Activism
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| On Nakba Day, Palestinians March In Jaffa | | Agencies -
IMEMC -
""In 1948, 1.4 million Palestinians lived in 1,300 Palestinian towns and villages in historic Palestine. The Israelis controlled 774 towns and villages and destroyed 531 Palestinian towns and villages during the Nakba. More than 800,000 of the population were driven out of their homeland to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, neighboring Arab countries and other countries of the world."" - id (for rh) | 16/5/2013 |
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| Palestinians mark their 1948 displacement | | MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH -
Yahoo News -
"Across the West Bank on Wednesday, sirens wailed at noon for 65 seconds to commemorate the 65 years since the "nakba."" - id (for rh) | 16/5/2013 |
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| Israel, Hawking and the Pressing Question of Boycott | | Ramzy Baroud -
Palestine Chronicle -
"Those who think that boycotting the occupation is enough, seem not to understand the nature of the relationship between West Bank setters and the Israeli government. Israel treats the settlements and its well-armed inhabitants as part and parcel of the Israeli state and economy." - id (for rh)
| 16/5/2013 |
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| Gaza: We will keep coming back | | Bill Dienst -
Al-Ahram -
"We enter through Erez and we are forced this time to sit through a one hour PowerPoint presentation by the Israeli military outlining how benevolent Israel tries to help, and how these ungrateful Palestinians respond with rockets and are their own worst enemy." - id (for rh)
| 16/5/2013 |
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| Protests an "offensive" against settler attacks, West Bank villagers say | | Andrew Beale -
EI -
"“We’re here to prove that this land is ours. And we’re here to protect it, that’s all. We’re not here to attack anybody,” he said. “This our land. It’s been our land for the last 2,000 years.” - id (for rh)
| 16/5/2013 |
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| Protest Vigil for imprisoned refuser Natan Blanc, now serving his 10th prisone term. | | Opposite ministry of defense, Caplan Str. Tel Aviv, Tuesd. 21/5 at 6pm | 16/5/2013 |
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| “The Israeli system has a contempt for justice” – Swedish activist being deported despite false charges and legal appeal | | Team Khalil -
ISM -
"Gustav was arrested on the 28th April in the West Bank city of Hebron, as he objected to the violent arrests by Israeli military of two 11- and 12-year old children, who were released later the same day." - id
| 15/5/2013 |
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| German Orchestra to Bring ‘Symphony for Palestine’ to West Bank | | FELICIA R. LEE -
NYT -
"The orchestra, performing with an international group of musicians and led by the Italian conductor Andrea Molino, will perform the symphony by the Iranian composer Kayhan Kalhor in concerts in each city." - id
| 15/5/2013 |
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| International Criminal Court examines Israeli raid on Gaza flotilla | | Reuters -
Ynet -
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"If this will not bring about results, we`ll know that certain countries are influencing the court," Ramadan Ariturk, one of the families` attorneys, told the Anatolia Turkish news agency." - id
| 15/5/2013 |
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| Israel Suppresses Al-Awda March, Assaults Journalists and Protesters | | Exclusive -
Palestinian News Network -
"...the Israeli army suppressed the march near al-Khader stadium and started firing tear gas and sound bombs and banned participants from continuing their march." - id
| 15/5/2013 |
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| State to court: IDF to halt use of phosphorous shells | | Aviel Magnezi - Ynet - In response to petition filed by human rights
group, army says will use incendiary munitions in urban areas only in
`extreme cases.` Yesh Gvul: IDF`s position proves use of phosphorous
shells during 2009 Gaza op was `illegal, immoral` bz | 14/5/2013 |
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| `A status quo of occupation, violence, and paralyzing fear is not what we want to live with` | | One Voice Movement - Some of Malaka Samara’s family members were
jailed, others killed, during both of the Palestinian intifadas. Elanit
Green’s mother was very near the site of a suicide attack in southern
Israel and survived by a very narrow chance. Now, the two women toured
New York City and Southern California, telling packed audiences that
.the status quo – occupation, violence, and paralyzing fear – is not
what they want to live with. ak | 14/5/2013 |
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| `Four Days, Four corporations` - women`s campaign by exposes the collusion of international corporations | | Coalition of Women for Peace - The special campaign page will be updated
daily, each time focusing on one specific international corporation with
texts and photos the company’s involvement in the demolition of
Palestinian homes. Activists are asked to help spread this message.
| 14/5/2013 |
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| Help women activists indict corporate collusion | | | 14/5/2013 |
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| Noa, Jerusalem Day and a life of hatred inside a bunker | | Adam Keller - Gush Shalom - Last week, we called upon the singer Ahinoam
“Noa” Nini to cancel her performance in the "Jerusalem Day" ceremonies.
