Author: swing

  • Left-wing activists evacuated from tent built opposite outpost

    Anat Shalev | YNet News 6 June 2009 IDF troops forcibly removed dozens of left-wing and Palestinian activists who were trying to erect a tent in South Mt. Hebron with a Palestinian family claiming ownership of the land. The family says that it owns the land near the Susya settlement on which an illegal outpost…

  • Settlers attack Palestinian vehicle with rocks, wounding four, and set fire to land in Qalqiliya district

    International Women’s Peace Service 1 June 2009 On Monday, June 1st, settlers from the Havat Gilad settler outpost in the Qalqiliya district of the West Bank reportedly attacked a minibus transporting 17 Palestinians to their jobs in Israel, critically injuring one. The settlers later burned an estimated 100 dunams of Palestinian land, leaving scorched earth…

  • People & Power – Courtroom Intifada

    Al Jazeera 3 June 2009 The small village of Bil’in is trying to regain land lost to the Separation Wall and an encroaching Jewish settlement through ‘legal resistance’. As their victory in the Israeli Supreme Court continues to be ignored, the villagers, helped by Israeli lawyer Michael Sfard, file a case against the international construction…

  • Gambling with Conflict: How a neocon casino king from California funds the Israeli settler movement

    Max Blumenthal | Mondoweiss 2 June 2009 The Israeli government has repeatedly announced plans to forge ahead with plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank in direct opposition to President Barack Obama’s demand for an absolute settlement freeze. On May 27, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leveled strong criticism at Israeli policy, telling…

  • Palestinian village sends pair to sue Quebec companies

    CBC Canada 2 June 2009 Two representatives of a small West Bank Palestinian village will tour Canada this month, as they prepare a lawsuit against two Quebec-based companies for allegedly violating international law by building Israeli settlements on occupied territory. Mohammed Khatib is a member of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in the town…