Israel/Palestine News.

The story of Mustafa Tamimi, & the demos after his death.

In Beit Ummar, residents demonstrate . . .

suffer a settler invasion . . .

& have entry blocked by the IDF.

A Palestinian grape farmer in Beit Einun talks about his problems under Occupation.

The Real News looks at Al Ariqib, where the Jewish National Fund is trying to drive out the residents of a Bedouin village & plant trees over the area

Israelis demonstrate against gender segregation in Beit Shemesh after a little girl was harassed by Ultra Orthodox Jews.

This video shows the IDF searching for Gaza tunnels. The IDF claims that Hamas & other groups will use tunnels to try to kidnap more IDF soldiers.

The Gaza siege prevents farmers from exporting most of their crops--strawberries, peppers, tomatoes and flowers.

Off Gaza, an Israeli gunboat tries to swamp a boat full of international observers.

Israel criticizes Hamas joining the PLO.

A Gaza man is killed by an Israeli drone.

Gaza's Christian community celebrates Christmas.

Christmas leads to conflict in Bethlehem.

During Christmas Mass, Jerusalem's Latin Patriarch asks for Middle East peace. Christian Palestinians celebrate Christmas, but the Occupation presents problems.

Israel/Palestine News

A holiday message from B'tselem.

The City of Jerusalem hands out free Christmas trees.

Hamas is building new schools in Gaza.

Israel continues to harass Gazan fishermen.

Four videos of a demo in Nabi Saleh last Friday.

Israeli activists protest in front of the offices of the Jewish National Fund in opposition to the JNF's role in evicting Palestinians from Silwan.

Palestinians celebrate as the second round of prisoner releases for Gilad Shalit occur.

A proposed Israeli law to ban the call to prayer from mosques in Israel is called racist

Israeli & US policies are being criticized by other nations on the UN Security Council.

The Dead Sea is shrinking. In Occupied Palestine, Israel is claiming the new land.

Artist John Quigley & Palestinian refugee children make a copy of Picasso's Peace Dove at the foot of the Mount of Temptation in Jericho.

Israelis, Palestinians, & internationals protest the new checkpoint between Shu'fat refugee camp & Jerusalem.

The impact of international aid on the Palestinian economy is examined in this video.

Gaza still remembers the Israeli invasion as its' anniversary comes around.

Israel/Palestine News

Marchers celebrate Israel's Human Rights Day in Tel Aviv, as rightists protest the march.

Gaza has been hit with more Israeli air raids.

Israel hasn't fulfilled its' promise to ease the Gaza siege.

Israel denied citizenship to 15,000 Ethiopian Jews.

B'tselem catches settlers setting fires on Palestinian land near Hebron.

In Jerusalem, Ultra-Orthodox Jews try to impose their beliefs on secular Israelis.

  
Right wing Israelis protest the presence of African refugees in South Tel Aviv.

This is the demo where Mustafa Tamimi was killed.

Two videos on Mustafa Tamimi's funeral.

These two videos show protesters in Tel Aviv demonstrating against Tamimi's death.

Israeli officials fan the outrage over the death of Tamimi with their Tweets.

B'tselem posts this video of the death of Mustafa Tamimi in Nabi Saleh. WARNING: VERY GRAPHIC.

The Real News covers the difference between government reactions to Israeli demonstrators & Palestinian demonstrators.

Israel/Palestine News

Two videos show a demo in Nabi Saleh.

JustJerusalem is asking people to write to the JNF to stop the evictions of Palestinians from Silwan (for a letter template see http://www.en.justjlm.org/...).

The Jerusalem Post interviews Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz.

Israel attacks Gaza.

The non-profit Gisha helps Israeli Arabs visit Gaza.

Settlers from the outpost Havat Ma'on near Hebron destroy Palestinian olive trees.

Al Jazeera's Inside Story discusses whether Israel can end its' regional isolation.

The Civil Peace Service Gaza posted this video of the Israeli Navy harassing boats off Gaza.

Bad behavior from Israeli soldiers at checkpoints in these two clips.

The PM has yanked ads calling for Israeli-Americans to return to Israel after outrage in the American Jewish community.

Activists took to the streets of Tel Aviv last Saturday to protest legislation in the Knesset restricting civil liberties.