Nini did not react to our request, but we did get a reply from her
manager, Ofer Pesenzon - to which we replied, see the whole
correspondence. | 14/5/2013 |
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| Marwan Barghouthi from prison: any talk of modifications on the 1967 borders must be rejected | | Saed Bannoura - IMEMC -
While calling on the Palestinian people to unite, Barghouti said that
the Palestinians must reject all attempts that aim at forcing them to
abandon their legitimate rights, to insist on a full and comprehensive
Israeli withdrawal from all of the Palestinian territories Israel
occupied in 1967, including Jerusalem, to ensure the full implementation
of resolution 194, and the liberation of all detainees. bz | 14/5/2013 |
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| Video: No to another eviction from Sheikh Jarrah march, 10.5.2013 | | | 13/5/2013 |
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| No to another eviction from Sheikh Jarrah march 10.5.2013 | | | 12/5/2013 |
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| San Francisco bus ads condemn Israeli apartheid: backlash begins | | Cecilie Surasky - Muzzlewatch - According to the 6 million dollar
Israel Action Network, which provides talking points and strategy to
defenders of Israeli government policy, the aim of delegitimization is
to “isolate Israel as a pariah state and reject the notion of a two-
state solution.” If that were at all true, you’d think they’d go after
the original two-state solution killers– the settlers, the Israeli
government and Bibi Netanyahu whose party openly opposes a two-state
solution. But nary a peep. bz | 11/5/2013 |
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| Noam Chomsky helped lobby Stephen Hawking to stage Israel boycott | | Robert Booth and Harriet Sherwood - The Guardian - "It will be easier now
for other academics who have been supportive of
Palestinian rights but were reluctant to act on their support," was the
comment of Samia Botmeh, board member of the Palestinian Campaign for
the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. | 11/5/2013 |
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| Ofer`s stains | | Aya Kaniuk and Tamar Goldschmidt - Mahsanmilim - Indeed he confessed all that was attributed to him, be it as it may. And who knows what the truth is, did he really put together those rifles, and what does that mean, and did they hand out three bullets or five or any at all, after all this is a plea bargain. Meaning that if he admits guilt, he will be doing less prison time than if he does not.-rh
| 9/5/2013 |
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| Palestinians March In Jerusalem To Counter Provocative Settler Procession | | IMEMC & Agencies - Hundreds of Palestinians marched Wednesday in occupied Jerusalem, carrying Palestinians flags and chanting slogans for the liberation of Palestine and Jerusalem, to counter a provocative procession by extremist settlers who marched in the city chanting “Death to Arabs”. The Police attacked protesters and reporters, and kidnapped 21 Palestinians.-rh | 9/5/2013 |
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| Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel | | Harriet Sherwood and Matthew Kalman - The Guardian - Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel`s treatment of Palestinians.-rh
| 9/5/2013 |
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| In Palestine, Trying to Let Our Voice Reach Outside | | Weekly workshops by Sharek Youth Forum | 8/5/2013 |
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| Stephen Hawking joins academic boycott of Israel | | Matthew Kalman -
Guardian -
"Professor Stephen Hawking is backing the academic boycott of Israel by pulling out of a conference hosted by Israeli president Shimon Peres in Jerusalem as a protest at Israel`s treatment of Palestinians." - id
| 8/5/2013 |
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| Peace seekers don`t sing on "Jerusalem Day" | | Gush Shalom - Calling upon singer Achinoam Nini (“Noa”), to cancel her
scheduled performance during the events of "Jerusalem Day": only when
Jerusalem becomes a true city of peace and the capital of two states -
that would be the true Jerusalem Day, a time which will be worthy for you
to sing and celebrate." | 7/5/2013 |
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| British Jewish groups slam Bedouin settlement bill ahead of discussions | | Edna Adato and `Israel Hayom` Staff - "As Jewish representative
organizations speaking on behalf of a large cross-section of Anglo-
Jewry, committed to the State of Israel and our Jewish heritage, we
believe advancing this bill in the Knesset defies the Jewish religious
imperative to treat the minorities within our borders fairly and with
justice," the groups wrote.
