On February 10 2011, residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village of Al Araqib gathered with Israeli activists to protest its destruction, for the 15th time, by Jewish National Fund bulldozers. Police violently dispersed the peaceful demonstration, arresting three activists. The Beersheeba Magistrate accepted the prosecution’s demand that the detainees be released only [...]
Continue Reading →On Friday, March 4 2011, activist Sara Benninga, just back from the US where she received J Street’s Giving Voice to our Values award, returned to lead another of the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement’s non-violent protests against evictions of Palestinian families. For the first time, they were met by a special Border [...]
Continue Reading →The unarmed protest movement in the tiny village of a-Nabi Salih against the settler expropriation of ancestral land and the community’s only spring has long been a target for suppression by the IDF. After realizing that lethal violence did not deter the community, focus shifted to incarceration of its leadership. Some 13 percent [...]
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