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Tanya Reinhart, a powerful voice has been lost
by the ISM Media Team, March 18th Tanya Reinhart, Israeli anti-apartheid activist, died suddenly of a stroke in New York last night, March 17, 2007. She was 63 years old. Reinhart received her B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem and later became a professor of linguistics at…
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Remembering Rachel, 4 Years and Still No Justice. Dispatch #2
by Martinez, March 17 It’s been a week since I returned home here to Palestine. And it has been four years since a twenty-three year old American peace activist, named Rachel Corrie, was killed by an Israeli Occupation Forces bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. I never met Rachel. But I can feel what drove her…
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Ma’an News: “Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign triumph over French multinational involved in Israeli tram project”
by Ma’an News Jerusalem – Ma’an – The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) has successfully exerted pressure on an Irish transport organisation, Veolia, leading them to cancel a contract to train Israeli drivers for a light railway system in East Jerusalem. The railway system will link several Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem to West Jerusalem; the…
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YNet: “IDF to probe ‘human shiled’ charges”
by Hanan Greenberg, March 16 Update from previous story by AP, March 4 IDF to probe ‘human shield’ charges The Criminal Investigations Division of the Israeli military police are opening an investigation into charges that Israeli soldiers used Palestinian civilians as human shields during an operation in Nablus two weeks ago. The inquiry was launched…
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Al Jazeera.com: “A tribute to Rachel Corrie”
by Sheikha Sajida, March 17 “Love you. Really miss you. I have bad nightmares about tanks and bulldozers outside our house and you and me inside. Sometimes the adrenaline acts as an anesthetic for weeks and then in the evening or at night it just hits me again – a little bit of the reality…
