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Waste not, wall not
June 5, 2008
[Ha’aretz] On September 4, 2007, the Supreme Court’s justices delivered a verdict that would impact life in the tiny West Bank village of Bil’in - a place which, more than any other, has come to symbolize the struggle against the separation fence. To the surprise of those in the courtroom, the judges ruled that the original route of the barrier as drawn up by defense officials was determined in order to accommodate the expansion of the nearby Jewish settlement of Modi’in Illit. The court therefore ordered the state to dismantle a 1.7-kilometer stretch of the fence, and noted that its route also put Israel Defense Forces soldiers in a vulnerable position.
Third Annual Conference on Nonviolent Resistance in Bil’in starts
June 4, 2008
The third conference on popular struggle started in the village of Bil’in Wednesday morning with the presence of a number of local and international officials and peace activists.
The conference is organized by the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in the village of Bil’in for the third year in a row.
Beacon of nonviolent resistance 3-day conference underway
June 4, 2008
The Bil’in International Conference of Popular Resistance began Wednesday. Throughout the past several years, the western Ramallah village has become a beacon in the West Bank for nonviolent resistance against the Wall, settlements, land confiscation and occupation.
Dozens treated for tear gas inhalation at the weekly Bil'in protest
May 30, 2008
Villagers from Bil’in, located near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, supported by international and Israeli peace activists conducted their weekly nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli wall built on the village’s land on Friday.
Ramallah commemorates the ongoing Nakba
May 29, 2008
Most Nakba commemoration events this year focused their attention on the 1948 War and the plight of the Palestinian refugees. Rightly so, for that war was in fact the implementation of a Zionist political and military strategy to forcibly remove the majority of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants to pave the way for the creation of an exclusively Jewish state, creating the largest and longest-standing refugee issue in the world today. In commemoration, and as US President George W. Bush sang his messianic "happy birthday" speech to the Israeli Knesset, 50,000 or so demonstrators calling for the rightful return of the Palestinian refugees crammed into Ramallah’s Manara Square. Just a few meters away from the mass demonstration, where Ramallah ends and the twin city of al-Bireh unnoticeably begins, the Baladna Cultural Center opened its contribution to the Nakba commemoration events: a three-day exhibit entitled From the Scent of Bil’in’s Wall. The exhibit closed on 17 May, and we were the first guests that day.
