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YNet: “We will kill you and castrate you!”
Soldier threatens left-wing activist; in a rare move, court decides to charge soldier by Hanan Greenberg ‘We’ll kill you and castrate you,’ threatened an IDF soldier in a phone call to a left-wing activist who takes part in controversial protests against army checkpoints. Soldier now facing court martial Tensions between IDF troops and left-wing activists who hold demonstrations at military checkpoints in the West Bank may culminate in an extended arrest of an IDF soldier. The…
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Summer Campaign: “We need you now more than ever!”
A letter from Hisham Salaam for everyone. It is no secret what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank now. As Palestinians, we have been through worse situations. In 1982 something like this conflict also happened in Lebanon between the Palestinians. Also in 1999, there was a conflict between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, most of the Hamas people were put in prison. Because we have been through this before, we know that we must…
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40 Years of Corruption, Racism, Prison, Hunger…
by Nurit Peled-Elhanan, laureate of the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament for Human Rights and Freedom of Thought. Speech by Nurit Peled-Elhanan at the demonstration in Tel Aviv to commemorate 40 years of the occupation Translated by Mark Marshall Good evening. It is a great honour for me to stand on this stage beside my friend and brother Bassam Aramin, a man of the Palestinian peace camp, one of the founders of the Combatants for…
