Tag: Rachel Corrie

  • The Break on Palestine

    David Bromwich | The Huffington Post 16 March 2010 To wipe the spit off his face, Biden had to say it was only rain.” The Israeli journalist Akiva Eldar was tapping a vein of bitter Jewish wit when he wrote those words about the humiliation of the vice president on his recent state-visit to Israel.…

  • Tulkarem and Ramallah mark the seventh anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie

    16 March 2010 On March 16th 2003, an Israeli bulldozer killed the American activist Rachel Corrie in Rafah, Gaza. Today, in Kafr Sur, near Tulkarem, and in Ramallah, family, friends and supporters gathered together to commemorate the anniversary of her murder. Students of Kafr Sur Secondary School, who have been working on a research project…

  • Eye witness testifies: Israeli military investigator tried to influence my statement

    Rachel Corrie Foundation 15 March 2010 For Immediate Release: Today, March 15, 2010, the Haifa District Court saw the third day of testimony in the civil lawsuit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. Rachel was crushed to death on March 16, 2003 by a…