Category: In the Media

  • Counterpunch: “What Rachel Saw”

    by Sonja Karkar, March 15th A slip of a girl faced one of Israel’s most feared war machines in the Occupied Palestinian Territories–the armed bulldozer–and died. This deliberate killing was no accident. Maybe the Israeli authorities would have preferred it not to happen because of the public relations backlash, but the driver of the bulldozer…

  • YNet: “Court convicts Hebron settler for stoning Palestinian homes”

    by Efrat Weiss, March 14th Yifat Elkobi convicted for harassing her Palestinian neighbors; severity of her actions requires harsh punishment, judge says The Jerusalem Magistrates Court convicted Wednesday Yifat Elkobi, resident of the Jewish settlement in Hebron , for inappropriate conduct in public and causing damage to the house of a Palestinian family in 2001.…

  • The Independent: “Art from Gaza and the West Bank: Gallery of a troubled nation”

    by Donald Macintyre, March 13th The Palestinian answer to Charles Saatchi pursues the elusive dream of a permanent home for his unique but unheralded collection Mazen Qupty had always planned to study film – the seventh art as he calls it. Yet the irony is that if he hadn’t reluctantly taken a friend’s advice to…

  • AP: “Reporters hurt as Israeli security forces break up Palestinian demonstrations”

    Associated Press Crowd-control devices like stun grenades and tear gas have injured a number of journalists in recent weeks, including two television crewmen covering a women’s protest Thursday — and reporters are charging they’ve been targeted by Israeli security forces. Over the last three months, at least five journalists were injured — including an AP…

  • The Guardian: “Negev desert nomads on the move again to make way for Israel’s barrier”

    by Rory McCarthy, February 28th Security fence and spread of Jewish settlement risks way of life for thousands The bulldozers came for Hamid Salim Hassan’s house just after dawn. Before the demolition began, the Bedouin family scrambled to gather what they could: a fridge, a pile of carpets, some plastic chairs, a canister of cooking…