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Israel Detains, Denies Entry to Nobel Laureate, Mairead MaguireSaed Bannoura - IMEMC - "“The people who dedicate their lives to peace should not be considered a threat to security.”"29/9/2010
Logic of our time, Peace Tabernacle, The Locked Sea and After eight monthsAdam Keller - Crazy Country - "Who is this Obama, anyway? Who cares a fig about him? He talks and talks, we build on the ground." 29/9/2010
Help us replant Saffa! 28/9/2010
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Peace activists demonstrating at Ashdod PortContact: Nurit Peled-Elhanan (wife of Rami Elhanan who sailed on the ship and is now in detention): 054-757 8703 / Zvia Shapira (mother of Yonatan and Itamar Shapira who were on the ship and are now detained): 054-747 4994 / Adam Keller, Gush Shalom spokesperson): 054-234 9750 bz 28/9/2010
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Jewish Boat to Gaza Intercepted by IsraelRobert Mackey - thelede.blogs.nytimes.com - Last contact with the boat’s captain, Glyn Secker, was at 0937 G.M.T., when their path had been cut off by a destroyer. (...) Since then all phones went dead.28/9/2010
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Haaretz reports: Israel commandos `peacefully` board Jewish Gaza-bound aid boat the quotation marks around the word "peacefully" are of Haaretz - bz28/9/2010
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In Memory of Aseel Asleh, killed in the second Intifada, October 2, 2000 27/9/2010
‘Jews for Justice’ Aid Ship Heads to GazaJason Ditz - AntiWar - UK-Flagged `Irene` Aims to Deliver Goods to Blockaded Strip27/9/2010
TODAY (Sep. 26) Peace Now protest, demanding prolongation of the freeze at PM residence in J`lem - 4pm 26/9/2010
Al-Arakib, Sun Sep 26: Solidarity and Reconstruction VisitAll-day event. Transportation for the afternoon part available. Email: tarabut@gmail.com, Tel. Michal 052-6886867 25/9/2010
Nazareth, Sat Oct 2: Commemorating A Decade since the October Riots 4 PM. http://october2010.org/ (Hebrew-Arabic site only). Details: october.2000.2010@gmail.com 25/9/2010
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Jerusalem, Mon Sep 27 - Demonstrate in front of Jerusalem Mayor`s Sukah5 PM, Safra Square. Organized by Rabbis for Human Rights. Details: Rabbi Arik 050-560703425/9/2010
Boycotting apartheidEric Walberg - Al-Ahram Weekly "The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign continues to pick up steam"24/9/2010
Palestine`s endangered vistas captured in "Masharef" Sarah Irving - EI - "Now Masharef (Vistas), an exhibition of new photographs by members of the group, brings the threatened beauty of the Palestinian landscape to a wider audience." 22/9/2010
Economic and Social Rights - Adalah August/September newsletter Following petitions by Adalah and ACRI: Supreme Court rules that Income Tax Law, which provides benefits solely to Jewish communities bordering Gaza, discriminates against Arab towns. bz21/9/2010
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Peace Now Flight Highlights West Bank SettlementsIsabel Kershner - NYT - The flight was like an M.R.I., and the results as seen through the window were “frightening” said Israeli playwright and director Joshua Sobol. “The sickness is spreading and metastasizing.” 21/9/2010
Bedouin-Jewish Justice in Israel Haaretz/Jewish Alliance for Change - Prominent Israeli writers, artists, intellectuals and activists published a call denouncing "the brutal horror show of destruction at the Bedouin village of Al-Arakib" and calling upon the government to cease house demolitions and offer a fair treatment to the Negev Bedouins.21/9/2010
Truths and half truths regarding the `easing` of Gaza closureGisha publishes a summary of the Israeli Foreign Affairs report - and places it in context21/9/2010
Beit Jalla, October 22-23: Yes We Can!Realizing Peace: Creating a Community of Peace Builders 19/9/2010
IDF dispersing protests with weapon banned by military advocate generalChaim Levinson - Haaretz - "Gabi Laski inquired if Moiseev knew that the military advocate general had ruled that Ruger rifles are not to be used to disperse protests because they are potentially lethal, Moiseev said he was not aware of such an instruction." id 19/9/2010
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Large land convoy on way to Gaza stripYAAKOV KATZ AND JPOST.COM STAFF - J-Post - "Galloway, a former British MP and veteran anti-Israel activist, first announced plans for the "Viva Palestina" flotilla in June, shortly after attending the funerals of the Turkish activists killed aboard the Mavi Marmara." 19/9/2010
