commentary from Israel & the West Bank
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IDF arrests Red Crescent medical team during a demonstration in Ni’ilin
about 1 week ago - 2 comments
The IDF arrested a Red Crescent medical team this afternoon in the West Bank city of Ni’ilin. The medical team was a part of the weekly protest against the separation wall and continued Israeli settlement expansion. Roughly thirty Palestinians accompanied by Israeli and international supporters approached the separation wall around one in the afternoon. Palestinians
Video From Weekly Protests in Bil’in and Sheikh Jarrah
about 4 months ago - No comments
Video from Bil’in by Yisrael Puternam Video from Shiekh Jarrah by Yisrael Puternam Video and report from Nil’in and Nabi Salih will be posted in next days as I am editing the footage now.
David Shulman on Sheikh Jarrah, Gaza and in the Israeli Peace Movement in the NYRB
about 8 months ago - 2 comments
Writing in the New York Review of Books Blog: The legal situation in Sheikh Jarrah is ambiguous: Israeli courts have recently ruled that Jewish claims to ownership of land and houses in the neighborhood, from long before 1948, are valid and constitute a basis for evicting the Palestinian residents, all of whom received these lands
Gaza Protest March in Tel Aviv
about 8 months ago - No comments
A large portion of the Israeli left marked the Gaza war with a protest in the heart of Tel Aviv last night. The march began in Rabin Square and ended across the street from the Defense Ministry. Here is Phil Weiss’s take on the march.
Israeli Activists Mark Gaza One Year On
about 8 months ago - 1 comment
Video from yesterday’s attempt to enter Gaza in solidarity by Israeli peace activists.
Gaza in Conflict- Antony Loewenstein Reports
about 1 year ago - No comments
Long hot day in the West Bank today with Ta’ayush in the village of Umm-El Hir. Working on a small video and write up to post tomorrow morning. In the meantime, Antony Loewenstein has a piece in The Nation today about his recent trip to Gaza. It is a must read. “Gaza is unlike anywhere
Gaza Reflections from Antony Loewenstein
about 1 year ago - No comments
Antony Loewenstein just returned from a reporting trip in Gaza. Yesterday we sat and edited some of his video footage that he captured with a personal camera. They are small snippets of life from a place that many of us associate with death. Below his video is a small write up about his experience. The
Coexistence that the Western Media is not Willing to Cover
about 1 year ago - 5 comments
Saturday was a burning hot day in the West Bank. Combatants for Peace, a group made up of Israeli ex-combat soldiers and Palestinian ex-fighters, planned a protest at an illegal outpost adjacent to Shufa, a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank that is very close to the Green Line. The illegal outpost was built
Antony Loewenstein reports from Gaza
about 1 year ago - No comments
Antony Loewenstein has been traveling and reporting from Gaza over the last week. This is his latest from the ground published by Mondoweiss. While the devastation, desperation and anger permeates every level of existence here and the siege is the topic of every second conversation, hope lives. Although many have said they would love to
Gaza from the ground
about 1 year ago - No comments
Antony Loewenstein has succeeded where most independent journalists have failed. He is Gaza. From the emails I have gotten from him, it sounds like a world far away. Despite being busy crisscrossing the Gaza Strip and doing interviews with everyone from tunnel smugglers to senior Hamas political leaders he is uploading photos to his Flickr
Breaking the Silence Testimony from Operation Cast Lead on YouTube
This is the first in a series of over thirty YouTube videos that Breaking the Silence will be releasing over the next days. The videos are testimonies by soldiers who served in Operation Cast Lead last January. Please visit this post for more information about the report.