Category: Press Releases

  • How you can support Non – Violent Resistance in Palestine?

    Action Alert- One year on, the community of Bil’in continues its tireless non-violent struggle against Israel’s wall despite the heavy cost this has meant to the village. Helping to ease the economic burden that has fallen on Bil’in due to arrests, imprisonments and fines of local people is an important way we can support of…

  • Who Really Controls the Rafah Crossing?

    By Kate My friend Patrick and I arrived in Cairo last night and left early this morning for the Rafah crossing into Gaza. We didn’t leave as early as we had planned, due to a comedy of errors involving hosts who could not be woken up with vigorous shaking and shouting, drivers with non-working cars,…

  • J.A.G. II- Manifest Destiny

    February 12, 2006, 11 a.m. – Jews Against Genocide (J.A.G.) spray painted “Manifest Destiny” over a sign reading “The Hope of Us All,” placed at the Kalandia checkpoint by Israeli occupation authorities. We also repainted the infamous Nazi slogan “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Makes You Free”) that was painted over by the military. The phrase…

  • Olive Trees, Wheat Fields Destroyed Again

    Reported by Operation Dove Several olive trees were discovered uprooted or broken and a field of wheat destroyed by a jeep in the Southern Hebron Hills village of At-Tuwani Thursday, February 9. The discovery was made in the Khorruba area close to the outpost “Hill 833.” The fields had been replanted in an action organized…

  • High School Students Attacked by Jerusalem Police

    Sunday, February 12, 2006