Category: In the Media

  • 1967: Abandoned and rejected

    By Ahmad Shaheen | Guardian: Comment Is Free I was born in a tent and I’m living in a tent, but I hope I won’t die in a tent. I’m a middle-aged journalist and a human rights advocate. My children are grown up and college educated – three of them married with children. I’m far…

  • The world will understand us more

    from The Guardian Unlimited, 6 June 2007 A Palestinian boy blows up a balloon in front of Israeli border police during a non-violent protest against the construction of Israel’s West Bank barrier. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP Audio can be found HERE In the fields around the village of Ma’asara, south of Bethlehem, between the rows of…

  • We Deserve the British Academic Boycott!

    Benny Tziper, Haaretz – June 4th 2007 Translated by Rann Bar-on Last Friday morning I drove to the Palestinian village of Bil’in. Bil’in, the village that has turned into a symbol of the struggle against the Apartheid Wall and against the confiscation of Palestinian land by fraudulent Jewish real-estate sharks who hide behind fake patriotism.…

  • Building Design: Big names urge Israelis to end ‘oppressive’ works

    Alsop, Farrell and MacCormac join call to stop work on schemes that oppress Palestinians by Helen Crump, 25 May 2007 A host of celebrated architects including Will Alsop, Terry Farrell, Richard MacCormac, Rick Mather and Ted Cullinan have waded into the politics of the Middle East with a challenge to fellow professionals in Israel to…

  • Wall and Checkpoints Reach San Jose

    US students set up ‘checkpoint’ on campus by Eyal Marcus, 25 May 2007 Students at San Jose University disguise as soldiers, Palestinians at improvised checkpoint to condemn Israeli army’s occupation of West Bank Photo by Andrew Schwartz On Israel’s Independence Day this year, Max Grossman, an Art and Design lecturer at the University of San…