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Tag Archives: West Bank
Expert UN panel established to investigate ‘implications’ of settlements on Palestinian human rights
A rejoinder to the Levy report, which concluded that there is no Israeli occupation, will be published soon in the form of a UN report on Israeli settlements in the occupied territories.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Israeli Government, Settlers/Colonists
Tagged Human Rights Council, United Nations, West Bank
19 Comments
Israeli apartheid is never fit to print in the ‘Times’, only in ‘Haaretz’
When has the Times ever filed a serious report on Israeli apartheid policies, and will it ever? Meanwhile, Haaretz today runs an editorial page broadside against the colony/settlement Ariel’s University expansion plans.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, One state/Two states, US Politics
Tagged Ariel, Ehan Bronner, Haaretz, media bias, new york times, Viable Palestinian State, West Bank
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Tamimi was killed because of occupied village’s insistence on access to its only well
Men should not be killed while walking to their village water well
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Occupation, Settlers/Colonists
Tagged IDF, Israel, Mustafa Tamimi, Nabi Saleh, Tear Gas, West Bank
4 Comments
West Bank village under siege faces live-ammo, arrests and concussion grenades at nonviolent demo
The West Bank village of Beit Ommar has had a tough August, withstanding frequent Israeli military raids that see soldiers shoot tear-gas into residential areas and arrest Palestinian minors. Last Saturday, the month got even tougher for activists resisting illegal … Continue reading
Posted in Settlers/Colonists
Tagged Beit Ommar, Israel Defense Forces, settlements, West Bank
13 Comments
U.S. Treasury says: There’s nothing to see on tax-exempt support for illegal settlements
Investigative journalist and author Grant Smith‘s “Israel Lobby Archive” project gets a response from a Freedom of Information Act request filed in 2007, which asked for access to internal Treasury Department records on programs to stop or investigate charitable funds … Continue reading
Corporate media erase U.S. role in Hamas-Fatah split
In response to the youth of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank rising up on March 14 and 15 to call for Palestinian political unity, both the leaders of Fatah and Hamas pledged to enter into talks aimed at … Continue reading
Palestinian unity movement’s goal strikes at heart of Israeli occupation strategy of divide and conquer
The slogans are simple enough: “the people want an end to the division,” tens of thousands of young protesters in Gaza and the West Bank chanted as their protest movement demanding Palestinian political unity kicked off March 14. But beneath … Continue reading
On International Women’s Day, Palestinian women are faced with two struggles – freedom from occupation and liberation within their own society
The following interview is with Hitam Saafin, the Chair of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC), which was founded in 1980. UPWC’s aim is to empower Palestinian women, while contributing to the Palestinian national struggle against the Israeli occupation. … Continue reading
U.N.: ‘The family has requested a tent as they have nowhere else to live’ (US: ‘What, me worry?’)
A friend just sent me a summary of a comprehensive report being circulated inside the U.N. that details the latest house demolitions by Israel. They are not just in the Jordan Valley, as earlier reports suggested, but all over the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged East Jerusalem, house demolitions, Jewish claims, Jordan Valley, Mount of Olives, settler evictions, U.N., West Bank
18 Comments
‘We are not in Israel’: Close encounters at the entrance to the Nokdim Settlement
A Palestinian family living in Bethlehem but originally from the village of Jeb al Theeb contacted our group of volunteers asking for help in harvesting olives on their land adjacent to the settlement of Nokdim, home to Israeli FM Avigdor … Continue reading
The calm strength of a Palestinian woman
Umm Khaled, at first glance, is a Palestinian woman like many others: black clothing drapes over her body and head, her face marked by the years making her look older than she probably is. Yet this woman, who according to … Continue reading
The Israeli military left it to settlers to monitor Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest
Jeb al Theeb, a small West Bank village south of Bethlehem, is under constant threat by the illegal Israeli settlements surrounding it. The small house we called home for a month had a view of the so-called Lieberman Road, which … Continue reading
The reunification of my parents
Yesterday my mother crossed the Allenby bridge, from the West Bank to Jordan, to see my father in Amman. What makes this banal act unusual is that she had to wait almost a year to be finally granted permission to … Continue reading
How many Israeli soldiers does it take to keep an elderly Palestinian woman from harvesting her olives?
The headline sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but it is an unfortunate reality of life in the West Bank. We are in the middle of the olive harvest season and with it comes episodes of violence as well the … Continue reading
‘New York Times’ is clueless
“New York Times execs visit West Bank city “Publisher, senior editors of influential American newspaper given tour of Ariel as part of Yesha Council PR campaign” Those are Ynet’s headlines. NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and executive editor Bill Keller … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Ariel, Arthur Sulzberger, Bill Keller, Dani Dayan, Jr., new york times, settlements, West Bank
38 Comments
Viva Palestina’s ‘Lifeline 5′ convoy reaches Gaza
Viva Palestina Lifeline 5 convoy reached Gaza today, with 140 vehicles, 300 activists and over three million pounds worth of aid. Each consecutive convoy is larger than the last one, increasing the number of activists involved (from 30 countries) and … Continue reading
Posted in Beyondoweiss, Gaza, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged Gaza, Hamas, occupation, Palestine, West Bank, Zionism
93 Comments
Israel-centric Ethan Bronner cites Israeli law on East J’lem and Golan, ignoring crystal clear int’l standards
Nestled in this all over-the-place article written by Ethan Bronner in today’s New York Times is this factually-challenged nugget: Both East Jerusalem and the Golan were officially annexed by Israel through parliamentary votes, so by Israeli law they count as … Continue reading
Israeli soldiers don keffiyehs to try to break the back of Palestinian resistance, then stop photographers from filming them
Notes from the moral battleground: an amazing post by Joseph Dana on a demonstration against the illegal colonization of the village of Beit Ummar in which Israeli security disguised themselves as Palestinian demonstrators in order to arrest three Palestinian protesters. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged arrest, Biet Ummar, disguise, Israeli occupation, Joseph Dana, keffiyeh, protesters, West Bank
50 Comments
The hallowed Israeli kibbutz– No Palestinians accepted
Two weeks ago, Jeff Halper, the human rights activist, drove me south through the West Bank and I asked him about the blessed kibbutzes of my childhood memory, the Jewish agricultural cooperatives that were transforming Jewish identity and making the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged discrimination, Efrat, Hebron, Israel, Jeff Halper, Jim Crow, kibbutz, rabbis, Tony Judt, West Bank, Yonatan Shapira
21 Comments
The bubble inside the bubble
I spent the past weekend on a Jewish settlement in the West Bank, attending my nephew’s post-wedding festivities. The last time I was in the vicinity of this particular settlement was about ten years ago, when I went – together … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Settlers/Colonists
Tagged 1948, 1967, Colonies, Nakba, occupation, settlements, two-state solution, West Bank
99 Comments
