Category: In the Media

  • Can civil disobedience work if the media stays away?

    Bruce Wolman | Mondoweiss 11 June 2009 What if Palestinians turned to non-violent protest and none of the media showed up to cover their actions? President Obama in his Cairo speech insisted the “Palestinians must abandon violence.” He exhorted them to imitate the methods of the Civil Rights movement in the United States: “Resistance through…

  • Bound, blindfolded and beaten – by Israeli troops

    Ben Lynfield | The Independent 9 June 2009 Two Israeli officers have testified that troops in the West Bank beat, bound and blindfolded Palestinian civilians as young as 14. The damaging disclosures by two sergeants of the Kfir Brigade include descriptions of abuses they say they witnessed during a search-and-detain operation involving hundreds of troops…

  • Court to decide if builders can be sued for settlements

    Janice Arnold | The Canadian Jewish News 10 June 2009 A Quebec court will decide whether a lawsuit against two Canadian-based companies that are alleged to have illegally constructed residential buildings for Jewish settlers on disputed land in the West Bank can be heard here. ShareThis On June 22, 23 and 25, Quebec Superior Court…

  • As Obama tries to shift the debate, will Democrats continue to endorse Israel’s colonization of the West Bank?

    Stephen Zunes | AlterNet 6 June 2009 President Barack Obama has inherited a difficult challenge in pushing Israel to end the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. With the right-wing Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu categorically rejecting the idea of a freeze and with Democratic-controlled Congress ruling out using…

  • Veolia likely to abandon rail project

    Abbas Al Lawati | Gulf News 9 June 2009 Dubai: One of the two transport companies facing a lawsuit in France for their involvement in a controversial Israeli rail project in occupied East Jerusalem has reportedly planned to withdraw from the project. French company Veolia Transport is considering the sale of its five per cent…