Category: In the Media

  • Under attack Bil’in and the peaceful resistance of the village against the Israeli wall

    Luisa Morgantini | Liberazione 19 July 2009 Israel wants to stop the non-violent struggle and the unity created amongst Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals, who since more than four years demonstrate in order to end the construction of the wall: in the last weeks the escalation of systematic arrests and kidnappings of activists in Bil’in by…

  • Activists respond to cellular phone campaign

    Anat Shalev | YNet News 21 July 2009 Palestinians protestors and left-wing activists came up with an original response to a television ad for a local cellular phone company that angered and offended many in Israel and the Palestinian Authority. At television commercial by Cellcom showed Israelis soldiers playing soccer with unseen Palestinians over the…

  • ‘No difference to U.S. between outpost, East Jerusalem construction’

    Akiva Eldar, Barak Ravid & Jack Khoury | Ha’aretz 20 July 2009 The United States views East Jerusalem as no different than an illegal West Bank outpost with regard to its demand for a freeze on settlement construction, American sources have informed both Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This clarification came in the context of…

  • Dozens protest east Jerusalem eviction plans

    Ronen Medzini | YNet News 19 July 2009 Maher Hanoun, a resident of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in east Jerusalem, has been ordered by court to vacate his home. Dozens of the neighborhood’s residents, as well as Jewish and Arab politicians and human rights activists arrived at Hanoun’s house on Sunday to protest the court’s…

  • A day in the West Bank shows ‘the soldiers are settlers but in uniform. They both symbolize the occupation.’

    Mairav Zonszein, Antony Loewenstein & Joseph Dana | Mondoweiss 18 July 2009 The occupation can seem predictably mundane from a distance. To most Israelis the settlement project is seen as a problem, but a problem happening “over there” and utterly removed from their lives. Rampaging settlers are viewed occasionally on television. Violent Palestinians are seen…