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Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 23 December 2009 For immediate release: Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a school teacher and coordinator of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall, was indicted in an Israeli military court yesterday. Abu Rahmah was slapped with an ...
Read More »Tell President Obama to demand that Israel free Bil’in nonviolent leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah
Jewish Voice for Peace On December 10, 2009 at 2am, the Israeli military surrounded the Ramallah home of Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a high school teacher and the Coordinator of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, and arrested him. ...
Read More »New York carolers sing for boycott of Leviev while Israel jails protesters’ Palestinian allies
Adalah-NY 19 December 2009 For immediate release: New York, NY, December 19, 2009 – On a snowy Saturday afternoon, forty-five human rights carolers serenaded Madison Avenue shoppers with familiar holiday tunes outside the storefront of Israeli diamond and settlement mogul ...
Read More »Four houses raided in military incursion to West Bank villages Bil’in and Ni’ilin
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 19 December 2009 For immediate release: The Palestinian villages of Bil’in and Ni’lin have been invaded by the Israeli military in the early hours of Saturday, 19 December 2009. Soldiers entered both villages at 2.30am and ...
Read More »Israeli army fires rubber-coated steel bullets at demonstrators celebrating the Arab Creativity Award for Bil’in
Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements 18 December 2009 This Friday the demonstration organized by the Popular Committee against the Wall was joined by dozens of leaders, members and supporters of the Popular Front for the Liberation of ...
Read More »The ongoing repression of Palestinian protesters
Jonathan Pollak | Huffington Post 18 December 2009 On a pitch black early December night, seven armored Israeli military jeeps pulled into the driveway of a home in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Dozens of soldiers, armed and possibly ...
Read More »Gaza Freedom March: Palestinian Non-violence and International Solidarity
Max Ajl | MR Zine 16 December 2009 I’m going to discuss the utility of non-violent resistance as it applies to resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict and, specifically, the occupation and blockade of the Gaza strip. Even more specifically, I’m going ...
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Jody McIntyre | Ctrl.Alt.Shift 16 December 2009 Fatima Mohammed Yassen, aged 49, is a farmer from Bil’in. Despite the crippling Israeli occupation of her village, she continues to work her land, along with her husband, on a daily basis. Jody ...
Read More »Help get Abdallah Abu Rahmah out of jail
Jewish Voice for Peace 11 December 2009 Today the people of Bil’in are protesting in solidarity with Abdallah Abu Rahmah. Here’s how you can stand in solidarity with them: Please contact President Obama and ask for Abdallah Abu Rahmah’s release. ...
Read More »Bil’in residents call for the release of the village’s prisoners in a weekly Friday demonstration
Bil’in Popular Committee 11 December 2009 Approximately 150 Palestinian, international and Israeli activists gathered in Bil’in today, marking the 22nd anniversary of the start of the First Intifada and calling for the release of the village’s prisoners arrested for their ...
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