Jerusalem

"Every day I dream of returning home": a Nakba survivor speaks

Rami Almeghari
Rafah
24 May 2012

An elderly Palestinian woman in Gaza recalls being ethnically cleansed from her village in 1948.

Interview: racism of Britain's rulers in Palestine explored in major new exhibition

Sarah Irving
21 May 2012

Unearthed photographs shed new light on the British army’s Mandate of Palestine which paved the way for Zionist colonization.

"We will not be silenced": Stop the Wall youth activist speaks on repression and resistance

Eoin O'Ceallaigh
17 May 2012

Hassan Kharajeh, a youth coordinator with Stop the Wall, on the role played by youth in the hunger strike demonstrations, and why they have Israel scared.

Palestinians assert right to return on Israeli "Independence Day"

Asa Winstanley
the Galilee
1 May 2012

Thousands of Palestinians marched to destroyed villages and called for the return of Palestinian refugees.

The beautifully-paced rage of Mourid Barghouti's latest memoir

Sarah Irving
19 April 2012

Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here is for anyone in your life who needs to understand the pain, the absurdity, the injustice, and the devastatingly predictable unpredictability of life for ordinary Palestinians.

Gaza's Christians like "birds who will always return to their nest"

Rami Almeghari
Gaza City
17 April 2012

Despite common media depictions of Gaza as being under harsh, Islamist rule, Gaza-based Palestinian Christians emphasize the close ties between families regardless of religion.

A Night of Dreams: From Jericho to Jerusalem and Jaffa

Part 3: Here I write about the best part of my travel story — adventure in my forbidden homeland.

Athlete abused by Israeli soldier for carrying Palestine flag in Jerusalem marathon

Emily Lawrence
Jerusalem
20 March 2012

An activist running the Jerusalem Marathon sought to bring attention to Israel’s rights abuses at the event.

My trip through Israel's apartheid barriers to Jordan

Part 1: I left Gaza on the 1st of March through Erez checkpoint to pass through the occupied lands of Jerusalem and Jericho to Jordan. Here, you’ll read about my trip through Israel’s apartheid barriers and the humiliating treatment Palestinians receive there.

Photos: "Death to Christianity" spray-painted on Jerusalem church in "price tag" attack

Vandals spray-painted hateful anti-Christian messages on the walls of a church in Jerusalem and slashed the tires of several cars parked in the church compound, the latest in a pattern of escalated “price tag” attacks.

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