Category: In the Media

  • Rickman & Rachel Juggle Three Wins

    From What’s on Stage News My Name Is Rachel Corrie was the biggest straight play winner in this year’s Theatregoers’ Choice Awards, triumphing in three categories: Best New Play, Best Solo Performance and Best Director (See News, 31 Jan 2006). Alan Rickman, Megan Dodds and Katharine Viner – the trio behind Rachel Corrie – reunited…

  • Bil’in Waiting for Justice

    Palestinians of Bil’in, Israelis and Internationals waiting to enter the High Court of Justice, Feb 1st High Court queries route of security fence near Bil’in By DAN IZENBERG, Jerusalem Post The High Court of Justice on Thursday issued a showcause order instructing the state to explain why it had chosen the specific route of the…

  • Palestine Solidarity Activist Fined; Pie in the Face Humor not Appreciated

    Pro-Palestinian activist fined for throwing pie at Sharansky By The Associated Press SOUTH BRUNSWICK, New Jersey – A man who threw a pie in the face of then-cabinet minister Natan Sharansky just before he was to speak at a packed Rutgers University lecture hall in 2003 was found guilty Thursday of a disorderly persons offense.…

  • High Court Wants Answers from the State; Bil’in Decision Coming Soon…

    (Israeli peace activists and Palestinians from Bil’in demonstrate together in front of the High Court of Justice) 1.High Court: State must explain why it won’t move separation fence in Bil’in By Yuval Yoaz, Haaretz Correspondent The High Court of Justice on Thursday ordered the state prosecutor to explain why Israel won’t alter the route of…

  • J.A.G., the Jerusalem Post & Kalandia

    Jews Admit Defacing Kalandiya Sign by MARGOT DUDKEVITCH Photo: Civil Administration Members of a group called Jews Against Genocide (JAG) claimed responsibility for defacing the newly erected sign to the Kalandiya terminal checkpoint north of Jerusalem, daubing on it the infamous Auschwitz inscription “Arbeit macht frei” (Work liberates). Shlomo Bloom, one of the founding members…