The British groups as well as Israeli rights organizations say the
Bedouin settlement law would unjustly displace thousands, opposing to
what they called the "expulsion of 40,000 Bedouin," and said they
supported Bedouin rights to their "ancestral lands."
In addition, the groups demanded that the government work closely with
the Bedouin community to devise a plan to regulate settlement, and
called for the recognition of "all existing villages." bz
| 7/5/2013 |
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| Film-maker David Koff on his radical documentary Occupied Palestine | | Duncan Campbell - The Guardian - David Koff`s documentary Occupied Palestine caused a storm in the 1980s. What will today`s audiences make of it? The film-maker relives a life of controversy | 6/5/2013 |
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| J Street petition in support of the Arab Peace Initiative | | | 4/5/2013 |
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| Palestinian Christians urge pope to oppose wall | | The Daily Star - The letter came as Israel`s President Shimon Peres was due to arrive in Italy on a three-day visit during which he would meet Pope Francis. "We respectfully ask you to make use of this meeting to pass a strong message regarding the people of Palestine, and particularly the case of Beit Jala`s Cremisan land," it said.-rh
| 2/5/2013 |
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| To Throw or Not to Throw a Stone | | William A. Cook - The Corner Report - A debate rages in Israel today on the truth of Amira Hass¡¯s words ¡°Throwing a stone is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance¡± (Amira Hass, Haaretz, 4/3/13).-rh
| 2/5/2013 |
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| 12- and 11-year old Palestinian children arrested after attack by settler children – Swedish activist also arrested | | Team Khalil -
ISM -
"Gustav, the arrested Swedish activist is currently being held in Givon immigration prison, having had his visa revoked by the Israeli authorities. He was beaten during his arrest and hit with a gun." - id | 1/5/2013 |
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| As Jews we say `Birthright` trips must end | | Aviva Stahl, Sarah Woolf and Sam Elliott Bick -
EI -
"We are non-Israeli Jews who oppose the program because it promotes and supports Israel’s ongoing colonialism and apartheid policies, and marginalizes Jewish experiences in the diaspora." - id | 1/5/2013 |
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| An interview with Ben Ehrenreich, author of ‘extraordinary’ Nabi Saleh piece in ‘NYT Magazine’ | | Philip Weiss - Mondoweiss - On March 15, The New York Times Magazine broke important ground in the mainstream by publishing Ben Ehrenreich`s long and often-thrilling account of resistance in occupied Nabi Saleh, based on his visits to the Palestinian village last summer and earlier this year.-rh | 1/5/2013 |
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| Israel Breaks Signed Agreement to End Prisoner Hunger Strikes | | Gavan Kelly, Shir Hever - The Real News - (video) - In any military occupation, imprisonment is a tool used heavily by militaries in order to control the occupied population. Israel is no exception, and the arrest and long-term imprisonment of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory has become one of the symbols of the Israeli occupation.-rh | 1/5/2013 |
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| Natan Blanc 150 days in prison - when will it end? Yesh Gvul calls a support vigil Friday May 3 | | Transport:
10am J`lem Binyaney Hauma
11am T-A Arlozorov train station
12:30 Atlit on mountain across prison 6 | 30/4/2013 |
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| Joint statement: Freedom to Conscientious Objectors in the Middle East | | Sergeiy Sandler - Together, we in No to Compulsory Military Service
(Egypt) and New Profile (Israel) confirm our support of peace and of
conscientious objectors in both countries, re-affirming the human right
to freedom of conscience, faith and self-determination. We condemn the
way both our governments treat conscientious objectors: Natan Blank,
Emad El Dafrawi, and Mohammed Fathy.
| 30/4/2013 |
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| Pick up truck for Ezra Nawi | | Kobi Snitz - We are working on raising money for a new pick up truck for
Ezra Nawi. We are using something new to me called crowd-sourcing which
I am told works well with online social networking.
