Category: In the Media
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Border Police `lie about violence at fence protests’
By Jonathan Lis Ha’aretz Daily For more than six months, dozens of Israelis and hundreds of Palestinians have been demonstrating every weekend against the construction of the separation fence near the West Bank village of Bil’in. These demonstrations, defined by participants as peaceful, frequently turn into violent clashes with the Border Police’s Company 22, assigned…
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A West Bank village opts for peaceful protest to broach the Wall
By MOHAMMED KHATIB The Seattle Post Intelligencer seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/233676_arab24.html Sunday, July 24, 2005 Israel’s planned evacuation of its illegal Gaza settlements is a positive step but it should not be mistaken for the end of Israel’s military occupation. While the world’s media focuses on Gaza, the Israeli government is using the opportunity to expand settlements in…
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CKUT 90.3 FM Radio: ISM Montreal reports from Palestine
Listen to an interview with Sarita Ahooja, a Montreal-based activist, currently in Occupied Palestine as a delegate for the International Solidarity Movement’s Freedom Summer campaign. Sarita talks about the recent activities of the ISM, the brutal efforts of the Israeli army to supress the movement’s activities, and the attempts by the Israeli ministry of the…