Help the Salem Music Center near NablusSee detailed 3-year plan in Villages Group Blog.25/9/2010
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An Unsettling Protest in IsraelTony Kushner and Alisa Solomon - Nation - "...a letter from 150 professors and scholars vowing not to participate in academic events in the settlements soon followed."16/9/2010
Viva Palestina; A Global Lifeline To Gaza To Launch September 18Saed Bannoura - IMEMC - "The convoy will be headed by former UK legislator, George Galloway, and will start its trip in front of the British parliament."16/9/2010
Canadian Boat to GazaGet Behind the Flotilla http://canadaboatgaza.org/cms/sites/cbg/splash.aspx15/9/2010
Ahava letter to business partners reveals settler company`s sensitivity to boycott campaign Nancy Kricorian and Rae Abileah - CODEPINK - The Ahava cosmetics comapny, based on the nothern shore of the Dead Sea which is part of the occupied West Bank, circulated a letter among cosmetics retailers, full of factual inaccuaracies and misrepresenations - indicating the company`s sensitivity to the world-wide boycott campaign against its products, conducted by CODEPINK. 14/9/2010
Divestment: from the campus to the streets Mohammad Talaat - EI - "Following a sharp increase in divestment efforts across North American college campuses last spring, this academic year promises an even greater number of initiatives"13/9/2010
Sheikh Jarrah, Saturday Night, Sep. 11: Rosh-Hashana/Id-Al-Fitr Celebrations8 PM, Bin-Affan St., Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem. Details: Silaan 054-795814311/9/2010
Solidarity Ships To Sail To Gazaby Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies "Deeb Hijazi, coordinator of the National Initiative Committee Against the Siege, based on Lebanon, stated that four flotillas will be sailing to Gaza on September 18." 10/9/2010
Gush Shalom blames Israeli leaders for Dutch rejection Jerusalem Post - "It is but a small sample of what we can expect should you give in to the pressure of the settlers and decide next week to resume settlement construction in the occupied territories" [GS in open letter to PM in response to Dutch cancellation of tour of Israeli council heads which included settlement representatives].21/9/2010
We`re dividing. Finally Yitzhak Laor - Haaretz - The burst of self-righteousness that flooded the media did not succeed in blurring the clear fact: Ariel is a settlement, not an Israeli community.
If Ariel were not a settlement, its patrons would not have found NIS 40 million in order to build a cultural center for 18,000 settlers.
7/9/2010
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Rightists heckle Tel Aviv theater performance over Ariel boycottHaaretz - Actor Oded Teomi, who objected to the boycott, told the hecklers - a Knesset member among them - that after such behavior he would also refuse to perform in Ariel. bz 7/9/2010
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Rachel Corrie`s parents could face men who killed her in courtRachel Shabi - The Guardian - Civil suit into death of US activist crushed to death in Gaza by Israeli bulldozer to hear testimony from vehicle`s operators6/9/2010
Why Israel imprisoned my best friend Mohammed Khatib - EI - "Abdallah Abu Rahmah, coordinator of the Bilin Popular Committee, […] made the international news after the EU`s foreign policy chief issued a statement condemning his conviction in an Israeli military court on 24 August. He was convicted of ‘incitement’ -- an intentionally vague charge that criminalizes freedom of speech -- and of organizing ‘illegal’ demonstrations. Direct negotiation between Israel and Palestinians may be restarting, but on the ground, Israel`s military occupation continues: oppression as usual"6/9/2010
Free Palestine Movement plans to send plane to GazaThe Jerusalem Post - Channel 2 reports that organization to send aid to the Strip without flying over Israeli or Egyptian airspace; group says success based on not showing threat6/9/2010
U.S. actors back Israeli boycott of West Bank theater Chaim Levinson - Haaretz - More than 150 American actors, writers, directors and other artists sign letter of support for the Israeli actors who said they would not perform in Ariel6/9/2010
