Archive for October, 2007

Reporters Without Borders: Golan Heights journalist Ata Farahat held without trial for past three months

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, 1948 Palestine

Press release

30 October 2007

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the prolonged detention of journalist Ata Farahat, who was arrested on 30 July and is being held in Al-Jalama prison (14 km southeast of Haifa). The organisation has been told he could be prosecuted for “collaborating with an enemy nation” but this...

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Ambulance stopped at checkpoint in Hebron

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Hebron Region

October 30th, 2007


Today...

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Action Alert! Jamaeen Non-Violent Demonstration to Protest Settler Arson

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Salfit Region, ISM Media Alerts, Action Alert

For Immediate Release

October 30, 2007

Last week, settlers from Kfah Tappuah settlement near the West Bank village of Jamaeen trespassed on the Palestinian villagers’ land 2km from Jamaeen village, burning approximately 30 dunums of vital agricultural land hosting olive trees.

The village of Jamaeen lies just south of...

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Bedouin Village facing demolition near Bir Nabala

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Ramallah Region


*A villager looks toward the Apartheid Wall that has separated the village members. 18 members of the village are behind the Wall, which now takes 2 hours driving to reach.*

In September this year, a village...

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Another Voice: RAISE YOUR VOICE PALESTINE!

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, ISM Media Alerts, Boycott & sanctions

ANOTHER VOICE
October 28, 2007
For Immediate Release

*** C O N C E R T ***

RAISE YOUR VOICE PALESTINE!

[RAMALLAH] Palestinian grassroots activists and organizations will hold a free outdoor concert on Wednesday, October 31, calling for a just peace based on respect for human rights and international law. The concert...

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13 Palestinians arrested in Al-Mazra’a Al-Qibliya

Monday, October 29th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Ramallah Region, ISM Media Alerts

** Update **
On October 31st, the Israeli army invaded Al-Mazra’a Al-Qibliya and arrested eight more people. It seems they are to be charged with exactly the same crimes the three British women formerly imprisoned were charged with. Those allegations proved to be false and the women released. More information will come as it is known.

October...

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Brighton-Tubas Fellowship: Life in the women’s prison

Monday, October 29th, 2007 | Posted in Journals, Ramallah Region

Two days ago I attended a peaceful demonstration of villagers against the theft of their land by villagers. I found my self assaulted and ‘arrested’ by a settler with the acquiescence of the Isreali army, lied to by the Israeli police, dumped in the punishment block of the women’s prison, driven for miles to the Ministry of the Interior deportation...

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REV. DR. NAIM ATEEK OF SABEEL DEFAMED IN BOSTON GLOBE – BY TWO OPEDS

Saturday, October 27th, 2007 | Posted in Action Alert

The combination of opeds: one from Jeff Jacoby and the other from CAMERA says more about the Globe than either of the slanderous pieces written.

Tactics are the usual:
Criticism of Israel or it’s brutal and illegal and immoral policies is anti-Semitic….. But both of these opeds are particularly disgusting.

Please...

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Brighton-Tubas Fellowship: Three British nationals go to trial after non-violent demonstration

Saturday, October 27th, 2007 | Posted in Press Releases, Ramallah Region, ISM Media Alerts

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Brighton-Tubas Fellowship:

For more info contact Tom Hayes on 00447846506710 or Ann on 0522354477

***Update, after being sent to the Ministry of the Interior to begin the process of deportation, the three women were released.

Three British women, Kate Harrison, Caroline Bailey and Sarah Cobham...

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Targetted assault on Palestinian teen in Hebron

Friday, October 26th, 2007 | Posted in Reports, Hebron Region, Video


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