The Israeli government & the Knesset are involved in what critics call a right wing attack on civil liberties.

Israel/Palestine News

Breaking the Silence posts this video of Hawara checkpoint near Nablus, filmed by the IDF Educational Corp.

Independent Jewish Voices Canada protests the Jewish National Fund for its' part in occupying Palestinian land.

Two videos of a demo in Nabi Saleh, & one in Ni'ilin.

Settlers stone the car of a solidarity activist in the south Hebron Hills.

In Surif, Palestine Solidarity Project visits a farm where the IDF has seized farm land & will demolish a well.

...

In Bilin, the IDF demolishes an international solidarity center.

The IDF demolished two houses, a mosque, a barn and a generator building before arresting two girls in Umm Fagarah in the south Hebron Hills.

Israeli & Palestinian activists protest the eviction of Palestinians in Jaffa, Israel.

Khoolod Badawi, a Palestinian woman who lives in Jerusalem, discusses her life in Israel & her opposition to the Occupation.

Gazans criticize the World Health Organization for meeting in Jerusalem.

Gaza's phone & internet provider is about to upgrade its' equipment, but Gazans are skeptical of improvements in service.

Israel holds another training exercise testing its' ability to respond to biological weapons.

Gazans hope the Egyptian elections will help end the Israeli siege.

Egypt's elections are causing worries in Israel about security.

PM Netanyahu & Defense Minister Barak are in favor of attacking Iran while the rest of the Israeli defense establishment is not.

Israel/Palestine News

An ex-soldier explains why he wants to 'break the silence.'

Ex-IDF soldiers explain the logistics of occupation in videos from Breaking The Silence.

Demos took place in Nabi Saleh & Ni'ilin.

The IDF searches 25 houses & arrests 3 young men in a 2AM raid in Nabi Saleh.

Last week, I put up a version of this video from UNRWA. They took it down for some reason. Here is the new one.

The IDF demolishes a house in Beit Hanina, in the area claimed by Israel as part of Greater Jerusalem.

While signing an agreement with the Romanian prime minister, Netanyahu comments on the new protests in Cairo & on sanctions against Iran.

Hamas is short of cash, so it is cracking down on banks & companies that have not paid taxes because of a directive from Fatah.

I think these videos are from al-Araqib in the Negev, where Israel is expelling Bedouins from a village they have lived in for decades. Anyway, this series of videos show border police helping bulldoze the tents of Arabs.

Israel/Palestine News

Rafeef Ziadah & Remi Kanazi recite poems about Palestine.

Demos took place in Nabi Saleh & Ni'ilin.

UNRWA defends the job it is doing in Gaza in this video.

Despite the siege, Gazans hang on.

Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz calls for building more housing in the E-1 neighborhood of the settlement Ma’aleh Adumim, & withholding tax money from the Palestinians, in retaliation for UNICEF membership for Palestine.

B'Tselem posts this video showing incidents of settlers harassing the West Bank olive harvest.

Prof Manuel Trajtenberg says Israel's national security depends on social justice as his committee releases a report on the social inequality that lead to the J14 protests.

Palestinian leaders must decide what to do next after the statehood bid appears to be defeated.

Netanyahu talks about the IAEA report on the Iranian nuclear program.

In response to attacks on Palestinians & Israeli activists at the Anatot settlement Sept. 30, solidarity activists held another demo last Friday outside Anatot. This time, there was a heavy police presence.

Members of Via Campesina, a Brazilian farmers union, discuss plans for a conference in Hebron with the the Union of Agricultural Work Committees and other Palestinian grassroots social movements.

Six Palestinian activists Tuesday attempted to board Jerusalem bound buses in the West Bank as part of an action to draw parallels between opposition to the Occupation & the US Civil Rights Movement. The activists were able to board a bus, but were removed & arrested at Hizmeh checkpoint into Jerusalem, interrogated by the Shabak, & then released.

Israel/Palestine News

In this Breaking The Silence video, an ex-soldier talks about using tear gas against demonstrators.

Demos took place in Bilin, Ni'ilin, Nabi Saleh & al Walaje.

An activist shows his life: anti-Occupation demos in the morning, a rave in the evening.

