between 11am and 1pm. Tear gas is fired at the demonstrators
Al-Khader was the chosen site of the demonstration as the villagers there have recently … Continue reading
Is there Hope of Justice for a Palestinian family in Israel’s Courts?
Update on the 13th March 2013: The Supreme court will review the case of Ziad Jilani
After hearing an appeal presented on behalf of Moira Jilani, the widow of Ziad and their three daughters the Israeli Supreme Court Judges have decided that they wished to review all evidence in the case.
Ziad Jilani was killed by Israeli border policeman Maxim Vinogradov in 2010. According to eyewitnesses Maxim VInagrodov shot Ziad at point blank … Continue reading
Haaretz: Israel passes law banning calls for boycott
11 July 2011 | Ha’aretz
The Knesset passed Monday a law penalizing persons or organizations that boycott Israel or the settlements, by a vote of 47 to 38.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was not present during the vote. MK Zeev Elkin (Likud), who proposed the law, said the law is not meant to silence people, but “to protect the citizens of Israel.”
According to the law, a person or an organization calling for the boycott of Israel, including the settlements, can be sued by the boycott’s targets without having to prove that they sustained damage. The court will then decide how much … Continue reading
Palestinians in Gaza march for return on Naksa Day
5 June 2011 | International Solidarity Movement
Hundreds of Palestinian refugees rallied outside the Erez Crossing in Beit Hanoun today to demand the right to return to the homes from which they and their families were ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias and Israeli military forces beginning in 1947. They were joined by other Palestinians and foreign supporters, including the International Solidarity Movement – Gaza Strip.
The demonstration, organized by the Preparatory Commission for the Right to Return, marked the 44th anniversary of the Naksa, or “setback,” Israel’s 1967 occupation of the Gaza Strip and the … Continue reading
The Palestinians of Israel are poised to take centre stage
11 November 2010 | Seumas Milne, The Guardian
In a quiet street in the Sheikh Jarrah district of occupied East Jerusalem 88-year-old Rifka al-Kurd is explaining how she came to live in the house she and her husband built as Palestinian refugees in the 1950s. As she speaks, three young ultra-orthodox Jewish settlers swagger in to stake their claim to the front part of the building, shouting abuse in Hebrew and broken Arabic: “Arab animals”, “shut up, whore”.
There is a brief physical confrontation with Rifka’s daughter as the settlers barricade themselves in to the rooms they have occupied since last … Continue reading
Why is Israel laying claim to an Arab home in Jaffa?
Dana Weiler-Polak | Ha’aretz
22 November 2009
Tziona Tajer Street in Jaffa, off the main thoroughfare, Yefet, begins with a lush park and ends in a narrow picturesque alleyway bounded by refurbished old homes. One of these houses, behind a heavy blue gate, belongs to the Shaya family. Hanging by the entrance is a large portrait of the family patriarch, Salim Khoury Shaya, a priest who served in the 1920s as the spiritual leader of the Christian Arab (Greek Orthodox) community. Around that time he also built the house on a hill in Jaffa.
Salim Khoury Shaya died at age 90 in … Continue reading
The dark side of Tel Aviv
Abe Hayeem | The Guardian
13 October 2009
The centenary of Tel Aviv, a city said to date from 1909, has provided a useful opportunity to present the face of Israel as a hip country built by Jewish pioneers on empty sands. Its vibrant cosmopolitan flavour, its commercial centre, its Mediterranean beaches, its liberal society and culture, are seen as signifying a truly commendable Zionist enterprise. According to the blurb on the centenary celebrations “several dozen families gathered on the sand dunes on the beach outside Yafo to allocate plots of land for a new neighbourhood they called Ahuzat Bayit, later … Continue reading
Arabs mark October 2000 with general strike
Sharon Roffe – Ofir | YNet News
1 October 2009
The Arab sector on Thursday marked the ninth anniversary of the October riots by calling a general strike across Israel. The strike is lead by the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee under the banner: “For the martyrs that were killed in October 2000″.
During the riots that broke out with the start of the al-Aqsa intifada, 13 Arabs and one Jew were killed.
There was high participation in Thursday’s strike, being the third time the Arab public goes on such a general strike. The previous strikes in the sector took place on the first … Continue reading
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Israel’s laws of persecution
Nimer Sultany | The Guardian
8 September 2009
Two cases brought before Israeli courts last week revealed the attitude of the establishment towards Palestinian Arab citizens of the state. One shows how Palestinian citizens are treated as victims of police brutality, and the second shows how they are regularly victimised because of their opposition to injustice.
In the first, a policeman who shot and killed an Arab citizen in 2006 was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment. The unbearable leniency of the sentence is more evidence of the total disregard for Arab life inside Israel, where ethnicity of the victim is a … Continue reading
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Updated on September 8, 2009
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