Author: ISM Media Group

  • UN Committee Urges Israel to Revoke the Citizenship Law, Dismantle the Wall…

    UN Committee Urges Israel to Revoke the Citizenship Law, Dismantle the Wall, Bind the Jewish National Fund to Anti-Discrimination Principles, and Recognize the Unrecognized Villages ADALAH’S NEWSLETTER Volume 34, March 2007 Adalah: “The UN Committee, which is composed of legal experts, reached these concluding observations based on the principles of anti-discrimination. Therefore the concluding observations…

  • Israel’s ‘new’ Procedures Change little at the Borders

    Tens of thousands of families still face forced separation or de facto deportation Ramallah – 29 March, 2007 Israel’s various announcements regarding new procedures for entry and visa extensions have failed to address, even superficially, the humanitarian crisis caused by its arbitrary, discriminatory and abusive exercise of authority over entry into the occupied Palestinian territory…

  • More harassment and stonings in Tel Rumeida

    Harrassment continues at checkpoint in Tel Rumeida by ISM Hebron At 11.50 at checkpoint 56 a Palestinian man approached the checkpoint, to pass from the Palestinian market to Tel Rumeida, with a metal cart with lots of bags and trays of food. The solider at the checkpoint refused to open the gate for the man…

  • Palestinians build new outpost near Bil’in

    YNet: Palestinians set up outpost near Bilin by Ali Waked, 29 March 2007 Dozens of Palestinians from the village of Bilin in the West Bank set up an outpost on land they say was expropriated from them by Israel to expand a Jewish settlement in the area. Accompanied by women and children, activists crossed the…

  • “Judaising” Jaffa: the demolition of Ajami

    Normalising injustice by Arthur Nelson, 28 March 2007 “Beneath the pretty flowers of Israel’s propaganda machine lie some ugly facts on the ground in Jaffa.” Diplomatic briefcases are unlikely to be dropped at news of Condoleezza Rice’s call, on the eve of the Riyadh summit, for Arab states to “reach out to Israel” and show…