Category: In the Media
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MIFTAH: Windows of Hope: Insight on the International Solidarity Movement
By Tala A. Rahmeh, for MIFTAH “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other…
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Letter From Budrus
By Mark Sorkin Originally published in The Nation The van drops us off at the top of a hill and rattles around the bend. It is the middle of the afternoon in Budrus, a tiny village in the occupied West Bank ten miles northwest of Ramallah, and the neighborhood seems deceptively quiet. A few boys…
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Remembering Rachel Corrie
by Adam Shapiro Originally published in The Nation On March 7, 2004, an Associated Press photographer in the West Bank village of Beit Dukou captured an image of a Palestinian woman during a protest against the wall Israel is constructing in her village. The image is simple, but it evokes a power beyond words. This…