Please share this with your networks and if you can, please consider
contributing a few shekels too. | 30/4/2013 |
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| WATCH: IDF soldier screams at Israeli activists: `You are worse than the Arabs` | | Mairav Zonszein - +972 - “Get out of here you Israel haters, I’ll kick the
crap out of you. You are worse than the Arabs.” He then turned to one of
the female Israeli activists and said: “Shut up, Israel hater who goes to
bed with Arabs.” [All thhat on the Taayush video-bz] | 28/4/2013 |
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| Israeli army breaks up Palestinian march | | Al Jazeera - "This was a peaceful area. We`re gathered today to say we
refuse to be attacked and driven off our own land," said Sami Issa, a
resident. "We want their army to pull the settlers out." bz | 28/4/2013 |
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| Planned protests force cancellation of JNF and Friends of the IDF fundraiser in St Andrews | | Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign - bdsmovement.net - Palestine
activists, human rights campaigners and students joined forces to speak
out against the inclusion of Friends of the IDF and the JNF in the list of
organisations that will benefit from the fundraiser. | 27/4/2013 |
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| Divestment win at UC Berkeley | | Sydney Levy - Jewish Voice for Peace - Like hundreds of others in the
overflow crowd last night, I`m completely exhausted after having spent
10 hours straight listening to an extraordinary night of emotional
testimony about divestment at UC Berkeley. I`m so proud to tell you that
at 5:30 this morning, Associated Students at the University of
California (ASUC) voted 11 to 9 in favor of divesting from companies
that profit from the violation of human rights abuses in the Palestinian
Occupied Territories. | 27/4/2013 |
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| Unique Memorial Ceremony Unites Israelis, Palestinians | | Akiva Eldar - Al Monitor - Perhaps their bequest instructs us to do all that’s humanly possible to ensure that their children get to live in a peace-loving and not in a territory-loving state? In a democratic state, rather than one that deprives others? In a Jewish state rather than a nationalistic state? Perhaps they willed us reconciliation with our Arab neighbors, recognition of the Palestinian pain and a joint striving for prosperity in our blood-soaked land?-rh
| 24/4/2013 |
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| Map of destroyed villages aims to teach Israelis about Nakba | | Jillian Kestler-D`Amours -
The Electronic Intifada -
"“It’s about time, no?” said Zochrot founder Eitan Bronstein, explaining why the organization decided to create a “Nakba map” in Hebrew." - id
| 24/4/2013 |
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| Bethlehem and Boston: That amazing thing called running | | Dahlia Scheindlin -
+972 -
"Under the title “Right to Movement”, runners had to complete two laps of the same route, as organizers were unable to find a single course of 42 uninterrupted kilometers under Palestinian Authority control." - id
| 24/4/2013 |
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| Urgent concerns over death threats issued to UN Human Rights defender, Issa Amro | | Team Khalil - Occupied Palestine - Amro has been violently attacked by this same community of Israeli settlers many times in the past – his nose and wrist have been broken and he received five stitches to his head. He and his family regularly receive death threats from the settlers of Hebron over the phone, continuing their campaign of threats and violence against him.-rh
| 24/4/2013 |
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| The Land of Outposts – a tour to the Nablus rural area Friday, 26.4 with Combatants for Peace | | | 23/4/2013 |
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| Egypt and Israel - let your Conscientious Objectors free! | | Maikel Nabil Sanad`s Blog - Last Tuesday, activists of the Egyptian “No
to Compulsory Military Service" movement held a protest in Talaat Harb
Square in Cairo, just a few meters from Tahrir Square. The Egyptian
Conscientious Objectors Emad Dafrawi and Mohammed Fathi - who, due to
their refusal to serve in the Egyptian Army, are not allowed to work,
study in a university or have a passport - carried posters calling for
the freedom of the imprisoned Israeli Conscientious Objector Natan
Blanc. ak | 23/4/2013 |
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| An Nabi Saleh, Kufr Qaddum, Al Ma`asara, Ni`lin, Bil`in | | Register for transportation Friday May 10 to weekly demonstrations against the wall and the settlements | 23/4/2013 |
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| PPS: “No Official Proposal To End The Case Of Eesawy” | | Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - Al-Eesawy will not make any decision without an
official, documented, Israeli offer regarding his release. He also
boycotted a court session held Monday
after stating: “The Jerusalem District Court sentenced me to eight
months, those eight months ended in March. “There is no reason to
continue my detention and imprisonment, and I do not recognize your
committee and its decisions”.