Activists in Susia help Palestinians harvest olives, with the IDF watching. Two settlers show up. A settler with a dog steals a sack of olives, & gets the dog to grab another sack. The border police are called, but they do nothing. The soldiers & police close the olive grove to the activists & farmers. A settler takes a last sack of olives.

Activists have called for demos today at Anatot to protest settler violence.

The Israeli Supreme Court has upheld former Pres. Moshe Katsav’s rape conviction & 7 year prison sentence.

Russia has warned Israel about attacking Iran.

Israel's threats to attack Iran have increased tensions between the two countries.

David Frost interviews Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, the PM & foreign minister of Qatar, about Palestine.

The Palestinians have decided to push for full statehood at the UN & nothing else.

Al Jazeera reports on the attempt to break the Gaza siege.

The Real News has this report on the continuing siege of Gaza & the failure of the recent aid ships to break it.

Israel/Palestine News

Again, demos took place in Nabi Saleh, Ni'ilin, Beit Ommar, & Bilin.

Social Justice demonstrators take to the streets of Tel Aviv again.

Alternative Information Center visits 100 African-Palestinians living near Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

The IDF demolishes power lines going to the village of Umm Fagarah near Hebron.

Israelis & Palestinians again protest against settlements in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jerrah.

The only Hamas senior leader released in the prisoner swap vows to fight on for Palestine.

A ceasefire with Hamas falls apart when militants fire rockets into Israel & Israel responds with bombing.

Israel prepares for a nuclear Iran by test firing a ballistic missile & holding an evacuation drill for Tel Aviv.

The reaction from the US & Israel was swift & negative.

UNESCO votes to accept Palestine as a member state.

The CBC reports that the Canadian & Irish aid ships bound to Gaza have been boarded by Israeli Marines & are now being towed to Ashdod, where the activists on board the two vessels will be questioned by Israel police & then deported to their countries.

Here are more videos on the two boats, the Canadian Tahrir & the Irish Saoirse.

Israel/Palestine News

Ilan Pappe & Rafeef Ziadah talk about BDS at the University of London Student Union (ULU).

Ashraf Abu Rahmah grouses about the Fatah lead demo in Bilin (see below) leading to the burning of more trees before he is arrested by the IDF.

Demos take place in Ma'asara, Beit Ommar, & Bilin.

Clinton Bailey talks about studying the Bedouins of the Negev & Sinai.

Gaza holds an entrepreneurship fair for youths.

The Israeli siege of Gaza has caused conditions to deteriorate.

Turkey has increased its' aid to Gaza since the Mavi Marmara incident.

Jewish settlers attack another group of Israeli solidarity activists as they helped with the olive harvest in Jalud. Richard Silverstein has more on the incident.

PM Netanyahu offers help to Turkey after the recent earthquake.

Shimon Peres welcomes Gilad Shalit home. Sorry for the lame music.

Nabi Saleh celebrates the release of three cousins (Ahmed, Ahlam and Nizar Tamimi) from Israeli prison. Ahlam was exiled to Jordan for her part in the Sbarro bombing.

After the Hamas Shalit prisoner swap, Israel has traded 25 Egyptians for Ilan Grapel, a 27-year-old US-Israeli citizen who was accused of spying.

Israel/Palestine News

Bluepilgrimage's reply to the charge Occupy Wall Street is antisemitic.

Demos took place in Beit Ommar & Nabi Saleh.

The Palestine Solidarity Project is giving tours of the occupied West Bank.

In Bilin, last Friday was olive harvest time.

Many of the freed Palestinians are traumatized by their treatment in prison.

Gilad Schalit is flown by helicopter to Mitzpe Hila.

Palestinian prisoners are reunited with their families in Gaza.

Gaza gives 400 Palestinian prisoners a joyous welcome.

Gilad Shalit returns to Israel.

Palestinian prisoners considered too dangerous by Israel were released to Qatar, Turkey, Jordan and Syria.

Palestinians celebrate the release of prisoners in the West Bank.

Samud Karaja is released to her family in the West Bank.

Hamas representative Osama Hamdan discusses the accusation of murder against the swapped Palestinian prisoners.

On Tuesday, Galid Shalit is released to Egypt.

Palestinians await their relatives in Gaza.

On Monday, the process begins.

Gazans have mixed feelings on swap.

