Recent articles by Electronic Intifada.http://www.trcb.com/en-Us60Sat, 26 May 2012 08:03:17 ESTCopyright 2012 Electronic Intifada, TRCB.com All Right Reservedhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/epic-series-the-promise-dramatizes-palestine-past-and-present-50013.htmClaire Fox plays Erin, the granddaughter of a mandate-era British soldier, in The Promise. Nothing is guaranteed to arouse passions and stir consciences more than a great film dramatization that Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:09:42 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/epic-series-the-promise-dramatizes-palestine-past-and-present-50013.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/activism-news/vittorio-arrigoni-hero-of-palestine-50003.htmVittorio Arrigoni in Gaza, June 2010. (Lu Palestinians and international solidarity activists around the world are collectively mourning the shocking death of Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:04:03 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/activism-news/vittorio-arrigoni-hero-of-palestine-50003.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Activism Newshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/activism-news/lydd-residents-protest-home-demolitions-49925.htmA woman in Lydd cries beside the rubble of her destroyed home, December 2010. (Oren The Electronic Intifada attended a demonstration against home demolitions in Lydd on Tuesday night, 12 April. Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:21:27 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/activism-news/lydd-residents-protest-home-demolitions-49925.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Activism Newshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/woman-killed-in-gaza-air-strike-was-anticipating-wedding-49926.htmThe chairs that Nidal and Najah Qdeih were sitting in when they were killed in an air strike. (Rami Almeghari) Around midday last Friday, Ibrahim Qdeih was chatting with his daughters and wife Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:27:10 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/woman-killed-in-gaza-air-strike-was-anticipating-wedding-49926.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/walking-the-wall-comedian-mark-thomas-interviewed-49844.htmMark Thomas walked all 732 kilometers of Israel's wall in the occupied West Bank. (Image courtesy of Mark Thomas) Last month, Mark Thomas, the English "activist-comedian," was in Dublin Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:36:04 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/walking-the-wall-comedian-mark-thomas-interviewed-49844.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/us-campus-activists-facing-increased-repression-49842.htmUS universities must not contribute to the maintenance of oppressive systems elsewhere. (Oren Last November, four friends and I -- all of us activists with Students for Justice in Palestine -- Wed, 13 Apr 2011 21:44:46 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/us-campus-activists-facing-increased-repression-49842.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Opinion/Editorialhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/diaries-live-from-palestine/insects-in-disguise-49838.htmIt's not just birds occupying Gaza's skies. (Matthew Cassel) You're sitting outdoors. In the middle of a garden, in an orchard, a field or on a balcony. What better way to welcome the spring? Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:59:55 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/diaries-live-from-palestine/insects-in-disguise-49838.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Diaries: Live from Palestinehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israeli-education-ministry-launches-land-day-witch-hunt-49835.htmPalestinians mark Land Day in Jaffa, March 2011. (Oren Educators and students who took part in the 35th annual Land Day commemorations on 30 March are being investigated by the Israeli education Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:43:30 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israeli-education-ministry-launches-land-day-witch-hunt-49835.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/activism-news/video-brandeis-students-disrupt-speech-of-former-shin-bet-chief-49834.htmOn 4 April, students at Brandeis, the historically Jewish university in the Boston area of the United States, disrupted a speech by Avi Dichter, member of Knesset and former head of the Israeli General Security Services. As Dichter delivered his speech, Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:03:24 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/activism-news/video-brandeis-students-disrupt-speech-of-former-shin-bet-chief-49834.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Activism Newshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/post-mubarak-egypt-may-end-gaza-closure-49767.htmPalestinians in Gaza wait to leave through the Rafah Crossing into Egypt. (Wissam CAIRO (IPS) - Two months since the ouster of longstanding president Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's new transitional Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:34:57 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/post-mubarak-egypt-may-end-gaza-closure-49767.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/eu-turns-blind-eye-to-palestinian-citizens-in-israel-49756.htmPalestinian children in the city of Lydd near Tel Aviv. (Oren Answering questions from YouTube viewers over the past few weeks, Benjamin Netanyahu depicted Israel as an oasis of interracial Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:44:46 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/eu-turns-blind-eye-to-palestinian-citizens-in-israel-49756.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Opinion/Editorialhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/letters-to-ei/memoir-a-microcosm-of-the-palestinian-experience-49663.htmI write in response to Raymond Deane's review of Sami Al-Jundi and Jen Marlowe's book The Hour of Sunlight ("Book review: Waiting for redemption in 'The Hour of Sunlight'," 30 March 2011). For full disclosure, I worked with the authors for Seeds of Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:59:24 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/letters-to-ei/memoir-a-microcosm-of-the-palestinian-experience-49663.