Category: In the Media

  • Israel tries to silence political protest

    Ben Hubbard | Washington Post Israel is arresting a growing number of prominent opponents to its policies toward the Palestinians, say critics who are accusing the government of trying to crush legitimate dissent. In the most high-profile case yet, Jerusalem police detained the head of a leading Israeli human rights group during a vigil against…

  • Israel jails Palestinian peace activists

    Mel Frykberg | Inter Press Service 18 January 2010 Israel has long argued that Palestinians should pursue their political objectives in a non-violent way. However, several prominent Palestinian peace activists have recently been arrested and jailed for doing just that. Abdallah Abu Rahme, 39, the coordinator of the Bi’lin Popular Committee, which has challenged Israel’s…

  • Real per capita income of Palestine plunges

    Nadim Kawach 17 January 2010 Armed with growing global financial aid, the Palestinians in the occupied territories struggled to alleviate years of poverty, unemployment and other economic woes but their efforts have been ruined by Israel’s hostility. In such conditions, the aid was only helpful in preventing a human disaster in 2008. While their economy…

  • Building a different Middle East

    Joel Beinin | The Nation 15 January 2010 Like every other woman in her village Umm Hasan wears a headscarf. Her husband and other male relatives are not on the scene. But this is not an obstacle to her animated interactions with the sixteen Israelis and foreigners she has never previously met but welcomes into…

  • Thirteen leftists detained in East Jerusalem rally

    Ronen Medzini | Ynet News 15 January 2010 Director of Association for Civil Rights in Israel among detainees in weekly protest against Jewish takeover. Thirteen leftist activists, including the director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Hagai Elad, were detained Friday in a rally in east Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarah neighborhood. About 70 Arab…