Category: In the Media

  • AIC: Paying for the Occupation

    The Village of Husan Near Bethlehem by Cara Loverock, 14 May 2007 In the Palestinian village of Husan , Mahmoud, like so many farmers in the West Bank, faces daily challenges in having his land close to a settlement, which brings harassment, destruction and abuse with no help in sight. Mahmoud lives in the village…

  • SF Chronicle: For Palestinians, memory matters

    It provides a blueprint for their future by George Bisharat, 13 May 2007 Why do some people have the power to remember, while others are asked to forget? That question is especially poignant at this time of year, as we move from Holocaust Remembrance day in early spring to Monday’s anniversary of Israel’s declaration of…

  • Israel plans East Jerusalem enclave

    Al Jazeera: Israel plans East Jerusalem enclave from AlJazeera.Net, 10 May 2007 Saeb Erekat condemned Israel’s plan to build 20,000 homes in Arab east Jerusalem, Photo: AP Israel has announced plans to build 20,000 new homes on the outskirts of occupied East Jerusalem, prompting condemnation from Palestinians. The Israeli plan, announced on Thursday but yet…

  • The Struggle Uses Images to Counter the Wall

    The Struggle Uses Images to Counter the Wall Interview with Shai Pollak from the Nyon film festival from Solidarités During an interval in the screening of Shai Carmeli Pollak’s film Bil’in Habibi (Bilin my love) at the Nyon Film Festival, we discussed the film with its creator; an activist in the Israeli group “Anarchists against…

  • Flee, Freedom Fighter, Flee

    Ha’aretz: Flee, Freedom Fighter, Flee by Yonatan Pollack, translated by Rann Bar-On The basis of my political education, on the price one must pay for the struggle, was very close to home – within the family in fact. My grandfather, Nimrod Eshel, was among the leaders of the seamen revolt in the early 1950’s. In…