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International Herald Tribune: Occupation by bureaucracy
By Saree Makdisi To view original article, published by the Interational Herald Tribune on the 24th June, click here A cease-fire went into effect in Gaza last week, offering some respite from the violence that has killed hundreds of Palestinians and five Israelis in recent months. It will do nothing, however, to address the underlying cause of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Intermittent spectacular violence may draw the world’s attention to the occupied Palestinian territories, but our obsession…
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Haaretz: Citizenship law makes Israel an apartheid state
By Amos Schocken To view original article, published in Haaretz on the 28th June, click here The government’s decision last week to extend the validity of the Citizenship Law (Temporary Order), for another year, is evidence that the legal barriers preventing severe discrimination against Israel’s Arab citizens and harm to their civil rights have been removed. This extension is the eighth since the law was first passed in 2003, and it shows just how naive Justice…
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21 injured as protest in Ni’lin again manages to halt construction of the apartheid wall
On the 26th June over 200 Palestinian protesters marched in the village of Nilin again, together with international and Israeli activists, against the construction of the apartheid wall that annexes thousands of dunams of land belonging to residents of the village. The response from the Israeli soldiers was once again brutal with an artillery of sound bombs, teargas, rubber bullets and live ammunition. 2 Palestinians were hospitalised. As with the last demonstration, protesters again managed to…
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