settlers

Provocation against Palestinians on "Jerusalem day"

Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
Jerusalem
3 June 2011
As thousands of right-wing Israeli settlers descended on Jerusalem to celebrate the so-called unification of the city this week, Palestinian residents of occupied East Jerusalem were confronted by extreme provocations and the stark reality that their city remains very much divided.

Israeli settlers emboldened by Netanyahu’s US reception

Mel Frykberg
Ramallah
30 May 2011
The leader of Israel’s most right-wing government since the establishment of the state 63 years ago, has returned to Israel with his popularity surging since talks with US President Barack Obama in Washington.

New Al-Haq video documents Palestinian life in occupied Hebron

Submitted by Benjamin Doherty on Sat, 05/21/2011 - 15:29

Al Haq has produced a new documentary video on Settlement Activity in the Old City of Hebron. It features testimony from a Palestinian family who live near Israeli settlers. They describe the frequent attacks they suffer from settlers who throw stones and even buckets of urine on them as they go about their daily life. The Israeli soldiers do not protect the Palestinian civilians even when faced with video evidence of settler attacks.

Quartet ex-envoy's investment helps Israel greenwash settlements

Ali Abunimah
6 May 2010

Former World Bank president and Middle East Quartet envoy James D. Wolfensohn is an investor in an Israeli company that is developing transport infrastructure for Jewish-only settlements built in the occupied West Bank in violation of international law, an investigation by The Electronic Intifada reveals.

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