VIDEO | Separate Bus Lines for Palestinians and for Colonists in the West Bank

The Real News Network | April 16, 2013 During the global protests known as Israel Apartheid Week, the Israeli government launched a segregated bus service, forcing Palestinians in the West Bank to travel only on buses designated to them. Live Blog | Israel’s News Buses: “Nur für Palestinenzer” (Only for Palestinians) Israel has “started” to […]

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Live Blog | Israel’s News Buses: “Nur für Palestinenzer” (Only for Palestinians)

Continuously updated Israel has “started” to operate segregated buses. But not really ‘started’. Already in November 2011, activists challenged the segregated illegal settler buses  Rosa Parks Style with the #FreedomRides. Challenging segregation and racism in the same way like Rosa Parks did when she was refused entry in a bus on December 1, 1955. After […]

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Palestine Freedom Riders – video

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | Pictures | Video by sanakassem – nov 19, 2011 On the 15th of November, six Palestinian activists: Nadeem Al-Sharbate, Huwaida Arraf, Dr.Mazin Qumsieyeh, Fadi Qura’an, Basel Al-Araj, and Badee’ Dwaik, boarded a segregated Israeli bus used by Israeli settlers to Jerusalem in an attempt to highlight […]

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JVP Solidarity with Palestinian #FreedomRides – YouTube

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | Pictures | Video   Images and video from the November 15, 2011 Palestinian Freedom Ride in the Occupied West Bank and a solidarity action organized by Jewish Voice For Peace in Baltimore, MD. To download an MP3 of the song, click here http://soundcloud.com/bmorejvp/freedom-ride/download Email Baltimore Jewish Voice […]

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#FreedomRides to Resume in Palestine ~ by Ben Lorber

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | Pictures | Video Freedom Rides will protest Apartheid. (Alternativenews.org) By Ben Lorber – ISM, West Bank The upcoming Freedom Rides has tethered itself very tenuously to an event in the past, and has thereby taken a stand in a historical legacy that leaves itself highly open […]

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#FreedomRides Defy Segregration On Israeli Settler Bus Route Nov 15, 2011 – video

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | in pictures By haithmkatib@gmail.com – Nov 15, 2011 Several activists were arrested by Israeli forces today while attempting to ride segregated buses serving illegal Israeli settlements..        

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Expert remarks on Palestinian #FreedomRides

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | in pictures IMEU, Nov 15, 2011 Following Tuesday’s Palestinian Freedom Rides, the IMEU offers the following quotes for publication from veterans of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and members of Palestinian civil society. Clarence B. Jones, close friend and advisor to Martin Luther King Jr., Scholar […]

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CODEPINK: Freedom for the #FreedomRides! Take Action Now!

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | in pictures Freedom for the Freedom Riders! End the Israeli Occupation of Palestine! On November 15th, a historic group of Palestinian youth Freedom Riders, inspired by the US Civil Rights movement attempted to board segregated buses serving Israeli settlers in the West Bank. Their attempt to […]

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Palestinians To Ride At The Front Of The Bus

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – Updates | in pictures By Avaaz  –  Information Clearing House – Nov 15, 2011 Right now, history could be made in Palestine. A small number of brave Palestinians will risk attack and arrest to commit a forbidden act — they will board a public bus. Lacking their own […]

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#FreedomRides | Arrest of Palestinian Freedom Rider Fadi Quran – video

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | in pictures Imeu | Nov 15, 2011 A brief interview, followed by the arrest of Palestinian Freedom Rider Fadi Quran, taken from the livestream of the November 15 protest. Quran was one of seven Palestinian Freedom Riders who were violently arrested while attempting to ride on […]

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Freedom Riders Defy Segregration On Israeli Settler Bus Route

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | in pictures Tuesday November 15, 2011 19:42 by Adam Kerry and William Gibson – IMEMC & Agencies As people around Palestine celebrate their Independence, six Palestinian activists attempt to make the journey to Jerusalem on a settler only bus, highlighting the segregation prevalent in Israeli society. […]

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Palestinian Freedom Riders On Their Way to Jerusalem Violently Arrested on Israeli Settler Bus | PRESS RELEASE #FreedomRides

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | in pictures PALESTINIAN FREEDOM RIDERS For Immediate ReleaseTuesday, 15 November 2011 Palestinians who boarded a segregated Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem were arrested for taking action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Rides Earlier today, seven Palestinian Freedom […]

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Freedom Riders, Palestine’s Time ~ by WrittenResistance

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | in pictures The Palestinian Freedom Rides movement was inspired by the Civil Rights Act of 1961, when African Americans and Americans alike boarded buses and road throughout the south in order to break segregation marked by Jim Crow laws. This act branded them the name “Freedom […]

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Rosa Parks is Alive! – #FreedomRides for #Palestine ~ Cartoon by @CarlosLatuff

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | in pictures Source and more – Courtesy of Carlos Latuff

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7 arrested after boarding Israeli bus

FreedomRides | Topic – Action Alerts – updates | in pictures Maan News Agency – Nov 15, 2011 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Palestinian activists boarded Israeli settler buses Tuesday in an action inspired by the American civil rights movement which resulted in several arrests. The activists headed toward the Kohav Yakov and Psagot settlement bus stops […]

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