Category: Journals
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The fire under our feet: a journal piece
I’m OK. Actually, personally, my family and I are well, Alhamdililah! But I can feel the intensified fire under our feet. I know the feeling. And I know the explosion that comes after it. This week alone the Israeli apartheid government has escalated its actions, bombing Gaza daily while tightening the already lethal siege around…
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Banksy and the Walled Off Hotel: a personal view
13th March 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Over the last weeks there has been a lot of noise about Banksy (a street artist from the UK, now darling of the art world) and his new hotel in Bethlehem. Initially the vast majority of news articles seemed to glow with…
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Elor Azaria verdict: a personal view
22nd February 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team, | Hebron, occupied Palestine Yesterday the Israeli soldier Elor Azaria was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the extra-judicial killing of Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, which happened last year in Hebron. Everybody in Hebron was waiting for the sentence. Everybody knew by one o’clock what it was.…
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Sumud: Palestinian for endurance
22nd February 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine As a second time ISMer I write a blog for friends and supporters back home (at salamfrombetty.tumblr.com if you would like to follow). I asked for questions from my readership and I got this from my friend Rachel: How are you coping…
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Total impunity to mess with lives
14th February 2017 | International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil team | Hebron, occupied Palestine Israeli forces, again, or rather still, are using their impunity as occupiers to humiliate, harass and intimidate Palestinians and internationals crossing Shuhada checkpoint in occupied al-Khalil (Hebron). The Israeli forces at this checkpoint sit behind bullet proof glass in a closed checkpoint-box, that nobody…