When the Israeli judge asked an Israeli Physician about the situation of
Al-Eesawy, the physician said that Al-Eesawy stopped taking vitamins,
and refuses to conduct any medical tests, adding. bz | 23/4/2013 |
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| Lawyer: “Eesawy Conditionally Agrees To End His Hunger Strike” | | IMEMC & Agencies - "Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, reported that hunger striking Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy, expressed a conditional acceptance of an Israeli offer to end his strike in exchange for his release on October 10 this year" | 22/4/2013 |
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| “Don’t serve in Israel’s military,” refusenik urges compatriots (interview with Natan Blanc in between prison terms) | | Sawsan Khalife` - Electronic Intifada - "There is no democracy,
Palestinians don’t choose their own fate as they have no right to vote
under a regime that forces its decisions on them. The Knesset [Israel’s
parliament] votes and decides their fate without including them in the
decision-making process. I will not take part in that either." | 21/4/2013 |
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| Nineth consecutive prison term for CO Natan Blanc | | ["The politicians] can continue with this bloody cycle, with no end in
sight. But we, as citizens and human beings, have a moral duty to refuse
to participate in this cynical game." bz | 20/4/2013 |
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| Palestine activists call on Netherlands prince to disassociate from JNF water project | | Adri Nieuwhof - Electronic Intifada - According to the JNF charter and the
“Basic Law: Israel Lands,” the JNF may exchange and lease land only to
Jewish legal persons, to the state and the government-controlled
Development Authority bz | 20/4/2013 |
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| Nineth consecutive prison term for CO Natan Blanc | | The need for solidarity and protest letters only increases | 20/4/2013 |
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| Activists remove section of Israeli Wall in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners | | International Solidarity Movement, Ramallah -
IMEMC
"This Palestinian Prisoners Day, April 17th 2013, Palestinian and international activists cut down a fenced section of the Israeli apartheid wall in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli occupation jails.Protesters wore shirts with the image of Bassem Abu Rahma of Bil’in, who was also protesting the cause of prisoners on the 17th of April four years ago, when he was killed by Israeli forces." ca | 19/4/2013 |
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| After all-night debate, Berkeley student senate calls on university to divest from 3 companies profiting from occupation | | Philip Weiss and Annie Robbins -
Mondoweiss
"In a dramatic vote that was emotional for all sides, the ASUC [Associated Students at the University of California] Senate voted 11-9 to divest from companies affiliated with Israel’s military early Thursday morning.
The heated debate began Wednesday evening and carried on for 10 hours, continuing into Thursday. Anna Head Alumnae Hall overflowed with hundreds of UC Berkeley students, faculty and community members engaging in a contentious debate regarding the bill, SB 160." ca
| 19/4/2013 |
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| He sings in the prison | | Nicola Perugini - London Review of Books - He is accused of throwing stones at the Israeli army (they’d killed one of his friends a week earlier). But his family insist he wasn’t involved in the incident that led to his arrest. His trial has been postponed twice: it’s now due on 17 April. ‘He sings in the prison, and everyone listens to him,’ his mother says.-rh | 18/4/2013 |
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| Playback and protest: The Freedom Bus hits the road | | Daryl Meador -
EI-
"The events and excursions were met with sometimes violent opposition from the Israeli forces, who arrested and deported one of the Freedom Bus Tour participants." - id | 17/4/2013 |
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| Israeli Intellectuals Call for End to Administrative Detention, Freedom for Samer Issawi | | RICHARD SILVERSTEIN -
Tikun Olam -
"... they wrote to the Chief Jailer himself, Bibi Netanyahu. They called for an end to the oppressive policy of administrative detention under which Issawi is held, along with thousands of others." - id
| 17/4/2013 |
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| Israeli Women Visit Palestinian Hunger Striker | | Shlomi Eldar - Al-Monitor - So you just decided to buy flowers and visit him?
