To view original article, published in the Jerusalem Post on the 12th June, click here In a dramatic halachic ruling, the rabbi of Ofra, a settlement in the West Bank northeast of Ramallah, has ruled that Palestinian construction workers can ...
Read More »Haaretz: One swift kick
By Gideon Levy To view original article, published in Haaretz on the 7th June 2008, click here Even now, six weeks later, his speech and movements are still halting. He says he is emotionally shattered. For him, the moment of ...
Read More »Haaretz: Welcome to year 41
By Michael Sfard To view original article, published by Haaretz, click here The military commander of the West Bank, Major General Gadi Shamni, is a busy man. He has a country to run, and he has no separation of powers ...
Read More »LRB: Diary from Gaza
London Review of Books By Louisa Waugh ‘Don’t ask me how I am,’ a colleague said to me when I arrived at the office yesterday morning. ‘You know how bad things are here now, so please don’t ask.’ Things are ...
Read More »Haaretz: Israel to build over 800 new homes in East Jerusalem areas
By Nadav Shragai, published in Haaretz. To view original article click here Israel announced plans on Sunday to build more than 800 hundred new homes in eastern parts of the Jerusalem municipality, despite U.S. and Palestinian calls to halt settlement ...
Read More »Al Jazeera: Gazans wounded in border protest
At least 15 Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli troops used gunfire to stop about 3,000 Hamas supporters from approaching one of the Gaza Strip’s main border crossings with Israel, witnesses say. Palestinian medical workers said on Friday that at ...
Read More »Mahsanmilim: Murder at Huwwara
To view original article, published in www.mahsanmilim.com, click here This time we came to the checkpoint especially in order to gather testimony about the murder of 15.5-year old Fahmi Abd al Jawaad al Darduk (فهمي عبد الجواد الدردوك), who was ...
Read More »PACBI: Urgent appeal to all academics
CONDEMN U.S. GOVERNMENT COMPLICITY IN BLOCKING PALESTINIAN RIGHT TO MOVEMENT AND ADVOCATE MEASURES TO PRESSURE ISRAEL To view original appeal click here May 30, 2008 The news that the US State Department has decided to cancel all previously approved Fulbright ...
Read More »Demonstrations in al-Ma’sara, Bi’lin and al-Khader
Al-Ma’sara By Mahmoud Zwahre Date 30 May 2008 On the 30th May, around 150 people from the village of Al-Ma’sara demonstrated against the building of the apartheid wall on their land. As usual the demo started from the middle of ...
Read More »Haaretz: Housing Ministry to issue tender for building 120 homes in Har Homa
To view original article, published in Haaretz on the 30th May 2008, click here Days before Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s departure for Washington, Housing Minister Ze’ev Boim announced Friday that his ministry will issue a tender on Sunday for the ...
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