• Israeli Supreme Court: State Must Defend why Settlement Expansion Near Bil’in Should not be Demolished

    On the 21st of March the Israeli State and other parties were ordered to respond to a petition filed by Peace Now and head of the Council of Bil’in. Defendants must convince the Court that construction plans for the illegal Matityahu East settlement should not be annulled. They must also explain why demolition orders should…

  • AP Erases Video of Israeli Soldier Shooting Palestinian Boy

    By Alison Weir “The trend toward secrecy is the greatest threat to democracy.” – Associated Press CEO, in a speech about the importance of openness “The official response is we decline to respond.” – Associated Press Director of Media Relations, replying to questions about AP In the midst of journalism’s “Sunshine Week” – during which…

  • Beautiful, Terrible

    more photos here By Katie Tel Rumeida is beautiful this time of year. Today I stood on my roof and talked to my roommate Wes in San Francisco. Wes is awesome and one of the people I miss the most. He’s been so supportive of me coming here for which I am very grateful. I…

  • The Heroes of Tel Rumeida

    By Mary Baxter The heroes of Tel Rumeida are twelve children, who need to pass by or through the Tel Rumeida Israeli settlement to get to school. They are from about 5 to 14 years old. They are frightened of the settlers who threaten and at times attack them. But still they come six days…

  • South African Unions Rally for Palestine

    Printed in Morning Star Monday, March 13 by Richard Bagley Top South African Trade Unionist Willy Madisha issued a white-hot condemnation of Israel’s apartheid policies at a London conference on Saturday. Addressing the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s trade union conference at TUC Congress House, the COSATU president declared that South Africa’s apartheid policies had been ‘a…