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Janice Arnold | The Canadian Jewish News 10 June 2009 A Quebec court will decide whether a lawsuit against two Canadian-based companies that are alleged to have illegally constructed residential buildings for Jewish settlers on disputed land in the West ...
Read More »As Obama tries to shift the debate, will Democrats continue to endorse Israel’s colonization of the West Bank?
Stephen Zunes | AlterNet 6 June 2009 President Barack Obama has inherited a difficult challenge in pushing Israel to end the expansion of its illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. With the right-wing Israeli government of Prime Minister Benjamin ...
Read More »Rights group warns of growing settler violence
Efrat Weiss | YNet News 10 June 2009 Palestinian farmers in the West Bank are paying the price for the government’s efforts to evacuate illegal outpost in the region, data published by human rights group Yesh Din on Wednesday revealed. ...
Read More »Farmers in Saffa persist; access again denied
Palestine Solidarity Project 7 June 2009 This Saturday once again, international and Israeli activists joined farmers from the Saffa area of Beit Ommar on their land near the settlement of Bat Ayn. For the last two months, farmers have been ...
Read More »Left-wing activists evacuated from tent built opposite outpost
Anat Shalev | YNet News 6 June 2009 IDF troops forcibly removed dozens of left-wing and Palestinian activists who were trying to erect a tent in South Mt. Hebron with a Palestinian family claiming ownership of the land. The family ...
Read More »Settlers attack Palestinian vehicle with rocks, wounding four, and set fire to land in Qalqiliya district
International Women’s Peace Service 1 June 2009 On Monday, June 1st, settlers from the Havat Gilad settler outpost in the Qalqiliya district of the West Bank reportedly attacked a minibus transporting 17 Palestinians to their jobs in Israel, critically injuring ...
Read More »People & Power – Courtroom Intifada
Al Jazeera 3 June 2009 The small village of Bil’in is trying to regain land lost to the Separation Wall and an encroaching Jewish settlement through ‘legal resistance’. As their victory in the Israeli Supreme Court continues to be ignored, ...
Read More »Gambling with Conflict: How a neocon casino king from California funds the Israeli settler movement
Max Blumenthal | Mondoweiss 2 June 2009 The Israeli government has repeatedly announced plans to forge ahead with plans to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank in direct opposition to President Barack Obama’s demand for an absolute settlement freeze. ...
Read More »Palestinian village sends pair to sue Quebec companies
CBC Canada 2 June 2009 Two representatives of a small West Bank Palestinian village will tour Canada this month, as they prepare a lawsuit against two Quebec-based companies for allegedly violating international law by building Israeli settlements on occupied territory. ...
Read More »Settlements continue to expand in Hebron
25 May 2009 North of Hebron, in a Palestinian village named Al Bueire, settlers had built an outpost over one and a half months ago. When Israeli forces finally removed the illegal outpost on 25 May 2009, settlers coordinated attacks ...
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