Jaffa

A Night of Dreams: From Jericho to Jerusalem and Jaffa

Submitted by Shahd Abusalama on Sun, 03/25/2012 - 18:33
Part 3: Here I write about the best part of my travel story — adventure in my forbidden homeland.

Bamboo furniture-making tradition, brought from Jaffa, survives in Gaza

Rami Almeghari
Gaza City
17 January 2012
It is a craft that has been passed down from one generation to the next. The al-Mathloums were one of the best-known bamboo furniture-making families in Gaza but now, of his brothers, only Zakariya, the eldest son, is struggling to keep the tradition and the business alive.

Setting a price tag for Israeli supremacy

Jonathan Cook
14 October 2011
Far-right Zionist groups are becoming bolder because of impunity but Palestinians can overcome apartheid.

Israeli government blamed for surge in racist attacks

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
14 October 2011
Netanyahu has condemned attacks on mosques and cemeteries by Israeli extremists but his government is facilitating such violence.

Watch: Israeli police brutalizing Palestinian man

Submitted by Jalal Abukhater on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 22:33

This video caught my attention this afternoon, but it sure isn’t an isolated incident against Palestinians in Israel.

In the video, Israeli police appear to be attacking and brutalizing a Palestinian man in Jaffa in order to evict him and his family from a vacant property in which they sheltered.

Time to tear down the fences

Rahela Mizrahi
Tel Aviv
28 May 2011
Last week, behind the fence of my childhood, Palestinian refugees gathered to demand return. They protesters looked and sounded exactly like the revolutionaries of Cairo’s Tahrir square.

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