Category: Journals

  • Shlomo’s Journal: “The Magic Answer”

    By Shlomo Bloom Today I arrived at Qalandia checkpoint on my way to Jerusalem from Ramallah and got in line behind about 15 Palestinians. The line moved at a slow but steady pace until two people showed their IDs to the soldiers behind the glass and an argument in Hebrew began. It was clear the…

  • Successful Land-Access Action in Beit Omar

    Sunbula’s Journal: “Settler Brats and Weed Pulling” 20th May: From Jerusalem to Beit Omar, you need to change taxis three times in order to get there, partly because of two Israeli checkpoints. It is a small village outside Hebron (al-Khalil) past Bethlehem. An international presence was needed there today in order to help the farmers…

  • The “Only Democracy in the Middle East”

    By Raad In the last week we had two decisions by the Supreme Court of the Zionist state which reveal how racist this regime is. The first one is the citizenship law which will affect thousands of Palestinian families on both sides of the Green Line and the second is the Bil’in court case. Citizenship…

  • This Is Apartheid

    By Rann The Israeli Supreme Court approved a law yesterday denying West Bank and Gaza Palestinians married to Israeli Palestinians residence or citizenship in Israel. As the linked Ha’aretz editorial states, this is a disgrace. Moreover, this is yet another grounding of apartheid by the Israeli ‘justice’ system. “… not one single Western country discriminates…

  • The Double Standards of the Israeli Army

    “I Am Not a Good Jew”: Israeli Soldier Brutality and Incompetence An editorial by a human rights worker in Hebron Israeli settler children throw rocks while soldier does nothing Yesterday I went to the demonstration in Bil’in which started out fun and happy, with people singing songs and generally having a good time as we…