Category: In the Media
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Ha’aretz: “Despite High Court ban, settlers occupy Matityahu East homes”
By Dan Keidar and Akiva Eldar, Haaretz Correspondents, 24th May 2006 At least two settler families moved on Tuesday into apartments in a neighborhood of the West Bank settlement of Upper Modi’in that was built illegally on land belonging to the neighboring Palestinian village of Bil’in. The move came in flagrant disregard of a Supreme…
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YNet op-ed: “Mr. Occupation Saw the Light”
From the Hebrew edition of Ynet. Translation by Rann. With his own hands and orders Brigadier General Ilan Paz deepened the suffering in the Occupied Territories. Surprisingly, the political realization and moral insight broke through moments after he returned his equipment. And he’s not the first… “Nothing good can come out of the humiliation of…
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SchNEWS: “Wall of Shame – West pushes Palestinians further into crisis”
From SchNEWS number 544 The remnants of Palestinian civil society, brutalized by the occupation and ongoing encirclement by the apartheid wall, is now reeling under the shock of the sudden removal of all US and EU aid. Their crime? To have voted in free and fair elections for a movement, Hamas, which Bush and Blair…
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Ha’aretz: “British professor confirms ‘silent’ boycott of Israel”
By Tamara Traubmann, Ha’aretz, 19th May 2005 A British professor has refused a request to write an article for an academic journal funded by Israeli universities, saying that he was taking part in a boycott of Israel. “Alas, I am unable to accept your kind invitation, for reasons that you may not like. I have,…
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Guardian: “Israel should face sanctions”
by Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain. The Guardian, Friday May 19, 2006. The Palestine crisis is now more dramatic even than apartheid, but it is the victims who are punished. Western leaders are frustrating democratic elections in Palestine by withholding aid, and using collective punishment, an economic siege and starvation as political weapons in their…