Palestine Think Tank

Posts Tagged ‘wall’

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 [...]

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 [...]