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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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Olive harvest in Burin continues with more harassment from army and settlers
16 October 2009 International activists accompanied farmers today to their lands on the edge of the village of Burin, close to an outpost of the illegal settlement of Mar-Bracha, south of Nablus. Farmers enjoyed a quiet two hours of harvesting before eight settlers, one of them armed, appeared on the hill above and began approaching the farmers. The farmers alerted the Palestinian DCO who in turn called the Israeli military. Army jeeps began to arrive and…
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Without Trial: Administrative detention of Palestinians by Israel and the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law
B’Tselem 16 October 2009 Report published by B’Tselem and HaMoked: Center for the Defence of the Individual Under international law, a state may detain a resident of occupied territory without trial to prevent danger only in extremely exceptional cases. Israel, however, holds hundreds of Palestinians for months and years under administrative orders, without prosecuting them. By doing so, it denies them rights to which ordinary detainees in criminal proceedings are entitled: they do not know why…
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