Category: In the Media

  • Palestine Times: “Defiant villagers united in face of violent occupation”

    by Asa Winstanley, December 18th The demonstration is small but feisty. Accompanied by around 15 international supporters and a few Israeli stalwarts, the inhabitants of Bil’in, a village in the West Bank near Ramallah, voice their protest against the Israeli Wall and settlements that threaten their village. Chanting Arabic slogans and demanding in Hebrew that…

  • PNN: “Palestinian nonviolent protest at checkpoint as Israeli soldiers beat student”

    by Ali Samoudi, December 20th On Wednesday Israeli forces occupying Al Hamra Checkpoint in Jenin confiscated the identity cards of hundreds of Palestinians, detaining them for five hours. While the soldiers were confiscating identification and detaining citizens, a young man spoke to the soldiers while others shouted to stop oppressing students. Eyewitnesses report that an…

  • Ynet: “Palestinian: Soldiers invaded my home to nap”

    by Ali Waked, December 19th Resident of Palestinian village forced to empty his home to accommodate over 20 soldiers for some 15 hours supposedly to carry out observation. Palestinian claims soldiers ‘just went to sleep’ A resident of the Palestinian village of Salem near Nablus was forced to accommodate 20 soldiers for 15 hours in…

  • Haaretz: “An Enlightened Occupier”

    by Gideon Levy, December 17th The juggler from the palace of justice has struck again. In a single week, retired Supreme Court president Justice Aharon Barak proved his impressive acrobatic talents. In his last rulings, all of them having to do with the occupation, the outgoing Supreme Court president seems to have wanted, as he…

  • The Independent – Gaza City: ‘Free the women and you free the whole country’

    by Johann Hari, December 15th There are many things you expect to find in the cratered, cramped heart of Gaza City, but a group of proto-Germaine Greers and Betty Friedans would be low on the list. Yet, I am sitting under a lush green tree with a group of tough old ladies at the heart…