Tag: Bil’in
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Bil’in demonstration commemorates Basem Abu Rahme
Bil’in Popular Committee 29 May 2009 After Friday prayers, the people began the weekly demonstration at Bil ‘in, in which a group of international, Palestinian and Israelis from peace and anti-occupation movements gather to resist the building of the wall around the village in order to regain land that was taken in 2004. This Friday,…
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Bil’in tour: Israeli apartheid on trial
Tadamon 23 May 2009 Bil’in speaking tour featuring: Mohammed Khatib. Popular Committee Against the Wall, Bil’in, Occupied Palestine Emily Schaeffer. Israeli lawyer representing the village of Bil’in Bil’in, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, has become an internationally celebrated symbol of Palestinian popular resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli apartheid wall and…
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The Palestinian village of hope
Matt Kennard and Wilson Dizard | The Guardian 27 May 2009 Ramallah is tired. The feeling you get walking around the streets here is that the Palestinians are weary of the struggle against the incremental destruction of their homeland, happening right now while the world looks the other way. You hear things like, “Our struggle…