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Letters to EIhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/diaries-live-from-palestine/resilience-in-the-green-fields-of-gaza-49661.htmKhuzaa village in the occupied Gaza Strip. (Rana Baker) I was surfing the web late at night a couple months ago when a number of Apache helicopters began to hover heavily in the sky. The sound of Mon, 11 Apr 2011 11:09:53 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/diaries-live-from-palestine/resilience-in-the-green-fields-of-gaza-49661.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Diaries: Live from Palestinehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/corrie-lawsuit-challenging-israeli-impunity-49505.htmDemonstrators in the occupied West Bank village of Beit Jala carry a banner commenorating Rachel Corrie, seven years after her death, 21 March 2010. (Anne Several Israeli soldiers testified at Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:18:13 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/corrie-lawsuit-challenging-israeli-impunity-49505.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Opinion/Editorialhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/village-remains-under-siege-weeks-after-settlement-murders-49500.htmIsraeli soldiers stop a Palestinian driver on the outskirts of Awarta village, 22 March. (Jafar Awarta is a poor, sprawling village in the northern occupied West Bank. Surrounded by land that is Fri, 08 Apr 2011 11:19:55 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/village-remains-under-siege-weeks-after-settlement-murders-49500.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israeli-attacks-on-gaza-kill-5-injure-30-49432.htmIsraeli air strikes on Gaza killed five and injured dozens more on Thursday, 7 April. (Ismael As Palestinians were preparing for their weekend this Thursday afternoon, all of a sudden barrages Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:28:52 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israeli-attacks-on-gaza-kill-5-injure-30-49432.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/police-training-programs-twin-us-israeli-racism-49422.htmActivists protest in Atlanta after police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston, November 2006. (W.A. Bridges Journal-Constitution) The racism of the American "war on drugs," especially in the Thu, 07 Apr 2011 12:25:30 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/police-training-programs-twin-us-israeli-racism-49422.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Opinion/Editorialhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/goldstone-reconsideration-undermines-justice-for-gaza-49330.htmIsraeli leaders have barely hidden their jubilation at an opinion article in last Friday's Washington Post by the South African jurist Richard Goldstone reconsidering the findings of his United Nations-appointed inquiry into Israel's attack on Gaza in Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:07:13 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/goldstone-reconsideration-undermines-justice-for-gaza-49330.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rightshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/interview-with-the-late-juliano-mer-khamis-we-are-freedom-49238.htmA portrait of Juliano Mer-Khamis hangs outside the Freedom Theatre where he was killed one day earlier. (Anne Actor-director Juliano Mer-Khamis was shot dead by a masked gunman yesterday outside Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:42:02 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/art-music-culture/interview-with-the-late-juliano-mer-khamis-we-are-freedom-49238.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Art, Music & Culturehttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/activism-news/despite-house-arrest-jerusalem-activist-will-fight-for-silwan-49194.htmJawad Siyam (on the left, in striped shirt) at a demonstration in Silwan. (Oren Palestinian activist Jawad Siyam has been under house arrest for nearly three months after being accused of Tue, 05 Apr 2011 03:32:47 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/activism-news/despite-house-arrest-jerusalem-activist-will-fight-for-silwan-49194.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Activism Newshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/another-war-on-gaza-49119.htmIsrael's assault on Gaza in the winter of 2008-09 killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and injured thousands more. (Hatem In recent weeks an escalation in violence between Israel and Palestinian Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:13:54 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/another-war-on-gaza-49119.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Opinion/Editorialhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/goldstones-shameful-u-turn-49114.htmJudge Richard Goldstone in the Gaza Strip, June 2009. (UN Photo) "If I had known then what I know now, the Goldstone report would have been a different document." Thus opens Judge Richard Mon, 04 Apr 2011 08:29:58 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/goldstones-shameful-u-turn-49114.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Opinion/Editorialhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/activism-news/global-actions-mark-palestines-land-day-48981.htmProtesters in Lydd commemorate the 35th annual Land Day. (Oren Direct actions, rallies and protests took place across Palestine and in numerous cities across the world on 30 March to commemorate Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:31:05 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/activism-news/global-actions-mark-palestines-land-day-48981.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Activism Newshttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/in-palestine-curse-anything-but-the-land-48935.htmA demonstrator hangs a Palestinian flag from an electrical tower on Land Day in Gaza, 30 March 2010. (Wissam On 30 March 1976, while thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel were protesting Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:24:14 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/opinioneditorial/in-palestine-curse-anything-but-the-land-48935.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Opinion/Editorialhttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israel-lays-gaza-like-siege-on-west-bank-village-48840.htmAn Israeli army watchtower overlooks a locked metal gate blocking the main entrance to the village of Beit Ommar, 29 March 2011. (Nora Barrows-Friedman) Since 24 March, Israeli forces have sealed Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:27:43 ESThttp://www.trcb.com/news/palestine/human-rights/israel-lays-gaza-like-siege-on-west-bank-village-48840.htmTRCB.comNews Palestine / Human Rights