Category Archives: Reports/Video

Scenes from Qalandiya, Land Day 2012

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Leehee Rothschild

The sirens of the ambulances won’t stop for a minute, and they combine with the screams to create a horrible cacophony. Different sorts of explosions give the beat to the soundtrack of Qalandia.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video | 6 Comments

Video: Students in Palestine and the US mark Land Day by calling on TIAA-CREF to divest

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

A three minute video calls on TIAA-CREF to end its investments in corporations that profit from Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 3 Comments

Making Herstory: Revolutionary Egyptian women speak

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Sasha Gelzin

A new video project focused on Egyptian women activists captures the narrative of change in Egypt and gives spectacular insight into how “ordinary” women make revolutionary choices for themselves and their families.

Posted in Arab Spring, Egypt, Middle East, Reports/Video | 1 Comment

Israeli diplomat chased out of Morocco after mass protest

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Allison Deger

Yesterday, Israeli diplomat David Saranga was chased out of Morocco after a mass demonstration for Palestinian rights spread across the capital.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Middle East, Reports/Video | 28 Comments

Barghouti and Waskow debate BDS on Democracy Now

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Adam Horowitz
Posted in Activism, BDS, Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video | 95 Comments

Cultivate Hope – a poem for Hana Shalabi

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Rafeef Ziadah’s new poem in honor of Hana Shalabi.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 2 Comments

A night raid in Nabi Saleh displays oafishness and contempt

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Allison Deger

The Tamimi family films a raid of their Nabi Saleh house, sharing a rare peek into the late night activities of the IDF.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, On the ground reports, Reports/Video | Tagged | 3 Comments

Sometimes they fall from the sky: a report from Gaza

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Johnny Barber

Johnny Barber reports from Gaza on the after effects of Israel’s air strikes, including attending the funeral of one child and visiting a family whose youngest son was injured.

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, On the ground reports, Reports/Video | 1 Comment

The video that pushed Peter Beinart to speak out against the occupation

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Peter Beinart identifies an internet video of a Palestinian child crying for his father as a tipping point in his decision to speak out against the occupation.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 41 Comments

Video: Chicago stands with Hana Shalabi

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

For more information see facebook.com/FreeHana.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 2 Comments

UN report on Israel is the ‘most cutting recognition and condemnation of a legal system of segregation since apartheid South Africa’

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Using unprecedented strong language, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) criticized Israeli policies in terms of “apartheid”, as part of their published observations following a regular review.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, One state/Two states, Reports/Video | 7 Comments

Those killed in Gaza have a name, and each has a family that grieves for them

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Johnny Barber

With the exception of the two men Israel assassinated on Friday March 9 – Zuhair al-Qaisy, secretary-general of the Popular Resistance Committees, and Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Hanini, a Hamas military leader – the Palestinians killed remained nameless in all mainstream media accounts of the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza. Johnny Barber interviews the families of those killed.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics, War on Terror | Tagged | 10 Comments

‘Refusing to die quietly’: Israel invades home of Popular Committee leader Abu Husam Tamimi in Nabi Saleh

Posted on March 19, 2012 by Annie Robbins

Last night, the Israeli military invaded the home of Abu Husam Tamimi, a popular resistance leader in Nabi Saleh. Tamimi was part of a group who launched a defense campaign dubbed “Refusing to die quietly” to counter settler violence.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 11 Comments

Video: IDF caught in a lie about Tristan Anderson

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Allison Deger

This week, a support group for Tristan Anderson released new video evidence identifying the IDF soldier who injured the peace activist, nearly fatally, with a long-range tear gas canister in 2009. The video shows the soldier was at a much closer distance than stated in testimony given during a military investigation.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Reports/Video | 77 Comments

Israeli police use attack dogs on Palestinian protesters in the West Bank

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

In a scene reminiscent of the American South of the 1960s, Israeli Border Police turned an army attack dog on a group of the demonstrators today in the West Bank village of Kufer Qaddoum. The dog chased after the protesters, biting and locking his jaws into the arm of one of them.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | Tagged | 28 Comments

Trailer: Pro-Israel all-stars team up with ex-FBI informant in anti-Occupy documentary

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Allison Deger

David Horowitz and the late Andrew Breitbart team up with former FBI informant Brandon Darby in a feature length “exposé” on the Occupy Wall St. movement.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Neocons, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East | 4 Comments

Video: Newt snoozes waiting on AIPAC, but hardly misses a beat

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Live video feed caught Newt Gingrich sleeping while waiting on go at the AIPAC policy conference. He wakes up expecting a panel that doesn’t exist. Crickets ensue.

Posted in Israel Lobby, Reports/Video | 7 Comments

VIDEO: UCLA students walk out on IDF campus event

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

On Tuesday, February 28th, 2012, SJP at UCLA organized a Gaza memorial as part of its annual Palestine Awareness Week. In response, Bruins for Israel and StandWithUs invited IDF soldiers to campus to present a whitewashed version of the IDF’s actions in Operation Cast Lead.

Posted in Activism, Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Reports/Video | 5 Comments

Young activist disrupts AIPAC panel about ‘Israel on Campus’

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Adam Horowitz
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Liza Behrendt, 22 year old member of Young Jewish and Proud, the youth wing of Jewish Voice for Peace, stood up during a breakout session called “The Struggle to Secure Israel on Campus” to call attention to the silencing of Palestinians— and young Jews who support them — on U.S. campuses.

Posted in Activism, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video, US Politics | Tagged | 39 Comments

Separation diary

Posted on February 24, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

More on the story of Taiseer and Lana Khatib fighting Israel’s citzenship law:

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Day and night in a Bahraini jail

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Radhika Sainath

Radhika Sainath describes her arrest and interrogation in Bahrain: “They had got me. In Bahrain, supporting human rights was something akin to terrorism, and I had just admitted to it.”

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Reports/Video, US Policy in the Middle East | Tagged | 4 Comments

A criminal for witnessing: A US activist’s deportation from the Kingdom of Bahrain

Posted on February 18, 2012 by K. Flo Razowsky

K. Flo Razowsky describes her tumultuous time in Bahrain trying to stay a step ahead of the government while supporting the growing “revolutionary movement for democracy.”

Posted in Activism, Arab Spring, Middle East, Reports/Video | Tagged | 4 Comments

Report: Last five years has seen a 315% rise in settler violence; this violence is ‘structural and symptomatic of occupation’

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Adam Horowitz

Yesterday, the Palestine Center released the new report “When Settlers Attack,” the result of of a two-year project which cataloged over 3,700 instances of settler violence from 2004-2011.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Occupation, Reports/Video, Settlers/Colonists | 14 Comments

Norman Finkelstein slams the BDS movement calling it ‘a cult’

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Adam Horowitz
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Norman Finkelstein on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. Recorded at Imperial College London on February 9, 2012.

Posted in Activism, BDS, Occupation, One state/Two states, Reports/Video | Tagged | 359 Comments

Shit Zionists say

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Annie Robbins

A new video jumps on the “Shit ______ Say” bandwagon sharing some the most popular arguments hasbarists have to offer.

Posted in Israel/Palestine, Reports/Video | 21 Comments