Category: In the Media
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Retired professor on epic voyage to honor USS Liberty dead
7 September 2011 | Arab News GAZA: A retired college professor from the US state of Texas who has sailed approximately 8,000 miles to the eastern Mediterranean in an epic voyage, is heading toward his destination — the exact location where Israeli forces tried to sink a US Navy ship in 1967, killing or injuring…
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Israel mulls arming ‘trained’ settlers
30 August 2011 | Al Jazeera Army plans to provide tear gas and stun grenades in West Bank to repel any Palestinian protests next month, report says. The Israeli army is planning to provide tear gas and stun grenades to settlers in the occupied West Bank who have been trained to repel any violent protests…
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How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stones
26 August 2011 | The Independent, Catrina Stewart The boy, small and frail, is struggling to stay awake. His head lolls to the side, at one point slumping on to his chest. “Lift up your head! Lift it up!” shouts one of his interrogators, slapping him. But the boy by now is past caring, for…
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Palestinians farming creatively to overcome the ‘buffer zone’
21 August 2011 | Islam Online, Hama Waqum On Nakba Day in May, thousands of Palestinians edged towards Israel’s borders with Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Gaza, demanding their Right of Return, and an end to the Israeli occupation. Many of these protestors would return to demonstrate on the Naksa Day in June. A major…
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Why boycott Israel?
13 August 2011 | Al Jazeera English, Lisa Taraki and Mark LeVine A founding member of the campaign for the academic and cultural boycott outlines the motivation behind the movement. Author and history professor Mark LeVine speaks with sociologist Lisa Taraki, a co-founder of the Palestinian campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Mark…