Tag: Jerusalem

  • YNet: “Pro-Palestinian French group appeals to stop Jerusalem tram”

    by Ali Waked, March 16th Organization tries to obtain legal injunction stopping 2 French companies from building Jerusalem tram claiming project violates interests of Palestinians in ‘occupied Jerusalem’ A French-Palestinian organization is taking two French companies involved in the light-rail project in Jerusalem to court, claiming that “the project is aimed at connecting between occupied…

  • The Independent: “Art from Gaza and the West Bank: Gallery of a troubled nation”

    by Donald Macintyre, March 13th The Palestinian answer to Charles Saatchi pursues the elusive dream of a permanent home for his unique but unheralded collection Mazen Qupty had always planned to study film – the seventh art as he calls it. Yet the irony is that if he hadn’t reluctantly taken a friend’s advice to…

  • Trials against Connex/Veolia and Alstom in Egypt and France

    by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign The Egyptian public was outraged to learn from Le Monde Diplomatique February edition that Alstom company (which currently constructs Apartheid Railway in Jerusalem) won a $23 million tender from the Egyptian government for the new Cairo metro line. An Egyptian engineer decided to bring the Egyptian ministry of…

  • The Guardian: “Negev desert nomads on the move again to make way for Israel’s barrier”

    by Rory McCarthy, February 28th Security fence and spread of Jewish settlement risks way of life for thousands The bulldozers came for Hamid Salim Hassan’s house just after dawn. Before the demolition began, the Bedouin family scrambled to gather what they could: a fridge, a pile of carpets, some plastic chairs, a canister of cooking…

  • Don’t say we did not know

    by the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, Don’t say we did not know 37 In the early 1980s the inhabitants of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills were evicted. Tuba used to be where the settlement Maon Farm is today. The people of Tuba settled nearby, about 1.5 km away. They were expelled again in…