Category: In the Media
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Counter Punch: “From Bil’in to Birmingham”
A Missing Link in Support for Palestinian Human Rights From Bil’in to Birmingham By DAVE HIMMELSTEIN One of the latest in the long series of unpublicized Israeli attacks on civilians took place on August 25 in the West Bank village of Bil’in, a longstanding bastion of nonviolent Palestinian resistance. It occurred during the weekly protest…
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Independent: “Gaza is a jail. Nobody is allowed to leave. We are all starving now”
By Patrick Cockburn in Gaza Gaza is dying. The Israeli siege of the Palestinian enclave is so tight that its people are on the edge of starvation. Here on the shores of the Mediterranean a great tragedy is taking place that is being ignored because the world’s attention has been diverted by wars in Lebanon…
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Call For an Immediate end to Israel’s Discriminatory Visa-freeze Policy
Credit: Maureen Clare Murphy More than 70 journalists, activists, and members of the diplomatic corps met on September 6th at the Ambassador Hotel in Jerusalem for a press conference regarding the Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry to the occupied Palestinian territory. The event was organized in conjunction with the Israeli-Palestine Center for Research and…
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Haartez: “One blow to the brain”
by Dalia Karpel for Haaretz On Friday, August 11th, when the end of the Lebanon War was on the horizon, after several weeks in which no more than token protests had taken place in Bil’in, the weekly demonstration against the separation fence began. Border Police troops, who were waiting, threw stun grenades and fired rubber-coated…
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MER: “The Only Place Where There’s Hope”
An Interview with Muhammad Khatib, Jonathan Pollak and Elad Orian, Middle East Report Beginning in December 2004, and then every Friday since February 2005, Palestinians, Israelis and internationals have converged on the West Bank village of Bil‘in to demonstrate against the barrier that Israel is building there, as part of the chain of walls and…