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Video: Israeli police wrestle US citizen to ground, put knee on his neck

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 06/09/2011 - 22:45
In this video which appears to have been shot on “Jerusalem Day” — marked this earlier this month by thousands of right-wing Israeli settlers who provocatively marched in Jerusalem — a young American Jew states his solidarity with the Palestinian people before being roughly arrested by Israeli police.

Former professors refute Israel's indictment of kidnapped Gaza engineer

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 04:00
Former professors of Dirar Abu Sisi, the engineer from Gaza who went missing during a train trip in Ukraine last February, refute allegations in Israel’s indictment that the man was taught weapons systems at university. The indictment also claims that one of Abu Sisi’s professors studied at a military engineering school in east Ukraine, though no such school exists, the Associated Press has found.

Israeli bullets killed protesters, yet Syria is responsible say Israel, US

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 00:55
The Government of Israel, which has occupied the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967, has stated its intention to complain to the United Nations over the march from Syria on the occupied Golan Heights yesterday. At least twenty persons are reported to have been killed by Israeli fire during a protest marking Naksa Day or the 1967 occupation of Arab lands.

Video: What is really happening at Gaza's Rafah crossing with Egypt

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 06/05/2011 - 13:53


A video produced by activists in Gaza shows the frustrations of Palestinians prevented from crossing through the Rafah border gate into Egypt, despite the announcement with much fanfare last week that the border would be permanently opened.

Trial of grassroots activist Bassem Tamimi to begin Sunday

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 05:31
Popular resistance organizer Bassem Tamimi, from the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, will be put on trial in an Israeli military court this Sunday.

Israel army chief outlines new, more brutal doctrine against nonviolent protests

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Wed, 06/01/2011 - 20:41

Israel’s new Chief of Staff Benny Gantz has outlined a new, even more brutal doctrine that could see Israel escalate the force it uses against peaceful protests.

Important victory, court date in case of the "Irvine 11"

Submitted by Nora Barrows-Fr... on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 17:47

Students at UC Irvine and UC Riverside who nonviolently disrupted a speech in February 2010 by Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the US, recently won an important victory in their case as another arraignment date is set for tomorrow.

Lawsuit filed to seek information on US role in deadly flotilla attack

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 05/24/2011 - 22:15

The Center for Constitutional Rights launched a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit today seeking documents regarding the US government’s knowledge and role in the deadly Israeli attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla this time last year.

New Al-Haq video documents Palestinian life in occupied Hebron

Submitted by Benjamin Doherty on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 15:29

Al Haq has produced a new documentary video on Settlement Activity in the Old City of Hebron. It features testimony from a Palestinian family who live near Israeli settlers. They describe the frequent attacks they suffer from settlers who throw stones and even buckets of urine on them as they go about their daily life. The Israeli soldiers do not protect the Palestinian civilians even when faced with video evidence of settler attacks.

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