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Podcast: This week in EI headlines - 26 April 2012

In our first podcast: Updates on the collective Palestinian hunger strikes in Israeli jails, stories of land confiscation and home evictions from around the West Bank, news from the BDS movement, and Ali Abunimah discusses three important videos we published this week.

Hebron woman goes on hunger strike over settler attacks

Mya Guarnieri
Hebron
23 January 2012

Settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has risen 40 percent since 2010, and 165 percent since 2009, according to the UN. Protesting a wave of settler attacks on her home and property, one elderly Palestinian woman in Hebron went on hunger strike.

Israeli settlers harass released prisoners, threaten them with death

Brendan Work
West Bank
1 December 2011

Israeli settlers have put prices on the heads of Palestinians who were freed as part of the recent prisoner swap.

Unmasking Gershom Gorenberg, historian and apologist for ethnic cleansing

Stephen Maher
1 December 2011

Zionism seeks to erase and rewrite history in order to avoid accepting its ugly colonial legacy.

Zionist tourists harass Palestinian residents in Hebron

If you’re beaten up, harassed, or verbally attacked for no reason, know that you’re in an area under Israeli colonial control. Indeed, one must find this irrational. Physics suggest that “to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.” This could apply to most life cases too. When you’re in the Occupied Palestinian Territories or Israel, however, you obviously “provoke” a reaction by simply being Palestinian.

Harvesting olives as a statement of resistance

Ben Lorber
Nablus
24 October 2011

Palestinian olive farmers face violence from both the settlers and the Israeli military during the harvest season.

French far-right recruits join Israeli settlers in West Bank

Nour Samaha
Doha
27 September 2011

Earlier this month an announcement appeared on a French website, calling for “militants with military experience” to participate in a solidarity trip to Israel and the occupied West Bank between 19 and 25 September.

Mounting settler violence forces Palestinian youth to postpone first ever Model UN

The first ever Model UN conference in Palestine has had to be postponed due to the rising threat of violence by Israeli settlers.

Settler violence rises in West Bank; more expected before UN vote

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
20 September 2011

Amid reports that the Israeli military is arming and training Israeli settlers in advance of a United Nations vote on Palestinian statehood later this week, Palestinian activists in the West Bank have organized emergency response teams to document Israeli settler attacks and prevent more from taking place.

Video survey: Racism rampant among Israeli youth

Eli Ungar-Sargon
18 August 2011

A survey of 250 Israeli Jews reveals the extent of anti-Arab racism in Israel.

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