Tag: 1948 Palestine

  • Palestinians teens visit Israel on ‘Birthright Replugged’

    Ha’aretz 20 August 2009 Fourteen-year-old Jum’a Ismail lives 50 km from the Mediterranean but had never seen the sea. The Palestinian youth had never set eyes on an Israeli civilian or an airport. Juma’a’s horizons expanded this summer, when he left Jalazoun refugee camp in the West Bank with “Birthright Replugged” on a trip taking…

  • Palestinians protest razing of homes

    Sharon Roffe-Ofir | YNet News 15 August 2009 A few hundred people gathered Saturday outside of Umm al-Fahm in order to protest the destruction of homes in Arab areas. Protestors blocked Highway 65 for a few minutes and then held a rally near a commercial center torn down a few weeks ago. High Arab Monitoring…

  • Israeli school apartheid

    Jonathan Cook | Counterpunch 10 August 2009 An Arab couple whose one-year-old daughter was expelled from an Israeli day-care centre on her first day are suing a Jewish mother for damages, accusing her of racist incitement against their child. Maysa and Shua’a Zuabi, from the village of Sulam in northern Israel, launched the court action…