Press and independent media
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Israeli Apartheid on Trial: Bil'in VS Green Mount International / Green Park International
02/06/2009
[Press Release] Mohammed Khatib of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and the committee’s lawyer Emily Schaeffer who is bringing forward the case alongside Canadian lead lawyer Mark Arnold will be touring Canada this June. The speaking tour, hitting 11 Canadian cities, will take place in the run-up to a landmark lawsuit that seeks to hold two Canadian corporations accountable for breaches of international law and Canadian domestic law.
The Palestinian village of hope
27/05/2009
[The Guardian] Ramallah is tired. The feeling you get walking around the streets here is that the Palestinians are weary of the struggle against the incremental destruction of their homeland, happening right now while the world looks the other way. You hear things like, "Our struggle has been long and it has got us nowhere". And people ask how the world can stand by while the Israelis annex more land. It’s a good question.
In one village the flame of non-violent resistance still burns. Last week, we went to the weekly demonstration against the annexation wall in Bil’in, where it cuts deep into the farmland of this old Palestinian village and the Green Line (the internationally recognised border of Israel-Palestine). Since Israel started building the wall here in 2005 (stealing about 60% of the village’s land) the people of Bil’in have been inventively and non-violently resisting.
Corporations on Trial
21/05/2009
[Al Jazeera] In a special five-part series People & Power charts the rapidly growing number of lawsuits being brought against multi-national corporations.
Around the world, ordinary people are asking how many more times their interests should be sacrificed for corporate greed and shareholder profit.
Interview with Mahmud Zwahre, Head of the al-Ma'sara Popular Committee
19/05/2009
[AIC] The al-Ma’sara Committee against the Wall and Settlements has been organizing demonstrations against the confiscation of their land for the past two and a half years. During the demonstration on 1 May 2009, the Israeli army arrested Hasan Bergia, Mohammad Bergia, Mahmoud Zwahre (members of the popular committee), Mustafa Fuara, Azmi Ash-Shyukhi, Haggai Matar (Israeli activist) and Tom Stocker (British volunteer). The last two were released the same day on 1,500 NIS bail with conditions of not entering the West Bank for two weeks. Azmi Ash-Shyukhi, Mustafa Fuara and Mahmoud Zwahre were released on bail (50,000 NIS all together) on 13 May, after being held in military prison for almost two weeks. Hassan Bergia and Mohammad Bergia are still being held.
West Bank Becomes Waste Land
19/05/2009
[IPS] Israel has found a cheap and easy way to get rid of its waste, much of it hazardous: dump it into the West Bank. A few Palestinians can be bought, the rest are in no position to complain. "Israel has been dumping waste, including hazardous and toxic waste, into the West Bank for years as a cheaper and easier alternative to processing it properly in Israel at appropriate hazardous waste management sites," Palestinian Environmental Authority (PEA) deputy director Jamil Mtoor told IPS.
