Category: Journals
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Salamat Sahbi Akram
It was meant to become one of those reports about these surrealities, you probably only can find in Palestine. About the tension of a nightly visit to an internet cafe, which ended up surrounded by security forces. A story about the absurdity of a night, where every passing Jeep spit more disguised men on an…
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Reflections from an Irish Activist in Palestine (Part 1/3)
The following is not an attempt at a comprehensive analysis of the current situation in the Occupied Territories of Palestine. Instead, it is a reflection on the past few weeks I have spent with the International Solidarity Movement in the city of Hebron and its environs and what brought me here in the first place.…
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Reflections on our arrest….
You go through a strange range of emotions while incarcerated. Being shackled at the ankles forces you to shuffle painfully, ungainly, slowly. It reduces you to an infirm. Our arrest was a strange experience.. It was an immense joy to see over two hundred Palestinians cheer at their removal of the massive concrete blocks which…