Category: In the Media

  • YNet: “Shenkin on the corner of the Hawara checkpoint”

    by Yael Ivri, February 6th Palestinian artist, Haled Jarar, hung his photographs on the fence of an IDF checkpoint near Nablus; the “Activestills” exhibit covered the streets of Tel Aviv with photos of squatters. Two exhibits, two protests On Saturday at midday Haled Jarar, 31, a Palestinian artist living in Ramallah, drove up to the…

  • Ma’an: “Israeli military disrupt non-violent action in Al Khadr and attack Palestinian children”

    February 3rd, On Saturday morning around forty international peace activists, including Israelis from the group ‘Peace Now’ and local Palestinians, went to Al Khadir village, Bethlehem, in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, to plant olive trees. Israeli forces have uprooted and demolished thousands of olive trees throughout the Palestinian territories. Peace and environmental activists replant…

  • PNN: “Nonviolent demonstration to save Al Aqsa Mosque area from Israeli destruction”

    by Maisa Abu Ghazaleh, February 4th The cold weather and proliferation of military checkpoints in the city of Jerusalem did not prevent hundreds of citizens from reaching Al Aqsa Mosque to stand in the face of Israeli demolition plans. Sunday’s scheme included destruction at the Moroccan Gate to make a Jewish-only road. Israeli forces are…

  • Haaretz: “By the book”

    by Gideon Levy, February 2nd There’s no question about it – everything was done by the book. The gate was locked at 7 P.M. and 16,000 people, residents of the villages of Beit Furik and Beit Dajan, were imprisoned behind it until 6 A.M. That’s the procedure. A woman who wants to cross the checkpoint…

  • The Guardian: “Time to get serious about Israel”

    by John Hilary, January 31st You know that things are serious when a parliamentary select committee puts out a call for sanctions against another sovereign state. Doubly so when that state is supposed to be one of Britain’s key allies in the Middle East. Yet today the House of Commons international development committee is calling…