Category: Journals

  • An Invitation for Barak Obama

    by Katie The morning of Thursday, January 12, myself, and other Palestinian and international activists were invited to the branch of Jerusalem University in Ramallah for a conference that Barak Obama, the US senator from Illinois, was holding with students. The others were skeptical about him, but I assured them that he is a very…

  • Three Checkpoints, One Day

    By Suneela It is overwhelming to be awakened to the reality of a military occupation all of a sudden. Qalandia terminal, is supposed to be the clean and efficient face of the occupation, like an airport terminal with electronically operated metal gates with stop and go signals and X-ray machines, or ultramodern sanitized humiliation. As…

  • Does Santa get through the checkpoint?

    Huwarra checkpoint is the main checkpoint to the south of Nablus, and probably one of the worst ones that I have experienced in Palestine. Every time I pass through, people are being humiliated in many ways: screamed at, beaten, detained, forced to wait for no reason, arrested, you name it. Some days it is open,…

  • I resist so I exist

    by Saif After filling out papers at the Jordanian border with Palestine, the bus started moving towards the side that is controlled by the Israeli occupation authorities. As much as I missed Palestine, thinking about the process that Israel imposes on Palestinians traveling through the border and the time that I have to spend waiting…

  • While Our Friends Are Kidnapped in Iraq, Palestinian Non-violent Resistance Continutes

    1. The Power of Aboud 2. Resistance Continues in Aboud, Despite Israeli Violence 3. A brief list of numbers from today’s demo in Aboud 4. Human Rights Worker Refuses Deportation, Put in Solitary Confinement in Tzohar Detention Center, Israel 5. Scotish TV: “Scottish activist to be deported from Israel” 6. Scotish Press: “Israel Ready to…