Category: Journals

  • Get off our Land

    Protest Against the Toxic Chemical Factory on the edge of Tulkarem Today’s Freedom Summer action was focused on the presence of a toxic chemical factory at the edge of Tulkarem. The Israeli-owned factory was originally located near residences in Israel, but was deemed to be polluting beyond acceptable legal levels and following a court case…

  • These are some of the things I wish everyone knew

    A speech by Kate Raphael at San Francisco Pride. These are some of the things I wish everyone knew: I wish everyone knew what an olive tree looks like when its branches are lopped off, heavy full ones they call ‘hamel’, which means pregnant. I wish everyone knew how Caterpillar bulldozers uproot the trees to…

  • Bil’in persists

    By Rann We arrived early for the usual Friday demonstration in Bil’in. The ISM flat in the village was full of Palestinians villagers and Israeli and international activists busily preparing the latest of the pieces of protest display this village is so well-known around Palestine for. This time it was a series of bits of…

  • A Chat with the Shabak

    by Rann Around a week ago, I got a call from the Giv’at Ze’ev police, asking me to come in to `clarify some technical details’ about my arrest at a demonstration in the village of Bil’in a few weeks ago. By the time I showed up at the police station, on Sunday, June 26th, I…

  • Free Tomato in Jayyous

    Dear Friends, Last month Jayyous farmers let their crop of lemons rot, for the last three weeks the tomato harvest is laying unpicked. Today most of farmers in Jayyous announced to people “go and get tomato form the green houses for free”. The reason for the farmers’ strange behaviour? In Jayyous there are around 80…