Category: Journals
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Settler Violence: Broken Glass on Shuhada Street
by Silvia 21 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Five years ago Abed Seder’s wife, Kefah, was shot five times in the chest by Israeli soldiers as she went onto her roof to check her water tank. She was 23 years old and left three sons motherless. He tells me his sons are…
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The massacre of 1929 and the War of Narratives
by Aaron 21 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank If you ask an Israeli settler in or around Al-Khalil (Hebron) what calls them to live on contested land, most will speak to a religious connection to the city and the Cave of the Machpelach (“patriarchs”), where Jews, Muslims, and Christians come to revere…
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Women Studies Center of Nablus: Women’s rights are Palestinian rights
by Jonas Weber 18 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “We rented this house since a year back,” says Randa Bashir as she looked around in the brightly lit meeting room at the Women Studies Centre in Nablus. Like most Palestinian houses it is designed to keep cool during the warmer time of the year…
