Category: In the Media

  • The pen may prove mightier than the word

    Friday, March 24, 2006 By MAKEBA SCOTT HUNTER HERALD NEWS Despite the cancellation of a theater production based on the writings of the late human-rights activist, some 1,200 people packed into Harlem’s Riverside Church Wednesday night for an alternate production – pulled together in two weeks by friends and supporters — that celebrated Corrie’s life…

  • Three peace activists freed in Iraq

    From the BBC Norman Kember, 74, of Pinner, north-west London, James Loney and Harmeet Singh Sooden, were three of four men seized in Baghdad in November. Mr Kember is said to be in a “reasonable condition” while the two Canadians were taken to hospital. The body of murdered US citizen Tom Fox was found in…

  • IDF officers targeted again for arrest

    Published in The Jerusalem Post By JPOST.COM STAFF In what was the third time in the past eight months that a senior IDF officer was subjected to accusations of war crimes and the possibility of arrest in a foreign country, a recent petition by Arab and Jewish left-wing organizations to the Canadian government demanded them…

  • Court moves closer to ordering illegal settlement houses razed

    By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent From Haaretz The High Court of Justice Tuesday gave the state 30 days to explain why houses built illegally in the Matityahu East neighborhood of the Modi’in Ilit settlement should not be demolished. Justices Aharon Barak, Eliezer Rivlin and Ayala Procaccia also ordered the state to explain why a criminal…

  • South African Unions Rally for Palestine

    Printed in Morning Star Monday, March 13 by Richard Bagley Top South African Trade Unionist Willy Madisha issued a white-hot condemnation of Israel’s apartheid policies at a London conference on Saturday. Addressing the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s trade union conference at TUC Congress House, the COSATU president declared that South Africa’s apartheid policies had been ‘a…