On July 26, Israeli police demolished 45 buildings in the unrecognized Bedouin village of al-Arakib, razing the entire village to the ground to make way for a Jewish National Fund forest. The destruction was part of a larger project to force the Bedouin community of the Negev away from their ancestr[...]
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August 1st, 2010 - 3:58 pm § in Bookmarks
The “Summer Camp Of Destruction:” Israeli High Schoolers Assist The Razing Of A Bedouin Town
July 6th, 2010 - 2:03 pm § in Bookmarks
San Joaquin Valley residents express their concern over drinking water contamination « El Tecolote :: 40 Years en la Misión
In the case of Tulare County, this neglect was written into official planning documents. The Tulare County General Plan, which is being updated for the first time since 1971, includes the following language under the ‘Water and Liquid Waste Management’ element: “Public commitments to communiti[...]
July 6th, 2010 - 12:15 pm § in Bookmarks
The Orthodox Jews fighting the Judaization of East Jerusalem – Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
“From my point of view, being in Sheikh Jarrah is the full and supreme realization of my religious existence,” Ben Sasson says, as he walks on a recent day through the neighborhood. “When I don’t show up on a Friday, I feel as though I have not put on tefillin [phylacteries] in the morning. [...]
June 11th, 2010 - 2:38 pm § in Bookmarks
Al-Ahram Weekly | Opinion | Blaming the lobby
What then would have been different in US policy in the Middle East absent Israel and its powerful lobby? The answer in short is: the details and intensity but not the direction, content, or impact of such policies. Is the pro- Israel lobby extremely powerful in the United States? As someone who has[...]
June 5th, 2010 - 12:35 pm § in Bookmarks
No Direction Home – by Daniel Luban > Tablet Magazine – A New Read on Jewish Life
Similarly, the claim that Israel’s “security decisions” are Israel’s business alone invites an obvious answer: namely, that outsiders have every right to question these decisions because they affect millions of people who are not Israelis. But because mainstream liberal Zionists have refused[...]
May 27th, 2010 - 1:39 am § in Bookmarks
Harrowing Update from Family of Ameer Makhoul | The Only Democracy?
Ameer Makhoul, Director of Ittijah, a coalition of Palestinian Israeli Community Organizations, was arrested three weeks ago from his home in Haifa. Makhoul was unable to see his lawyer for the first weeks of his arrest and now his lawyers and his family, having seen him, assert that he has been t[...]
May 25th, 2010 - 5:53 pm § in Bookmarks
Neve Gordon: Even picnics in Israel are political | Israeli Occupation Archive
As Nawi put it during the picnic, in a country where laws are immoral, civil disobedience is obligatory; therefore, he continued, it will not be long before more of you will join me in jail. As he walked away, I looked towards the soldiers who stood gazing at us from a nearby hill, wondering whether[...]
May 25th, 2010 - 5:49 pm § in Bookmarks
Akiva Eldar: Who says Jews and racism don’t go together? | Israeli Occupation Archive
Polakow-Suransky relates that in November 1974, Shimon Peres, who at the time was minister of defense in then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s first government, returned from a secret visit to South Africa. Peres wrote to thank his hosts for their contribution to establishing a “vitally important [...]
May 18th, 2010 - 6:15 am § in Bookmarks
Yitzhak Laor: Israelis’ state of denial over treatment of Palestinians | Israeli Occupation Archive
The territories are far away. The Palestinians live far away. This hallucination can be attributed to the walls, the separation roads, the army and the TV news. “Judea and Samaria” are close. The settlers live among us. There are photographs of them, their homes are photographed. They are in the[...]
May 17th, 2010 - 7:13 am § in Bookmarks
Azmi Bishara: ‘We want to live’ | Israeli Occupation Archive
An elaborate Western-financed optical illusion is in the works. It is intended to pass off life in overcrowded Palestinian enclaves as ordinary, to make the artificial look normal, to impose calm while the Palestinian Authority PA builds government buildings with elegant façades, to organise a gian[...]
