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The armed forces announced their intention to employ against Adnan Gheith, a political and community activist and a resident of Silwan the extreme and draconian mean of restricting him from his community, home, family and livelihood for the duration of four months, due to his participation in the democratic protest against the Jewish settlement enterprise in Silwan. 5:14 mp4...

Miriam Bannoura is not a political activist. She is not famous. Miriam Bannoura is a hardworking Christian Palestinian living just outside of Bethlehem in the village of Beit Sahour in the West Bank. She worked as a Registered Nurse for decades and is now retired, living with her husband on their modest pensions. She attends the local Greek Orthodox church and has raised four boys in Beit Sahour. At least three of her sons have graduated college. One currently lives in Germany, anothe...

Four days prior to the shooting of this video, on December 14th, 2010, thirty Israeli Defense Force soldiers and one settler from the Karmei Tsur settlement came to the old village mosque in Beit Ommar and declared that one half of it would now be for use by settlers in their Jewish prayers. The people of the village responded that if this were to be enforced then the IDF and the settlers would have a big fight on their hands. Neither the IDF nor any settlers have returned to this mosque si...

A rally was held on December 17th, 2010, in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem in support of evicted Palestinian families and against the Jewish settlers who have taken over their homes with the continued quasi-legal help of Israeli police, security forces, and courts. As the rallied concluded, evicted residents Maher al-Hanoun and Nasser al-Ghawi were interviewed about the loss of their homes and the ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem. The first video below is of anti-eviction...

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(video 6:29) Most of those in the march made it to the bottom of the hill approaching the wall when the IDF began firing tear gas at the largest group of mar...

(video 5:02) This vendor paid 40,000 shekels for his booth that he has worked in for the past 12 years. Now that civil authorities have completely destroyed...

ILWU dock workers chose not to cross a large and boisterous early morning picket at three gates of Berth 58 at the Port of Oakland. Labor and community activists returned in the afternoon to blockade again and assure no cargo from the Israeli Zim Lines ship would be unloaded on June 20th, 2010. In this video, speakers celebrate the conclusion of the historic picket, the first time in the U.S. that a protest has stopped an Israeli ship from unloading....

In protest of the Israeli's embargo of Gaza, their recent attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, and other human rights abuses, hundreds and hundreds of labor and community activists picketed three gates at the Port of Oakland in order to shut down unloading of an Israeli Zim Line ship. In the morning when it was official that the ILWU would not cross the picket line, activists set their sights on the evening shift and have issued a call to return to the docks for another picket at 4:30pm in o...