Journals

Art (Jaber) Gish 13 December 2009 It seems that a major victory has been won regarding Palestinians using their road to get to and from town. Israeli settlers have demanded that only Jews be allowed to use the Palestinian road. ...

From Pork to Palestine Blog 15 December 2009 I’ve spent the last few days on night duty in an occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood called Sheikh Jarrah, accompanying two Palestinian families who have erected protest tents outside of their homes after ...

I have now been in the village of Bir el-Eid for three weeks. This has been a great time of connecting with the people here, helping with chores with the sheep, going out in the hills with the sheep, and ...

22 November 2009 After spending a week in the modern city of Jerusalem, camping out on the street with a Palestinian family that the Israeli government had evicted from their home so that Israeli settlers could move into their house, ...

Art Gish 9 November 2009 My teammate woke me at 6:00 a.m. “We need to go over to the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood to accompany the al Ghawi family, a Palestinian family that Israeli police evicted from their home on August ...

3 November 2009 | de l’autre côté du mur When talking about Palestine and Palestinian’s rights it is difficult to decide where to start. So I will just tell you day about my day of today. 9:39am: I am drinking ...

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 23 July 2009 The young farm worker wasn’t oblivious to the danger: working in the Israeli-imposed “buffer zone” is no task for the faint-hearted. But, like so many, he either needed the paid labour, or ...

Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 1 June 2009 Just after 7 am on May 30th, Palestinian farmers in Khoza’a, east of Khan Younis, returned to the land they’d been menaced off of 5 days earlier. “The same day the Israelis ...

Frank Barat | Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK The death of Bassem Abu Rahme On April the 17th, like any Fridays afternoon for the last 4 years, the small village of Bil’in, north of Ramallah, was preparing for the usual demonstration ...

Mohammad Khatib | Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements His name was Basem, which means smile, and that is how he greeted everyone.  But we all called him ‘Pheel’, which means elephant because he had the body the ...