Tag: Bil’in

  • Haaretz: “Routine Anarchy” of the Israeli Colonies

    by Akiva Eldar, September 21st Last Tuesday, the Interior Ministry held another session of the inquiry commission on changing Modi’in Ilit’s status from that of a local council to a city. Ostensibly, this is a routine process of upgrading a community that meets the accepted standards. In effect, we have before us another example of…

  • Salon.com: “Up Against the Wall”

    Israel continues building a mammoth barrier in the name of border security. Opponents charge that it’s carving more land for Jewish settlements — and assaulting Palestinians’ human rights. by Rachel Shabi, Salon.com Sept. 18, 2006, WEST BANK: “We haven’t seen our land since January last year,” says Abdul Ra’uf Khalid, sitting in his home in…

  • Non-violent Resistance in Bil’in Works

    by ISM Media office volunteers Today, as every in Friday for the last year and 7 months, the villagers of Bil’in marched from the mosque to the Wall. Joined by international and Israeli activists, the marchers were confronted on the edge of the village with baton and shield wielding Occupation forces who turned these weapons…

  • Olive Harvest 2006

    Your presence is needed for the Olive Harvest 2006 in Palestine! Palestinian communities are calling for the presence of international activists to support them in the 2006 Olive Harvest. Throughout the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian land continues to be stolen for illegal Israeli colonies and the Apartheid Wall as well as settler roads, checkpoints,…

  • Counter Punch: “From Bil’in to Birmingham”

    A Missing Link in Support for Palestinian Human Rights From Bil’in to Birmingham By DAVE HIMMELSTEIN One of the latest in the long series of unpublicized Israeli attacks on civilians took place on August 25 in the West Bank village of Bil’in, a longstanding bastion of nonviolent Palestinian resistance. It occurred during the weekly protest…