Tag: Electronic Intifada
-
Nonviolent resistance in the south Hebron hills
Joy Ellison | Electronic Intifada 18 June 2009 A couple of months ago I had the great pleasure of watching Palestinians successfully graze their sheep near Avigail settlement, on land where they are regularly attacked and harassed. The joy I felt in watching my friends and partners grazing their sheep on their ancestral lands was…
-
Israel destroying Gaza’s farmlands
Eva Bartlett | Electronic Intifada 22 May 2009 On the morning of 4 May 2009, Israeli troops set fire to Palestinian crops along Gaza’s eastern border with Israel. The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) reported that 200,000 square meters of crops were destroyed, including wheat and barley ready for harvest, as well as vegetables,…
-
Ban Ki-moon’s moral failure
Hasan Abu Nimah | Electronic Intifada 6 May 2009 Late last week, according to the BBC Arabic news website, a report was submitted to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon about the scale of destruction Israel inflicted on UN installations in Gaza. This was also mentioned on a BBC news bulletin on 1 May, but…
-
An open letter to Leonard Cohen
An Open Letter to Leonard Cohen | British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) Dear Leonard Cohen: Your songs have been part of the soundtrack of our lives — like breathing, some of them. But we can’t make sense of why you’ve decided to perform in Israel in September this year. If we understand…