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Freedom Summer 2009: Defend the Land and Jerusalem

The International Solidarity Movement is issuing a call-out for internationals to volunteer as field activists and office workers in the West Bank, Gaza, and occupied East Jerusalem this summer. Whether you can come for only few weeks or several months, ...

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Diary: East Jerusalem evictions

Rami Hannoun | Al Jazeera 22 April 2009 The Hannouns are one of three families who have had been ordered by an Israeli court to leave their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. The families, refugees who ...

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Protest ROM decision to display stolen antiquities

Oakland Ross | The Star 11 April 2009 The Dead Sea scrolls, confiscated from East Jerusalem during Israel’s 1967 military invasion and occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, are coming to Toronto. The move is part of Israel consul general ...

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Al-Fakhouri home demolished in East Jerusalem

6 April 2009 On the morning of 6 April, about 150 Israeli soldiers, police & border police came and woke up the 22 members of the Al-Fakhouri family in the Burj Al-Laqlaq neighborhood. The Israeli forces blocked all the entrance ...

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Municipality of Jerusalem to ‘blow up’ houses

Tsipi Malkuv | Yediot Yerushaliyim 6 April 2009 English Translation: Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions THERE WILL BE AS BLAST [or a political blow-up; its a play on words in Hebrew]  by Tsipi Malkuv [Subtitle] The policy of demolishing homes ...

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