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Human Rights Tour For Jewish Leadership
Join our Human Rights Tour For Jewish Leadership October 2nd- 9th
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Last Week Was One of the Good Ones: A Modicum of Justice for Fawzi Ibrahim | Rabbi Arik Asherman
Last Week Was One of the Good Ones: A Modicum of Justice for Fawzi Ibrahim | Rabbi Arik Asherman Continue reading
Posted in General, Palestinian Rights, Press Releases
Tagged access to private land, affirming the right of local Palestinian farmers to access their lands unharrassed by settlers, cutting down trees, Free access to the settlers, Israeli settlers cut down Palestinian trees, Jalud, Jewish settlers, kusra, Land Owner Rights, land takeover, Last Week Was One of the Good Ones: A Modicum of Justice for Fawzi Ibrahim, Preventing access of Palestinian farmers to their agricultural lands, Preventing the Access of Palestinian Farmers to their Lands, problem with settlers, radical Jewish settlers, settler violence, settlers, Settlers Attack, Settlers vandalize, Uprooting Trees, West Bankaccess to farm lands
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The origin of the expulsion – A Brief history of Palestinian Susya
This week the Civil Administration informed the inhabitants of Palestinian Susya of its intention to soon carry out six demolition orders that were issued in the 1990s and in 2001. If these demolitions are carried out, hundreds of residents of Palestinian Susya will be cast out into the burning desert sun for the fifth time Continue reading
Posted in General, Palestinian Rights
Tagged Activestills, archaeological site, area C, Btselem, demolition, history of susya, Jewish settlers, Mahmud Muhamed a-Nawajaa, Mitzpeh Yair, Palestinian Susya, Petition 1556/12, problem with settlers, radical Jewish settlers, Regavim, settler violence, South Hebron Hills, Supreme Court, Susya, the Civil Administration, Yoram Shkolnik
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Women solidarity at Sheikh Jarrah
Maya Wind: “Growing up in segregated Jerusalem, I had understood solidarity to describe my affinity to the Jewish community alone. It was only after I ventured into East Jerusalem and the West Bank that I redefined this term. For when I began organizing with Palestinians facing eviction in Sheikh Jarrah, my conception of who I could share values with radically changed.” Continue reading
The Police and Army Silence about the Attack of Samicha
On Wednesday April 11th was Samicha Jihad Nawajaa attacked by a number of settlers. This attack took place under the open eyes of the security forces. The police did not do its job and did not come to investigate the case. During photographing the location of the attack we discovered a settlers’ invasion to Palestinian lands. Continue reading
A report on theft and harassment
Read about demolitions in the Bedouin encampment of Khan al-ahmar, which is located between Kfar Adumim and Ramallah. All the Bedouin encampments in this area are in danger of expulsion. Continue reading
Understand War
An enormous gap separates Israelis and Palestinians in the understanding of the term ‘war’. For most Israelis, war is a violent clash between two peoples. But not the Palestinians.For them, says Amos Gwirtz, dispossession and land-grab are the belligerent acts of an occupying force against a defenseless civilian population. Continue reading
Posted in General
Tagged East Jerusalem, Israel\Palestine, Jewish settlers, Palestine\, settler violence, war
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Land Dispute and Land Rights in the Holy Land
Readers of the Bible are no doubt aware of the Divine promise made to the ancestors of the Jewish people, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that their descendants would inherit the land of Israel. Continue reading
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