In honor of the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Palestinians defy another one, by climbing Israel’s wall. Can’t think of a better way to pay tribute to the day. Filmed by Haitham al Katib
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This Palestinian Life, a new film about everyday occupied life: Available TV and kind of online
Get Ready TV has produced This Palestinian Life, Stories of Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance, by Philip Risk, Which has a similar name to This American Life, though likely without any pieces about the various melodramas associated in suburbia.
If you live in San Jose, Calf., you can see it this Wednesday on channel 15 – CreaTV Community Channel. If you have Microsoft’s Silverlight installd on on your computer, you can watch it online., though why a community broadcasting station would hamper the ability for people to actually see their programs by using Silverlight is beyond me when there are all sorts of Web Standards, accessible alternatives that are not married to a single operating system. It just seems ,weird, foolish and a horrible waste of resources. Still the film looks good.
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Free Palestinian political prisoner Mohammad Khatib!
I’m donating this post for an urgent call of action in solidarity with Mohammad Khatib, and all Palestinian political prisoners, issued for Friday, August 14 at noon at the Indigo Bookstore on the corner of St. Catherine & McGill college in Montreal, Canada. Actions like this should be happening all over.
For more information on Mohammad Khatib’s case, as well as the issues which face his West Bank village of Bil’in, visit www.bilin-village.org. Mo Khatib is a friend of mine and several other friends of mine. He is an individual whose drive, creativity, self-reliance and relentless campaign work — not just to save his own village from settlement expansion and loss of territory to the apartheid barrier, but for all of occupied Palestine — are constanly awe inspiring.
His enginuity for continous direct, disruptive nonviolent action has kept media attention on Bil’in far longer than is usually the norm in areas where land is being co-opted by annexation policies, and has even led to legal rulings in Israel against the military and pro-occupation policies. It is no wonder that he is considered such a threat. He now joins the ranks of political prisoners around the world, kidnapped and detained for exercising their rights under international law.
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Electronic Intifada scoop: Israel front group plans to rewrite history on Wikipedia
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Time for some WikiWarriers to add more Wikidpedia pages to their watch lists.
Electronic Intifada reports on Camera, A pro-Israel (depending on how you define that) lobby and media pressure organization that’s “orchestrating a secret, long-term campaign to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.”
SNIP: “A series of emails by members and associates of the pro-Israel group CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), provided to The Electronic Intifada (EI), indicate the group is engaged in what one activist termed a “war” on Wikipedia.”
The article offers some interesting insight into neww about recent lobby efforts to propagandize comment areas of newspaper websites and popular blogs. Apparently the World’s best used encyclopedia is also in the crosshairs.
Quote:
“A veteran Wikipedia editor, known as “Zeq,” who according to the emails is colluding with CAMERA, also provided advice to CAMERA volunteers on how they could disguise their agenda. In a 20 March email often in misspelled English, Zeq writes, “You don’t want to be precived [sic] as a ‘CAMERA’ defender’ on wikipedia [sic] that is for sure.” One strategy to avoid that is to “edit articles at random, make friends not enemies — we will need them later on. This is a marathon not a sprint.”
Zeq also identifies, in a 25 March email, another Wikipedia editor, “Jayjg,” whom he views as an effective and independent pro-Israel advocate. Zeq instructs CAMERA operatives to work with and learn from Jayjg, but not to reveal the existence of their group even to him fearing “it would place him in a bind” since “[h]e is very loyal to the wikipedia [sic] system” and might object to CAMERA’s underhanded tactics.”
(Images from the Electronic Intifada post)
Read more: EI exclusive: a pro-Israel group’s plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia.
Israeli soldiers talk about Gaza seige
Shovrimshtika.org has compiled 54 testimonies by Israeli combat soldiers who participated in Operation Cast Lead, which “reveal gaps between the reports given by the army following January’s events; the needless destruction of houses; firing phosphorous in populated areas and an atmosphere that encouraged shooting anywhere.”
Among the 54 testimonies are stories revealing the use of “accepted practices,” the destruction of hundreds of houses and mosques for no military purpose, the firing of phosphorous gas in the direction of populated areas, the killing of innocent victims with small arms, the destruction of private property, and most of all, a permissive atmosphere in the command structure that enabled soldiers to act without moral restrictions.
via Breaking The Silence – Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories
Also See:
- The Nation: Free Gaza – Free Palestine by Huwaida Arraf
- Huffington Post: Threatened and Beaten on the Way to Gaza by Adam Shapiro
- Israeli military hijacks boat carrying medical and humanitarian supplies to Gaza filmed by one of the crew who who managed to smuggle the footage out
Do you recognize him?
Please Disseminate widely (mail, lists, facebook etc.)
Bassem Abu Rahme was killed, according to several witnesses, by this guy during Friday’s weekly anti-separation fence demonstration in Bil’in. Abu-Rakhma was shot in the chest with a tear-gas grenade, launched from a distance of some 30 meters from him by an IDF soldier.
The soldier in the picture had murdered Bassem Abu Rahme by direct shooting of a gas canister in Bilin on April 17.
The Israeli army allows him to avoid responsibility.
Do you know his name or any other details? know anyone else that had commited a crime in Palestine?
palcrimes (at) yahoo.com
Links
Bil’in demonstration commemorates Basem Abu Rahme
Bassem Abu Rahme killed in Bil’in weekly protest
Memorial ceremony marking 40 days for the murder of Bassem Abu Rahme
Bil’in: Struggling for land and liberty
The killing and funeral of Bassem Ibrahim abu-Rakhma, April 17 and 18
“So that’s the dissenter’s hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.”