By Dan Keidar and Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondents, 24th May 2006 At least two settler families moved on Tuesday into apartments in a neighborhood of the West Bank settlement of Upper Modi’in that was built illegally on land belonging to ...
Read More »YNet op-ed: “Mr. Occupation Saw the Light”
From the Hebrew edition of Ynet. Translation by Rann. With his own hands and orders Brigadier General Ilan Paz deepened the suffering in the Occupied Territories. Surprisingly, the political realization and moral insight broke through moments after he returned his ...
Read More »SchNEWS: “Wall of Shame – West pushes Palestinians further into crisis”
From SchNEWS number 544 The remnants of Palestinian civil society, brutalized by the occupation and ongoing encirclement by the apartheid wall, is now reeling under the shock of the sudden removal of all US and EU aid. Their crime? To ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: “British professor confirms ‘silent’ boycott of Israel”
By Tamara Traubmann, Ha’aretz, 19th May 2005 A British professor has refused a request to write an article for an academic journal funded by Israeli universities, saying that he was taking part in a boycott of Israel. “Alas, I am ...
Read More »Guardian: “Israel should face sanctions”
by Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain. The Guardian, Friday May 19, 2006. The Palestine crisis is now more dramatic even than apartheid, but it is the victims who are punished. Western leaders are frustrating democratic elections in Palestine by withholding ...
Read More »Canberra Times: “The Other Aussie Heros”
posted in the Canberra Times May 18th Every Friday for the last fifteen months Palestinian farmers from the West Bank village of Bil’in and their Israeli and international supporters have marched out of the village to reach their lands on ...
Read More »BBC: “Villagers fight West Bank Barrier”
By Martin Patience BBC News website, in Bilin After prayers at Bilin’s mosque, male worshippers spill from the modest building and begin the short walk to the West Bank barrier running close to the village. The demonstrations at Bilin have ...
Read More »Ha’aretz: “Supreme Disgrace”
A Haaretz Editorial The bottom line is the decisive one in yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling on family reunification. In light of such serious damage to the equal rights of Arab citizens of Israel, it does not matter at all what ...
Read More »Israel/Occupied Territories: High Court decision institutionalizes racial discrimination
By Amnesty International The decision by the Israeli High Court of Justice on 14 May to uphold a law which explicitly denies family rights on the basis of ethnicity or national origins is a step further in the institutionalization of ...
Read More »Internationals Injured at Anti-Wall Demonstration in the Press
1. In the Danish TV News May 14, 2006 To view, go to this website and click on the headline: “Dansk fredsvagt såret på Vestbredden” 2. In the Australian Channel 9 TV news May 15, 2006 To view, go to ...
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