Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace 29 December 2009 Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a leader of the Bil’in Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, was arrested at his home during a military operation in Ramallah by the Israeli Army on December 10. ...
Read More »28 kilometers of distilled apartheid
Gideon Levy | Haaretz 29 December 2009 This highway has told the whole story. They pave a road, expropriate Palestinian land and the High Court of Justice approves the expropriation, in its words, “provided that it is done for the ...
Read More »High Court: Gaza student cannot complete studies in West Bank
Amira Hass | Haaretz 9 December 2009 The High Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday to deny a Palestinian student from Gaza who has been studying in Bethlehem permission to complete her university degree in the West Bank. Berlanty Azzam, ...
Read More »Bil’in: Undercovers arrest Palestinian youth at his workplace
Popular Struggle Coordination Committee 19 November 2009 In an escalation of the recent arrest campaign conducted by the Israeli military in attempt to crush the popular struggle against the Wall in the village, an undercover army unit invaded Bil’in this ...
Read More »Israel sees court rulings on Palestinian land as mere ‘recommendations’
Akiva Eldar | Ha’aretz 13 October 2009 So what if the Supreme Court rules? In Israel those decisions are just recommendations, especially if they deal with Palestinian land. In most enlightened democratic countries, saying that decisions of the courts obligate ...
Read More »B’Tselem: Security forces demolish house of family of perpetrator of attack in Jerusalem
B’Tselem On 7 April, security forces demolished the apartment, in Zur Baher, East Jerusalem, of the family of Husam Dwiyat, who carried out a bulldozer attack in the center of Jerusalem in July of last year. The demolition took place ...
Read More »Olive Harvest 2006
Your presence is needed for the Olive Harvest 2006 in Palestine! Palestinian communities are calling for the presence of international activists to support them in the 2006 Olive Harvest. Throughout the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian land continues to be ...
Read More »The “Only Democracy in the Middle East”
By Raad In the last week we had two decisions by the Supreme Court of the Zionist state which reveal how racist this regime is. The first one is the citizenship law which will affect thousands of Palestinian families on ...
Read More »This Is Apartheid
By Rann The Israeli Supreme Court approved a law yesterday denying West Bank and Gaza Palestinians married to Israeli Palestinians residence or citizenship in Israel. As the linked Ha’aretz editorial states, this is a disgrace. Moreover, this is yet another ...
Read More »Israel/Occupied Territories: High Court decision institutionalizes racial discrimination
By Amnesty International The decision by the Israeli High Court of Justice on 14 May to uphold a law which explicitly denies family rights on the basis of ethnicity or national origins is a step further in the institutionalization of ...
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