photo gallery “Neighbors – YES! Apartheid – NO!” said one of the posters that were carried by the demonstrators at Wadi Muhammad, near Beit-Jala. Some 200 activists of Gush Shalom and other peace movements answered the call of the villagers and protested on Tuesday (7.7.09) against the fence that separates the villagers from their olive … Read more
“I sat down a whole night in Damascus with Haled Mash’al and other members of the Hamas leadership in order to facilitate their inclusion in the political process and in a Palestinian National Unity Government which could be a partner to negotiations. From here I am going to Gaza on a similar mission” said former … Read more
OBAMA IS RIGHT! There are no legal settlements! All the settlements sit on stolen land! There is no difference between “private” Arab land and the land reserves of the villages, which are called “government land”! All the settlements were set up with the money of the Israeli tax-payers! The “natural increase” of the settlements must … Read more
photo gallery The day after Youssuf Akul Srour was killed in cold blood by a Border Guard sharpshooter during a demonstration against the Wall at Na’ilin village, 3000 protesters marched through the streets of Tel-Aviv to mark the 42nd anniversary of the Occupation. “Democracy cannot be built / Over the bodies of demonstrators!” the protesters … Read more
The so called “Loyalty Law”, the brainchild of the racist provocateur Avigdor Lieberman, was designed to deprive millions of Israelis of their citizenship and turn Israel into an outspoken racist state and society. The widespread anger, alarm and indignation roused by this and other racist provocative bills left the government no choice but to take … Read more
photo gallery Already for four years, demonstrations are taking place at the village of Bil’in, to protest the “Separation Fence” which robs the villagers of much of their land, and whose route is in blatant violation of the Supreme Court ruling. Also before, the army used violence to disperse the Palestinian, Israeli and international demonstrators. … Read more
Volunteers urgently needed to stay with Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarakh. We have just gotten an urgent call from Rabbis for Human Rights: Two more Palestinian families at the Sheikh Jarakh Neighborhood in East Jerusalem are threatened with expulsion. According to the one-week eviction orders handed to the Ghawi and Hannun families, the police would … Read more
photo gallery A government comes, a government goes – and the struggle continues. Four years of struggle and non-violent resistance, a struggle which made “Bil’in” into a household name in the Palestinian territories and also in Israel and around the world. An example from which other villagers have learned whose lands were also robbed. Small … Read more
The rampaging racist Avigdor Lieberamn is the ugly face in the mirror in which Israel 2009 is looking. A brutal, power-mad country which killed 1300 Gazans, many of them children. A country whose leaders brazenly refuse to make even the slightest apology for what they perpetrated, who angrily rebuff the waves of protest from all … Read more
Saturday, Jan 31st, at 15:00, in Gan Hashnaim (Yefet st. corner of Dr. Erlich)In the course of three weeks, Israel has bombarded and destroyed the streets of Gaza, leaving blood baths behind. The ‘lords of war’ rejoiced in another battle, blinding the public’s eye to the intensity of the havoc they caused. They explained that … Read more