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"
16 September 2010
The mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of Colombia by the government of former president Alvaro Uribe Velez, appointed by the UN investigate Israel’s fatal attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, parallels Israel’s abuses of the indigenous people of Palestine. Anna Baltzer reports for The Electronic Intifada Read more about Indigenous resistance, from Colombia to Palestine
15 September 2010
The image of the five men attending peace talks at the White House can easily be dissected as the following: a dictator, a monarch, a puppet and two heads of state responsible for the region’s only military occupations — not the best ingredients for making world peace. Matthew Cassel comments. Read more about Washington peace talks: democracy need not apply
15 September 2010
Due to the endemic poverty in occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the occupied West Bank, hundreds of Palestinian children are forced on to the streets by parents who are living below the poverty level in a desperate bid to eke out a few extra dollars to help their families survive. Read more about Israeli discrimination drives kids from school