23 September 2010
A vague security offense of “contact with a foreign agent” is being used by Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, to lock up Arab political activists in Israel without evidence that a crime has been committed, human rights lawyers alleged this week. Jonathan Cook reports. Read more about Israel makes meeting another Arab a crime
Silwan 22 September 2010
Protests erupted in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan today after a guard at an Israeli settlement opened fire at Palestinian residents, killing at least one. Joseph Dana reports from the scene of the revolt. Read more about Palestinians take to Jerusalem streets after killing
22 September 2010
Denmark’s Social Democrat party will have a decisive influence on a Copenhagen city council vote tomorrow on whether the municipality should divest $2.3 million from companies involved in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Read more about Copenhagen city council set to vote on divestment
22 September 2010
As direct negotiations are underway between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, activists with dissenting political parties are being arrested and worse in the occupied West Bank. Nora Barrows-Friedman reports from Dehiesheh refugee camp. Read more about Activists face broad PA crackdown in West Bank
23 September 2010
Abdel Nasser Amer is an artist who lives and works in the city of Khan Younis in the occupied Gaza Strip. During Israel’s 2008-09 winter invasion of Gaza, Amer’s studio and some of his art were destroyed. Amer won a competition for a six-month residency with the Swiss Visual Artists Association in Neuchatel, Switzerland where he is working on his latest project, Rehaan (the sweet smell of dreams). The Electronic Intifada contributor Adri Nieuwhof interviews Amer to discuss his life and work. Read more about Abdel Nasser Amer's "Sweet dreams"
20 September 2010
Since 2005, residents of the occupied West Bank village of Beit Ommar have launched nonviolent demonstrations in protest against Israeli colonialism and occupation. Jody McIntyre interviews Beit Ommar Popular Committee secretary Ahmed Abu Hashem for The Electronic Intifada. Read more about "I am sure this occupation will end"
17 September 2010
GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - As the many colors of the fish and flowers slowly disappear from the Gaza landscape, the already grim prospects of the besieged residents begins to look even bleaker. Read more about Grim prospects for Gaza's fishermen and farmers
16 September 2010
In a courtroom packed with foreign diplomats, Palestinian and Israeli human rights workers and political activists, the sentencing phase in the ongoing trial of Palestinian activist Abdallah Abu Rahme began at Israel’s Ofer Military Court on Wednesday, 15 September. Read more about Sentencing begins for convicted grassroots activist
19 September 2010
The Shat-ha walking group leaves Ramallah every Friday morning. The group, founded in 2006 by Dr. Saleh Abdel Jawad, a Birzeit University history and political science professor, and economist Samia Botmeh, has explored the West Bank from its green north to desert south. Now Masharef (Vistas), an exhibition of new photographs by members of the group, brings the threatened beauty of the Palestinian landscape to a wider audience. Read more about Palestine's endangered vistas captured in "Masharef"
16 September 2010
The trial of Palestinian citizen of Israel and civil society leader Ameer Makhoul resumes today in Haifa. The Electronic Intifada contributor Hyun Lee interviews Makhoul’s wife, activist Janan Abdu, and Gabrielle Rubin from Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. Read more about Audio: "They persecuted Ameer to keep us silent"