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Once again Azzoun is set upon by Israeli forces
After a few days of quiet, Israeli army jeeps re-invaded Azzoun, again enforcing curfew on the village of 11,000. Military and police jeeps, along with a military hummer and a large personnel carrier, overran the village around 3pm—not coincidentally the time when youths are leaving school. As with prior raids, the army announced their presence via sound bombs, the shooting of live and rubber-coated ammunition, and tear gas. The imposition of curfew –a full lockdown dictating…
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On the Twentieth Anniversary of the First Intifada
Click here for the original article The first Intifada began in a piecemeal fashion with demonstrations and civil disobedience sparked by an increasing number of shootings and human rights abuses by the Israeli occupation. The Intifada marked an end to passive resistance The grassroots protests of 1987 escalated into full-blown riots involving much of civil society, from organisations, union groups to newly created institutions to the ordinary population who came out in large numbers on to…
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Adalah-NY: Despite NYC Palestinian rights protest, Dershowitz buys jewelry from settlement mogul Leviev
Parts one and two of the Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein debate on Democracy Now. Part 1Part 2Notice in part 1 where he says he ‘opposes the settlements, [he] always opposed the settlements’. New York, NY, Dec. 8 – Wealthy Madison Avenue holiday shoppers were greeted Saturday afternoon by boisterous music and dancing, as 60 New Yorkers protested in a growing campaign to boycott Israeli diamond magnate Lev Leviev over his settlement construction in the Israeli-occupied…
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