Category Archives: nonviolence

August 10, 2007 This week marks the 62nd anniversary of the US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the southern villages of Bethlehem, the Committee to Resist the Wall declared this week’s protest a commemoration to this tragic incident in human history, demand the international community to open and expose the Israeli nuclear programContinue reading “Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Um Salamona and Walaja”

Like every Friday, we gathered early in the morning at Holy Land Trust and traveled with international and Palestinian volunteers to join the villagers, other internationals and Israeli nonviolent activists in the weekly nonviolent protest against the building of the Apartheid Wall. This week’s action coincided with the International Court of Justice ruling that declaredContinue reading “Palestinian Nonviolent Protests Continue… Israeli Violent Reaction Increases”

Friday June 22, 2007 Twenty trees… that was all… the goal was to plant twenty olive trees on a small piece of property that was being illegally confiscated for the building of the Apartheid Wall; this is what the villagers in the South of Bethlehem wanted to do on this Friday. They were joined byContinue reading “The Danger in Planting Twenty Trees”

Friday, May 25th, 2007 The morning started out with a football match in the southern villages of Bethlehem to protest the building of the Apartheid Wall. Once the game was done, we moved with our vehicles to the village of Artas to stand in support with the farmers of the village who are facing aContinue reading “Israeli Army in Full Force to Stop Nonviolent Action aimed at Preventing a Sewage Dump from being created on Farm Land”

Saturday, May 26, 2007 Many may say that this is strange or outride weird, but the message was clear and strong, “This is our land and we have the right do as we want on it … even play football…” This was the statement made by Abdullah, one of the leaders of the Popular CommitteeContinue reading “We will Play on our Land”

Please visit the links below to read a detailed account of how the Israeli army destroyed a complete fruit tree orchid in the village of Artas South of Bethlehem. This is the first step in destroying and illegally confiscating more land.  For several days Palestinian, international and Israeli activists have been gathering at the site toContinue reading “Yes, We Will Replant these Trees”

Friday, May 18, 2007   In their continuous commitment to resisting the building of the Apartheid Wall in the villages that are located south of the Holy city of Bethlehem, the local organizing committee dedicated this Friday’s action to commemorating the 59 year anniversary of the Nakbah (the Catastrophe). For almost sixty years Palestinians haveContinue reading “Nonviolent Action in Southern Bethlehem to commemorate 59 year anniversary of the Catastrophe”