This post comes to us from our activist friend Lior Hadar, who is currently in Israel/Palestine doing justice work with different organizations and groups. In this post he reflects on the borders people place on themselves, from the UC colleges to Israel/Palestine. A man once walked into a Black Lau[...]
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November 6th, 2009 - 11:22 am § in Academia, Uncategorized
Turning Banners Into Flags: Thoughts from Palestine/Israel on Solidarity and Exclusion
October 24th, 2009 - 2:23 am § in Bookmarks
ei: Israeli Jews take on settlers
During a previous harvest she had to be taken to the hospital after she was hit over the head with an iron bar by an Israeli security guard from one of the nearby settlements. On another occasion settlers threw stones and human excreta at her and other volunteers, while shooting into the air. via ei[...]
October 24th, 2009 - 2:08 am § in Bookmarks
ei: Time for a democratic discourse
Why are we scared of what will come from an honest conversation? What do we have to lose, or discover, or admit to if we question the policies of Israel or America’s support of its government and military? It can be unsettling for one’s worldview to unravel, the intricate web of white li[...]
October 17th, 2009 - 8:18 pm § in Bookmarks
Our exclusive right to self-defense | Columnists | Jerusalem Post
We can deliberately destroy thousands of Gazan homes, the Gazan parliament, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Interior, courthouses, the only Gazan flour plant, the main poultry farm, a sewage treatment plant, water wells and God knows what else.Deliberately.After all, we’re acting in s[...]
October 10th, 2009 - 4:58 am § in Bookmarks
Israeli conscientious objectors rile South African Jewish community with apartheid comparisons | Israeli Occupation Archive
Maish Isaacson, the chairman of Telfed – the South African Zionist Federation’s Israel branch, said: “We are extremely upset that young Israelis take their gripes abroad – everyone has the right to object but we strongly believe the issue should be handled locally in Israel.” via Israeli c[...]
October 9th, 2009 - 12:59 pm § in Bookmarks
ei: Al-Walajah, a symbol of Israeli ethnic cleansing
we watched as the Israeli army started to demolish al-Walajah, house by house. We would see a cloud of smoke and dust shoot up into the air over a house, followed by the sound of an explosion, leaving nothing but a heap of rubble. Al-Walajah was completely destroyed before Israel built the settlemen[...]
October 9th, 2009 - 9:55 am § in Bookmarks
Strangers at Home /Within and Without
Once the land is declared a closed military zone no one is allowed to go there, unless they want to get arrested, thus ensuring that Palestinians cannot access their agricultural and grazing land in that area. As more caravans are added the restricted area expands its reach, and if it can be proven [...]
October 9th, 2009 - 5:29 am § in Bookmarks
Shallow and brutal archaeology – Haaretz – Israel News
This archaeology is being carried out under time pressure and is subordinate to the desires of landlords who are not scholars; usually these are religious, ideological or tourist organizations, or contractors. The work is carried out nonstop, without pause for researchers to understand their finding[...]
October 5th, 2009 - 1:15 am § in Bookmarks
Activists break through water blockade on the South Hebron Hills
For several months the peace organizations are acting to protest the Policy of Thirst. The State of Israel is taking about 80% of the water from the West Bank aquifers for the needs of its citizens and of the settlers, leaving only about a fifth to the Palestinian inhabitants whose land it is. In so[...]
Nepal: Land of the Landless, Government of Non-Governments
In Hebrew, Nepal is still referred to as a “poor country,” but in English development practitioners have long ago adopted the much nicer sounding term “impoverished.” Progress seems to have come to the very discourse of progress itself. But in my bilingual program Tevel Be’Tzedek (The Eart[...]