Category: Journals

  • Anamaria’s Journal: Not Welcome Anymore

    I arrived at the airport 4 hours before take off. I was through check in after just one hour and no problems. But when I went through passport control, the woman there looked at the computer screen and went away with my passport. She came back a few minutes later with 2 other women and…

  • Jenka’s Journal: The City of Jenin

    I woke up two days ago to the news that a Palestinian had blown himself up in Tel Aviv, killing eight Israelis and himself, at the bus station. I thought, as I always do, of the victims…..limbs torn apart, the children crying, ambulances rushing to the scene….so terrible, terrible, terrible……. It reminded me of a…

  • Mansour’s Journal: Yesterday I was denied entry to my village Biddu

    Where should we go then? After twenty days of being away from my family, I decided to go and spend two days with them. (By the way, my work is in Ramallah city and my village is 30 minutes away to the south of it) A few weeks ago, the Israeli government closed Qalandia check…