In Nablus they are not too used to foreigners. During the Second Intifada, from 2000 to 2005, Nablus came under particularly heavy attack from the Israeli army. In this five-year period, army air strikes and incursions killed an average of one person in Nablus every three days. Curfews were also especially harsh here: in a […]
Bil’in is the longest-running and the best known of the Palestinian protests against the Annexation Wall. The Wall cuts right through their village land, and although even the Israeli Supreme court ruled that this imposes unacceptably on the village’s livelihood, the wall still stands.
The Bil’in protest has become famous enough that there is even a […]
This makes me happy and sad, in no particular order.
Dear Mr Smith and Mr Burt,
Thanks to both of you for responding to my email in which I raised my concerns about human rights violations by the Israeli forces occupying Palestine.
Thankyou Mr Smith, especially, for highlighting “the need for aid to reach those who need it [in Gaza]”, and for your commitment to “end […]
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for your letter of 25 June to the Foreign Secretary on behalf of your constituent John Mansfield, about Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. I am replying as Minister responsible for the Middle East.
We believe there is a need to make urgent progress on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before […]
Dear Mr Mansfield
Thank you for your email of 21st July expressing concern about the human rights of the Palestinian people, a concern I share. I have raised this many times in Parliament and with the British Government, particularly most recently in the context of Gaza with the need for aid to rech those who need […]
Andrew Smith
MP (Labour) for East Oxford
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Dear Andrew Smith,
I’ve been concerned for years about the human and civil rights situation in Palestine; it bothers me a lot more than other such situations around the world, because the British government that claims to represent me is an ally of Israel.
I believe that the Israeli policies […]
Islam, Youth Against Settlements activist, Hebron, 25 June 2010
“I was a little boy when the First Intifada broke out. My brother was old enough that he got involved in the stone-throwing against Israeli soldiers; one day he had been out throwing stones, and then he came home holding a sponge to his face. He was […]
Sheikh Jarrah is a Palestinian neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. But there is a house in Sheikh Jarrah, in Uthman Ben Affan Street, that is divided in two: the Al-Kurds, a Palestinian family, still live there, but they are confined to the back part of the house. In the front part a group of Zionist settlers […]
Raed is another type of Palestinian - a type I have less contact with. He is not particularly interested in resisting the occupation. He has a good job, a nice house and he is not threatened with eviction or demolition. He is focused on creating wealth and prestige for his children, “Bringing them up with […]