Tag: Hebron

• 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…

• 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…

• 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,…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• Interview with Nawal Slemiah, founder of feminist cooperative Women In Hebron

  Last week, myself and Skylar, another ISMer, went to the Old City of Hebron to interview Nawal Slemiah, the founder of Women In Hebron, a feminist cooperative that, in the…

• Rally Renames Hebron’s Shuhada Street as ‘Apartheid Street’

  copied from my Alternative Information Center article here   On Wednesday 14 September, a rally was held in Hebron to officially rename downtown Shuhada Street ‘Apartheid Street’, in protest against…

• Wednesday September 21st, Hebron March for Statehood

  Today- crowds surging through the streets of Hebron with Palestinian flags waving, running through traffic in the middle of the morning, yelling and chanting, swarms and swarms of people. as…