Women imprisoned – Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Press Release: International Women’s Day 2010 8 March 2010    Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association marks International Women’s Day 2010 by honoring, commemorating and saluting Palestinian women political prisoners and detainees in their steadfast resistance against Israeli colonial occupation and struggle towards securing the right of Palestinians to self-determination.   An estimated 10,000 ...

Samer Mustafa / Rima Isam Anabtawi – Two Tales from a Checkpoint

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Samer Mustafa – Once upon a time at a check point Dearest May, this is Samer; how are you and your family? I hope that you all are just fine. I am writing this note to tell you about a strange thing that I witnessed at the infamous Qalandia check point ...

‘Emad W. Nazzal-Pales – As they say: we’re terrorists

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

"The world stood silent, while we urged for help. The world turned their heads, while we were being slaughtered. The world turned deaf to our screams for help. They laughed with joy to the screams of pain, and sipped on their liquor while amusing themselves listening to the screams of ...

Send $300 billion to Detroit, not to Israel

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

WRITTEN BY Blaine Coleman Was there any excuse for a bunch of armed European settlers to occupy Palestine?    No.  Was there any excuse for those armed gangs—now called the “Israel Defense Forces”– to ally themselves with the most racist regimes on Earth, including Apartheid South Africa?  No.  Was there any excuse for handing $300 billion ...

Farah Salka – Caritas shelter for trafficked women turning into a prison…act Now!

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

Yes. Just as you see it. Caritas, rather than using its shelter for trafficked women and migrant workers as a safe house as it literaly should stand for is lately using it for other purposes, namely imprisoning without grounds (not that if there was any grounds, Caritas would be the ...

Justice for Mohammad Othman

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Weeks of solitary confinement. Six military hearings. Sleep deprivation. No access to a lawyer. No criminal charge. Mohammad Othman, a prominent Palestinian activist involved with War on Want partner, Stop the Wall, has been detained without charge by Israeli authorities. His detention is illegal – and he now faces the risk ...