Al Jazeera recently produced this interesting report on Palestinians trying to move into Israeli settlements in Jerusalem: It’s interesting that Israel’s massive restrictions over Palestinians in Jerusalem is forcing them to find the loophole, which in this case is moving…
This morning Joseph Dana (aka Ibn Ezra) sent us the following email: This morning the army dismantled parts of hilltop 26 (18), the place that we wrote the article about. Check out the news here (editor note: you can read…
Update from Phil (sent by phone): Looks like were getting in. At egypt emigration. Police let us thru checkpoints. Feeling good, though who of all our number didn’t get okd? A Palestinian trying to go home, papers out of order….
The Obama administration is putting Israeli settlements front and center and Israeli politicians are doing their best to spin the issue. Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely has held her conference opposing the two-state solution where Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon argued…
The growing movement for an academic boycott of Israel has been criticized as limiting academic discourse and debate. Defenders of the boycott point out that the discourse is already limited by Israeli occupation policy which shuts down Palestinian universities arbitrarily,…
Jack Ross takes on Professor Eliav Shuchtman’s belief that Israel should not be a state of all its citizens: The references to Israel not being “a state of all its citizens” as a principle of international law are clearly alluding…
Egyptian police turned back a delegation of 60 international volunteers this morning a few miles from the Gaza border, ignoring a United Nations invitation that described the group as “a vital means of shedding light on the present circumstances and…
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It’s Monday night in Egypt. We are in El-Arish, a resort town about 20 minutes from the Gaza border, where we will go first thing tomorrow morning. I’m with a group of 13 activists and humanitarians mostly from New York,…