Jerusalem

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.

East Jerusalem cinema reopens after 25 years

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
20 February 2012
Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem can once again go to the movies, now that Al Quds Cinema has reopened its doors after being closed for 25 years.

2,600 Bedouins threatened with displacement as Israeli settlements expand

Sophie Crowe
Jerusalem
7 February 2012
Twenty Bedouin communities in the Jerusalem area, in which 2,600 persons live, are facing displacement to make way for Israeli settlement expansion

Palestinian artists strike Jerusalem's streets again with message for "occupiers and our people"

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“There’s no voice greater than the voice of the intifada” (Image courtesy of the artist)

Tonight, Palestinian street artists struck again – as they had promised to do – this time in southern Jerusalem, or more specifically “in Talpiot, an Israeli commercial area, built on Palestinian land of Baqaa and Beit Safafa.”

Israel forcibly transfers Palestinian lawmaker from Jerusalem

Ahmad Attoun, a lawmaker from the Hamas party, was expelled from Jerusalem today after Israeli forces released him from prison and took him to Qalandia checkpoint between the city and Ramallah.

World bodies must act now to save Lifta

Antoine Raffoul
London
2 December 2011
The World Monuments Fund rejected a petition to have Lifta, a destroyed and ethnically cleansed Palestinian village, officially included in their protected heritage site list.

Palestinian ex-prisoners harassed by Jewish extremists

Not one day did the two liberated Palestinian prisoners Khuweiled and Nizar Ramadan enjoy being out of Prison. A Jewish Settler family from the illegal settlement Yitzahar has declared that it will reward $100,000 to whoever murders Khuweiled or Nizar. The ad for this ugly bounty has appeared on the Hebrew daily Maariv.

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