10 Unsung Nonviolence Visionaries of 2010
For the sake of peace and an end to occupation, these visionaries must find their place in the spotlight now and provide a desperately needed alternative to polarization in the Middle East.
For the sake of peace and an end to occupation, these visionaries must find their place in the spotlight now and provide a desperately needed alternative to polarization in the Middle East.
Majida Abu Rahmah | Posted 05.25.2011
The United States has done very little to help my husband, Abdallah Abu Rahmah, or other Palestinian political prisoners.
Democracy Now! | Posted 05.25.2011
Israeli and Palestinian eyewitnesses say that Jawaher Abu Rahma, a Palestinian woman, died after inhaling tear gas fired by the Israeli military at a demonstration. We interviewed two people in attendance.
Ira Chernus | Posted 05.25.2011
When activists find things marked "Made in USA" lying on the ground they deliver them directly to the US ambassador to Israel.
Majida Abu Rahmah | Posted 05.25.2011
A year ago tonight, on International Human Rights Day, our apartment in Ramallah was broken into by the Israeli military in the middle of the night.
Joseph Dana | Posted 05.25.2011
On Tuesday, nonviolent grassroots Palestinian leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah was found guilty by an Israeli military court of "incitement, and organizing and participating in illegal demonstrations."
Joseph Dana | Posted 05.25.2011
Commentators of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict often complain that there has not yet been a legitimate Palestinian Gandhi or MLK to emerge from within Palestinian civil society. But the reality is that there are many.
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.25.2011
Now that Israel has almost completed its "Separation Wall", it wants to build a "Wall of Silence" and control the flow of information and limit the presence of foreign-born eyewitnesses.
Christopher Alessi | Posted 05.25.2011
Since 2002, Israel has been building a massive concrete partition in the Palestinian-controlled West Bank. Israelis call it the "security barrier." For Palestinians, it is the "apartheid wall."
Majida Abu Rahmah | Posted 05.25.2011
It has been two months since my husband, Abdullah Abu Rahmah was arrested. We miss him more every day. This letter from was conveyed from his prison cell by his lawyers.
The New York Times | ISABEL KERSHNER | Posted 05.25.2011
NILIN, West Bank -- For more than a year, this village has been a focus of weekly protests against the Israeli security barrier, which cuts through it...
Ronit Avni | Posted 05.25.2011