Tag: 1948 Palestine

  • Critical Mass Against the Occupation

    What: Critical Mass Against the Occupation When: Tuesday, 5.6, 16:00 Where: Leaving from the Tel Aviv Cinematheque and continuing to the streets of Tel Aviv On Tuesday the 5th of June, the day in which Israel attacked its neighboring countries and declared the Six Days War, the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza…

  • 40 Children Without a Roof

    Demolition of Palestinian homes in Attir by Yeela Raanan, Regional Council for the Unrecognized Villages in the Negev, 21 May 2007 Today, Monday, May 21, 2007, again the government of Israel again demolished homes of its citizens. This time in the village of Attir, north of the town of Hura. The government demolished four homes.…

  • Newsweek: A Grittier Trip to the Holy Land

    A Grittier Trip to the Holy Land, Sarina Rosenberg, May 21 issue The Israel that 18,000 young Jewish Americans will see this summer on the free, 10-day trip offered by Taglit-birthright Israel is a land of ancient religious sites, sandy beaches and buff young soldiers. “It’s a Jewish identity trip,” says Wayne L. Firestone, president…

  • Israeli government demolishes village of Twail Abu-Jarwal

    Israeli government demolishes village of Twail Abu-Jarwal Yeela Raanan, Regional Council for the Unrecognized Bedouin Villages in the Negev. (RCUV), 10 May 2007 On May 8th , 2007, the Government of Israel once more demolished the entire village of Twail Abu-Jarwal in the Israeli Negev: 30 tents and huts. Sunset, the stifling heat of the…

  • “Born Here”- Rap Video About Home Demolitions

    by Da Arab MC’s Palestinian rap group DAM (Da Arab MC’s) created this music video about the life of Palestinians in Israel. They’re from Lod, a town between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, so they’re Palestinians with Israeli citizenship (often called “Israeli Arabs”). They usually rap in Arabic, but they made a Hebrew version of this…