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The Jewish People are not my People. My People are Hashem and his Family from Bil'in

avril 2, 2007

There is nothing festive in this posting. Passover, shmassover, I hate the holidays because while we celebrate, while us Jews babble slogans about freedom, and fantasize that we are a miserable enslaved nation, we are in fact busy enslaving the Palestinian people. It’s become banal and boring to repeat this a thousand times, but in my eyes, the hypocrisy cries out to the heavens. \[The Passover prayer\] ‘Oh bread of poverty’ is no longer the bread of poverty of Jews but of numerous Palestinian families in the Occupied Territories, who live off thirty or forty shekels the head of the household manages to scrounge together doing temporary jobs once every few days.

Bil'in residents build on farmland to stop settlement expansion

avril 1, 2007

The residents of Bil’in are making a new move in the nonviolent resistance. With the Wall built on one side three years ago and the Israeli settlements expanding on the other, land confiscation and a sense of imprisonment have overtaken the western Ramallah town.

Palestinians set up outpost near Bilin

mars 29, 2007

Palestinian activists set up makeshift education facility on land they say Israel expropriated to expand Modi’in-Ilit.

This week in Palestine - Nonviolent Resistance in West Bank

mars 23, 2007

On Friday, the village of Bil’in, near the center West Bank city of Ramallah, conducted its weekly non-violent demonstration against the illegal Israeli wall. Local villagers supported by International and Israeli volunteers, raising flags and banners, in English, Arabic and Hebrew, and chanting slogans against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village land, marched to the gate of the wall, separating the village from the lands. There they met with Israeli troops who directly opened fire and shot sound bombs and tear gas at the protestors.

Nonviolent Palestinian resistance to occupation: there is no peace with checkpoints or settlements

mars 23, 2007

As a bastion of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to Israeli occupation, western Ramallah’s Bil’in Village hosted a conference for all regions of the West Bank. None of its districts are being spared the devastation of the Wall and settlement expansion. The People’s Committee to Resist the Wall, and the national and Islamic resistance movements, convened to strategize.