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Electronic Intifada : Palestine
Palestine's weapon of mass instruction
- Divestment: from the campus to the streets
published on Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:36:38 PST
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. - Israel's evidence questioned as Corrie trial resumes
published on Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:30:08 PST
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. - For a morally consistent boycott of Israel
published on Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:00:56 PST
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. - Siege casts shadow over Ramadan
published on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:36:19 PST
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. - Ramadan in Gaza's boundary zone
published on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:30:19 PST
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. - Price tag reprisals in Hebron
published on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:19:41 PST
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. - "We need to nationalize the resistance"
published on Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:53:48 PST
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. - Mass arrests, clashes follow settler shootings
published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:43:59 PST
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. - Yale lending name to racist conference
published on Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:43:30 PST
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. - Why Israel imprisoned my best friend
published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:22:49 PST
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. - "Solidarity with the entire Palestinian people"
published on Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:04:50 PST
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. - "Bureaucratic weapons worse than bombs"
published on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:50:58 PST
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. - Bedouin's legal fight threatens Jewish state
published on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:45:39 PST
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. - Lifta's legacy under threat
published on Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:27:01 PST
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. - What the wall has done
published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:56:48 PST
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. - Diana Buttu: direct talks bound to fail
published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:25:49 PST
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. - "Solidarity tastes different inside prison"
published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:02:45 PST
"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. - "Once winter's over, the sun will shine"
published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:04:03 PST
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. - Art as resistance: "Against the Wall" reviewed
published on Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:07:38 PST
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." - No reconstruction despite siege "easing"
published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:05:40 PST
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.