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document.write('<p class="rss-title"><a class="rss-title" href="http://electronicintifada.net/v2/" target="_blank">Electronic Intifada : Palestine</a><br /><span class="rss-item">Palestine\'s weapon of mass instruction</span></p>');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/cEhfajD3gco/article11512.shtml" title="                                                              	                                             Following a sharp increase in divestment efforts across North American college campuses last spring, this academic year promises an even greater nu..." target="_blank">Divestment: from the campus to the streets</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:36:38 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                              	                                             Following a sharp increase in divestment efforts across North American college campuses last spring, this academic year promises an even greater number of initiatives, as well as resistance from university administrations to embrace the social justice movement. Mohammad Talaat comments for The Electronic Intifada.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/-6E84WmU2Qo/article11511.shtml" title="                                                              	                                             Testimonies resumed in the ongoing civil suit lodged by Rachel Corrie\'s family against the State of Israel in Haifa\'s District Court this week, a..." target="_blank">Israel\'s evidence questioned as Corrie trial resumes</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:30:08 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                              	                                             Testimonies resumed in the ongoing civil suit lodged by Rachel Corrie\'s family against the State of Israel in Haifa\'s District Court this week, as the state\'s defense team called three witnesses to the stand.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/_aE8SZoRY78/article11510.shtml" title="                                                              	                                             While we welcome acts of protest against any manifestation of Israel\'s regime of colonialism and apartheid -- including the recent announcement by..." target="_blank">For a morally consistent boycott of Israel</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:00:56 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                              	                                             While we welcome acts of protest against any manifestation of Israel\'s regime of colonialism and apartheid -- including the recent announcement by 150 prominent Israeli academics, writers and cultural figures to boycott Israel\'s settlements -- we believe that these acts must be both morally consistent and anchored in international law and universal human rights.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/HYvxMx2JxsQ/article11509.shtml" title="                                                               	                                     GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - The Muslim festival approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting lea..." target="_blank">Siege casts shadow over Ramadan</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:36:19 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                               	                                     GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - The Muslim festival approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it\'s approaching festive time.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/s2XyvQqgAVw/article11508.shtml" title="                                                               	                                     JOHR AL-DIK, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - With power cuts up to 16 hours to full days, a soaring heat wave and unbearable humidity, the Israeli-led siege o..." target="_blank">Ramadan in Gaza\'s boundary zone</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:30:19 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                               	                                     JOHR AL-DIK, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - With power cuts up to 16 hours to full days, a soaring heat wave and unbearable humidity, the Israeli-led siege on Gaza is but one of many factors leaving Ramadan miserable for the majority of Palestinians in Gaza.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/T0eWCkPMFnU/article11507.shtml" title="                                                               	                                     The Palestinian families which live along Route 60 in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank have no recourse when settlers attack. The area is ..." target="_blank">Price tag reprisals in Hebron</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:19:41 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                               	                                     The Palestinian families which live along Route 60 in the South Hebron Hills in the occupied West Bank have no recourse when settlers attack. The area is under full Israeli civil and military control leaving the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority relatively helpless in dealing with problems caused by Israeli settlers. Joseph Dana reports from Hebron.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/fKI_Ekesvw8/article11504.shtml" title="                                                               	                                     Public servant Bassem Mohammed al-Tamimi is from al-Nabi Saleh, a small village about 20 kilometers northwest of Ramallah. As coordinator of the local Pop..." target="_blank">\"We need to nationalize the resistance\"</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:53:48 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                               	                                     Public servant Bassem Mohammed al-Tamimi is from al-Nabi Saleh, a small village about 20 kilometers northwest of Ramallah. As coordinator of the local Popular Committee, Tamimi has played a leading role in al-Nabi Saleh\'s demonstrations against the nearby illegal Israeli settlement and military base of Halamish. Jody McIntyre interviewed al-Tamimi for The Electronic Intifada.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/r-veE6leINQ/article11506.shtml" title="                                                              	                                             On 1 September the Palestinian Authority\'s (PA) security forces launched an unprecedented arrest campaign against Palestinians affiliated with the..." target="_blank">Mass arrests, clashes follow settler shootings</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:43:59 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                              	                                             On 1 September the Palestinian Authority\'s (PA) security forces launched an unprecedented arrest campaign against Palestinians affiliated with the Hamas party in the occupied West Bank. The arrest sweep followed attacks earlier in the week against Israeli settlers in Hebron and Ramallah.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/aDon_QWkwOg/article11505.shtml" title="                                                               	                                     A conference last week, sponsored by Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, raises questions about the Initiative\'s commitment ..." target="_blank">Yale lending name to racist conference</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:43:30 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                               	                                     A conference last week, sponsored by Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism, raises questions about the Initiative\'s commitment to fighting all forms of bigotry. Instead of connecting the threads between different kinds of hatred, the conference provided a platform for anti-Arab and anti-Muslim speakers. For a center created to promote the critical study of one form of racism, it is unconscionable that it would indulge speakers who spread another. Yaman Salahi comments.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/JVBfH3EQCBM/article11501.shtml" title="                                                               	                                     And just as Israel has gradually increased restrictions of where we can go, the boundaries of what is permissible to do as a Palestinian have narrowed mar..." target="_blank">Why Israel imprisoned my best friend</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:22:49 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                               	                                     And just as Israel has gradually increased restrictions of where we can go, the boundaries of what is permissible to do as a Palestinian have narrowed markedly. We have reached a point where peaceful protest is unacceptable to the Israeli state and military legislation has been constructed to criminalize and throw in jail anyone who dares to publicly voice dissent. Mohammed Khatib comments.