The Dust of Our Ancestors The ground trembles before the machine arrives. For Abed, a boy whose life has been measured by the rhythms of the seasons and the endurance of stone, the sound is the roar of a monster. He stands frozen on the rocky soil of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron Hills […]
Between Celebration, Memory, and the Unfinished Search for Peace • By Fred Schlomka • A City Reawakens After Silence It has been three years since Christmas was last celebrated in Bethlehem due to the horrific events of October 7th and the Gaza apocalypse. The contrast between this year’s celebration and last year is striking. The […]
– By Fred Schlomka & Yahav Zohar – First published in the Shetland Times – 28th November 2025 – The article was written is support of the campaign to persuade the Shetland Island Council to divest from Israel. – What is this Israel/Gaza ‘ceasefire’? It is a mechanism that has allowed Israel to maintain the […]
by Yahav Zohar – October 11th, 2025 – A city was destroyed. In fact, several cities were. First there were bombs and missiles from the air, high rise apartment buildings collapsed and the people buried within. Finally it was armored bulldozers and unmanned ‘suicide’ APC’s collapsing what remained. Like the Roman army ploughing Jerusalem flat […]
GENEVA – September 16th, 2025 — UN experts* today warned of the severe economic emergency and catastrophic harm to human rights stemming from Israel’s attacks on the Gaza strip and its wider financial stranglehold across the occupied Palestinian territory. “Economic life in Gaza has been decimated by sheer physical destruction, blockade and siege, and repeated […]
– Yahav Zohar – September 15th, 2025 – A tour group visits the Gaza border area with Yahav. – Last Thursday, out by the fence of the Gaza Strip, we stood to the side of road 232 and watched plumes of smoke go up between the towerblocks of Gaza city, 3 or 4 miles away. […]
– Yahav Zohar – September 2nd, 2025 – Did you hear about the graffiti sprayed on the Western Wall? It made the news in a small wayalmost a month ago. Some outlets even showed the photo, Hebrew letters on the ancientstones יש שואה בעזה “There is a shoa (holocaust) in Gaza”. Earlier that evening, the […]
– Hani Qarmoot, Gaza – August 23rd, 2025 –Israel has blocked the transfer of currency into Gaza; the result is catastrophic. – You try to buy a kilo of flour in Gaza. You open your wallet; what’s inside? A faded 10-shekel note, barely held together by a strip of tape. No one wants it – […]
– by Yahav Zohar – August 20th, 2025 – In Jerusalem, too, this has been one of the hottest summers on record. It’s a harsh season ina harsh place, but if you’re going to be in this country, Jerusalem’s a good choice. We’re upin the hills, and right at the edge of the desert, so […]
” It’s clear that Netanyahu’s ‘messianic fantasy’ is full control of the territory. Staying silent is complicity”
– by Walid El Houri August 7th, 2025 – Destroying seeds is destroying a people’s history and its future. On July 31, 2025, Israeli forces bulldozed the seed‑multiplication unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC’s) seed bank in Hebron. Built from the ground up beginning in 2010, the unit had served as the only […]
