Emily Dugan | The Independent 8 February 2009 They are the iPod generation of students: politically apathetic, absorbed by selfish consumerism, dedicated to a few years of hedonism before they land a lucrative job in the City. Not any more. ...
Read More »A beautiful place
Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell 8 February 2009 Before the strikes, the group 14 Friends of Palestine asked E and me to make contact with a little girl they sponsor via Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children. It’s taken a ...
Read More »Ezbet Abed Rabbo: “They make like art here”
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 7 February 2009 On a visit to Ezbet Abed Rabbo during which I heard more harrowing testimonies of life under invasion, children shot dead before parents’ eyes, and being held captive for days on end, ...
Read More »An open letter to Sir Roger Moore
PACBI | Unless we do something about it, we’ll never ever be able to hold our heads up!! An Open Letter to Sir Roger Moore 8 February 2009 The Palestinian arts community has received the news of your plans to ...
Read More »The Al Haddad family’s story: nothing left but ashes
Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell 6 February 2009 You remember the Nadeems (I must ring and ask them how Firas’s knee operation went so I can tell you) who tried to escape from the Israel’s attacks on Tela Howa ...
Read More »Israeli baskestball team met with protest in Barcelona
5th February 2009 Barcelona basketball fans receive Maccabi Tel Aviv with dozens of Palestinian flags and a chant of: “Boycott Israel – Viva Palestine!”
Read More »One million and a half broken hearts
Natalie Abou Shakra | Gaza 08 Wednesday February 4, 2009 Tears drop on her hands, hands that he had once kissed passionately, on her engagement ring, that ring he chose for her, on her cheeks that oust the redness of ...
Read More »The University of Manchester occupation in solidarity with Gaza
University of Manchester Students in Occupation Over 150 University of Manchester students have occupied the main university administration building in a demand for a stronger and more proactive position from the university on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The ...
Read More »NLG Members in Gaza Document Executions of Civilians, Blocking of Humanitarian Aid, and Destruction of Civil Property
National Lawyers Guild For Immediate Release—February 5, 2009 Contact: Paige Cram, NLG Communications Coordinator, 212-679-5100, ext.15 Gaza—On its second day in Gaza, the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) delegation witnessed the rubble of the American International School in Gaza. An Israeli ...
Read More »From beneath the rubble
Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 4 February 2009 “This is at the beginning, when they started digging survivors and bodies out of the rubble,” Abu Qusay said. Just a few weeks after being buried alive by the bombing which attacked ...
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