Archive for April, 2004

Leaving Biddu

Sunday, April 18th, 2004 | Posted in Journals, Biddu Village

by Mark

I have been in Biddu for three days without internet access as there has been a general strike in Palestine. Three days ago we had a pretty bad day there even by normal standards.

I only came to Biddu to deliver a bag. Two hours later and the shebab had saved me from a probable beating and certain arrest.

I...

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Remembering Rachel Corrie

Sunday, April 4th, 2004 | Posted in Press clippings, Rachel Corrie

by Adam Shapiro
Originally published in The Nation

On March 7, 2004, an Associated Press photographer in the West Bank village of Beit Dukou captured an image of a Palestinian woman during a protest against the wall Israel is constructing in her village. The...

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Solidarity Against Occupation

Thursday, April 1st, 2004 | Posted in Press clippings

by Stefan Christoff

I travelled to Jordan from Montreal, Canada, at the end of November with plans to cross the Israeli controlled border into Palestine to work with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). I was refused entry into Israel after being held for more than five hours, and deemed a “security threat”, according...

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