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Posts Tagged ‘Bi’lin’

Rally: Free Palestinian political prisoner Mohammad Khatib!

By Guest Post • Aug 11th, 2009 • Category: Action Alert, Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Human Rights, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Zionism

Israel continues to imprison Palestinian community activist Mohammad Khatib from Bil’in village in the West Bank.
Mohammad Khatib, along with over twenty other Palestinians from Bil’in, has been arbitrarily arrested during a recent night-time raid carried out by the Israeli army. The agricultural village of Bil’in has gained international attention for its weekly protests against the [...]

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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Iyad Bornat – For Freedom and Justice (and Bassem) "History will not forgive those who are partners in crime"

By Guest Post • Apr 24th, 2009 • Category: Biography, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Culture and Heritage, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Introduction and translation of the speech by Mazin Qumsiyeh – In this videotape, Bassem Aburahma (nick named ElFeel, the elephant, for he was always thought of as a giant among his peers) is seen pleading with Israeli soldiers to wait (saying Raiga in Hebrew) as Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals protested the land confiscation and building [...]