Friday, March 24, 2006 By MAKEBA SCOTT HUNTER HERALD NEWS Despite the cancellation of a theater production based on the writings of the late human-rights activist, some 1,200 people packed into Harlem’s Riverside Church Wednesday night for an alternate production ...
Read More »Three peace activists freed in Iraq
From the BBC Norman Kember, 74, of Pinner, north-west London, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, were three of four men seized in Baghdad in November. Mr Kember is said to be in a “reasonable condition” while the two Canadians ...
Read More »IDF officers targeted again for arrest
Published in The Jerusalem Post By JPOST.COM STAFF In what was the third time in the past eight months that a senior IDF officer was subjected to accusations of war crimes and the possibility of arrest in a foreign country, ...
Read More »Court moves closer to ordering illegal settlement houses razed
By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent From Haaretz The High Court of Justice Tuesday gave the state 30 days to explain why houses built illegally in the Matityahu East neighborhood of the Modi’in Ilit settlement should not be demolished. Justices Aharon ...
Read More »South African Unions Rally for Palestine
Printed in Morning Star Monday, March 13 by Richard Bagley Top South African Trade Unionist Willy Madisha issued a white-hot condemnation of Israel’s apartheid policies at a London conference on Saturday. Addressing the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s trade union conference at ...
Read More »Palestinians saddened at Fox’s killing
By ASSOCIATED PRESS JAYYUS, West Bank Palestinians throughout the West Bank expressed sorrow Saturday over the killing of American Tom Fox, 54, who had traveled to the West Bank to protest for their cause before he was taken hostage in ...
Read More »Ministry documents highlight West Bank land acquisition network
By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondent printed in Haaretz Top secret documents from the Justice Ministry from the early 1990s confirm the existence of a vast network of ties between successive Likud and Labor governments and land dealers and settlers’ associations, ...
Read More »A Message Crushed Again
From the Los Angeles Times By Katharine Viner March 1, 2006 THE FLIGHTS for cast and crew had been booked; the production schedule delivered; there were tickets advertised on the Internet. The Royal Court Theatre production of “My Name Is ...
Read More »Rickman Slams ‘Censorship’ of Play about US Gaza Activist
by Julian Borger Published on Tuesday, February 28, 2006 by the Guardian / UK A New York theatre company has put off plans to stage a play about an American activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza because of ...
Read More »Travelers share tales from Rafah
by Venice Buhain Originally publsihed in The Olympian OLYMPIA — For a few hours Sunday, the Olympia Eagles Ballroom was filled with friendly chatter, the enticing smells of Mediterranean food and the delicate handiwork of Palestinian embroidery. But the main ...
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