Category: In the Media
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Czech pro-Palestinian activist returns home after expelled by Israel
Ha’aretz 12 January 2010 A Czech pro-Palestinian activist returned to Prague on Tuesday after she was expelled from Israel, officials said. Israel Defense Forces soldiers and immigration police detained Eva Novakova, 28, in a raid on her home in Ramallah in the West Bank on early Monday, said the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group…
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Your Palestinian Gandhis exist… in graves and prisons
Alison Weir | Counterpunch 8 January 2010 Dear Bono, In your recent column in the New York Times, “Ten for the Next Ten,” you wrote: “I’ll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that…people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the…
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A message of non-violent resistance from within Israeli prison
Majida Abu Rahmah | The Huffington Post 9 January 2010 On Tuesday, January 5, I attended the trial of my husband Abdallah Abu Rahmah in an Israeli military detention camp. Ofer Military Base is a dark and dehumanizing place, but I was happy to go there because it meant that I would finally see my…
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Israeli detention of Palestinian activists must end
Amnesty International 8 January 2010 The Israeli authorities must immediately release, or bring before a fair trial, three Palestinian human rights activists detained in Israel following their protests against the construction of the West Bank fence/wall, Amnesty International said on Friday. In a letter sent to Ehud Barak, Israeli Defence and Deputy Prime Minister on…
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Civil Administration backtracks on granting Palestinians access to Bir el-Eid
Amira Hass | Haaretz 6 January 2009 The Civil Administration ordered Palestinian residents of the West Bank this week to stop erecting tents and building animal enclosures in the Bir el-Eid area – even though the state allowed them access to the site only two months ago, after a 10-year enforced absence and a protracted…