By Lucian Dieterman
The troubling aspect of this account is not the inconvenience it takes to search for a village that very clearly exists, but rather the fact that the “invisibility” of Khirbet Tana represents a microcosm of the much broader Israeli agenda of home demolitions in an attempt to further depopulate and destroy evidence of Palestine and Palestinians.
BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Israel on Thursday released an Israeli settler arrested for suspected involvement in a fatal arson attack on a Palestinian family in July, Israeli media reported.The settler, connected to a Jewish extremist organization, was arrested along with several others as a suspect in an arson that killed three members of the Dawabsha family in Duma village in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus.The suspect was reportedly released and transferred to house arrest for five days at his home in the illegal Israeli settlement of Benyamin, east of Ramallah city.
I have just returned from viewing Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum in NYC. The show reflects the concerns of 45 artists living in the Arab world or the diaspora, as well as addressing the dilemma of culturally defined art, and art as representation of an expected political or cultural stance.
A grant from The Jerusalem Fund Humanitarian Link enabled El-Lid Charitable Society to conduct its informal community classes for students who need more assistance and support in school.
Teach for Palestine (TFP) is a project that will address the educational needs of the poorest and most at-risk youth in Nablus and the surrounding areas in the West Bank.
A grant from the Jerusalem Fund Humanitarian Link enabled El-Lid Charitable Society to conduct its informal community classes for students who need more assistance and support in school.
31 July 2001 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Call for the U.S. to Condemn Israel’s Human Rights Abuses The Board of Directors of The Jerusalem Fund for Education and Community Development and its educational program, the Palestine Center, condemn the continuing Israeli practice of extra-judicial executions and the indiscriminate murder of innocent Palestinian civilians. In the past … Read more
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