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/C14kBkmmMsY/article11500.shtml" title="                                                               	                                     The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights recently published Rights in Principle -- Rights in Practice, which examines a righ..." target="_blank">\"Solidarity with the entire Palestinian people\"</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:04:50 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                               	                                     The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights recently published Rights in Principle -- Rights in Practice, which examines a rights-based approach to crafting durable solutions for Palestinian refugees. The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviews BADIL director Ingrid Jaradat Gassner on the organization\'s work and the new book.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/r6WElrF3AF0/article11503.shtml" title="                                                              	                                             Firas al-Maraghi from the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem has been on hunger strike outside the Israeli embassy in Be..." target="_blank">\"Bureaucratic weapons worse than bombs\"</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:50:58 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                              	                                             Firas al-Maraghi from the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem has been on hunger strike outside the Israeli embassy in Berlin since 26 July. Al-Maraghi is striking in protest of the Israeli Ministry of Interior\'s refusal to include his German-born daughter and wife on his Jerusalem residency permit. Bridget Chappell interviews al-Maraghi for The Electronic Intifada.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/AlVWjqF4dKY/article11502.shtml" title="                                                              	                                             Nuri al-Uqbi\'s small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighborhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel\'s Negev desert, hardly looks like the epicen..." target="_blank">Bedouin\'s legal fight threatens Jewish state</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:45:39 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                              	                                             Nuri al-Uqbi\'s small cinderblock home in a ramshackle neighborhood of Hura, a Bedouin town in Israel\'s Negev desert, hardly looks like the epicenter of a legal struggle that some observers say threatens Israel\'s Jewish character.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/RNljOI3gPvA/article11499.shtml" title="                                                               	                                     There are few villages in historic Palestine which invoke the memories of the Nakba (the 1948 dispossession of the Palestinian people) as does Lifta. Howe..." target="_blank">Lifta\'s legacy under threat</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:27:01 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                               	                                     There are few villages in historic Palestine which invoke the memories of the Nakba (the 1948 dispossession of the Palestinian people) as does Lifta. However, Lifta\'s architectural legacy is under threat as Israel moves to Judaize the formerly pluralistic Palestinian village.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/O0Wpe-tmg-o/article11498.shtml" title="                                                               	                                     Israel began constructing the wall in June 2002 following its invasion of cities in the West Bank, which it dubbed \"Operation Defensive Shield.\" The imm..." target="_blank">What the wall has done</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:56:48 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                               	                                     Israel began constructing the wall in June 2002 following its invasion of cities in the West Bank, which it dubbed \"Operation Defensive Shield.\" The immense scale of the 2002 invasion -- characterized by the destruction of Palestinian civilian infrastructure, mass arrests, assassinations and massacres -- ensured that the construction of the wall would commence with as little resistance as possible. Jamal Juma\' comments.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/7O0dxhfWxmE/article11492.shtml" title="                                                              	                                             As US officials arrived in Jerusalem last week to meet with Palestinian Authority and Israeli government officials, The Electronic Intifada intervi..." target="_blank">Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:25:49 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                              	                                             As US officials arrived in Jerusalem last week to meet with Palestinian Authority and Israeli government officials, The Electronic Intifada interviewed Ramallah-based lawyer and former PLO advisor Diana Buttu about this week\'s US-brokered direct talks between the two parties.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/S7EoDJdIw5s/article11496.shtml" title="                                                              	                                             \"My human dignity, basic human rights and constitutional rights are suffering from basic violations. I still have no permit to meet my lawyers wit..." target="_blank">\"Solidarity tastes different inside prison\"</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:02:45 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                              	                                             \"My human dignity, basic human rights and constitutional rights are suffering from basic violations. I still have no permit to meet my lawyers without being recorded.\" The Electronic Intifada publishes an edited excerpt from a 7 August 2010 letter written by Ameer Makhoul from Israeli prison.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/exg6GPb916I/article11494.shtml" title="                                                               	                                     When Israel\'s construction of the wall began in their village May 2008, the people of Nilin embarked on a campaign of unarmed grassroots resistance again..." target="_blank">\"Once winter\'s over, the sun will shine\"</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:04:03 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                               	                                     When Israel\'s construction of the wall began in their village May 2008, the people of Nilin embarked on a campaign of unarmed grassroots resistance against the theft of their land. They have followed a philosophy of direct action, cutting through the electronic fence and razor wire on an almost weekly basis. Jody McIntyre interviewed Mohammed Amireh, a leader of the Nilin Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements for The Electronic Intifada.');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/faHZ6kHpQMM/article11497.shtml" title="                                                              	                                             London-based journalist and photographer William Parry\'s Against the Wall serves as both a political and aesthetic document, perhaps exemplifying ..." target="_blank">Art as resistance: \"Against the Wall\" reviewed</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:07:38 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                              	                                             London-based journalist and photographer William Parry\'s Against the Wall serves as both a political and aesthetic document, perhaps exemplifying the German philosopher Walter Benjamin\'s famous thesis that \"[t]here is no document of culture that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.\"');
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document.write('<li class="rss-item"><a class="rss-item" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/electronicIntifadaPalestine/~3/tBUsVzFCo6A/article11495.shtml" title="                                                              	                                             Last week, nearly forty families who were displaced during Israel\'s winter 2008-09 attacks on the Gaza Strip took over an abadoned, partially-buil..." target="_blank">No reconstruction despite siege \"easing\"</a><br />');
document.write('<span class="rss-date">published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:05:40 PST</span><br />');
document.write('                                                              	                                             Last week, nearly forty families who were displaced during Israel\'s winter 2008-09 attacks on the Gaza Strip took over an abadoned, partially-built building in the Jabaliya refugee camp. Rami Almeghari reports for The Electronic Intifada.');
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