• Haaretz: MKs okay new West Bank homes, despite vow to freeze settlements

    By Haaretz Service and News Agencies To view original article, published by Haaretz on 24th July, click here A key panel of lawmakers on Thursday approved 20 new housing units at Maskiot in the West Bank, Israel Radio reported, despite a 2007 pledge to the United States to halt construction at the site. Jerusalem agreed to hold off on plans to build 180 new homes in the settlement, as part of a general freeze on Israeli…

  • Give ‘Free Gaza Movement’ thumbs up!

    By Debbie Menon Edward Said reminded the world shortly before his death in 2003 that it is easier for the West to demonise the Palestinian – through ‘the vicious media and government campaign against Arab society, culture, history and mentality’ – than actually attempt to humanize what they don’t fully understand. The Gaza imprisonment in the summer of 2005, paraded as an Israeli generous withdrawal, produced the Hamas and Islamic Jihad homemade missile attack and capture…

  • Father of girl who filmed Ni’lin shooting and Canadian activist arrested in Ni’lin

    On the 23rd July, the father of the girl who filmed the Israeli shooting of a detainee in Ni’lin and a Canadian activist were arrested during a non-violent demonstration again in Ni’lin against the construction of the apartheid wall. Photos courtesy of Activestills The arrests occurred at a non-violent women’s demonstration again the construction of the wall in which the two were arrested after observing the march towards the construction site. When the Israeli army attacked…

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