Three United States attorneys who explain how they and others are using American courts on behalf of Palestinian claimants to seek justice for alleged rights violations committed by Israeli officials in Palestine.

Features interviews with:
Maria Lahoud of the Center for Constitutional Rights;
Jamil Dakwar, cooperating Human Rights attorney;
and Abdeen Jabara, Civil Rights lawyer and activist.

This program was produced by Noura Erekat for Alternative Focus.

For more information, visit:
alternatefocus.org
www.ccr-ny.org (Center for Constitutional Rights)

Speaking out against Israel’ s handling of the Palestinian conflict is the best act of solidarity one can show towards Israelis and the Jewish people, argued Tanya Reinhart in the latest of the Sydney Ideas lecture series.

Israel’ s current policies threaten not just the Palestinians and its Arab neighbours, but also the Israelis themselves, she said. “In the long run, this war over land is suicidal.”

Drawing on the struggle of civil rights leader Nelson Mandela, Professor Reinhart suggested that “consistent, international, non-violent political action can lead Israel to make political concessions”.

Professor Reinhart, eminent Israeli academic, author and linguist, is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics and Media Studies at Tel-Aviv University and Professor of Linguistics at the University of Utrecht in The Netherlands.

For more information, visit:
www.seymour.usyd.edu.au/ideas/index.shtml (Homepage of the Sydney Ideas lecture series.)

Among the most invisible contributions of the gift economy are efforts deployed by activists, especially peace activists in Palestine. Dating back to the early 1900’s and continuing until today, Palestinian women have sought alternatives to conflict first by establishing charitable societies to provide food and shelter, and bring hope and healing to those devastated by the Zionist enterprise. Later, women became more politicized, took to the streets to protest and challenge the brutal occupation and to protect their children from Israeli soldiers. The world press continues to ignore this aspect of nonviolent struggle. While led by women, it has not been exclusive to women’s efforts. The Israeli response to peaceful demonstrations and civil disobedience has been incredibly brutal. Not only against Palestinians but also against internationals and Israelis –the International Solidarity Movement, Women in Black and others — who joined Palestinians in their struggle for freedom. In contrast, the U.S. government continues to underwrite the dismantling of Palestinian society by further militarizing Israel, providing it with financing, and giving it diplomatic cover in the form of a disingenuous “peace process” and the UN votes to shield Israel from international law. This presentation will contrast the patriarchal values underlying US policy to the values of the gift economy that characterize the struggle for Palestinian freedom.

This talk was presented by Sylvia Shihadeh at the International Conference on the Gift Economy in 2004.

for more information, visit:
www.gifteconomyconference.com
www.gift-economy.com

This interview with Mohammed Omer, who lives in Rafah, Palestine, and publishes the website Rafah Today details the brutality of the assault on Gaza by the Israeli Occupation Army in the summer of 2006.

This program was produced by Arab Talk for KPOO on June 30, 2006.

For more information, visit:
kpoo.com/
rafahtoday.org

Laila El Haddad is a journalist based in the US and the Gaza Strip. El Haddad is a regular contributor to the Guardian Unlimited and is a correspondent for Al-Jazeera’s English language website. Her blog, “Raising Yousef, A diary of a Mother Under Occupation”, is named after her 2 year old son.

This program was produced by George Cadman for Free Radio Santa Cruz on July 2, 2006.

For more information, visit:
freakradio.org
a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/

George Cadman of Free Radio Santa Cruz interviews Peretz Kidron about the current political situation in Israel and about his book, “Refusenik! Israel’s Soldiers of Conscience”. Peretz Kidron is a freelance journalist, broadcaster and writer. In the late 1960’s he became active in the radical left and the peace movement in Israel. He is a founding member of the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace and serves on the steering committee of the Israeli human rights group B’tselem. Having refused to perform military duty in the occupied Palestinian territories, he now handles international contacts for Yesh Gvul (There Is A Limit). Founded at the time of the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the group has become the voice and campaigning vehicle for the so-called refuseniks-Israeli soldiers who refuse morally objectionable assignments (notably in the West Bank and Gaza).

This program was produced by George Cadman for Free Radio Santa Cruz on September 7, 2006.

For more information, visit:
freakradio.org
otherisrael.home.igc.org/ICIPP.html (Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace)
btselem.org
www.yeshgvul.org/

Nora peaks with former Palestinian child prisoners and documents systematic and wide spread torture being used against children in Israeli prisons and detention facilities.

This program was produced by Flashpoints Radio.

For more information, visit:
flashpoints.net/
norabf.com/

Interview with Adam Shapiro and IMC-Palestine. CKUT Radio spoke with Adam after he successfully negotiated an ambulance into President Arafat’s compound. He was the only international non-Palestinian in the compound. A US citizen with the International Solidarity Movement, which brings together Palestinians & Internationals, Adam spent Friday being a “human shield” for ambulances attempting to get past Israeli soldiers.

This program was produced by CKUT Radio in 2002.

For more information, visit:
www.palsolidarity.org
www.ckut.ca

Ilan Pappe on Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006). Interviewed by Nadim Mahjoub on Resonance FM Radio, 27 October 2006.

For more information, visit:
www.ilanpappe.org/
www.resonancefm.com/

Israel announced an end to operation “Hot Winter” in Nablus. Egypt is displeased that Hamas signed unity government in Saudi Arabia rather than in Egypt. Social development groups in Palestine met with European counterparts. Israeli construction near the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Kalandia checkpoint raise concerns amongst Palestinians. These and more headlines from Kristin Ess.

For more information, visit the Palestine News Network:
english.pnn.ps/