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Israel to Reinvestigate the Shooting of US Activist Tristan Anderson

Posted on: June 30, 2010
Tristan Anderson

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

30 June 2010

The Israeli District Attorney announced last week that the police will revisit its investigation into the shooting of American activist, Tristan Anderson, who was critically injured by a high velocity tear gas projectile that was shot directly at him by an Israeli Border Police officer during an anti-Wall protest in the West Bank village of Ni’ilin on March 13th, 2009.

The case was closed earlier this year on grounds of “lack of wrongdoing”, and will now be reopened following an appeal filed on behalf of … Continue reading


Updated on November 23, 2010
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Family Appeals Decision to Close Investigation on Shooting of US Citizen Tristan Anderson

Posted on: March 12, 2010
Tristan Anderson

Popular Struggle Coordination Committee

12 March 2010

This week the parents of Tristan Anderson filed an appeal on the decision to close the investigation concerning their son’s injury.– The 38 year-old American was critically injured by a high velocity tear gas projectile shot by Israeli Border Police in the West Bank village of Nili’in on March 13, 2009. The basic grounds for the appeal include undeniable negligence in the investigation. This negligence particularly involves two critical errors in the investigation conducted by the Investigative unit of the SJ District (West … Continue reading


Updated on March 15, 2010
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Border Control / Biden and the bulldozer

Posted on: March 10, 2010

Akiva Eldar | Ha’aretz

9 March 2010

U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who arrived in Israel yesterday, didn’t look for camels among the cars on the road from Ben-Gurion International Airport to Jerusalem. In a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing held two years ago for the United States Ambassador to Israel, James Cunningham, Biden heard that the Israelis even know how to ride bulldozers.

Then a senator from Delaware, who chaired the committee, Biden asked for a detailed report on the affair of American peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was run over and killed by the treads of an Israeli bulldozer.

If Biden … Continue reading


Updated on March 10, 2010
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