• Jalud Olive Harvest Stopped by Armed Settlers and the Israeli Army

    The Ibrahim family of the West Bank village of Jalud, accompanied by international and Israeli Human Rights Workers (HRWs), were forcibly prevented from harvesting their land yesterday by both armed settlers and the Israeli Army. Jalud, a community of about 500 people in the district of Nablus, regularly faces harrassment from nearby settlements and settlement outposts. Of the 16,000 dunums that belonged to the village, 10,000 dunums has been illegally confiscated for settlements whilst another 2,000…

  • Al-Haq: Open Letter to Quartet Members: Israel’s Recent Land Confiscations East of Occupied Jerusalem

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 November 2007 Dear Quartet Member, As a Palestinian non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of international human rights and humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Al-Haq is gravely concerned at the planned land confiscations in the vicinity of East Jerusalem, and requests that the Quartet assert itself as a relevant actor in defending the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people. On 24 September 2007 the Israeli military commander…

  • Palestine Chronicle: 90th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration

    By: J. A. Miller It becomes, therefore, specially important to foster and develop any strongly-marked Jewish movement which leads directly away from these fatal [socialist] associations. And it is here that Zionism has such a deep significance for the whole world at the present time….The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people. -Winston Churchill, 1920 They own the [Holy]…

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