Tag: Ramallah

  • Two Villages, One Struggle; Aboud and Bil’in Against the Wall

    Palestinians, Internationals & Israelis Protest on the Path of the Wall in Aboud by Harrison & Henry Aboud; 150 Palestinians, Internationals and Israelis marched through the streets of Aboud on Friday to protest against the Apartheid Wall. The villagers hope to raise awareness that the current path of the barrier will confiscate 20 percent of…

  • J.A.G. II- Manifest Destiny

    On January 19th we, a group of concerned Jews, spray painted the infamous Nazi slogan “Arbeit Macht Frie” (“Work Makes You Free”) on a sign placed by the Israeli occupation authorities at the Kalandia checkpoint that read “The Hope of Us All”. The Sign “the hope of us all” and the New Ramallah Terminal were…

  • An Invitation for Barak Obama

    by Katie The morning of Thursday, January 12, myself, and other Palestinian and international activists were invited to the branch of Jerusalem University in Ramallah for a conference that Barak Obama, the US senator from Illinois, was holding with students. The others were skeptical about him, but I assured them that he is a very…

  • Bil’in: Land Grab thanks to the Wall

    Bil’in is a small village located six km east of the green line, west of Ramallah. The village rests on 4,000 dunams (about 1,000 acres) and is home to 1,700 residents, whose livelihood depends on agriculture and work outside the village. Most of the villages land lies between two streams (the Modi’in stream in the…

  • “Love is possible in spite of all the evil we experience”

    photo by AP 11 December 2005 Despite an Israeli checkpoint that prevented journalists from accessing the village, a peaceful march of one thousand people, Christians and Muslims, went forward on Sunday in the West Bank Village Aboud. The march was stopped by Israeli soldiers three hundreds meters from bulldozers digging up Abud’s land to construct…