Category: In the Media

  • Plans for largest East Jerusalem settlement filed for approval

    Nir Hasson | Ha’aretz 22 August 2009 A plan for the building of a new settlement, Ma’aleh David, in the middle of an Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem was filed for approval by the relevant municipal committee at the Jerusalem Municipality. The plan calls for the construction of 104 housing units on the land where…

  • Can we talk? The Middle East “peace industry”

    Faris Giacaman | The Electronic Intifada 20 August 2009 Upon finding out that I am Palestinian, many people I meet at college in the United States are eager to inform me of various activities that they have participated in that promote “coexistence” and “dialogue” between both sides of the “conflict,” no doubt expecting me to…

  • Israel still strangles the Palestinian economy

    Sam Bahour | The Wall Street Journal 20 August 2009 Palestinians are as eager as anyone to see positive economic development for their tormented country. But they know full well that real economic progress awaits their release from Israeli military occupation (West Bank, East Jerusalem) and siege (Gaza Strip). Consider the recent media promotion of…

  • One year after I was beaten

    Mohammed Omer | The Socialist Worker 29 June 2009 JUNE 26, 2008, is a day I will never forget. For the events of that day irrevocably changed my life. That day, I was detained, interrogated, strip-searched and tortured while attempting to return home from a European speaking tour, which culminated in independent American journalist Dahr…

  • Palestinians teens visit Israel on ‘Birthright Replugged’

    Ha’aretz 20 August 2009 Fourteen-year-old Jum’a Ismail lives 50 km from the Mediterranean but had never seen the sea. The Palestinian youth had never set eyes on an Israeli civilian or an airport. Juma’a’s horizons expanded this summer, when he left Jalazoun refugee camp in the West Bank with “Birthright Replugged” on a trip taking…