רגב לעוזר שלה בסיור הרכבת הקלה: ״יש לך רב-קו בשבילי?״ בסוף קיבלה כרטיס מאיש מהתקשורת. לא עבד.
- Protester at Jerusalem Pride yesterday @AgaiYahli -- police tried to confiscate a Palestinian flag, one of them lost their beret
- Right-wing Jewish Israelis shove and throw water on Palestinian inside Damascus Gate
- Some hundred people protest against prospective Rafah invasion, marching up Azza Street in Jerusalem and chanting: "From Rafah to Sderot, children want to live"
- A few Palestinians trying to pass thru group of religious Zionist youth doing a sivuv around walls of the Old City, Standing Together's humanitarian guard is there filming as ppl attempt to block their cameras (police confiscated my passport for filming this, for some reason)
- Protest in Jerusalem against acquittal of border police officer who in 2020 killed Eyad al-Hallaq, an autistic Palestinian man
- Replying to @isaacdecastroWhy not totally abandon all sense of right vs wrong while we're at it?
- The Palestinian residents of Ein Rashash in the Jordan Valley live under almost daily harassment and violence from a nearby settler outpost. This past summer, many other communities in Area C have fled their villages under similar circumstances
- Two weeks ago, Ben Gvir set up a special team within the Israeli police to "deal with anarchists who harm state security" -- in other words, to target and arrest anti-occupation activists in the West Bank. The team has already arrested a handful of people.
- I wrote this a month ago. As of today the entire community of Ein Rashash is gone. Residents packed up and left their home of 33 years after the army blocked its access road, making it impossible to leave or enter the village by car.The Palestinian residents of Ein Rashash in the Jordan Valley live under almost daily harassment and violence from a nearby settler outpost. This past summer, many other communities in Area C have fled their villages under similar circumstances timesofisrael.com/in-west-bank-a…
- Today at the High Court judges will hear petition from parents of Iyad al-Hallaq, a 32 y/o Palestinian man on the autism spectrum who was killed in the Old City by a border cop in 2020. The officer was acquitted last summer, the family is petitioning against his acquittal
- Over a year ago I stumbled upon an article in my university newspaper archive abt a speaking gig for Meir Kahane, the anti-Arab racist whose ideas guide a powerful bloc in Israel's current gov, at our campus Hillel. Turns out he came to UMD frequently.
- Today is Jerusalem Day, which means that the Old City will be on lockdown for the annual Flag March -- tens of thousands of religious Zionist Israelis will parade through the Muslim Quarter on their way to the Western Wall, inflaming tensions in the city
- Far-right activist Benzi Goppstein, sanctioned by US, set up a Lehava stand and is passing out stickers that read "Rabbi Kahane was right" -- lots of teenagers running around and dancing with these type messages plastered to their shirts
