Tag: 1948 Palestine

  • 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…

  • Reporters Without Borders: Golan Heights journalist Ata Farahat held without trial for past three months

    Press release 30 October 2007 Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the prolonged detention of journalist Ata Farahat, who was arrested on 30 July and is being held in Al-Jalama prison (14 km southeast of Haifa). The organisation has been told he could be prosecuted for “collaborating with an enemy nation” but this has never…

  • Haaretz: ILA destroys Bedouin homes to make way for Jewish town

    By Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondent The Israel Land Administration (ILA), with the assistance of an unusually large police force and IDF soldiers, demolished dozens of tin shack homes Monday in unrecognized Bedouin villages Um Al-Hiran and A-Tir in the northern Negev. The ILA is destroying the village and evacuating the inhabitants so that a Jewish…

  • 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…

  • Counter Israel’s policy of Bedouin demolition (ACTION ALERT)

    Call for a letter-writing campaign from the Recognition Forum Photo from Negev Coexistence Forum For about two years now, the Israeli government has been carrying out an unwritten policy of wiping from the face of the earth entire villages of Bedouins in the Negev. This policy is well demonstrated by the repeated demolition of ‘Tawil…