Israel’s wall in the West Bank

How Abu Dis' hills were stolen in the night

Lee Baker
18 May 2012
Stories from Abu Dis, a suburb which found itself suddenly cut off from Jerusalem by Israel’s wall.

BDS roundup: 10,000 signatures delivered to Irish corporation demanding divestment from Israeli contracts

This week in BDS news around the world: 10,000 signatures delivered to Irish building materials corporation demanding divestment from Israeli business contracts; a call for 24 hours of hunger in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails; and more!

Shakespeare in Palestine: theater director speaks on Arabic version of Richard II

Sarah Irving
27 April 2012
Iman Aoun, artistic director of Ramallah’s Ashtar theater group, discusses the upcoming performance an Arabic-language version of Shakespeare’s Richard II at the Globe Theater in London.

Al-Walajah village explores theater as a form of resistance

Ben Rivers
al-Walaja
25 April 2012
In a unique protest action in the threatened village of al-Walaja, residents and local artists harnessed the power of music, theater, dance and poetry.

BBC challenged for ignoring plight of Palestinian prisoners

Amena Saleem
London
25 April 2012
Hundreds of protesters in Glasgow, Scotland, converged on the BBC’s headquarters demanding an end to the media blackout of the ongoing hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners.

"I will never give up our house": Sabri Gharib kept promise to resist Israeli settlement until his final day

Hilde Reksjø and
Maria York
Beit Ijza
20 April 2012
Surrounded on all sides by an Israeli settlement, a fence, walls and gates, the Gharib family’s situation is one of the most extreme and unsettling cases highlighting the effects of Israel’s illegal settlement building in the West Bank. Gharib died just days after this interview.

"Present absentee" keeps fighting against Israel's wall in al-Walaja

Tanzil Chowdhury
al-Walaja
18 April 2012
Sheerin al-Araj, a resident of al-Walaja village, is fighting tooth and nail against Israel’s encroaching settlement projects and the wall, which both continue to rapidly confiscate more village land.

Memo to New York Times: the spirit of Gandhi is alive in Palestine

Bilin is being used to test new Israeli weapons but the villagers keep protesting.

Educators can't stay silent about Israeli apartheid

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui,
Robin D.G. Kelley,
Bill V. Mullen,
Nikhil Pal Singh and
Neferti Tadiar
13 February 2012
US academics recently returned from a fact-finding delegation describe the daily ritual of subordination, humiliation and suspicion endured by Palestinians living under Israeli occupation.

Putting the spotlight on London university's links to Israel's war machine

Hilary Aked
London
8 February 2012
Students at the London School of Economics protest the university’s ties to the Technion — Israel’s Institute of Technology — which has inextricable links to Israel’s weapons industry.

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