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Against All Odds: Annual Olive Harvest in Palestine

By Miri – Olive Harvest, Palestine 1886 The annual olive harvest in Palestine used to be a season of joy and festivities. Whole families, including elders and toddlers would gather in the groves and help bring in the crops, eat breakfast together in the shade of the trees, and listen to stories and jokes. In […]

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Crossing the Wall – Palestinian Workers in Israel

By Miri – Following Eid al-Fitr, Israeli as well as international media was full of pictures and articles about West Bank Palestinians enjoying and celebrating Ramadan on Tel Aviv’s and Jaffa’s beaches. Israeli authorities had granted more than 200,000 permits to Palestinian West Bank residents for the high Muslim holiday. A view at Tel Aviv […]

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And then there’s that Wall…

By Marianna Hillmer-Wiechmann – Marianna Hillmer-Wiechmann went on our Greater Jerusalem Tour and on our Hebron and Bethlehem Tour. In this article (for the German original see here) she puts her impressions into word and image. It does not take long to get from Jerusalem to the Wall. This huge wall, that Israel has built […]

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The Nativity Trail 2012

By Miri – If Mary and Joseph were to embark on their journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem in 2012 their experiences would obviously be very differently. Let’s trace their trail and see what they would discover today and which obstacles they would have to overcome in order to reach Bethlehem. The Separation Barrier around Jenin […]

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Talking Walls

By Miri Graffiti is not a phenomenon that came up with the emergence of hip hop culture. It is definitely not a Western or a modern appearance, in fact it is a global practice that can be traced back to ancient times. If you think about it, cave paintings can be considered graffiti as well, […]

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Qalkilya – City of Hope

Fred at the Qalqilya Separation Wall From Fred Schlomka Qalqilya is a West Bank town just a couple of kilometers from where I live – but it might as well be on another continent due to the 8-meter high Separation Wall and the ban on Israeli Jews from entering the municipality. In 1948 Qalkilya, which […]

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Mark Thomas – Extreme Rambling

by Mark Thomas – published in the Guardian Travel Section The dubious honour of being the first person to walk the length of Israel‘s barrier in the West Bank, to the best of my knowledge, belongs to, well, me. Admittedly it’s not a hotly contested title. Israel’s massive barrier covered in watchtowers, wire and soldiers […]

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Mark Thomas on the trail

by Fred Schlomka – Mark Thomas is a man with a mission. For several months, together with his sidekick Phil, he has been trekking the route of Israel’s Separation Barrier (AKA Apartheid Wall) in order to probe the minds of the people living on either side. In early 2011 he will publish a book and […]

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The Ghettos of Jerusalem

Fred SchlomkaIsraeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has said that “Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people, a city reunified so as never again to be divided”. Nothing could be further from the truth. Jerusalem today is a city dissected by walls and fences, divided by race, religion and ethnicity, and traumatized by home demolitions, […]

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The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Complains to US Treasury Department

original article Road with wall down the middle – Anata, East Jerusalem One side for Palestinians. One side for Israelis The American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee (ADC) has filed multiple administrative complaints with the US Department of the Treasury, including the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). the organization requested investigations into organizations claiming tax-exempt status under section […]

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American Friends Service Committee ADSC Video

This short short video by the American Friends Service Committee brings home to all of us the impact of Israel’s colonization of the West Bank.

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Gaza CLOSED ZONE video

Yoni Goodman, director of animation for the Academy Award-nominated film, “Waltz with Bashir”,  Now brings you ‘Closed Zone’. Despite declarations that it has “disengaged” from the Gaza Strip, Israel maintains control of the Strip’s overland border crossings, territorial waters, and air space. This includes substantial, albeit indirect, control of the Rafah Crossing. During the past […]

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