No exit, By Uri Blau and Tal Haran (Trans.) UCSB - Sociology. Research Interests Hajjar has an MA in Arab Studies with a concentration in InternationalAffairs from Georgetown University (1986) and a PhD in Sociology fromThe American University (1995).
Her areas of expertise include sociologyof law, law and society, international and global studies, and politicalsociology. Her research interests include human rights, internationallaw, torture, war and conflict. A free nation in our land. Palestine Diaries. When I told the Israeli border official who interviewed me that I was going to Ramallah, she sneered and wrinkled her brow: “okay.”
Why would anyone go there, she seemed to say. There was no mistaking her disapproval. Looking at my US passport, she wanted to know about my family tree: my father's name and my father's father's name.
(copy & paste link) Israel's latest threat - the silver screen. How Israel takes its revenge on boys who throw stones - Middle East, World. During the nearly six-hour video, 14-year-old Palestinian Islam Tamimi, exhausted and scared, is steadily broken to the point where he starts to incriminate men from his village and weave fantastic tales that he believes his tormentors want to hear.
This rarely seen footage seen by The Independent offers a glimpse into an Israeli interrogation, almost a rite of passage that hundreds of Palestinian children accused of throwing stones undergo every year. Israel has robustly defended its record, arguing that the treatment of minors has vastly improved with the creation of a military juvenile court two years ago. But the children who have faced the rough justice of the occupation tell a very different story. "The problems start long before the child is brought to court, it starts with their arrest," says Naomi Lalo, an activist with No Legal Frontiers, an Israeli group that monitors the military courts. Jahalin: When Israel expelled Palestinians. Jahalin Beduin School cc: flicker by zooocram RHR have been working with this tribe of Bedouin for a long time now, since a couple of thousand of them were expelled/evicted from the area around Maaleh Adumim to make way for its expansion in the 1990s.
At the time rabbis Jeremy Milgrom and Arik Ascherman organized protests, including an interfaith protest prayer at the sight of one their expulsions in which and a number of other rabbis participated. Creating A New Communal Tent For Ending the Occupation. Israel Police question six children for hours without parents present. When a Palestinian child becomes an enemy.
Does Israel intentionally target civilians? Israeli policy (unlike Hamas or Hezbollah) is not intended to maximize civilian casualties.
Palestinian Doctor’s Push for Peace, in a Memoir. Human Rights activist Ahmad Qatamesh, detained for 6 years in the 90s, is arrested again without charges. Omar Barghoti released this statement earlier today accompanying an article (which follows) regarding Dr.
Ahmad Qatamesh, a prominent Palestinian writer, academic and human rights advocate. “They told him they will issue an “administrative detention” order against him, clearly indicating that they have arrested him for his writings and political views. Human rights organizations have squarely condemned administrative detention as an affront to justice, as the detainee is not formally charged and is not given a chance to defend him/herself or even access to the charges list. Please distribute this to your human rights and activists networks, urging everyone to do their best to pressure Israel to release him and all other Palestinian prisoners of conscience.”
In the early hours of dawn on Thursday, 21 April 2011, a large force of Israeli soldiers and intelligence officers raided the home of the prominent Palestinian writer and academic Dr. The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker. The Hour of Sunlight: One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker at 12:00am, February 13, 2011.Follow TomDispatch on Twitter @TomDispatch.
By Jen Marlowe and Sami Al Jundi As a teenager, Sami Al Jundi had one ambition: overthrowing Israeli occupation. With two friends he formed a militant cell and began building a bomb to use against the Israeli police. Photographer deliberately shot by Israeli soldier during Nakba Day clashes. Palestinian news photographer Mohammed Othman was badly injured by a shot fired by an Israeli soldier while covering clashes between young Palestinians and Israeli troops at the Beit Hanoun (Erez) border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel on 15 May, the anniversary of Israel’s creation, marked as “Nakba Day” (Day of Disaster) by Palestinians.
He was taken to Shifa hospital where he underwent surgery for a gunshot injury to the chest yesterday. Doctors described his condition as stable. Reporters Without Borders was told that Othman was clearly identifiable as a journalist at the time of the shooting and was deliberately targeted. The press freedom organization urges the Israeli authorities to investigate the circumstances in which he was shot and punish those responsible.
In response to a call by the Union of Journalists, dozens of reporters gathered yesterday in Gaza City to express their support for Othman and to condemn Israeli military abuses against Palestinian journalists. Irish Peace Laureate Shot By Israeli Troops at Non-Violent Protest - Why Isn't This News? If you listened to Democracy Now on Monday, you already know the following: Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire was among a number of people shot Friday by Israeli troops at a nonviolent protest of the "apartheid wall" in the Palestinian village of Bil'in, near Ramallah.
But if you didn't listen to Democracy Now Monday, you probably didn't know that. Maguire was shot with what the Israeli military - and some press reports - misleading refer to as a "rubber bullet" - that is, a rubber-coated steel bullet. Why isn't this "news" in the United States? Palestine Is Still the Issue. John Pilger made the film 'Palestine Is Still The Issue' in 1977.
It told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land in 1948, and again in 1967. Twenty five years later, John Pilger returns to the West Bank of Jordan and Gaza, and to Israel, to ask why the Palestinians, whose right of return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo - refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times. "If we are to speak of the great injustice here, nothing has changed," says Pilger at the start of the film, "What has changed is that the Palestinians have fought back.