Month: October 2011
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Education as Resistance for Palestinian Prisoners- Interview with Badia Dwaik, 10/28/2011
Badia Dwaik is Deputy Coordinator of Youth Against Settlements, a grassroots Palestinian organization dedicated to the nonviolent struggle to resist the Israeli occupation of Hebron. This Friday I went to…
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Refusing to die in silence: Palestinians resist settler violence during the olive harvest
copied from my MondoWeiss article here Olive harvesters watch Israeli soldiers after being told to stop picking olives in Burin. (All Photos: International Solidarity Movement) As this year’s olive harvest…
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Occupy Wall Street AND Free Palestine
As pro-Palestinian discourse begins to make its voice heard in the worldwide Occupy Wall Street movement, right-wing organizations and individuals in the United States, including the Republican National Committee and…
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Hebron Teachers Protest Measures that Keep Them From School
reposted from my +972mag article here For nearly two weeks, a group of young schoolchildren and female teachers from the Qurduba School in Hebron have been holding lessons every morning…
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Harvesting Olives as a Statement of Resistance
reposted from my Electronic Intifada article here Ghassan Najjar, director of the Burin Community Center, stands as soldiers order his family to leave their olive grove. (David Shaw) …
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Settler Tour, Monday October 18
A crowded Palestinian marketplace, mid-afternoon, the sun is slowly descending, and a cool breeze blows plastic bags past the feet of a jumbled crowd of young men, small boys, women…
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Women in Hebron: Resisting The Occupation and Working Towards Independence
copied from my Alternative Information Center article here Women In Hebron resists the Israeli occupation, not only by remaining in the battered and bruised Hebron market as a vital and…
Ben Lorber 