Tag: Jerusalem
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ACTION UPDATE! 11 Human Rights activists arrested in E-1 Area!
**UPDATE** As of 6:00 pm all of those arrested have been released. But the conditions of their release reveals the apartheid nature of the Israeli courts system. The Israelis and internationals arrested have only been made to sign conditions, the Palestinians alone are forced to go to court. We will see what happens tomorrow when…
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Apartheid Masked: Third in a Series of Non Violent Protests Against Apartheid Road 443
By Apartheid Masked Yesterday saw the third in a series of non-violent protest against the Israeli system of Apartheid in the West Bank. 100 Palestinian, Israeli and internationals marched down to the side of Route 443 to convey the message of how Israel is denying Palestinians their rights to free movement within their own territory.…
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Al-Haq: Open Letter to Quartet Members: Israel’s Recent Land Confiscations East of Occupied Jerusalem
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 November 2007 Dear Quartet Member, As a Palestinian non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection and promotion of international human rights and humanitarian law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), Al-Haq is gravely concerned at the planned land confiscations in the vicinity of East Jerusalem, and requests that the Quartet assert itself…
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ZNet: Formalizing Apartheid Masked as a Peace Initiative
by Neta Golan and Mohammed Khatib October 13, 2007 Next month the US plans to host a regional meeting to discuss peace in the Middle East, or at least peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The maneuvering, deal making and negotiating about what will be on the table has been going on for some time.…
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Jerusalem Post: ‘I didn’t suggest we kill Palestinians’
By Ruthie Blum, Oct. 10, 2007 Arnon Soffer arrives at our meeting armed with a stack of books and papers. Among them is a copy of an interview I conducted with him three and a half years ago (“It’s the demography, stupid,” May 21, 2004), and print-outs of angry responses the geostrategist from the University…