Settlers from Chavat Maon came to Tuwana, broke windows and attacked the people there. The Palestinian residents were furious and the situation was only made worse when the army arrived and refused to go after the settlers. Instead, they stood and guarded the Palestinians. A few minutes later three settlers from Chavat Maon tried again to enter Tuwana. This created further tension. Soon afterwards the army decided to start pushing the Palestinians and left-wing activists backwards. When the latter shouted at them the ...Saturday, May 22 2010 Farewell picnic (temporary) for Ezra Nawi
By: Neve Gordon
Picnics, like almost everything else in Israel, are often political. Oz Shelach underscores this point in his collection of short stories, Picnic Grounds, where he describes how a history professor takes his family on a picnic in the pine forest near Givat Shaul, a Jerusalem neighbourhood.
The professor teaches his son some of the camping skills he learned while serving in the Israeli military, using old stones to block the wind and to protect the newly lit fire. The stones, we are told, are the remains of a village known ...Saturday, April 24 2010 Escorting shepherds, Planting and Demonstrating in Hebron Escorting shepherds in the area of Mufakkara, and on the land of Abu Kbita in the area of Yatir was successful. Other groups of activists escorted farmers in a number of places around Susya. We returned to plant on the land of the Moor family, where settlers plowed a while ago, and where settlers had uprooted the trees we planted last week (April 17). Three other groups assisted in the harvest work near the Susya junction, where there are neighboring settlements and the road that ...
Saturday, April 17 2010 Escorting Shepherds and Farmers in Susya and Umm Zeitune Escorting shepherds in Umm Zeitune: A short time after the activists arrived to help, a force of soldiers arrived to expel the shepherds and their escorts through the use of violence. Three activists were arrested, and then released after a number of hours. Escorting farmers: Another group of activists assisted the Moor family to plant olive trees on their land, in the area of Susya where settlers have recently squatted and began to plow. Although settlers from Susya arrived and tried to prevent the ...
Sunday, March 28 2010 Passover and Easter procession in Bethlehem
Sunday 28.3.2010
During the afternoon some 300 Palestinians, Israelis and international activists held a procession on the eve of Easter and Passover during which they marched from Bethlehem to Jerusalem through the Rachel’s Tomb crossing in the separation wall. The demonstrators, among them the mayor of Bethlehem and members of the Palestinian parliament, wished to reach Jerusalem in order to realize their right to worship in the city which is holy to the three religions. Border policemen and the Jerusalem police blocked the marchers on the Jerusalem side of the barrier ...Saturday, March 27 2010 Shepherds accompaniment in Umm Zeitune Saturday 27.3.2010 More grazing in Umm Zeitune, this time in pouring rain which lasted for several hours. Again the head of the settler security force in Maon sent soldiers to evict the shepherds from their lands and again our activists blocked their way and prevented them from reaching the shepherds and their flocks. Gedalia, the head of the settler security force in Maon, tried to catch a goat in order to make its owner come to him, but the activists immediately rescued the goat and continued to accompany the shepherds. The ...
Friday, March 26 2010 Weekly Demontrations in Sheikh Jarrah Continue
Ta’ayush activists continue to take part in the weekly demonstrations in Sheikh Jarrah. Despite police efforts to restrict the protests to a distant and secluded site, the activists succeed weekly to move part of the protest into the area of the houses, which were stolen from their Palestinian owners and put into settler hands. Last Friday, 3.26.2010, during the weekly demonstration, a group of roughly 50 activists managed to hold a protest vigil next to the Shepherd Hotel, where settler organizations have lately received permission to begin building a Jewish ...Saturday, March 20 2010 Shepherds accompaniment – Umm Zeitune Saturday 20.3.2010 We accompanied shepherds from Umm Zeitune in the south Hebron hills. After some two hours of peaceful grazing the head of the settler security force in Maon sent a group of soldiers to evict the shepherds. Our activists blocked their way and stopped them from reaching the shepherds and the flocks. Out of frustration one of the soldiers tried to take a sheep hostage in order to force the shepherds to approach him, but immediately the activists rescued the sheep. As this didn’t work the soldiers tried to catch ...
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