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Student council members in Israeli prison   26.09.08   Ramallah / PNN – The Israeli military court in Beer Aseeba sentenced Birzeit University’s student body president to four years in prison. Abdullah Awais’ sentence was suspended to one year and an estimated 2,000 shekel fine. Awais was a fourth year student at the Ramallah area university’s…

Alex Salmond Scotland’s First Minister speaks out in support of Israeli Nuclear whistleblower The First Minister wrote “the Scottish Government is well aware of the campaign by the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and supports the lifting of all restrictions imposed on Mr Mordechai Vanunu. We are sympathetic to Mr Vanunu’s situation and we share his…

Report: Israeli settlement sewage contaminating Palestinian water supply Tues Sept 30, 2008  The Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem, ARIJ, compiled data indicating that Israeli settlements are a major environmental threat to the West Bank as they openly spill wastewater… Their studies indicate that the main source of contamination of the water supply is wastewater flowing…

Al-Salam Alikom! My name is Hanzalah. In case you are wondering what Salam Alikom is; it is the Islamic way of saying halloo and it means “Peace be upon you!”. Well, as I told you my name is Hanzalah, which stands for a small bitter desert bush. I bet you are saying; what was my father…

by Mahmoud Darwish – 1964 Write down! I am an Arab And my identity card number is fifty thousand I have eight children And the ninth will come after a summer Will you be angry? Write down! I am an Arab Employed with fellow workers at a quarry I have eight children I get them…

by Dr. Ahmed Masoud In 1977 a local theatrical group in Nazareth was banned from performing an adaptation of Ghassan Kanafani’s novel Men in the Sun (1962). The Israeli authority prevented the actors from going on stage and threatened imprisonment. The script was written by a Palestinian writer who was assassinated in a car bomb…