“Yes. I read in the newspaper that he was hospitalized at Kaplan, and I couldn’t just let that go by. I went with a friend. They didn’t expect us, and when the guards saw us, they jumped up and blocked our way. Still, we were able to relay the message that there are people here who are concerned about his well-being.`-rh
| 17/4/2013 |
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| Weekly Demonstrations Against the Wall and the Settlements | | AATW - Register for Transportation to Demonstrations on April 19th - April 20th | 17/4/2013 |
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| A Camera’s View Finder Confronts a Gun Sight | | Amahl Bishara - Yadalliya - on 8 April, Mohammad was injured while photographing an Israeli raid into his community of Aida Refugee Camp—located on the outskirts of Bethlehem in the West Bank. The separation wall circles around two sides of the camp, and a military base is embedded in the wall at Rachel’s Tomb.-rh | 17/4/2013 |
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| Humanity has no nationality: 2nd anniversary of the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni | | Team Khalil -
International Solidarity Movement -
"In an interview he said: “I am from a partisan family, my grandfathers fought and died struggling against occupation, a fascist Nazi one. For that reason presumably in my DNA, my blood, there are particles that push me to struggle for freedom and human rights.”": - id
| 17/4/2013 |
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| Report on Human Rights Abuses Documents the Loss of Childhood in Occupied Hebron | | Christian Peacemaker Teams Palestine - Occupied Childhoods, a newly released report compiled by internationals working in the West Bank city of Hebron, documents an alarming rate of abuse of the rights of children. Human rights workers in H2, the portion of the city under Israeli military control, have witnessed more than 47 detentions or arrests of children age 15 and under by soldiers since the start of February.-rh | 17/4/2013 |
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| Medical watchdog says Palestinian hunger strikers mistreated | | Stuart Winer - Times of Israel - Physicians for Human Rights Israel, a non-government organization, charged that Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike were not given proper medical attention, Israel Radio reported on Thursday.-rh
| 11/4/2013 |
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| Ta`ayush Jerusalem - We need you financial support | | This coming Saturday, April 13 | 10/4/2013 |
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| Doctors fear Palestinian hunger striker`s life in immediate danger | | Haggai Matar -
+972 -
"A request by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) to send an independent doctor to examine his medical condition has been denied by IPS." - id
| 10/4/2013 |
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| Youth move back to Palestinian village stolen from their families | | Jillian Kestler-D`Amours -
The Electronic Intifada -
"Last August, a group of third-generation, internally displaced Palestinian youth returned to Iqrit. Living in two small rooms, built as extensions of the church, the young men sleep in the village in shifts. They maintain a constant presence in the village." - id | 10/4/2013 |
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| Hunger Speech by Samer Issawi | | Samer Issawi - Youth against Settlements - I chose to write to you: intellectuals, writers, lawyers and journalists, associations, and civil society activists. I invite you to visit me, to see a skeleton tied to his hospital bed, and around him three exhausted jailers. Sometimes they have their appetizing food and drinks around me.
