PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity), # 547 Aug. 5, 2011
Israel’s Ministry of the Interior has given the green light for the commencement of the construction of the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, which is to be built on the site of Muslim tombs dating back many centuries, said a spokesperson on Wednesday.
"The permit given on Tuesday by the Ministry’s district commission means that the digging for this project can begin immediately," ...
From: The Freedom Theatre in Jenin Refugee Camp, Occupied Palestinian Territory, 1 August, 2011
http://www.thefreedomtheatre.org/news.php?id=189
Following Wednesday 27th July attack on The Freedom Theatre[1] the detained persons, Adnan Naghnaghiye, head technician at the theatre and Bilal Saadi, chairperson of the association, were taken to the Jalame and Meggiddo high security prisons inside Israel. Their lawyer has been denied the right to ...
Besieged Gaza, Occupied Palestine, 30 July 2011
Article 13 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights clearly states that
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
This article follows others that unequivocally recognize the inherent ...
PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity), # 546, July 29, 2011
A senior Israeli army commander has warned that unchecked "Jewish terror" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank threatens to plunge the territory into another conflict.
In unusually outspoken comments, Major General Avi Mizrahi took aim at extremist Israeli settlers, and said the yeshiva, or religious seminary, in Yitzhar, one of the most radical Jewish strongholds ...
Human rights advocates attacked by Israeli forces after detention at airport, Press release, Bethlehem and Jerusalem 9 July 2011.
Palestinians in the "Welcome to Palestine" coalition condemn in the strongest possible terms the attack by Israeli forces on dozens of detained human rights activists. One of those detained reported (before his phone was apparently removed) how 32 people were held together in one room and then attacked, forcefully ...
By Nadia Hijab
It was never about aid.
Freedom Flotilla II is, like its assaulted predecessor of a year ago, a political act. The passengers came together in shared determination to challenge Israel's five-year siege of Gaza and to exercise their right to travel through international waters to Palestinian shores and, by so doing, support the Palestinian right to freedom.
Many have misrepresented this political act as being about ...
