Tag: Apartheid Wall

  • Bil’in tour: Israeli apartheid on trial

    Tadamon 23 May 2009 Bil’in speaking tour featuring: Mohammed Khatib. Popular Committee Against the Wall, Bil’in, Occupied Palestine Emily Schaeffer. Israeli lawyer representing the village of Bil’in Bil’in, a Palestinian village in the West Bank, has become an internationally celebrated symbol of Palestinian popular resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli apartheid wall and…

  • The Palestinian village of hope

    Matt Kennard and Wilson Dizard | The Guardian 27 May 2009 Ramallah is tired. The feeling you get walking around the streets here is that the Palestinians are weary of the struggle against the incremental destruction of their homeland, happening right now while the world looks the other way. You hear things like, “Our struggle…

  • Israeli forces shoot Ni’lin demonstrator in the head with tear-gas projectile

    22 May 2009 Residents of Ni’lin gathered in the olive groves near the village to hold the weekly prayer before the start of the demonstration at 12:30. Several speeches were made to commemorate the 1 year anniversary since Ni’lin’s resistance against the Apartheid Wall began. Israeli soldiers positioned themselves around the people praying. Several soldiers…