The jailers watch my suffering, my loss of weight and my gradual melting. They often look at their watches, asking themselves in surprise: how does this damaged body have an excess of time to live after its time?-rh
| 10/4/2013 |
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| Rock Throwing On Palestinian Children`s Day | | Anna Lekas Miller - The Daily Beast - According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), children under the age of 18 make up almost half of the population ofthe West Bank and Gaza. Statistically, 20 percent of them—and 40 percent of the males—will be arrested, detained and likely imprisoned. For some, this process has already begun: as of January 1, 2013 there were 193 Palestinian children in prison with 26 under the age of 16. “They will arrest them for anything, even just standing there,” Ahmad Qareen of the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan told me.-rh
| 10/4/2013 |
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| Urgent action requested - my dear friend Hiba imprisoned | | Trisha Issahra - On April 2, the family of my friend Khaled had such a visit. Imagine my horror and surprise when Khaled called to tell me the news! I was even more horrified when Khaled told me that the soldiers had arrested his lovely wife Hiba who is very ill with undiagnosed stomach problems. Hiba is a sweet, very shy young woman. She lives for her family, for taking her daughters Malak and Yara to play in the park, to bake cakes for family and friends.-rh | 10/4/2013 |
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| The system in place | | Sandy Tolan - AlJazeera - The arrest of acclaimed musician, Oday Khatib, sheds light on Israel`s draconian system of arrest and detention | 8/4/2013 |
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| Look at the World from Behind the Wall | | William A. Cook - Dissident Voice - Let’s report on a peaceful protest that has gone unnoticed by the American press with the exception of Tim King’s Salem-News: “Israeli forces have sprayed Palestinian homes in the village of Nabi Saleh with “skunk “* as a punishment for organizing weekly protests against the Apartheid Wall built on occupied West Bank land (March 26, 2013).-rh | 4/4/2013 |
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| Two Palestinians Killed, Three Injured Near Tulkarem | | IMEMC & Agencies - Dozens of Palestinians have been injured, and kidnapped, over the past two days during clashes that took place in different parts of the West Bank following the death detainee Maisara Abu Hamdiyya, 64, on Tuesday.-rh
| 4/4/2013 |
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| Palestinians Jailed in Israel Protest After Inmate Dies | | ISABEL KERSHNER - The New York Times - The office of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said in a statement that it held the Israeli government “fully responsible” for Mr. Hamdiya’s death, which it said stemmed from a policy of “deliberate medical negligence.”-rh
| 4/4/2013 |
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| Israel set to jail teenage conscientious objector for eighth time: Nathan Blanc has spent more than 100 days in prison over the past 19 weeks due to his refusal to enlist in Israeli army | | Harriet Sherwood - The Guardian - It is a routine Nathan Blanc knows well. At 9am on Tuesday morning, the 19-year-old will report, as instructed in his draft papers, to a military base near Tel Aviv. There he will state his objection to serving in the Israeli army. Following his refusal to enlist, Blanc expects to be arrested and sentenced to between 10 and 20 days in jail. He will then be taken to Military Prison Number 6 to serve his time. And then, following his release, the cycle will begin over again.-rh
| 2/4/2013 |
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| Palestinians demonstrate against sewage settlers spill onto their land | | Haggai Matar - About 100 Palestinians from the ancient village of Sebastia and their supporters held a demonstration today to protest against settlers spilling their sewage onto the village’s agricultural lands. This was the third demonstration in two months; villagers are starting weekly demonstrations, much like the ones against the wall and settlements that take place every Friday in Bil’in, Ni’ilin, Ma’asara, Nabi Saleh and Qaddum. Demonstrations took place in all of those villages as well on Friday, some of them with violent confrontations with army forces. In addition, activists in the newly formed popular committee say they are planning to take the matter to the Supreme Court.-rh
| 1/4/2013 |
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| Palestinian prisoners and detainees denied medical care | | UFree Network media centre - Prisoners with different diseases either chronic or normal complications are denied medicines and also not being seen by doctors. Many of the prisoners are given painkillers, antibiotics meanwhile they are in bad need for some special medications as they suffer chronic diseases. Israeli prison authorities prevent specialised doctors from providing health services to prisoners.-rh
| 1/4/2013 |
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| Easter Resurrection Of Palestine | | Mazin Qumsiyeh - Countercurrents - Jesus was a Palestinian martyr; he was born in Palestine and spoke the language of my ancestors Aramaic, the precursor of the Arabic language. He believed in resistance like turning tables of profiteers at the temple, challenging the “leaders” etc. And he worked to help the poor and disenfranchised.-rh
| 1/4/2013 |
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| Reading Palestinian Prison Diaries | | Richard Falk - Wordpress - We should not forget that there is a callous and manifest unlawfulness about this network of Israeli prisons, all but one of the 19 being located in Israel, in direct violation of Article 76 of the Fourth Geneva Convention governing belligerent occupation.-rh | 1/4/2013 |
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