AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Israeli decision to release Palestinian detainee Khader Adnan in April ‘insufficient’

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL FEBR 21 2012 Demonstriations calling for Khader Adnan’s release have been held in the West Bank on Tuesday © Hazem Bader/AFP/Getty Images The Israeli authorities’ decision to release a Palestinian detainee by mid-April is insufficient, Amnesty International said amid reports that he has agreed to end his 66-day hunger strike. The organization has […]

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Meet the New York Times’ New Israel-Palestine News Chief

FEBR 21 2012 COUNTERPUNCH – ALISON WEIR Judi Rudoren, Another Member of the Family Michael Lerner, the editor of Tikkun Magazine, is known for his frequent condemnations of Israeli violence against Palestinians. He is labeled “pro-Palestinian” for such statements and is regularly attacked by pro-Israel zealots who charge that he is disloyal to the Jewish […]

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Solidarity with Khader Adnan – February 21 2012 – Photography

FEBR 21 2012 An impression of solidariy protests across Palestine Related: We will not let you down Khader Adnan! ~ Photos & Action Alert Related: All Posts about Khader Adnan More about: Palestine’s Prisoners | Pictures | Topic | Category More about: Israeli Torture of Prisoners | History | Category

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Call for solidarity: Submit your photos for the liberation of Shuhada street

20 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Beginning this week local organizers in Al Khalil (Hebron), Hebron Defense Committee, and Youth Against Settlements have organized a series of events to commemorate the Baruch Goldstein Massacre and demand the re-opening of Shuhada Street, once the commercial heart of Al Khalil, now off limits to […]

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Palestinian Hunger Strikers: A History

Published February 21st, 2012 – 19:01 GMT Intestines- Mightier than the pen and the sword. The History of the Palestinian Captive Movement Hunger Strike and the Story of Khader Adnan Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan has gained global attention for his plight and raised great concern. Here’ s a history of Palestinian hunger strikers and […]

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Bethlehem demonstration for Khader Adnan stopped at checkpoint

MAAN NEWS AGENCY FEB 21 2012   BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Palestinian demonstrators marched toward a Bethlehem checkpoint on Tuesday, before being stopped by Palestinian security forces. Dozens of university students carrying Palestinian flags set off from Bethlehem University towards the Israeli military checkpoint next to Rachel’s Tomb in the west of the city, protesting the […]

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A Voice of Integrity in the Canadian Media Fired Again

by Linda Belanger / February 21st, 2012 / Dissident Voice On Thursday, February 9th, 2011, Bell Media, owners of CTV and CFRA Radio in Ottawa, fired talk show host Michael Harris. Harris is a journalist of the highest integrity, a Woodrow Wilson Scholar and award winning author of numerous books, four of which have sparked […]

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The Obfuscation of the Two-State Solution – You Can’t Get There From Here – by Jeff Halper

by JEFF HALPER – DISSIDENT VOICE FEB 21 2012 Even as I write this, the bulldozers have been busy throughout that one indivisible country known by the bifurcated term Israel/Palestine. Palestinian homes, community centers, livestock pens and other “structures” (as the Israel authorities dispassionately call them) have been demolished in the Old City, Silwan and […]

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Palestinian president to contact Brotherhood if it forms Egypt’s government

OSAMA KHALED EGYPT INDEPENDANT FEB 21 2012 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that he does not mind contacting the Muslim Brotherhood should it form the government in Egypt. “We met with them before,” he said in an interview with Al-Masry Al-Youm. Abbas said he is not worried about the rise of the Islamists in […]

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Soldiers Use Force to Disperse Protest in Solidarity with Khader Adnan

WAFA FEB 21 2012 RAMALLAH, February 21, 2012 (WAFA) – Several Palestinians were injured Tuesday when Israeli soldiers used force to disperse a protest outside Ofer military camp near Ramallah held in solidarity with Khader Adnan, the prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 66 straight days, said witnesses. Confrontations broke out when Israeli […]

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Running the Gaza blockade: An interview with Karen DeVito

RABBLE CA FEBR 21 2012 By Michael Nenonen Back in October 2011 rabble.ca ran an interview I conducted with Karen DeVito, a Canadian activist and participant in that summer’s Freedom Waves to Gaza. Freedom Waves is an international effort by activists to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. Since 2010 the activists have launched […]

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Jerusalem Church Vandalised with Graffiti Inciting Hatred Against Christians

Monday February 20, 2012 16:56 by Circarre Parrhesia – IMEMC & Agencies Racist graffiti has been sprayed on a church in Jerusalem on Monday in the third such incident in the past month in the city. The graffiti included “Death to Christians” and the phrase “price tag” was found on the walls of the Baptist […]

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Freedom and Justice Party Rejects Gaza Blockade; Demands Protection for Muslim, Christian Holy Sites in Jerusalem

IKWAANWEB FEB 21 2012 FJP denounces Egypt’s part in the siege of Gaza; and condemns Zionist attempts to strip Jerusalem of its Islamic identity and to completely Judaize the Holy City by deporting Arab and Muslim residents and revoking their ID cards, demolishing their houses and confiscating their lands. Related: Al Quds – Ethnic cleansing […]

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Physicians for Human Rights Israel calls on Israel to Stop Administrative Detentions

WAFA FEB 21 2012 TEL AVIV, February 21, 2012 (WAFA) – Physicians for Human Rights Israel Tuesday called on the government of Israel to stop the practice of administrative detention against Palestinians. “Khader Adnan is only one of 309 administrative detainees currently held in Israeli prisons, with no charges presented against them and with no […]

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Despite the Announcement of a Deal Limiting Khader Adnan’s Detention, Addameer Reiterates its Urgent Concern for His Health

RAMALLAH FEB 21 2012 Ramallah, 21 February 2012 – Khader Adnan’s hearing at the Israeli High Court was cancelled today, 21 February 2012, only minutes before the hearing was to take place. On Khader’s 66th day of hunger strike in protest of his administrative detention and inhuman and degrading treatment by the Israeli authorities, one […]

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