simmons | October 19, 2011
Israeli authorities are giving Palestinian olive growers less time to harvest their crops this year, saying they want to protect them from settler violence and vandalism. For families in the West Bank, whose livelihoods depend on the sale of olives and oil, picking the olives before they are ripe can seriously decrease their value.
simmons | October 16, 2011
Settlement expansion in the Occupied Territories of Palestine is about more than constructing houses for Jewish settlers. Palestinian farmland is being turned into industrial space. Illegal outposts on Palestinian land are protected by Israeli military
simmons | October 12, 2011
An organization started by Juliano Mer Khamis that I volunteered at in the summer of '08 in the Jenin Refugee Camp in Jenin, the heartland of the West Bank in Palestine. During the summer Lisa Fender and I taught storytelling, cinema photography, video editing to the theatre's instructors. As a final project we all worked on this video telling people what The Freedom Theatre is and what it does.
simmons | October 10, 2011
At least 60 activists in the occupied West Bank, Gaza and Israel have started an open-ended hunger strike in support of Palestinians already fasting in Israeli jails against allegedly worsening conditions. More than 200 prisoners have not eaten for the last 13 days
simmons | October 9, 2011
The finger of blame is pointing at Jewish settlers after another Palestinian mosque in the West Bank was vandalised in a so-called 'price tag' attack. The words were daubed on the building, cars were torched in a nearby Arab village and olive trees damaged in the latest incident near Nablus. Locals accuse Jewish settlers after some hardliners vowed to make Palestinians pay for Israel's government dismantling illegal outposts.
simmons | October 5, 2011
Clashes erupted between Israeli soldiers and dozens of stone-throwing Palestinian youths in the biblical West Bank town of Hebron.... No Comment | euronews: watch the international news without commentary | http://www.euronews.net/nocomment/
simmons | October 2, 2011
http://www.factstheplay.ca FACTS, by Arthur Milner, will open in East Jerusalem on November 15, 2011, in an Arabic translation by Kamel Elbasha. It will then will tour Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Bethlehem, Hebron, Nazareth and Haifa
simmons | September 30, 2011
Young Palestinians fought with Israeli security forces near Kiryat Arba, West Bank.... No Comment | euronews: watch the international news without commentary | http://www.euronews.net
simmons | September 27, 2011
A look at the most controversial wall in the world today. We look at the plight of Palestinian farmers whose land became inaccessible because of the wall, and the real intention of those who first drew its outlines
simmons | September 26, 2011
Max has just returned from Palestine, and speaks on the current situation/developments in the West Bank Interviewer: Frank Barat, human rights activist Check out Max's work here: maxblumenthal.com
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