Al Jazeera explains the terms of the prisoner swap.

Israelis filed suit to block the swap.

Some Israelis reacted unfavorably to the prisoner swap.

Two opinions on the why of the Shalit prisoner swap. The Real News presents the opinion that the swap is both Netanyahu's & Hamas' attempt to cut into Fatah's prestige for pushing for statehood in the UN.

Richard Silverstein claims Netanyahu did the prisoner swap with Hamas because he wanted to get Shalit back before he orders the Israeli airforce to attack Iran. More here, here & here.

Israel/Palestine News

This lady has a black belt in sarcasm.

In Jab`a, the IDF demolishes a Palestinian's house.

In Beit Ommar, a 20 year old was shot in the shoulder.

Demos took place in Ni'lin . . .

in Yatta,

& Nabi Saleh.

An aid convoy delivers $1 million in medical supplies to Gaza.

Gaza farmers are banned by Hamas from selling palm tree fronds to Israel.

Jews & Arabs protest the 'price tag' vandalizing of a Muslim cemetery & a Christian cemetery in Jaffa.

Squadron 100 (The Flying Camel Squadron) monitors the border of Gaza & Egypt.

The band Roxette is scheduled to play in Tel Aviv & the BDS campaign demands they cancel.

Some PA officials say Tony Blair should resign.

The West Bank olive harvest leads to Israeli imposed restrictions on Palestinian farmers due to settler attacks.

Activists demonstrate outside Ofer prison in solidarity with the prisoner hunger strike.

Activists in Gaza, Israel, & the West Bank fast in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoner hunger strike.

4500 Palestinian prisoners continue their hunger strike started on Sept. 27.

Families in Gaza prepare for the prisoner swap.

The Shalit family welcomes the coming release of their son.

Netanyahu & Hamas have agreed to a prisoner swap: over 1,000 Hamas prisoners for Gilad Shalit, the Israel soldier who was captured in 2006 near Gaza.

Israel/Palestine News

Palestinians in Israeli jails go on a hunger strike to protest their treatment.

A group of French Catholics are given a tour of the settlements surrounding Beit Ommar.

Last Friday, there were demos in Nabi Saleh & Ni'lin.

Gazans support a hunger strike of Palestinians in Israeli jails.

The Gaza siege leads to polluted aquifer & unsafe drinking water.

The Israeli siege & unemployment is leading to a baby boom in Gaza.

Oktoberfest is celebrated in Taybeh in the West Bank.

Congress withholds $200 million in aid to Palestine because of the statehood bid.

Two videos on Sec. of Defense Panetta's visit to Israel.

Deputy FM Danny Ayalon rejects Palestinian objections to new settlements in the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo.

A gag order was placed on the case of a religious student accused of burning a mosque in northern Israel, and then partially lifted.

Thousands protest the relocation plan for Bedouins in the Negev.

Gazans filing claims against the IDF are appealing the increase of filing fees to $100,000 per claim to the Israel Supreme Court.

This trailer shows the struggle of Sheikh Jerrah, where Israeli activists help Palestinians ejected from their homes to make way for Jewish settlements.

This Monday, the City of Tel Aviv cleared out the tent city on Rothschild Boulevard.

A Palestinian farmer who had his land annexed by the Anatot settlement goes to work it, accompanied by a group of Israeli solidarity activists. They are attacked by settlers, & Richard Silverstein covers it here, here, here, here, and here.

Israel/Palestine News

The Palestinian organization Al Haq presents two Virtual Field visits, looking at Israeli human rights violations.

The siege of Gaza has crippled its' shipbuilding industry.

Handicapped Gazans make & sell handicrafts to support themselves.

Gazans protest the IDF's buffer zones.

In Gaza, journalists celebrate the international day of solidarity with Palestinian journalists.

Demos are held in Nabi Saleh . .

& in Ni'lin.

Two videos cover the funeral of Issam Odeh in Kusra, near Nablus, who was killed with a rubber bullet by the IDF as he defended his village against settler attacks.

In Beit Shemesh, parents hold a unity rally for a girl's school.

Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman criticizes Turkey's prime minister at a party rally.

Israel announces expansion of settlements in East Jerusalem just before the Abbas speech.

Mouin Rabbani, a Middle East analyst discusses Palestinian reconciliation & what's next for the Palestinian statehood bid.

