Author: Ben Lorber

• Community Building In The Face of Israeli Occupation

  copied from my Alternative Information Center article here While the Palestinian-led weekly demonstrations against the separation barrier are an important and visible part of non-violent resistance, a children’s community center…

• ‘A Jew, Not A Zionist’: Interview with Rabbi Meir Hirsch, leader of Neturei Karta Palestine

  reprinted from my MondoWeiss article here (image from http://www.palestinemonitor.org/?p=1652) Last week I interviewed Rabbi Meir Hirsch, leader of Neturei Karta Palestine, at his home in the Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Sharim…

• ‘An Interview with a Former Zionist’- My Beautiful Voice On South African Radio

  I gave this interview sitting in bed at 9 in the morning to a South African Islamic radio station. I wouldn’t call myself a ‘former Zionist’ really, though I suppose…

• Settlers & Supporters Descend on Hebron to Assert Jewish Sovereignty

  from my MondoWeiss article here Settlers and supporters celebrate in front of shuttered Palestinian stores in Hebron’s Old City (with protection from the Israeli military). (Photo: Alistair George) “So the…

• Israeli Army Steps up Attacks on Palestinian Water

  a longer version of my Alternative Information Center article here Speaking to the American Congress in May, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarked that Israel would maintain a long-term presence…

• Telescoping of the Past Through the Present: Historical Materialism and the Labor of Remembrance

  (my senior project at Bard College, 2010)  ‘Telescoping of the Past Through the Present’ Historical Materialism and the Labor of Remembrance  To my very dearest friend, Nese Senol   Thank…

• Palestinian Freedom Rides Echo the Civil Rights Movement

  copied from my Alternative Information Center article with Mya Guarnieri here This week’s Palestinian Freedom Rides will resemble those of the African-American Civil Rights Movement. As the American Jewish community…

• ‘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,…