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Palestinian political prisoners tell their stories in new Israeli play | | Oren Ziv -
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"Prisoners of the Occupation” was performed this week in Tel Aviv, a
fact that Einat Weitzman, the actress who wrote and produced it,
regards as a triumph for art. In May 2017, when it was still in the
development stage, the mayor of Acre forced the steering committee
of the prestigious Acre Festival to reject the play for political
reasons. The decision caused an uproar: Avi Gibson Bar-El, the
artistic director of the festival, resigned — as did members of the
steering committee. Several of the participating artists also
withdrew from the festival in protest." ca | 29/11/2019 |
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Palestinians clash with IDF during ‘day of rage’ over US settlement stance | | Michael Bachner - Times of Israel / AP - During a demonstration in
the center of Nablus, Palestinian protesters burned cardboard
cutouts of US President Donald Trump, his State Secretary Mike
Pompeo, and Prime Minister Benjamin Natanyahu. Thousands of
Palestinians demonstrated across the West Bank to protest the recent
US announcement that it no longer believes Israeli settlements in
the West Bank violate international law. As the “Day of Rage”
continued, groups of protesters clashed with Israeli security forces
in several flashpoints, with 77 reported lightly injured. Schools,
universities and government offices were shuttered and rallies were
held in city centers around the West Bank.“The biased American
policy toward Israel, and the American support of the Israeli
settlements and the Israeli occupation, leaves us with only one
option: To go back to resistance,” Mahmoud Aloul, an official with
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement, told
the crowd in Ramallah.[ak] | 26/11/2019 |
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Palestinian Day of Rage called to protest US position on settlements | | IMEMC - Palestinian factions united in calling for rallies and
protests throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, against
the latest US position that considers Israeli settlements "not
inconsistent with international law." The Fateh movement of PA
President Mahmoud Abbas spearheaded the call, joined by other
factions and city councils rallying people throughout the occupied
territories to join the protests “in condemnation of the American-
Israeli conspiracy against our people, their cause and for stealing
the land.” Azzam Ahmad of the Fateh Central Committee and said all
the factions have agreed on holding the Day of Rage tomorrow, “to
speak in one voice and tell the entire world that our rights cannot
be stolen by the occupation and to affirm our commitment to the
national program of the PLO and its rejection of the American
administration, which is biased toward Israel.” [ak]
| 26/11/2019 |
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Israelis & Palestinians Negotiate Solutions to the Gaza Crisis | | | 14/11/2019 |
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A war to keep Netanyahu on his throne | | Raluca Ganea - Zazim - Hundreds of thousands of us woke up this
morning to the air raid alarms, but yet we are expected to shut up.
Outside, missiles fly, and we`re told it`s not the time for
politics, because there`s a war. But this war is political. And
those who pay the price are us - the ordinary people. Women,
children and men on both sides of the border and everywhere. [ak]
| 12/11/2019 |
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Back Home in U.S., Israel’s Lone Soldiers Break Their Silence About the Occupation | | Judy Maltz - Haaretz - While serving on a military base in the West Bank, Benzi Sanders recalls opening his eyes one morning and being struck by the sight of a tattered Israeli flag caught in the barbed-wire fence surrounding the Jewish settlement just across the way.
“I couldn’t help thinking about how that flag, torn into shreds, symbolized what had become of my romantic vision of Zionism,” says the former New Yorker. “So I got up and took a picture of it.”
Sanders, 28, is part of a first-of-its-kind delegation of Jewish-American veterans who are returning to their communities to share their not-so-happy stories of serving in the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank.
The two-and-a-half-week tour, which kicked off in Philadelphia last Wednesday, is sponsored by Breaking the Silence. [ak] | 12/11/2019 |
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`Advocate` - the controversial documentary about Human Rights lawyer Lea Tsemel | | Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaiche - Lea Tsemel defends
Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent
demonstrators to armed militants. As a Jewish-Israeli lawyer who has
represented political prisoners for nearly 50 years, Tsemel, in her
tireless quest for justice, pushes the praxis of a human rights
defender to its limits.[ak]
| 12/11/2019 |
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A Conscientious Objector`s Thoughts From an Israeli Military Prison | | Yasmin Ricci-Yahav - Haaretz - In my conversations with fellow girl prisoners, both sides were forced to not only hear things they disagreed with, but to stay relatively calm and continue living together. I walked away from many of the conversations still thinking about the points that were raised, and how I saw them. I think other girls did too, because it was not uncommon for us to pick up a conversation that had been seemingly put to rest several days earlier.
It was only after I spent time in jail that I realized how much we are missing this process in Israeli society. In our society, we can spend our entire lives agreeing with, and being agreed with, by our friends and family, whose opinions are similar – if not identical – to ours. We can demonize the other side, put words and beliefs in their mouths, but never give them the opportunity to explain themselves, or rebut our preconceptions and prejudices. We can feel enlightened, educated and realistic without actually engaging in productive talk with those who disagree with our perceptions. Israeli society desperately needs a more comprehensive, honest conversation, one that is conducted with respect and open-mindedness. Maybe it can learn a thing or two from the girls in Prison Six.
The writer is 18 year-old, and is serving a fourth sentence in military prison as a conscientious objector. [bz]
| 5/11/2019 |
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Duke Students Protest Speech by Tzipi Livni, Former Israeli Foreign Minister Accused of War Crimes | | Brett Wilkins - AntiWar - "Students at Duke University in North Carolina
repeatedly interrupted a recent speaking event featuring Tzipi Livni, the former
Israeli foreign minister who has been the subject of arrest warrants and a
lawsuit
in three countries for her alleged role in war crimes committed during the 2008-
09
Cast Lead invasion of Gaza" [ry] | 4/11/2019 |
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