Category: In the Media

  • The Village Against the Fence

    By Amira Hass http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/392934.html A serious-looking black dog, whose eyes looked almost hollow, freely crossed the naked strip of land west of the villages of Qibiya and Budrus, which stretches from the village of Rantis, about five kilometers to the north. A young resident of Qibiya guiding the visitors among the olive groves and fruit…

  • Guardian Obituary: Tom Hurndall

    An aspiring photojournalist and committed peace activist By Carl Arrindell Originally published in The Guardian In the spring of 2002, Tom Hurndall made a journey around Europe, which then took him on to Egypt and Jordan. He was young, a soon-to-be student, interested in philosophy – and most interested in the contrast between cultures. It…

  • Tom Hurndall was a young man with a dream…he paid for it with his life

    A young British photographer shot by an Israeli soldier on the Gaza strip has died after nine months in a coma. Sally Pook and Nicola Woolcock report. Originally published by The Telegraph. Tom Hurndall left England with a dream to document the lives of people living under conflict. A first year photography student at Manchester…

  • Speculative Journalism: The making of “The Death of Rachel Corrie”

    By Phan Nguyen Mother Jones demonstrated how low it could set its standards for investigative journalism when it hired Newsweek reporter Joshua Hammer to surf the web and write a 7000-word feature story on Rachel Corrie and the International Solidarity Movement (“The Death of Rachel Corrie”, Sept/Oct 2003). Indeed fact-checking and verification was not a…

  • Expanding Settlements Invade Palestinian Lands

    by Patrick Connors Originally published by CommonDreams.org At the White House last Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon again pledged to remove West Bank settlement outposts. But despite similar promises, and televised images of Israeli soldiers wrestling with Jewish settlers to dismantle outposts, settlements continue to expand, threatening peace efforts. According to the Israeli nonprofit…