Palestinians react jubilantly to the Abbas speech, both in Ramallah & Hebron.

Tony Blair comments on the Quartet proposal issued because of the statehood bid.

Finance minister Yuval Steinitz warns Israel will take economic measures against the Palestinians for the statehood bid.

Senior Hams official Osama Hamdan explains why Hamas does not support Abbas' bid for statehood.

Israel's deputy FM Danny Ayalon comments on the bid for statehood at the UN.


(Here's part 2 of Abbas' speech on Al Jazeera.)

The Real News gives an overview of the speeches of Abbas & Netanyahu.

Israel/Palestine News

France 24 News looks at the West Bank settlers.

Just for fun.

http://vimeo.com/24760466

Jewish Americans talk about their changing feelings about Israel.

A unit commander makes Palestinians take part in crawling races to get thru a checkpoint in this video from Breaking The Silence.

Activists hold a vigil in front of the US Embassy in Tel Aviv in memory of Ibrahim Zaza, 12 years old, who died from wounds received in a drone attack in Gaza.

The police arrested 13 J14 activists Monday for protesting the cutting of electricity to their tent cities.

Refusing To Die In Silence is a new media campaign to counter settler Price Tag attacks with 24/7 surveillance.

UNRWA examines the poverty among Palestinians in the West Bank.

100 settlers attacked Asira al-Qibiliya near Nablus & were driven out by Palestinians. The IDF arrived & started shooting teargas & rubber bullets at the villagers, hitting a 14 year old boy in the head with a canister.

Palestinians demonstrated in favor of statehood in Beit Ommar . .

in Hebron . .

& in Nabi Saleh.

On Sept. 21, Palestinians clash with the IDF at Qalandia checkpoint.

Last week, Israeli & Palestinian women called for a demo in support of a Palestinian state for Sept 17 at Qalandia checkpoint. The demo from the Palestinian side.

This is the demo on the Israeli side.

Activists in New York & DC support the statehood bid.

Settlers in the West Bank protest the Palestinian statehood bid.

But will the statehood bid lead to real change, Israelis & Palestinians ask.

Al Jazeera reports on how Palestinians feel in Gaza about the statehood bid.

Gazans have different opinions on the PA's statehood bid.

In response to the Palestinian statehood bid, PM Netanyahu calls for new negotiations.

In the West Bank, Palestinians rally in support of the statehood bid.

Pres. Obama gave a speech to the UN, promising to veto the application for statehood.

Mahmoud Abbas made a speech today on Palestine asking for statehood from the UN.

This is the third part of his speech. For some reason, there is no second part.

Israel/Palestine News

From Breaking The Silence, an ex-soldier describes what happened when an IDF truck collected the corpses of Palestinian militants.

A photo exhibit of Nabi Saleh shows what life there is like.

Bilin demonstrates for Palestinian statehood.

Nabi Saleh demonstrates against the Wall.

Two Gaza children injured by Israeli airstrikes end up in an Israeli hospital.

A Gaza man relates what happened to him in the US after 9/11.

J14 protesters demonstrate in front of police headquarters in Tel Aviv to protest the arrest of 40 activists during the City Hall demo.

The Israeli Navy continues to harass Gazan fishermen.

The Labor Party of Israel will hold a run-off election for its' leader on Sept. 21.

Israeli PM Netanyahu announces he will speak at the UN before the vote on Palestinian statehood.

PM Erdogan blasts Israel before the Arab League.

Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan tours Cairo to acclaim from crowds.

Egyptians attack the Israeli Embassy over the killing of Egyptian border guards by the IDF, & Cairo remains tense afterwards.

Palestinians continue demonstrations in support of the bid for statehood.

Ban Ki-moon comments on the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN.

Al Jazeera's Inside Story reports on the reaction of Saudi Arabia to the US threat to veto the Palestinian bid for statehood.

The Prawer Report, which would move 30,000 Bedouins out of their villages in the Negev, was approved by the PM on Sept. 11.

Israeli & Palestinian women are going to demonstrate in favor of a Palestinian state on either side of the Qalandia Checkpoint near Jerusalem this Sat. Sept. 17.

Israel/Palestine News

Al Jazeera's The Stream looks at Captain Israel, a comic book superhero to defend Zionism.

