Tag: West Bank

VIDEO: Israeli Settler Tries Stabbing Rabbi Arik Asherman Who Was Helping Palestinians

In this video, an Israeli settler can be seen trying to stab Rabbi Arik Asherman, who is the president of ‘Rabbis for Human Rights’. He was accompanying Palestinian olive harvesters in the West Bank, and tried protecting them from being attacked by Jewish settlers. Watch the video here: Source: 5Pillars.com

Israel’s UN Ambassador Called For Annexing West Bank, Tries To Delete Evidence

  Danny Danon, Israel’s new ambassador to the United Nations, has been described by Israeli Labor Party lawmaker Erel Margalit as “a right-wing extremist with the diplomatic sensitivity of a pit bull.” Ambassador Danon boasted on his official Facebook page on April 27, 2011 that he was proposing legislation that would have the Israeli government… Read More ›

Video: Israeli Forces Beat Elderly Palestinian Man While Demolishing Jerusalem Homes

Charlotte Silver / Electronic Intifada This video shows Israeli occupation police and border guards brutally attacking members of the family of Nidal Abu Khalid early Tuesday morning, as they arrived to demolish two homes in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. The homes had been built without permits, which are nearly impossible for Palestinians… Read More ›

Israel Seizes Nearly 800 Palestinian Firms In Jerusalem

DTT: Racially superior claim , racial segregation, stealing businesses of “inferior” races… I hope one day I do wake in a World where there is peace, Where there is no more hunger, no more violence, no more wars, no more racism and injustice. How could humans do this to each other? What have we become… Read More ›

Palestinian Woman Suffers Miscarriage After Assault By Israeli Settlers

By Press TV A pregnant Palestinian woman has suffered miscarriage after a group of Israeli settlers attacked and beat her up in the center of al-Khalil (Hebron), the southern occupied West Bank. Palestinian medical sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the 37-year-old woman, identified as Mirvat Sa’ad Abu Romeila, sustained multiple cuts and bruises… Read More ›

Bill Maher Defends Netanyahu’s Racist Campaigning, Floats Stripping Arabs Of Votes

By Zaid Jilani / Alternet Maher suggests America might strip blacks of the vote if black nations had attacked us. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s racist campaigning did not cost him the election, but it did cost Obama administration support. The U.S. rarely openly disagrees with Israel’s leaders, but the administration issued a statement condemning the… Read More ›

Islamophobia In The Jewish Community

By Mend.org.uk   The Jewish News reports on the comments by Labour incumbent for the marginal seat of Bury South, Ivan Lewis MP, on strains of Islamophobia present among British Jewish communities. Speaking at the We Believe in Israel conference, organised by BICOM, the former minister for the Middle East, said: “I find it incredible that… Read More ›

To Evangelicals, Zionism An Increasingly Tough Sell

By Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Electronic Intifada While the lobby giant AIPAC wields power in Washington, evangelical Christians have long been the grassroots base of Israel advocacy in the US. But that support is eroding. According to a National Association of Evangelicals poll, forty percent of US evangelical leaders have changed their thinking about Israel over… Read More ›

‘We Palestinian Christians Say Allahu Akbar’

By Nadezhda Kevorkova – RT.com The only Palestinian Orthodox Christian bishop in the Holy Land speaking about the suffering of Palestinian Christians, their unity with Muslims in the Palestinian struggle, about Orthodox Christian martyrs, and Ukraine. Archbishop Sebastia Theodosios (Atallah Hanna), 49, is the only Orthodox Christian archbishop from Palestine stationed in Jerusalem and the… Read More ›

Arrests, Expulsions, Home Demolitions, Land Seizure & Settlers Harassing Palestinians Continues

By Amira Hass – Haaretz.com Arrests, expulsions, home demolitions, land seizure and settlers harassing Palestinians continues: Since the beginning of the fighting in the south on July 8, soldiers and police have injured 2,139 Palestinians in the West Bank. Last Wednesday, about an hour and a half after midnight, a group of armed men in… Read More ›

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