Category: In the Media

  • Israeli actors to boycott new West Bank theatre

    29 August 2010 | The Guardian 60 actors, writers and directors argue that performing in occupied territories would legitimize illegal settlements Dozens of Israeli actors, playwrights and directors have signed a letter refusing to take part in productions by leading theatre companies at a new cultural centre in a West Bank settlement, prompting renewed debate…

  • Armed settler guards attack mosque in Wadi Hilweh, shots fired at Palestinian residents

    26 August 2010 | Wadi Hilweh Information Center Violence has swept through Wadi Hilweh again as Israeli settler security guards attempted to storm the neighborhood mosque last night, in what marks the third time such an attack has been launched on the local religious site. Settler guards fired live ammunition at Palestinian residents in the…

  • Emily Henochowicz: artist turned pro-Palestinian activist

    21 August 2010 | The Guardian Jewish-American Emily Henochowicz recalls how she lost an eye at a protest in Israel after the storming of the Gaza aid flotilla As a student artist, Emily Henochowicz has always been fascinated by the way the brain processes visual signals to form images of the physical world around us.…

  • UN report: IDF barring Gazans’ access to farms, fishing zones

    19 August 2010 | Haaretz Humanitarian affairs office: Israel restricts entry to 17% of Gaza lands, 85% of beachfront zone, enforces restrictions with live fire. Over the last ten years, the Israel Defense Forces have increasingly restricted Palestinian access to farmland on the Gazan side of the Israeli-Gaza border as well as to fishing zones…

  • Gaza’s record-breaking children

    18 August 2010 | Vittorio Arrigoni, Electronic Intifada Gaza’s kids truly are record-breakers. They survived Israel’s 2008-09 winter invasion and every day they put up with a state of war during a so-called ceasefire. Smeared in blood, they’ve crawled through the rubble of shelled buildings, taking care of younger siblings, and tending to languishing parents,…