Category: In the Media
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Haaretz: “Security forces demolish 7 houses in Mt. Hebron villages”
by Mijal Grinberg, February 14th photo by Reuters Security forces destroyed seven houses and 13 other structures Wednesday on the southern slope of Mount Hebron in the southern West Bank. photo by Reuters The demolitions took place in the villages of Manzal, Umm al-Khir and Gawawis. Abdullah Harizat, a resident of Manzal, said that police…
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Haaretz: “A mother’s resistance”
by Ofri Ilani, February 14th Laila El-Haddad’s blog took shape in a very unusual way. Her son, Yousuf, was less than a year old when she returned to her Gaza home from a visit to the United States, where her husband, Yassine, lives. The blog, “Raising Yousuf” (a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com), had just begun, and it dealt with…
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JPost: “UK protesters try to hurt Israeli flower sales”
by Ellis Weintraub and Laura Rheinheimer, February 13th To hurt the high-volume sales of Israeli flowers on Valentine’s Day in the United Kingdom, three anti-Israel protesters chained themselves to a fence over the weekend outside the distribution site of Carmel-Agrexco in Middlesex. Police arrested them. The UK-based Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign launched the protest on…
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Corvallis Gazette-Times: “Expanding his mission”
by Carol Reeves, February 11th CV grad dropped career to become a peace activist Protesting the Iraq war in front of the Benton County Courthouse is a far cry from seeking peace on the troubled streets of occupied cities and villages in the West Bank. Demonstrations in downtown Corvallis are rarely interrupted by anything worse…
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Haaretz: “Judge: Troops at fence protest were more violent than protesters”
by Meron Rapoport, February 10th A military judge wrote Saturday that soldiers trying to disperse protesters against the separation fence in the West Bank village of Bil’in used more violence than the demonstrators. After watching a videotape of the rally, the judge wrote that the troops showed an “ugly face” to people holding a democratic…