Category Archives: Occupation

Why Israel freed Khader Adnan

Adnan’s case, as numerous commentators rightly note, has drawn attention to Israel’s practice of administrative detention. But by promising to release Adnan, the Israeli government headed off what could have been an embarrassing political and legal debacle.

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Visualizing Palestine: Hunger strikes

A graphic outlining the history, and physical effects, of hunger strikes.

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Why young Palestinians chant the word ‘thoura’

I ask a Palestinian student if he has ever been to the sea, which he can see from his home. His answer reflects the widespread desperation among Palestinians and the call for revolutionary change.

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PennBDS still being smeared two weeks after student conference

Though it has been two weeks since the much-discussed PennBDS conference, it seems that some opponents of Palestine solidarity simply cannot let it go.

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, BDS, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Occupation, US Politics | Tagged | 7 Comments

Global march to challenge the ‘Judaization’ of Jerusalem

Hundreds of community organizations in dozens of countries spanning the globe have decided to participate in a massive Global March to Jerusalem on March 30, 2012.

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The Palestinian refugees of Lebanon

In my native Lebanon, where I volunteered last winter in a number of Palestinian refugees camps such as Burj el Barajne, I saw first hand the immense level of deprivation Palestinians face as refugees in Lebanon, where they are prevented from the right to work, from joining any Lebanese trade unions, from owning property and even denied social security.

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Assault on Beinart begins with poll claiming young American Jews love Israel

Beinart is wrong about Zionism, say critics– American Jews heart Israel

Posted in Activism, American Jewish Community, Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Middle East, Nakba, Neocons, Occupation, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics | 15 Comments

Video: mob of settlers call Hanin Zoabi a ‘terrorist’

Settlers mob member of Knesset Hanin Zoabi on Sunday as she walks through Hebron with military escort.

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‘Cruelest demolition’ kills Palestinians’ sheep and signals political tension with Europeans

German government has defied Israeli occupation in supporting solar project in a Palestinian village crowded by settlements

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Khader Adnan ends strike and will be released in April, under reported deal

Israeli officials today offered a deal to hunger striker Khader Adnan, now in his 66th day of protest against his administrative detention.

Posted in Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Media, Occupation | Tagged | 22 Comments

Israeli spokesman Mark Regev grilled on CNN International over Khader Adnan

CNN International’s Hala Gorani interviews Mark Regev about Khader Adnan’s case.

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Greenwald: Indefinite detention policies have become normalized legally, politically and culturally in Israel and the US

Glenn Greenwald: “abuses have now been going on for so long in the two countries, are so entrenched, that they have been absorbed into the political landscape as barely noticed accoutrements.”

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Half the story: What @IDFSpokesperson leaves out about Gaza

Regular updates on just about every projectile fired from Gaza is reported by the Israeli military’s official twitter account @IDFSpokesperson as well as from the accounts of other Israeli military figures like that of spokesperson @AvitalLeibovich. But what about projectiles fired by Israel into Gaza?

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Bassem Tamimi to Israeli military judge: I do not recognize the authority of the Israeli occupation

Yesterday, after nearly a year in Israeli detention, Nabi Saleh’s Bassem Tamimi was finally given a chance to plead his case before an Israeli military court. He denied the charges against him, and upheld Nabi Saleh’s right to struggle against the occupation and theft of the village’s lands.

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The end of the ‘two-state solution’ is the beginning of a more just future

Ever aware that the struggle for liberation must be led by Palestinians, our collective task at the moment, in my view, is to bring about the collapse of the present situation in Palestine in order to exploit its fundamental unsustainabilty.

Posted in Activism, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Nakba, Occupation, One state/Two states, US Policy in the Middle East | 31 Comments

If Khader Adnan was a Jewish terrorist, he might be free

As I write this, Khader Adnan is near death, on the 63rd day of a hunger strike to protest his detention without charges by Israeli occupation authorities. Unfortunately for Adnan, he was not a Jewish terror suspect.

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Checkpoint snapshot

We were moving at snails pace through the checkpoint of one of the Palestinian territories. That is where his voice keeps echoing, “How could you do this to an old man, he did nothing to you.”

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Khader Adnan is honored at Bil’in protest

Palestinians unfurl huge image of hunger striker Khader Adnan at weekly Bil’in protest in occupied Palestine

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Write a letter of support and solidarity to Khader Adnan and his family

A small group of writers, students, and activists is collecting letters of support and solidarity for Khader Adnan and his family. All of these letters are published at http://khaderadnan.posterous.com/.

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“Four days in Ramallah through the lens of dehumanization” – remembering Anthony Shadid

Boston.com just republished Shadid’s four day account of his journey through the West Bank in the spring of 2002. It’s worth quoting it at length; there’s no better way to mark Shadid’s career than letting his words speak for him.

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Israel increases tax breaks to settlements

Last weekend a bill was passed giving a 35% tax break to organizations “strengthening Zionism and encouraging Zionist settlement.”

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The Jab’a accident and the infrastructure of occupation

This post appeared yesterday on the Palestine Center blog Permission to Narrate: When I heard the tragic news this morning about an accident involving a school bus near Jab’a that left several young Palestinian school children dead I was devastated … Continue reading

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Book Review: ‘A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship’

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) book A Child’s View from Gaza: Palestinian Children’s Art and the Fight Against Censorship offers a behind the scenes window into a continued struggle to give voice to a people whose cultural identity has been assaulted, ignored, hidden, repressed, attacked and stolen.

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If Khader Adnan was anything but Palestinian

Reflections on the case of Khader Adnan.

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Khader Adnan, 61 days on a hunger strike, near death

A Palestinian prisoner on his 61st day of hunger strike while shackled to a bed in an Israeli hospital is in immediate danger of death, according to a medical report submitted to the supreme court in an effort to secure his release.

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