Month: November 2011

• ‘Freedom Rides’ to Resume in Palestine

  copied from my Palestine Chronicle article here Freedom Rides will protest Apartheid. (Alternativenews.org)   On Tuesday, November 15, Palestinian youth activists in the West Bank, along with Israeli and international…

• Interview with PFLP Leader Abed Al Aleem Dana

  a longer version of my Electronic Intifada article here Abdel-Alim Da’na is a PFLP leader who is also a professor at Palestine Polytechnic University in Hebron, teaching Palestinian history, human rights,…

• Interview with Prison Rights Journalist Raed Atrash and Activist Issa Amro

  Today myself and fellow ISMer ‘Alistair George’ walked over to the Youth Against Settlements outpost on a sunny Hebron hilltop, in the middle of a windy fall afternoon. We expected…

• Freedom Waves Activists Abused and Imprisoned; ‘Anonymous’ Hackers Strike Back

  copied from my MondoWeiss article here In the immediate aftermath of the illegal capture of the Freedom Waves flotillas, Israel’s public image has been tarnished, as reports of violence at…

• Flotilla controversy within Occupy Wall Street shows Palestine continues to be a fault line

  copied from my MondoWeiss article here   At about midnight Palestinian time, all was quiet on the Mediterranean Sea. All reports coming from the Tahrir and Saoirse indicated that the…

• ‘Freedom Waves to Gaza’ flotilla leaves Turkey headed to Gaza

  copied from my MondoWeiss article here On Wednesday, November 2, two international ships left the Turkish harbor to carry humanitarian aid through the Israeli blockade of Gaza. The event, called…