Prisoners' Document (amended and) Accepted

Fri Jul 7, 2006 5:58 PM EDT

The Prisoners’ Document, which had been receiving a great deal of attention, has since been overshadowed by Israel’s offensive in Gaza. I think it’s time to revisit it, as it was signed with hardly any notice. Here is the original text.

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world-news, israel, palestine, west-bank, marwan-barghouti, prisoners-document, palestinian-national-authority

Of property rights and 'apartheid'

Seeded on Thu Jul 6, 2006 4:47 PM EDT (haaretz.com)

Border Police forces evacuated left-wing activists and three Palestinian families from the West Bank village of Bil'in who occupied a building Thursday in the Matityahu East neighborhood of the Jewish settlement of Upper Modi'in.

world-news, occupation, west-bank, israeli-law

Ministry admits 'blacklist' of Palestinians who left W. Bank - Haaretz - Israel News

Seeded on Wed Jul 5, 2006 12:44 PM EDT (haaretz.com)

Israel ends secret list of banned Palestinians who were unable to return to their homes in the West Bank. Israeli settlers were given use of their land against official Israeli law. Will you care more that they kept the list or that they've ended the practice?

world-news, law, settlements

UN Watch on the first week of the 'reformed' Human Rights Council

Seeded on Mon Jul 3, 2006 11:11 AM EDT (unwatch.org)

There is now peace in Darfur (according to Sudan's representative to the HRC).

politics, un, human-rights, human-rights-council, un-reform

Author of 'Lost in Translation' on Academic Boycott efforts against Israel

Seeded on Mon Jul 3, 2006 10:07 AM EDT (engageonline.org.uk)

In a certain ideological mind-set , Israel is perceived not as a political entity, susceptible to prevailing standards of judgment, but as an almost allegorical force, the symbolic center and source of the globe's evils and ailments.

world-news, israel, boycott, left, antisemitism

Can a soldier be kidnapped?

Seeded on Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:15 AM EDT (bbc.co.uk)

The BBC doesn't think so. Instead, according to the editors blog for the BBC, civilians are "kidnapped", Cpl. Shalit was "captured" The BBC has been criticized before for preferring the word militants over terrorists.

politics, media, language