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by Mijal Grinberg, February 14th photo by Reuters Security forces destroyed seven houses and 13 other structures Wednesday on the southern slope of Mount Hebron in the southern West Bank. photo by Reuters The demolitions took place in the villages ...
Read More »Haaretz: “A mother’s resistance”
by Ofri Ilani, February 14th Laila El-Haddad’s blog took shape in a very unusual way. Her son, Yousuf, was less than a year old when she returned to her Gaza home from a visit to the United States, where her ...
Read More »JPost: “UK protesters try to hurt Israeli flower sales”
by Ellis Weintraub and Laura Rheinheimer, February 13th To hurt the high-volume sales of Israeli flowers on Valentine’s Day in the United Kingdom, three anti-Israel protesters chained themselves to a fence over the weekend outside the distribution site of Carmel-Agrexco ...
Read More »Corvallis Gazette-Times: “Expanding his mission”
by Carol Reeves, February 11th CV grad dropped career to become a peace activist Protesting the Iraq war in front of the Benton County Courthouse is a far cry from seeking peace on the troubled streets of occupied cities and ...
Read More »Haaretz: “Judge: Troops at fence protest were more violent than protesters”
by Meron Rapoport, February 10th A military judge wrote Saturday that soldiers trying to disperse protesters against the separation fence in the West Bank village of Bil’in used more violence than the demonstrators. After watching a videotape of the rally, ...
Read More »YNet: “Shenkin on the corner of the Hawara checkpoint”
by Yael Ivri, February 6th Palestinian artist, Haled Jarar, hung his photographs on the fence of an IDF checkpoint near Nablus; the “Activestills” exhibit covered the streets of Tel Aviv with photos of squatters. Two exhibits, two protests On Saturday ...
Read More »Ma’an: “Israeli military disrupt non-violent action in Al Khadr and attack Palestinian children”
February 3rd, On Saturday morning around forty international peace activists, including Israelis from the group ‘Peace Now’ and local Palestinians, went to Al Khadir village, Bethlehem, in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, to plant olive trees. Israeli forces have uprooted ...
Read More »PNN: “Nonviolent demonstration to save Al Aqsa Mosque area from Israeli destruction”
by Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, February 4th The cold weather and proliferation of military checkpoints in the city of Jerusalem did not prevent hundreds of citizens from reaching Al Aqsa Mosque to stand in the face of Israeli demolition plans. Sunday’s ...
Read More »Haaretz: “By the book”
by Gideon Levy, February 2nd There’s no question about it – everything was done by the book. The gate was locked at 7 P.M. and 16,000 people, residents of the villages of Beit Furik and Beit Dajan, were imprisoned behind ...
Read More »The Guardian: “Time to get serious about Israel”
by John Hilary, January 31st You know that things are serious when a parliamentary select committee puts out a call for sanctions against another sovereign state. Doubly so when that state is supposed to be one of Britain’s key allies ...
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