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By Yeela Raanan
Last week there were strong winds, rain and cold weather all over Israel, and in the Negev. On Wednesday on my way to work I received a [...]
On behalf of the Palestinian soccer fans and the Palestinian National Women Football team, I would like to congratulate the first Saudi female soccer team.
The first soccer match between female teams has taken place in Alkhobbar (Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province). The match was held between two teams of university students. The Prince Mohammad bin Fahd [...]
Image by: Carlos Latuff
Blackout in Besieged Gaza City
The Gaza Strip’s only power plant has shut down as Israel’s blockade has dried up fuel supplies. Tonight Gazans are living in darkness as the second of the plant’s two working turbines was switched off on the third day of a crippling Israeli blockade of the territory. “At [...]
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Couple of days ago, reuters had a story that said: “Canada places U.S. and Israel on torture watch list“. Today, the same story link was updated and replaced to say: “Canada takes U.S., Israel off torture watchlist“.
The original story is no more available, but the magic of the internet always keeps a [...]
Including 5 year old children… The West close their eyes to this Israeli method of “justice”… No one asks why, if Israel knows where these people are, it cannot ARREST them and put them on trial?? The West accept assassination by Israel as a democratic method, and of course, take its word when [...]
Racism is no laughing matter, but for many people living in Israel and under the Israeli occupation, humour might help to ease the tensions.
Arab Labour is an award winning comedy series poking fun at the stigmas and stereotypes of everyday reality in Israel.
Al Jazeera’s David Chater spoke to the show’s writer regarding his personal take [...]
Here is a new example of how inhuman is the Israeli Terrorist Forces:
WARNING: You might find this video disturbing. It is actually as entertaining as a kick in the nuts. Unsuitable for under 14s. (Please turn your speakers up).
This film shows a performance artist undergoing, for real, interrogation techniques permitted in the CIA handbook (and it goes without saying - all other dictatorships including the “only democracy” [...]
The Israeli human rights organization Gisha has just issue a fact sheet on Israel’s collective punishment of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the impact of the electricity and fuel cuts.
Facts regarding Israel’s Fuel and Electricity Cuts to the Gaza Strip
( http://snipurl.com/1u3ps )
Regarding the fuel cuts:
* On Sunday, October 28, [...]
First, let’s start with this powerful Hip-Hop song - Eyes of A Souljah:
ACTION DAY!
What We Can Do to END GAZA SIEGE?
The Least you can do is to Distribute and Let Every One Know…
Forward to your friends, groups, organizations, governments and business to get involved in speaking out and supporting the Stop The Siege in Gaza.
Email [...]
Video Transcript:
Cameraman: What are you doing here?
Girl: Going back home from school!
Cameraman: Where are you going now?
Girl: Home!
Cameraman: Where is your home?
Girl: Behind the Wall!
Boy: My home is behind this wall. We study at Bet Nabal!
Cameraman: What happened here today?
Boy: They closed the passage, we are not able to go through
Cameraman: Where do you live?
Boy: [...]
A 21-year old cancer patient in Gaza who had been seeking vital medical treatment in Israel, has died.
Na’el al Kurdi is one of dozens of people being prevented by Israel from using the Beit Hanoun crossing for apparent security reasons.
Worse still, other patients may now be at risk, as medicines in Gaza run out and [...]
Is this hate?
A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem’s Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. When the clergyman let the window down, the passerby spat in his [...]
Lev Leviev, a diamond dealer and one of Israel’s richest men, faced protests from Palestinian rights advocates in New York Tuesday evening. The protesters were challenging Leviev’s funding of Israeli settlements built on Palestinian land in contravention of international law.
Glitterati at Leviev’s New York Gala Stunned by Palestinian Rights Protest
Over 100 well-dressed, well-heeled New Yorkers [...]
A feature story from British ITV news. It’s only a short news clip, but one that US media will never air.
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… that non-Jewish Israelis can’t buy or lease land in Israel.
… that Palestinian license plates in Israel are color coded to distinguish Jews from non-Jews.
… that Jerusalem, both East and West, is considered by the entire world community, including the United States, to be occupied territory and NOT part of Israel.
… that [...]
Stop! Don’t start predicting. This did NOT happen in any ‘Arabian State’. NOT in a Muslim country/society, but the so called ‘Democracy of Israel’.
Bus: 5 ultra orthodox men beat religious woman & soldier for sitting next to each other
Ha’artz - Five assailants believed to be Ultra-Orthodox Jews assaulted a woman and an Israel Defense Forces [...]
Film Summary:
Through startling interviews with perpetrators, witnesses and victims, GHOSTS OF ABU GHRAIB examines and contextualizes the abuses that occurred in the fall of 2003 at the notorious Iraqi prison abuses documented in photographs that are etched in our national consciousness. The film probes the psychology of how typical American men and women came to [...]
No, not in Arabian Land, not in America. Not Guantanamo and NOT Abu Gharib for sure!
When you think of a prison, the first thing comes to your mind is stoned walls and a huge gate with armed watch towers. That’s not the case in Leoben Justice Centre, Steiermark, Austria. In fact here you can find [...]
“I will suggest that the secretary general withdraw the UN from the Quartet, if the Quartet fails to have regard to the human rights situation in the Palestinian Territories.” John Dugard, UN special rapporteur
John Dugard, the UN human rights envoy for the Palestinian Territories, told the BBC the US, EU, UN and Russia were failing [...]
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