Category: In the Media
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Peacefully Resisting Occupation: Teen Journalist Arafat Kanaan
Palestine Monitor 21 October 2009 In this short video, produced with the support of the NoVA Center For Social Innovation, Palestine Monitor would like to introduce you to Arafat Kanaan: an inspirational 16-year-old non-violent activist and filmmaker from the West Bank village of Ni’lin. Every week, Arafat films as his village non-violently demonstrates against the…
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State won’t prosecute officers filmed beating Palestinians
Liel Kyzer | Ha’aretz 21 October 2009 Deputy State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan rejected an appeal against the decision not to investigate Border Police officers who documented themselves abusing Palestinians. The appeal was filed by the Yesh Din human rights group. Senior deputy to the state prosecutor Nechama Zusman wrote last week on Nitzan’s behalf that…
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Bil’in villagers appeal Canadian court
Dan Izenberg | The Jerusalem Post 21 October 2009 Farmers from Bil’in, 12 km. west of Ramallah, are continuing their efforts in Canada to obtain a court order instructing two building companies registered and domiciled in Quebec to stop all apartment construction on land they maintain belongs to them, a Toronto lawyer representing them said…