Author: Ben Lorber

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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)  …