Nov. 20 at the Major League Baseball Commissioner's office, midtown Manhattan: See also the Press release for the protest. For further context, here's Jews Against the Occupation-NYC's Aaron Levitt: The New York Mets and the business of terrorism The Electronic Intifada , 20 November 2009 When I first learned that the New York Mets were hosting a fundraiser for the nonprofit Hebron Fund at Citi Field...
Free Mohammad Othman, Ezra Nawi and the Shiminstim The facade of the Middle East’s ‘only democracy’ is slipping. Gaoling its critics, Arabs but now also Jews, is the action of a State for whom the enemy within is everywhere. This is the ‘Jewish’ State in the 21st Century. A state based on the principline of ethnicity, biological descent, obsessed by demographics and racial...
John Lyons, Middle East correspondent AS the shock departure of Mahmoud Abbas sinks in for Palestinians, Ahmad Aweidah is rising fast in the new generation of leaders. Mr Aweidah, 39, insists he is not interested in politics, though he's rarely shy about entering the major debates. He argues that Mr Abbas's successor be Nasser al-Qudwa, nephew of the late PLO chief Yasser Arafat, rather than the contender...
A look inside Hebron, the largest City in Palestine’s West Bank, and a glimpse of Israel’s horrific policy of apartheid, from CommonDreams. The word “Revenge” is scrawled in Hebrew on a Palestinian school in Hebron. The windows are covered with screens and the play yard obstructed with more screens tipped with barbed wire, to obstruct the [...]
Some of you will know for the last many years I have attended a Scripture Union camp called Hebron and this year I returned as a leader. The Hebron week at the beginning of the summer holidays has been a week that I have always looked forward to and it has been a time that I have made some great friend and really grown in my Christian faith. Hebron is a place where I have many life changing memories....
Zionist extremists in a New York stadium I DON'T want to take this too seriously—I really don't—but a group called the Hebron Fund is renting out Citi Field, the 42,000-seat New York stadium where the Mets play baseball, to... I can't bring myself to say it, so let me let them speak for themselves (from their e-mail press release): Just as Jews can live anywhere they want in New York,...
By Sarah Lazare and Clare Bayard Znet "The word " Revenge" is scrawled in Hebrew on a Palestinian school in Hebron . The windows are covered with screens and the play yard obstructed with more screens tipped with barbed wire, to obstruct the stones regularly pelted down by Jewish settlers . The space between the school and the neighboring building is blocked off with large, wooden slabs,...
Consistent with government policy of selling off energy assets – converting principle to cash - clause 8.4 (A) of the Hebron Fiscal Agreement exempts the NALCOR oil and gas corporation from provisions of the agreement that allow government to treat the company differently from other offshore oil companies. Sections 8.2 and 8.3 shall not apply to OilCo as long as OilCo is a Crown corporation of...
The US government should examine the appropriateness of US non-profits receiving tax breaks for providing funds to Israeli settlements that undermine US foreign policy and hopes for peace in the Middle East.
RAVE 2010 - Real Actions in Virtual Environments - Call for Papers See website: http://www.raveconference.com * When: 3rd March, 2010. * Where: Palau de les Heures, University of Barcelona, Campus Mundet, Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron, 171 08035 Barcelona. * Keynote Speaker - Dr Hunter Hoffman, http://www.hitl.washington.edu/people/hunter/ , University of Washington, USA * Papers - may be submitted...
I mentioned that he sounded naive yesterday, so Ethan wrote me back (I cite with his permission): "Of course its nonsense, but we are trying to show that opposing the Hebron fund is a consensus issue (ie, even J Street opposes settlements and should therefore oppose raising money for settlements). Go for the low-hanging fruit. Anyways, anything more complex I said either wasn't understood by the...
Israeli settlers in the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank have been harassing a Palestinian family walking home, then beat and robbed two peace workers who accompanied them.
Tal Rabinovsky | YNet News 18 November 2009 Two foreign peace activists say they were assaulted by settlers Tuesday in South Mount Hebron while accompanying a Palestinian family to the village of Tuba. One of the activists was reportedly kicked in the stomach and needed medical attention. The two women, who filed a complaint with the police, [...]