Tag: Arrests

  • Free Wa’el Al-Faqeeh

    15 January 2010 On the night of December 9th 2009, over 200 Israeli soldiers entered the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Their mission: to round up local grassroots activists, whose promotion of popular struggle Israel had no answer for. Amongst those taken was 45 year old Wa’el Al-Faqeeh. Fifty soldiers stormed his home, pointing…

  • Building a different Middle East

    Joel Beinin | The Nation 15 January 2010 Like every other woman in her village Umm Hasan wears a headscarf. Her husband and other male relatives are not on the scene. But this is not an obstacle to her animated interactions with the sixteen Israelis and foreigners she has never previously met but welcomes into…

  • Thirteen leftists detained in East Jerusalem rally

    Ronen Medzini | Ynet News 15 January 2010 Director of Association for Civil Rights in Israel among detainees in weekly protest against Jewish takeover. Thirteen leftist activists, including the director of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Hagai Elad, were detained Friday in a rally in east Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarah neighborhood. About 70 Arab…