• Settler attacks farmers during Qaryut olive harvest

    15 October 2009 Three farmers were attacked by a settler outside the village of Qaryut Wednesday, October 15th as they collected their olives for the yearly harvest.  A struggle followed and the farmers managed to detain the settler until the military arrived. The settler was subsequently released without charge. At around midday, while the Palestinian farmers worked their lands close to the illegal settlement of Eli, a lone Israeli settler approached the three carrying a large…

  • Tree-planting action to re-claim Iraq Burin’s land, Sunday 18 October

    17 October 2009 For immediate release: Iraq Burin has achieved the first success of its kind, in which the District Co-ordination Office has entered in to an agreement with the village to return 30 dunums of contested farmland to its rightful owners. It comes on the heels of four fiery weekly demonstrations, where local protesters and international activists came together to protest illegal land annexation and settlement expansion in the West Bank. The land in question…

  • EI exclusive video: Protesters shout down Ehud Olmert in Chicago

    Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada 16 October 2009 Approximately 30 activists — mainly students from area universities — disrupted a lecture given in Chicago by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert yesterday which was hosted by the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. While Olmert’s speech was disrupted inside the lecture hall, approximately 150 activists protested outside the hall in the freezing rain. Protesters inside the hall read off the names of Palestinian…

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