The IDF acts different when in front of cameras claims this Breaking The Silence video.

In Fasayal, Jordan Valley Solidarity makes mud bricks for houses.

There were demos in Nabi Saleh . .

Beit Ommar . .

& Ni'lin.

Settler Rabbi Menachem Froman calls for the expulsion of the mosque arsonist in Qusara.

Border police demolish three houses in an illegal settler outpost in Migron in the West Bank.

Hamas praises Turkey & criticizes the UN report on the Gaza aid flotilla.

Thie Alternative Information Center posts this trailer for their documentary Sumoud: The Struggle for al-Araqib .

In Petach Tikvah, near Tel Aviv, Ethiopian & Russian Israelis protest racial segregation.

Wikileaks highlights a US cable saying the IDF detailed their harsh response to peaceful protests in the West Bank.

Turkey says it will subject Israeli airport visitors to the same treatment accorded Turks entering Israel.

Turkey has downgraded its' ties to Israel after Israel refused to apologize for the Mavi Marmara raid.

After the City of Tel Aviv demolished tent cities (see below), J14 protesters storm City Hall.

In Tel Aviv on Wednesday, city workers started to dismantle tent cities.

Last Saturday, the J14 protesters held the largest protest so far in Israel.

Israel/Palestine News

Israel's Channel 10 has a story on Breaking The Silence.

TheRealNews reports that leaders of the J14 protests have issued demands that ignore the issue of Palestinian rights.

In Tel Aviv, J14 protesters block major intersections with folk dances.

Marcello Weksler talks about the J14 protest movement.

In Bet Shemesh near Jerusalem, Haredi & Religious Zionist residents clash over the opening of a girls' school.

Hamas has denied permission to travel to Gazan youth who have received study visas abroad.

This is the weekly demo in Ni'lin.

Activists investigate live fire & flares near the Wall in Bilin.

Ayed Morrar of the Popular Committee of Resistance discusses the Olive Revolution & Palestine's statehood bid in the UN.

Palestinians have started a protest campaign called The Olive Revolution: Knocking on Jerusalem's Door.

The residents of Halhul (near Hebron) are fighting settlements that are taking their land.

Ramadan ended this year on Aug. 29. This video shows a band of drummers in Gaza on the last day of Ramadan, waking up people at 2am for a meal before the fast begins at the first morning prayer. People are throwing them money wrapped in paper for doing this.

Israel/Palestine News

Hani Amer and his family live surrounded by the Wall & an illegal settlement in Mas'ha.

Two videos on Hebron.

Demos in Beit Ommar . . .

Ni'lin . . .

& Nabi Saleh.

Palestinians give their opinions on whether the Sept. UN push will lead to a state.

B'tselem shows clips of soldiers firing tear gas canisters directly at protesters.

J14 activists occupy a house that is vacant & owned by the City of Tel Aviv. Below, they are evicted the next day by police.

Israelis chant "Jews & Arabs refuse to be enemies' at a J14 protest.

J14 protesters hold a silent demo after the attack on Eilat, but leftists refuse to be silent.

Max Blumenthal comments on Israel's response to the Eilat attacks.

(Bonus: East Coast earthquake!)

Two videos from TheRealNews say there is no evidence connecting the Eilat attacks to Gaza.

Gaza & Israel supposedly have a truce, but Al Jazeera reports Israel is still bombing & rockets are still being fired from Gaza.

Israel/Palestine News

On June 14, protesters confronted the Israeli historian Benny Morris outside the London School of Economics, where he was to speak.

Jerusalem Post TV interviews Haviv Rettig Gur of the Jewish Agency.

Riverdance is criticized for breaking the cultural boycott of Israel outside the International Conference Center in Jerusalem.

This video discusses the 5 people killed in Ni'lin while protesting the Wall.

Jews & Palestinians demonstrated in Jaffa against discrimination & for housing.

Last Saturday, another demo took place in Beit Ommar.

A woman director struggles to make movies in Gaza.

The Israeli siege puts pressure on Gaza rehabilitation centers.

International Solidarity members help Gaza farmers break their Ramadan fast near the Erez Crossing in a protest against buffer zones.

