• Christians, Jews and Muslims meet on the road to Bethlehem

    By Firas Aridah Originally published in the Globe and Mail As a parish priest in the West Bank village of Aboud, my Christmas preparations include recording the identity card numbers of my parishioners to request permits from the Israeli authorities to allow us to travel to Bethlehem. Some may be denied permits and prevented from…

  • The Tent of Defiance

    In a demonstration held at noon on Dec 23, the villagers of Bil’in erected a tent on land cut off from the village by the annexation barrier. The tent was meant to replace the trailer that was forcefully evacuated and removed the day before by the Israeli military. The tent and trailer are the headquarters…

  • A Weekend Program of Nonviolent Resistance

    Friday, December 23 9:00 AM: Salem Village, Nablus Region Farmers, joined by international and Israeli supporters, will replant hundreds of olive trees destroyed by settlers from the Alon More settlement. 200 trees were cut down by settlers on November 27, and in October 50 acres were burned and more than 300 trees destroyed. There have…

  • Nablus Region: Palestinian Farmers Protest Massive Settler Vandalism

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE From on Friday Dec. 23 untill Sunday 25 , villagers in Salem and Burin, in the Nablus region, will attempt to replant trees and tend their land near the settlements of Elon Moreh and Bracha and the Har Bracha outpost. The farmers will be joined by Israeli and international activists. “We haven’t…

  • Peace workers denied access to Bethlehem

    In the early hours of this morning the Israeli authorities at Tel Aviv airport stopped a group of international observers who were en route to a Christmas peace conference in Bethlehem. After lengthy interrogations, two (UK) were allowed to enter the country and three were denied entry on ‘security grounds’. The three (S Africa, Italy,…