Among this Week’s Victims of Israeli State Violence: A Disabled Elderly Palestinian Man
Israel’s shoot-first-ask-questions-later policy is just one layer of the daily violence Palestinians experience, this week has been no exception.
Israel’s shoot-first-ask-questions-later policy is just one layer of the daily violence Palestinians experience, this week has been no exception.
Checkpoints are a gross violation of privacy and other natural born rights. Free people should not be stopped and searched or questioned in any way if they are attempting to travel freely.
By John Vibes
Happy 4th of July, the day where Americans celebrate imaginary freedom, and police departments nationwide make millions of dollars violating the rights of nonviolent individuals. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that police can’t forcibly draw blood from
Israeli Defense Forces soldiers repeatedly shot an 18-year-old Palestinian college student last month, claiming she’d pulled a knife on a soldier while trying to cross a checkpoint on her way to class. But one eyewitness argues otherwise.
SEATTLE --- At 7:45 a.m. on Sept. 22, 18-year-old Hebron native Hadeel al-Hashlamoun was on her way to class at a local university. A metal detector rang out when she attempted to pass through Checkpoint 56. She complied when she was approached by Israeli Defense Forces soldiers from the Nahal Brigade and asked to open her bag. Then the soldiers
Richard Silverstein is a MintPress analyst who has written the Tikun Olam blog since 2003, specializing in Israeli politics and US foreign affairs. Silverstein works to expose the excesses of the Israeli national security state. He breaks major news stories that are often under judicial gag or military censorship, and which may not be reported in Israel. He has been published in Haaretz, Al Jazeera English, the Forward, Christian Science Monitor, Middle East Eye, and the Seattle Times. He speaks Hebrew fluently and incorporates the Hebrew-language press into his blog and other publications. He earned a BA from Columbia University, a BHL from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and MA in Comparative Literature from UCLA. He did two years of undergraduate and graduate study at the Hebrew University. He lives in Seattle. Follow Richard on Twitter: @Richards1052
Fed up with an interior checkpoint that creates inconveniences and breeds discrimination, an Arizona community is banding together to fight the “temporary” stopping point.
LOS ANGELES --Every day of the school year, the children of the tiny Southern Arizona community of Arivaca ride a bus along a two-lane desert highway to and from their schools in Amado, 25 miles away. And every time they travel Arivaca Road, they encounter an obstacle guarded by armed U.S. law enforcement officials.