Tag: Ha’aretz

  • ‘Want to read Harry Potter in Arabic? Not in Israel’

    Yuval Azoulay | Ha’aretz 22 July 2009 Books originating in Syria or Lebanon – the biggest publisher in the region of Arabic books – are illegal in Israel. The draft bill by MK Yuli Tamir (Labor), would change the embargo. But in the meantime, readers of Arabic in Israel will have to encounter roadblocks. Two…

  • UN’s Richard Falk: IDF seizure of Gaza-bound ship is ‘criminal’

    Ha’aretz 3 July 2009 A United Nations human rights investigator on Thursday called Israel’s seizure of a ship carrying relief aid for the Gaza Strip “unlawful” and said its blockade of the territory constituted a “continuing crime against humanity”. Israeli authorities on Tuesday intercepted the vessel, which was also carrying 21 pro-Palestinian activists, and said…

  • Oppose the state, not the people

    Yotam Feldman | Ha’aretz 2 July 2009 Ramallah’s intellectual elite, foreigners and curious spectators gathered last Saturday at the Friends School in Ramallah to hear writer and political activist Naomi Klein lecture to a packed auditorium. Following a musical interlude by a string quintet, one of whose members is blind, Klein took the stage. She…

  • Ha’aretz: ‘Court: IDF must toughen charges for shooting of bound Palestinian’

    Tomer Zarchin | Ha’aretz 1 July 2009 The High Court ordered the Military Advocate General on Wednesday to file harsher charges against an Israel Defense Forces officer who ordered a soldier to shoot a rubber-coated metal bullet at a bound Palestinian. Lt. Col. Omri Burberg, the officer, and Staff Sgt. L., the soldier, were formally…

  • Israel to build 50 West Bank homes for outpost evacuees

    Tomer Zarchin | Ha’aretz 29 June 2009 Israel will build 50 new homes in an existing West Bank settlement as part of a wider plan to absorb residents slated to be evicted from the illegal outpost of Migron. The complete plan calls for the construction of 1,450 homes in the settlement of Adam. The State…