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Posts Tagged ‘Apartheid Wall’

Doc Jazz – Undhor! Anti-wall song and video

By Guest Post • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

This song is dedicated to Basem Abu Rahme, 29 years old, who was non-violently protesting the theft of his village's farmlands and was shot dead by the Israeli Occupation Forces.
The song expresses support for the people's struggle against the Israeli Apartheid Wall in Bil'in and Nil'in, on the West Bank in Palestine. People there are waging daily non-violent protests against the confiscation of their lands and their livelihood, while the armed forces of Israel respond with live ammunition and have injured and killed several people in this way.



Justice for Mohammad Othman

By Guest Post • Nov 14th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

Weeks of solitary confinement. Six military hearings. Sleep deprivation. No access to a lawyer. No criminal charge.
Mohammad Othman, a prominent Palestinian activist involved with War on Want partner, Stop the Wall, has been detained without charge by Israeli authorities. His detention is illegal – and he now faces the risk of torture. We need to [...]



cartoon of the day

By Carlos Latuff • Nov 10th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Cartoon of the day


Israel Persecutes Israeli Arab MK

By Kawther Salam • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Kawther's Choice

The Israeli Public Prosecution in the Magistrate's Court of Tel Aviv – Jaffa imposed a serious indictment against the Israeli MK (member of the Knesset), Mohammad Barakeh, a Hadash representative. The court accused Barakeh of assaulting police and soldiers on four different occasions over a period of two years since 2005. The indictment was signed [...]



Tear down THIS wall!

By Mary Rizzo • Nov 9th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance

A group of Palestinians from the popular committees and Fatah movement tore down a part of the Apartheid Wall separating occupied East Jerusaelm from the rest of the West Bank.
  
On Monday 9 November a hundred Palestinians waving Palestinain flags and wearing florecent jackets saying "WE ARE GOING TO JERUSALEM" took down a piece of the [...]



Hany Abu Assad – Short Film: "A Boy, A Wall and a Donkey"

By Mary Rizzo • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: Artwork, Ideas and Projects, Israel, Music, Poetry, Events, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video, Zionism

This beautiful short film was produced in the series sponsored by the EU commission on Human Rights.
A must watch clip.



Football game or tear gas and bullets? Palestinians put racist ad to test

By Haitham Sabbah • Jul 23rd, 2009 • Category: Haitham's Choice, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Video, War, Zionism

The row over a racist advert of Cellcom – an Israeli mobile phone operator, which shows Israel Occupation Forces soldiers playing football with Palestinians on both sides of the Apartheid Wall, continues.
In the Cellcom advert, IOF soldiers on patrol along the Wall stop their army jeep when it is hit by a soccer ball from [...]



Luisa Morgantini – Under attack Bil’in and the peaceful resistance of the village against the Israeli wall

By Guest Post • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Grassroots Activism, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Resistance, Zionism

UPDATE: parts of this article are taken from
MIFTAH. The editor notes that several quotes and lines in this article were taken directly or indirectly from an article written for MIFTAH by Jennifer Urgilez entitled "Bilin Under Fire: Peaceful resistance meets assailment" published on July 15.  by Luisa Morgantini, Former Vice President of the European Parliament

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Mazin Qumsiyeh – A crazy world?

By Guest Post • Jul 20th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Children's Corner, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

The old Hebron to Jerusalem (now Hebron-to-wall-near Bethlehem) road was lined up with perhaps over 200 armed special forces.  These are not Israeli but Palestinian "security".  I was going to pick a friend at Dheisheh Refugee camp to eat Knafah (a Palestinian sweet). Every 10 meters (30 ft) for a stretch of over a mile there [...]



Int'l study: Israeli control in occupied territories 'is a breach of the prohibition of apartheid'

By Haitham Sabbah • May 17th, 2009 • Category: Features, Haitham's Choice, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Zionism

The following international report concluding that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories "has become a colonial enterprise which implements a system of apartheid" was sent out by journalist Ben White. Another stinging statement from the report: "The Wall and its infrastructure of gates and permanent checkpoints suggest a policy permanently to divide the West Bank into [...]