Author: Ben Lorber

• New Jewish Agenda(s): An Interview with Rabbi Arthur Waskow

  (published in Tikkun Magazine’s ‘Tikkun Daily’ blog, http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/2012/08/27/new-jewish-agendas-an-interview-with-rabbi-arthur-waskow/ )   When I sat down to speak with radical civil rights activist Rabbi Arthur Waskow at the Shalom Center in Philadelphia this July,…

• The Jewish National Fund: Israel’s Environmental Colonialism and Eco-Apartheid

  (from LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal- http://links.org.au/node/2956) (Palestinian village of ‘Imwas, 1958) ((Palestinian village of ‘Imwas after destruction by Israeli army, 1968) (Ruins of Palestinian village of ‘Imwas, site of…

• The Daily Ordeal of Getting to School in Hebron

  copied from my Electronic Intifada article here   Palestinian children in Hebron are forced to pass through Israeli military checkpoints in order to get to school. (Osama Qawasmi/APA images) The Qurduba School in…

• West Bank Village Steps Up Protests Against Israel’s Thefts of Land

  copied from my Electronic Intifada article here Palestinians in Kufr Qaddoum demand access to their farmland, October 2011. (Wagdi Eshtayah / APAimages ) For approximately five months, the residents of Kufr Qaddoum have united to…

• Words From The Man Who Stood Next to Mustafa Tamimi as He Was Shot

  copied from my +972mag article here Ibrahim Bornat, artist and activist from Bil’in, was standing next to Mustafa Tamimi when Tamimi was shot in the head with a tear gas…

• Football in Burin

  copied from my MondoWeiss article here The Burin football team (All Photos: Ben Lorber) On the 7th of December, a windy Wednesday morning behind the boys’ school in the Palestinian…

• Living under threat of demolition in the Jordan Valley

  copied from my Alternative Information Center article here The threat of imminent demolition hangs over the Palestinian village of Al-Hadidiya in the Jordan Valley A tent of a resident of…

• The Jewish PLO

  copied from my Alternative Information Center article here Abraham Weizfeld is a co-founder of the Alliance of Concerned Jewish Canadians, whose motto is ‘Jews & Arabs Are United, Israel’s Wrongs…

• Palestinian Prisoner Self Education

  copied from my Palestine Chronicle article here Books freed prisoners. (Photo: Rana Way) On the third floor of the Nablus Municipality Library, there sits a room of over 8,000 books…