Jonathan Cook, journalist of repute, describes in this article how the Spanish government and Quakers in the UK have funded Israeli activists in an act of defiance against razing of homes that force families out of Jerusalem <brANATA, JERUSALEM. In the first hours of dawn, Nader Elayan was woken by a call from a neighbour… Read more »
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RETHINKING ISRAEL AFTER SIXTY YEARS
Israeli Independence Day 2008, marking the sixtieth anniversary of the rise of the Jewish State, should be cause for sober reflection and re-evaluation as well as celebration. Indeed, we Israeli Jews have much to celebrate. But something, it appears, is amiss. Israelas 60 Year gala appeared exaggerated, the joy expressed through the blaring loudspeakers somewhat… Read more »
Born to Demolish
It was another of those routine tragedies that are never publicized. At eight in the morning we at ICAHD (the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions) received a call that the Border Police, Israeli police and Jerusalem Municipality bulldozers were massing below the Palestinian village of Anata, poised to begin another day of home demolitions. (Link… Read more »
Home Rebuilt in 2007 Camp Demolished. ICAHD Coordinator Arrested Resisting Demolition
News came in from ICAHD this morning that the Hamdan family home, rebuilt during the 2007 Constructing Peace Summer Camp, has been demolished. Jeff Halper, founder and Coordinator of ICAHD, was arrested for attempting to resist the demolition, but released soon after. We understand at this point in time that no charges will be pressed… Read more »
POWER TO THE (PALESTINIAN) PEOPLE!
January 23, 2008 The people of Palestine have done it again, taking their own fate in their hands after being let down by their own “moderate” political leadership and, indeed, the entire international community in their struggle for freedom. Early this morning they simply blew up the wall separating Gaza from Egypt, breaking a siege… Read more »
BETWEEN APARTHEID AND THE STATUS QUO
One may well think that the struggle inside the Jewish community of Israel is between those of the political right, who want to maintain the settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank so as to _redeem_ the Greater Land of Israel as a Jewish country, and those of the left who seek a two-state… Read more »
NOT ONLY TERRITORY, BUT VIABILITY
On paper, the headlines sounded promising, even stirring. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, it was reported, told Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas at their meeting in Jericho that he would push for the establishment of a Palestinian state as “fast as possible” on _the equivalent to 100 percent of the territories conquered in 1967._ The Palestinians,… Read more »
We’ve made it at last! We’re mentioned in the Daily Mail!
Daily Mail readers up and down the country will hopefully be aware of ICAHD now, thanks to Clare Short,member of ICAHD UK, and the following piece about her in Ephraim Hardcastle’s political and business personality gossip column in the newspaper on Friday, 29th June. It’s just a shame that the person who “leaked” the story… Read more »
Keeping on a Steady Course to Apartheid
For all the attention and hysteria the latest events in Gaza have generated since the Hamas _takeover,_ for Israel they represent nothing but a minor blip in its inexorable drive towards its own unilateral _solution:_ apartheid. Israelas end-game, explicit and unruffled by the recent turmoil on the ground, is clear. It is laid out in… Read more »
RESISTANCE BEGINS n AND SO DOES THE REPRESSION
On June 11, 2007, ICAHD announced the launching of a campaign to rebuild the home of every Palestinian family whose house is demolished over the coming year. We held our launch in conjunction with the 40th year of the Occupation, for which we returned to the place where the Occupation began n the few houses… Read more »