Tag: Arrests

  • Stop the deportation of Ryan Olander; American citizen arrested in Sheikh Jarrah

    24 December 2009 Ryan Olander is due to be deported by the Israeli state, after being illegally arrested and detained in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in Occupied East Jerusalem. Please contact the Embassy of the United States in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Minister of Interior, or consider donating towards Ryan’s legal costs. Ryan…

  • For Palestinians, possession of used IDF arms is now a crime

    Amira Hass | Haaretz 24 December 2009 The Israel Defense Forces consider it a crime punishable by imprisonment for a Palestinian to possess used IDF weapons, according to an indictment filed by the military prosecutor against Abdullah Abu Rahma of the West Bank town of Bil’in. Abu Rahma, 39, is coordinator of the Bil’in Popular…

  • Breaking Palestine’s peaceful protest

    Neve Gordon | The Guardian 23 December 2009 Palestinians have a long history of nonviolent resistance but Israel has continuously deployed methods to destroy it “Why,” I have often been asked, “haven’t the Palestinians established a peace movement like the Israeli Peace Now?” The question itself is problematic, being based on many erroneous assumptions, such…