• Israeli forces assault and forcibly deport New Zealand peace activist once kidnapped in Iraq.

    Harmeet Sooden. Picture taken in January 2005 on a farm outside Jenin where he was helping to plant olive trees. Harmeet Sooden, a peace activist from New Zealand, was forcibly deported from Israel on the 18th of June at 1 am, after four days in jail. Sooden was told he was being deported because he was a ‘threat to the security of the State of Israel’. Sooden, along with Tom Fox, Norman Kember, and James Loney,…

  • First in a series of demonstrations by villages of Tammoun and Khirbet Atuf

    On Wednesday 18th June, approximately forty farmers from the villages of Tammoun and Khirbet Atuf, near Nablus, along with internationals, made a symbolic protest at the Israeli-imposed barrier that prevents them from entering their lands, in the first of what is to be series of protests against the discrimination they face. Looking out over the fields to the illegal Israeli settlements of Beqa’ot and Roi (known by local Palestinians as Al Hadidiya, after the Palestinian village…

  • J-Post: Court to hear petition on Silwan digs

    By Elana Kirsh To view original article, published by the Jerusalem Post on the 18th June, click here The High Court of Justice in Jerusalem will hear a petition on Wednesday on the issue of archaeological excavations being carried out in tunnels under the village of Silwan. According to Rabbis for Human Rights (RHR), the National Parks Authority gave almost all control of one of the most important and sensitive archaeological sites in the area to…

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