One of the best people I’ve met in a very, very long time, a social activist and community organizer from the Shuafat Refugee Camp, Baha Nababta, was murdered three days ago by an unknown assailant, while fixing […]
Category: Free Jerusalem
UPDATE: Susiya’s High Court Discussion Delayed; Demolitions Likely Delayed Also
[Note: This post has been altered to account for updated language and information]. This is the update from Rabbis for Human Rights and “Free Jerusalem,” a few of the many groups of activists and organizers working […]
A 10:00 AM Demonstration Against the Planned Eviction of the Sub Leban Family; Next Steps
10:00 AM, Sunday, March 22nd: Ahmad Sub Leban, a friend and colleague, welcomes a group of about 60 activists and journalists outside of his family’s home in the Muslim Quarter of the Old City: “We are […]
Notes (and tweets) from a solidarity tour in the Shuafat Refugee Camp
Yesterday, I was part of the biggest group of unarmed Israelis to enter the Shuafat Refugee Camp in over a decade. At least that it what the Palestinian organizers of the tour told me. And […]
A Jerusalem Protest Against Children’s Arrests
This morning, at 11:00 AM, around 60 or 70 Jerusalemites – Palestinian and Israeli – gathered outside the Jerusalem Municipality’s office in West Jerusalem to protest the practice of children’s arrests in East Jerusalem. The […]
16 Snapshots from an Activist Tour to the South Hebron Hills
On Friday, February 6th, around 70 Israelis went on a tour of the South Hebron Hills, led by the indispensable Breaking the Silence and Ta’ayush, and sparked by the rad group of Jerusalem activists who’ve […]
Chipping Away at the Wall: Palestinian activists lead 150 Israelis on a tour of Issawiya
This afternoon, a number of Palestinian activists and residents of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya -home to 18,000 people, all of whom have suffered directly from the Jerusalem Municipality’s policy of collective punishment over […]
Six Palestinians from East Jerusalem talk about life under occupation to 200+ Israelis in West Jerusalem
A curation of live-tweets from last night’s event, in which six Palestinian activists, students and residents of East Jerusalem came to a West Jerusalem bar to take part in an event co-organized by Israeli left-wing […]
Hundreds of Palestinians, Israelis protest collective punishment in East Jerusalem
[Originally published on +972 Magazine] In the midst of the heightened tension gripping much of Jerusalem over the past few weeks, over 800 people marched peacefully through the village of Issawiya Wednesday, calling for an […]
“Israelis demonstrate against collective punishment in East Jerusalem” (Interview)
Interview with by Sarah Levy, writing for MondoWeiss: ”About 80 Israelis rallied last Wednesday night outside of Jerusalem mayor Nir Barkat’s house, chanting and banging drums in protest against the intensified attack on East Jerusalem […]
The Leftern Wall 