Year: 2012

  • Campaign: Killing Without Consequence

    May 19, 2012 | Killing Without Consequence Killing Without Consequence is a campaign to press criminal charges against Israeli Border policeman Maxim Vinagrodov who executed Palestinian Ziad Jilani on June 11, 2010. In January 2011, the case against Vinagrodov was closed despite forensic evidence and eye witness reports. Watch the video: If the Israeli government…

  • Nakba Day: Palestinian group attempts to return to 1948 territories, one arrested

    By Ling Lewis 19 May 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank  A Palestinian man was arrested at Ni’lin checkpoint on Tuesday, April 15 during a Nakba Day demonstration. The procession successfully crossed the checkpoint which separates the West Bank from Palestinian territories seized in 1948. They were violently forced back by occupation soldiers and…

  • Nakba anniversary message

    by Mazin Qumsiyeh 15 May 2012 | Popular Resistance  On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more.  But we also celebrate an amazing resilience and success of the Palestinian endogenous people against incredible odds:…

  • What Thaer Halahleh’s family told me about his release brings joy, but raises troubling questions

    by Lina Al Saafin 15 May 2012 | Electronic Intifada At around 1:30am Palestine local time I was lying on my side in my bed trying to sleep and doing my best to ignore the queasy feeling in the pit of my stomach as I thought about how the 64th commemoration of Nakba Day would…

  • Palestinian prisoners agree to end hunger strike

    by Haitham Hamad 14 May 2012 | Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners agreed Monday to end a weekslong hunger strike after winning concessions from Israel to improve their conditions, the two sides announced. The deal ended a strike in which prisoners had gone without food for up to 77…