Michael Warschawski, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Monday, 08 February 2010
After the murder of Muhammad al-Dura in September 2000, the Israeli government and pro-Israeli European Jewish leaders decided that the only way to respond to the international outrage provoked by the...
Changing Israeli Visa Regime for International Humanitarian Workers
On Thursday, the 6 February 2010, I spoke with Martha Meyers about the Israeli government’s changes in the visa regime for international humanitarian workers and how this will possibly impact the work of international non-governmental agencies working in the Occupied Palestinian territories. Ms. Myers, is Chair of the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) Executive Committee, and Country director of CARE international in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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This coming Friday, 5 February 2010, a public campaign will be launched to defend the Arab population under the slogan “Meeting challenges and defending existence.” The campaign is organized...
The Alternative Information Center enters the new school in the Bedouin village of al-Khan al-Akmar in the West Bank, between Jericho and Jerusalem. However, the school built with old car tires in ...
On Tuesday, 3 February, at the 10th Herzliya Conference, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad presented his plan to declare an independent Palestinian state in mid-2011.
Fayyad expressed confidence...
Fear, hope and now again fear. This is how some inhabitants of Beit Sahour and several villages in the Bethlehem district describe what is happening these days. On 2 February, early in the morning, ...
The State of Israel owes more than NIS 8.3 billion (including interest) to Palestinian workers from the Occupied Palestinian Territories who worked in Israel. This money was deducted from the Palestinian workers’ salaries for social benefits they did not receive. This is the conclusion of detailed research conducted by the Alternative Information Center (AIC) and Kav LaOved.
The Minister of National Infrastructures Uzi Landau is not known as an imaginative person. He is a boring man whose world view is identical to that of his father, an Irgun member and close friend of...
Yesterday’s announcement by the Israeli Ministry of Justice not to indict anyone in the March 2009 shooting and critically injuring of American activist Tristan Anderson at a non-violent demonstration...
On 17 January 2010, UK Foreign Office Minister Ivan Lewis announced that the British government would be contributing an additional £29,000 (174,000 NIS) to the Britain-Israel Research and Academic...
Sergio Yahni, Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Monday, 08 February 2010
As reported by the Israeli daily Haaretz on Friday, 5 February, a new Israeli settlement is being planned for Jerusalem, on lands owned by Bethlehem residents. According to the Israeli newspaper, 800 dwelling units will be built on the settlement as well as a hotel district.
The project is being...
A state prosecutor admitted before the Supreme Court today that the Immigration Police illegally detained the two international activists arrested yesterday in a pre-dawn raid on the International Solidarity Movement's [1] Ramallah offices. The two will be released on bail.
On Thursday, the 6 February 2010, I spoke with Martha Meyers about the Israeli government’s changes in the visa regime for international humanitarian workers and how this will possibly impact the work of international non-governmental agencies working in the Occupied Palestinian territories. Ms. Myers, is Chair of the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) Executive Committee, and Country director of CARE international in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Maria Chiara Rioli for the Alternative Information Center (AIC)
Friday, 05 February 2010
After the three-day visit of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Israel and a short visit to the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a judgement is due. Berlusconi came with a large Italian ministry delegation (Foreign Minister Franco Frattini, Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, Defense Minister...
About the Working Paper
Palestinians would not be a people displaced, dispossessed and oppressed in 2010 if states and the UN had held Israel accountable for its massive violation of international law and the Nakba over 60 years ago. However, not only governments and the UN, but also business corporations...
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Political Archeology
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The Alternative Information Center re-visits the City of David Archeological Park in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan and brings voices and images from the archeological digging in the site.
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