Palestinian workers in a quarry in Salit in the West Bank are on strike for a contract with their Israeli employers.

On Tuesday, the Knesset met in emergency session in response to the housing protests.

Single mothers join a tent city in Jerusalem to protest for public housing.

Apparently, Gaza militants attacked a bus, an IDF vehicle, & a car on the road to Eilat, leading to airstrikes on Gaza.

Israel/Palestine News

Ex-Ambassador Thomas Pickering discusses US foreign policy, including the letter he & other former diplomats sent to Pres. Obama on Mideast peace talks.

A little boy asks to go to the bathroom during a home invasion by the IDF in this video by Breaking The Silence.

The IDF checkpoint at Qalandia is busy during the first Friday of Ramadan.

Abdul Raouf Abu Raheh explains what residents of Bilin will do with the land returned by court order after being confiscated for the Wall.

Three videos from Gaza.

The IDF invades Beit Ommar at midnight, firing off stun grenades & tear gas.

An Italian Christian Peace Group takes part in nonviolent protest in Al Tuwani near
Hebron.

Ni'lin protests again against the Wall.

Nabi Saleh demonstrates with a tent.

Demonstrators protest olive trees being uprooted in Al Walaje in the West Bank.

After the protest.

Silwan in East Jerusalem is still being targeted for Jewish settlements.

Guy Sharett gives a Hebrew lesson using J14 protest slogans.

More J14 videos here, here, here, there, there, here, here, and here.

A group of single mothers protests in front of a public housing office in Jerusalem.

Because of the J14 protests, the cost of settlements is being discussed among Israelis.

Al Jazeera looks at the internal tensions leading to the J14 protests.

TheRealNews looks at the continuing protests against high prices in Israel (dubbed J14) & how Palestinian Israelis are joining the movement.

Israel/Palestine News

An ex-IDF soldier talks about another soldier filming an arrest & how he then showed it to his family in this Breaking the Silence video.

Gaza children break kite flying record.

An UK aid convoy enters Gaza.

Ni'lin marks the third anniversary of Ahmed Mousa's killing by the IDF.

We have demonstrations in Beit Ommar . .

Al Walajah . .

Bilin . .

& Nabi Saleh.

B'tselem presents this video of undercover border police arresting a 13 year old in East Jerusalem.

Ambassador Svein Sevje discusses the relationship of Norway & Israel.

Gazans still have problems leaving Gaza by Rafah.

During Ramadan, Hamas passes out food to poor Gazans.

This video examines the situation of Toura al Gharbiya, isolated by the Wall.

The RealNews & two independent videos focus on the second week of economic protests in Israel.

Al Jazeera also covers the second week of protests.

The Alternative Information Center focuses on the second week of protests about housing & the economy.

This video shows what it was like for 13 British women to be stuck inside an Israeli prison before they were deported for taking part in the Fly-tilla. (Mariosavio liked this video.)

Israel/Palestine News

Ex-IDF soldiers talk about shooting from towers in Hebron in this video from Breaking The Silence.

Gaza faces a sever water crisis.

An EU parliamentary delegation visits Gaza.

A church provides hot meals to Gazans.

Gazans fear more airstrikes & other Israeli violence.

Palestinians talk about what it feels like to be displaced.

The Holy Land Trust (a Palestinian NGO) rebuilds a house that had been demolished by the Israelis.

A Jewish settlement built on Palestinian land gets a last minute reprieve from demolition.

Footage of water cannon incident on July 14 off Gaza. The camera was lost overboard, recovered in a fishing net, & returned on July 20.

Al Jazeera asks residents of Ramallah how they feel about Palestine's push for statehood.

Residents of Beit Ommar protest more settlement expansion.

Another demo in Ni'lin.

Residents of Nabi Saleh demonstrate again against the Occupation.

Protesters in Jerusalem march to the Knesset to protest high housing prices.

The police arrest protesters & use mounted officers at a protest in Tel Aviv.

Ronen Eidelman talks about the protests in Tel Aviv.

A tent city erected in Tel Aviv's poorest neighborhood is evicted by the Ministry of the Environment for letting a refugee sleep inside a tent.

Tens of thousands young Israelis pour into the streets of Israel's major cities, & unlike the MSM, The Real News has the story.

Israel/Palestine News

Soldiers talk about serving in Hebron.

