Category: In the Media

  • AP: “World Council of Churches denounces settler attacks on Christian volunteers in Hebron”

    By The Associated Press GENEVA – The World Council of Churches denounced on Wednesday two attacks on Christian volunteers in Hebron, and called on Israeli authorities to punish the Jewish settlers responsible. In both cases, the attacks occurred as the volunteers were helping Palestinian children on their way to school, said the Geneva-based WCC, the…

  • Yedioth Aharonot: “Outside The Fence”

    By Asafa Peled – Yedioth Aharonot 14/4/2006 Translation: Adam Keller The Separation Fence is closing in upon more and more Palestinian villages. Their inhabitants are cut off from sources of livelihood. Some Israelis are not willing to remain silent. Matan Cohen lost an eye because of it. Shai Karmeli-Polak gave up for its sake a…

  • Excerpts from a review of Letters from Young Activists

    http://www.lettersfromyoungactivists.org by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field From Monthly Review For the complete review see http://www.monthlyreview.org/0406wrigley-field.htm …We may not have learned the lessons of the past, but among those are the lessons of defeat; the radicals among us still believe we can change the world. This is the spirit of the new collection Letters from Young Activists, edited…

  • Stanford Daily: “Activists describe West Bank violence”

    Israeli soldiers at the Tel Rumeida checkpoint threaten Palestinian schoolgirls By Katherine Cox Tuesday, April 18, 2006 from The Stanford Daily Two young human rights activists spoke last night about the Palestinian population of Tel Rumeida, Hebron, a West Bank neighborhood that also contains some of what were considered the most fanatical Israeli settlements. The…

  • Robert Novak: Palestinian Christians Threatened In Aboud

    “Palestinian Christians suffer, too” April 17, 2006 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST ABOUD, West Bank — On Good Friday, I stood atop the remnant of the Santa Barbara shrine, destroyed by the Israeli army, and observed the picturesque village of Aboud. I could see properties confiscated to make room for the Israeli security wall, at…