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Tomorrow (Mond. Sept. 6), Supreme Court hearing of the appeal by Palestinian parliamentarians threatened with expulsion (Gush Shalom) 5/9/2010
Settlements still occupying minds in the West BankDonald Macintyre - The Independent - Even with tension high in much of the West Bank after Hamas gunmen killed four Israeli settlers on Wednesday night, Sana Shabitah, 40, had been determined to come here yesterday to register her disapproval of Mahmoud Abbas`s trip to Washington. Saying that angry settlers protesting about the shootings had blocked the road between her home in Nablus and Ramallah and thrown stones at Palestinian cars, she declared: "I don`t support the negotiations. We don`t have anything tangible on the ground. The settlements are still being built, the prisoners are still in jail. I know Abu Mazen [Mr Abbas] was under pressure but that doesn`t mean he should surrender." 2/9/2010
Silwan Archaeological conference Demo Sep. 1st 2010 , VideoIn the last few weeks Silwan is faced with violence and tension. There are almost daily confrontations between the security forces, the settlers or their guards, and the residents of Silwan. 2/9/2010
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Israel`s Vision ProblemPAUL LARUDEE - Counterpunch - "We who have been engaged in civilian human rights advocacy for Palestinians (sometimes called the “peace” movement) can take a perverse satisfaction in the recognition and importance given to us in the Reut report." 1/9/2010
Tel Aviv, Mon Sep 13: Sheikh Jarrah Teach-in7:30-9 PM at Salon Mazal, Itzhak Sadeh 32, Tel Aviv 03-6297734, Mazal.salon@gmail.com4/9/2010
`Solidarity tastes different inside prison` : Ameer Makhoul writing from Gilboa prisonAmeer Makhoul - The Electronic Intifada - In Gilboa prison there are approximately 600 Palestinian and Arab prisoners of freedom distributed into sections/branches. The distribution of prisoners is geopolitically oriented: prisoners of the West Bank, prisoners of 1948 (including occupied East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights) are together, while in the prisons located in the Naqab [Negev], prisoners of the West Bank are separated from those from Gaza. And prisoners from Gaza are separated along affiliation to Fatah or Hamas. 1/9/2010
Donations for Canteen accounts of popular struggle prisonersSupport will buy basics and ease their time in prison 1/9/2010
Something new is happening in PalestineDavid Shulman - I saw and heard things today that are relatively rare in my experience. I saw conflict erupt in the village between those who wanted to throw stones at the Israeli soldiers and generate more violence, as in the past, and the no less passionate people who intervened fiercely to prevent this from happening. I heard tough words of peace and hope. I saw the most dignified and brave demonstration I’ve ever seen. I also saw the army react with its usual foolishness, which I’ll describe, and I saw the soldiers hold back when they could easily have started shooting. It wasn’t an easy day by any means, but it was good. 29/9/2010
Weekly Demonstrations Against the Wall and the SettlementsRegister for Transportation on October 1st and 2nd. Contact Sebastian at 050-6846056 29/9/2010
Protest in Silwan: It`s about the Settlement not the Archeology, You Tube Video "On September 1st, the settlers in Silwan had a conference on the archeology of what they call "The City of David". A group from Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity (www.justjlm.org) came to protest and inform the participants of the political meanings of the event. The police did the work of the settlers and kicked them out." 3/9/2010
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Jeff Halper to Pete Seeger: ditch the JNF and honour the boycottAll the best from your friends in Israel/Palestine. In that spirit, I was surprised to hear of your planned participation in With Earth and Each Other: A Virtual Rally for a Better Middle East. While at first blush it might seem to have something in common with the work of ICAHD and other Israeli and Palestinian peace groups -- attempting to build bridges between peoples -- it is actually something quite different. One of the lead partners in the effort is the Jewish National Fund, which is responsible for the allocation of land in Israel. As such, it is a mainstay of the ever-increasing apartheid system there.9/9/2010
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