Israeli District Attorney orders reopening of investigation into shooting of Tristan Anderson

In response to an appeal, the Israeli District Attorney has reportedly today ordered the police to reopen their investigation into the shooting that critically injured American activist, Tristan Anderson, during an anti-Wall protest in the West Bank village of Ni’ilin on March 13th, 2009.
Anderson was hit in the face by a high velocity tear gas [...]

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Qalandia Checkpoint: warping strategies of adaptation – cont’d

This is Part Two, a continuation of extended excerpts from Reema Hammami’s article (from the Spring 2010 issue [No. 41] of Jerusalem Quarterly, edited by the estimable Salim Tamari), on the growth and tightening of Qalandia checkpoint — which has now become a “border terminal” between Ramallah and Jerusalem.
Her article continues: “But how was order [...]

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Qalandia Checkpoint: warping strategies of adaptation

The Spring 2010 issue (No. 41) of Jerusalem Quarterly, edited by the estimable Salim Tamari, contains a fascinating — though academic — analysis of the disgraceful Qalandia (Qalandiya) checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah (and the rest of the northern, middle, and western West Bank).
Salim, who has been teaching for a semester at Georgetown University, writes [...]

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An eye for an eye?

No, of course I am not advocating this kind of justice.
But I am taking a break from the on-going saga of the Freedom Flotilla and as many of its implications I can think about, to note that a 21-year old American woman, an artist and art student (originally described as a journalist) was shot in [...]

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It’s Friday – Bili’n and Nil’in are (update) not-so-Closed Military Zones

It’s Friday — and now we know that the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Nil’in, who have had weekly demonstrations for years, every Friday after the noon prayers, against The Wall that has taken so much of their lands are Closed Military Zones.
That means: by Israeli military order, no non-residents (not other Palestinians, not [...]

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IDF bans outsiders from being in two Palestinian villages on Fridays for six months

For several years, there have been regular weekly demonstrations against The Wall that the Israeli military has built though the West Bank villages of Bil’in and Nil’in, west of Ramallah. The demonstrations started in February 2005 in Bil’in. In both villages, the demonstrations are held every week, on Friday, at mid-day, after the [...]

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“The reason for walls is always fear”

Roger Waters (Pink Floyd, The Wall) has visited The Wall here — Israel’s “security barrier” — a couple of times.
He narrates a film just released (thanks to Angela for this information) by The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in Jerusalem, and he begins by saying:  “The reason for walls is always [...]

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The Wall must fall

Well it took a long time, but today Palestinian activists got together and pulled down a section of The Wall near the dreadful Qalandia checkpoint (or “border terminal” as Israel calls it) between Ramallah and Jerusalem.
A late breaking news flash on Ma’an News Agency said that two persons have been arrested at the site [...]

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How Israeli forces really play ball – Bil’in responds to Israeli Cellcom Ad

The IDF, we now know, has no sense of humor, as the Israeli Cellcom phone company tried to imply in a misleadingly untruthful “feel-good” ad that we have previously reported on here.
The Bil’in village website has posted a video send-up here of the Cellcom ad, but there was no light-hearted athletic exchange last Friday 17 [...]

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Boycott Cellcom (not Leonard Cohen)

Boycotts are in the air — billed as a peaceful alternative to war and conflict of all sorts. The definitive worth of the tactic is debatable — and in some circles it is being debated. Naomi Klein recently visited Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory [West Bank + Gaza -- yes, the [...]

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