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Posts Tagged ‘Shin Bet’

Khalid Amayreh – Full account of Muhammed Omer’s hair-raising encounter with the Shin Bet

By Khalid Amayreh • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Biography, Features, Interviews, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance

From his hospital bed at the European Hospital in Gaza and with barely audible voice, award-winning Palestinian journalist Muhammed Omer has given a full account of the hair-raising encounter he had last week with Shin Bet agents at the Allenby Bridge border-crossing between Jordan and the West Bank.
Omer, a co-winner of the 2008 Martha Gelhorn Prize for Journalistic Excellence, said [...]

PETITION! Lift Travel Restrictions on Palestinian Journalist

By Mary Rizzo • Jun 1st, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Palestine, Petitions, Zionism

SIGN THE PETITION To: Israeli and Palestinian Authorities -Palestinian journalist Khalid Amayreh, who lives in the West Bank, has been invited to attend a media conference in Germany. As required, he set about to request all of the necessary travel documents, including a visa that needs to be granted from the German representative [...]

Finkelstein and Me

By Khalid Amayreh • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Action Alert, Analysis, Israel, Khalid Amayreh, Newswire, Our Authors, Palestine, Zionism

Seeking to punish critics for communicating the truth about Israel to the world, Israel has barred an American scholar from entering the country and a Palestinian journalist from leaving the occupied territories for a brief trip to Germany.

Israel’s chief domestic intelligence agency, the Shin Bet, as it is known by its Hebrew acronym, has detained [...]