Open Shuhada Street, Hebron, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18. This is the main street of Hebron, area H2, where 1,200 shops are closed by warrant to protect 300 ideological settlers who represent the most vile of racial nationalism.
Archive for July, 2010
Comet project environmental peacemaking
Comet project environmental peacemaking, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18. All construction is illegal in this zone since the Oslo Accords (because it’s under Israeli control, and they don’t want any) and Israel refuses to connect Palestinians to water, electricity, or sewage. Never mind a settlement is 500 meters away. But guerilla Israeli activists [...]
Jul 13th, 2010 Israel Trip 2010 0 Comments
IDF tells settler teens to leave
IDF tells settler teens to leave, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18. Pyrric victory. They’ll just be back tomorrow.
Jul 12th, 2010 Israel Trip 2010 0 Comments
Settler guard calls the IDF
Settler guard calls the IDF, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18.
Jul 12th, 2010 Israel Trip 2010 0 Comments
Settler teenagers digging in private well
Settler teenagers digging in private well, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18. A visit to Nebi Sahleh’s well reveals settler teens digging. The military claims this is an archeological dig and thus block the village from using it. So much for that.
Jul 12th, 2010 Israel Trip 2010 0 Comments
Meeting Ayed of “Budrus” fame
Meeting Ayed of "Budrus" fame, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18. We met the leadership of the Nebi Sahleh popular committee and in attendance was Ayed, leader of the neighboring village’s commitee of Budrus and subject of "Budrus" the documentary.
Jul 12th, 2010 Israel Trip 2010 0 Comments
Heartbreaking occupation story #495,663
As related to me by littlerose who works for Hamoked: A Palestinian woman had not seen her son in over three years, who had been arrested and jailed by Israel. Through Hamoked, one of the largest Israeli human rights legal agencies, the mother faught for and obtained a single visitation. (The rights of prisoners to [...]
Jul 11th, 2010 Israel Trip 2010 0 Comments
Sheikh Jarrah pro-protest graffiti
Sheikh Jarrah pro-protest graffiti, originally uploaded by Kung Fu Jew 18. "Sheikh Jarrah: We’re fighting for Jerusalem." Spotted between King George and Agripas Streets.
Jul 11th, 2010 Israel Trip 2010 0 Comments
Videos from yesterday’s Sheikh Jarrah protest
Israel’s upload speeds are awful, awful slow. There are three of ten I took from “kabbalat shabbat” protesting in Sheikh Jarrah yesterday, more coming. Videos taken on Jewschool’s flipcam. The protest begins: An interview with an Israeli activist born in Jerusalem about why he protests here on behalf of democracy: The evicted family is confronted [...]
Jul 10th, 2010 Israel Trip 2010 1 Comment
The Fraternity
There is a special family of Diaspora Jews who have been deeply changed by our time in Israel and the territories to which I belong. It’s a fraternity of those scorched so deeply by witnessing what goes on there that we now can’t work on any other issue. The centrality of our Jewishness within addressing not just [...]
Jul 10th, 2010 Israel Trip 2010 6 Comments