• A Human Rights Worker Writes of her Christmas in Israeli Detention

    By Shireen In a prison cell, the few times a day when the door opens are an event. On the evening of Christmas Day, when the rattle of keys was followed by a soft Scottish voice asking cheerfully, “is there a bed free in here?” I didn’t know whether to be happy or sad. It…

  • The Occupation Will Not Be Sugar-Coated

    1. Thousands Challenge Israeli Apartheid in Bil’in by Henry 2. IOF Evacuated Human Rights Workers Instead of Illegal Settlers 3. Carmel Agrexico on Trial in Britain 4. A Gun in one hand and the Torah in the other by Caroline 5. 15 hurt in fence protest – from the Israeli press by Ali Waked 6.…

  • 15 hurt in fence protest

    by Ali Waked for Ynet Anti-fence protesters, security forces clash near Palestinian village of Bilin. About 15 protesters have been injured on Friday in clashes between security forces and protesters against the West Bank security fence during a weekling demonstration held by Palestinians and Israeli leftists in Bilin, a Palestinian village between Ramallah and Modi’in.…

  • A Gun in one hand and the Torah in the other

    by Caroline BOSTONTOPALESTINE HEBRON – From January 11 to 15, I was about an hour south of Jerusalem, in the city of Hebron, where four hundred settlers of the most extremist militant ideological faction of the settler movement live amongst more than 120,000 Palestinians. The once bustling historic old city remains eerily quiet, covered in…

  • Thousands Challenge Israeli Apartheid in Bil’in

    by Henry Today, Friday the 20th of January, candidates from all Palestinian political parties and factions, including Hamas, Fatah, Al Mubadara, Democracy Front, Independent and others came to the villagers of Bil’in. There they were joined by over 300 Israeli activists, 100 Internationals and many Palestinians from the surrounding area. It was one of the…