Category: In the Media

  • The Guardian: Love and resistance in the Gaza Strip

    To view original article, published in The Guardian Weekly on 22nd April 2008, click here In an apparent softening of its position, Hamas has said it will accept a partial truce covering the Gaza Strip. But the lack of water, fuel and medicine has taken its toll and Palestinians continue to die of malnutrition and…

  • The Guardian: We’re not celebrating Israel’s anniversary

    For original article, published in The Guardian on the 30th April 2008, click here In May, Jewish organisations will be celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. This is understandable in the context of centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust. Nevertheless, we are Jews who will not be celebrating.…

  • Interview: Boycotting Israel at the Arab American University in Jenin

    Aaron Lakoff is an independent journalist from Montreal, Canada. He is currently volunteering with the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, in Beit Sahour, Palestine. He previous reports can be found on his blog Ashraf is from Tulkarem, Palestine. He graduated from the Arab American University in Jenin (www.aauj.edu) in the summer of 2007 with…