Reuters reports on a shooting in the West Bank & an airstrike in Gaza.

Ashraf al-Khatib of Bilin is released from Ofer prison.

A demo takes place again in Nabi Saleh.

Palestinians from abroad are greeted at Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem.

In the South Hebron Hills, masked settlers attack Internationals.

Organizers of Welcome to Palestine Campaign hold a press conference at the offices of the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem.

In Beit Ummar, an IDF soldier points a cocked rifle in the face of a man protesting the arrest of a youth.

An Israeli airstrike injures two Gazans.

The lone boat to sail to Gaza from Grece, the French ship Dignite, is boarded in international waters by the Israeli Navy & towed to Ashdod.

Al Jazeera documents the Israeli Navy's blockade & harassment of Gaza fishermen

MK Dov Khenin warns the new anti-boycott law violates freedom of speech.

A Gaza rap duo calling itself Gybo releases this song dedicated to freedom fighters worldwide.

Israel's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Danny Ayalon stars in this video that claims there never was a Palestine, so the Jewish settlements aren't illegal.

B'tselem presents a video on how Palestinian boys are treated by the army & justice system when they are accused of throwing stones in the West Bank.

Palestine Studies TV interviews Victor Kattan of the University of London about the PA's push in the UN for recognition of a Palestinian state.

Last Friday, members of the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity Movement & Palestinian popular resistance committees iof East Jerusalem took part in a joint Israeli-Palestinian march to support Palestinian independence efforts.

Another video of the march is here.

Israel/Palestine News

MK Hanin Zoabi is removed by the speaker of the Knesset while shouting at PM Netanyahu.

Nadine Nasir tells what it is like to be denied entry into Israel.

TheRealNews does an update on the flotilla & the fly-in.

Breaking the Silence presents more soldiers talking about their experiences in Hebron.

Activists from Breaking the Silence reach out to participants in Birthright.

Kites fly in a summer camp in Beir Ommar.

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Uh Oh! I can't put up all the videos on Daily Kos. It stopped at 15.

US artists come to Gaza.

Activists protest the Wall in Ni'lin.

Activists protest the Wall in Jerusalem.

Glenn Beck speaks in the Knesset, pushing his August rally in Jerusalem, but right wingers criticize him for not opposing a Palestinian state.

Omar Barghouti discusses BDS.

John Bolton tells the Jerusalem Post that the UN General Assembly has no right to create a Palestinian state. Nor, apparently, a Jewish one.

The IDF drives into Nabi Saleh at night, shoots off a barrage of teargas, then leaves.

A demo in Nabi Saleh.

Another demo takes place in Nabi Saleh.

B'tselem documents IDF soldiers standing by as settlers attack Asira al-Qibliya.

Raheel Raza speaks on immigration at the Presidents Conference in Jerusalem, & this video calls her out for Islamaphobic rhetoric.

Julia Bacha talks to Al Jazeera about Budrus, her film about a Palestinian town's successful non-violent resistance campaign.

Gazans are being cut off from UN food aid, while UNRWA organizes summer games for their children.

Along with the Beit Sahour Municipality & the PA Ministry of Culture, the Alternative Information Center holds its' first Culture is Resistance! Week.

Calling themselves CPSGaza (Civil Peace Service Gaza), a group of international activists took upon themselves the task of documenting the Israeli Navy's harassment of Gaza's fishermen. In this video, an IDF patrol boat attacks them with a water cannon, while they are inside the 3 mile limit Israel enforces on Gaza.

Israel/Palestine News

From Breaking The Silence, ex-IDF soldiers talk about their time in Hebron.

UNRWA tries to get Gaza children into the Guinness World Book of Records with a parachute game.

Gazans demonstrate for Freedom Flotilla 2.

An Israeli airstrike occurs east of Gaza City.

A second annual summer camp in Beit Ommar is being hosted by the Center for Freedom and Justice.

Followers of Rabbis Dov Lior & Yaakov Yosef demonstrated after police arrested & questioned the two over incitement charges. Both rabbis are leaders of settlements. The investigation came because of statements both made at a rally saying the Torah superseded Israeli law. Rabbi Lior was detained earlier for endorsing the book 'King's Torah', which advocated killing non-Jews.