STATEMENT ISSUED March 10 by PALESTINIANS FOR DIGNITY – President Obama’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territory comes at a time when our prisoners are waging a hunger strike battle in the face of Israeli government obstinacy, and in the face of US silence towards the slow murder these heroes are being subjected to. Most recently Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat died during...
If it hadn’t been for the attentiveness of Dr. Lina El Houssein in the Netherlands, we might never have known – but Doc Jazz’s song ‘HUNGRY’ was played at the end of the Dubai TV program ‘Qabil linniqaash’ (‘Up for Discussion’), which had a special feature about the courageous hunger strike protests of Palestinians in Israeli ‘administrative detention’. A...
Palestinians for Dignity is a group of youth who have taken issue with the Palestinian Authority’s return to negotiations, before their own previously stated conditions were met. The youth group have expressed their disapproval of the fact that Palestinian negotiators have returned to the negotiating table in the beginning of this year, in Amman. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat met with...
This morning we received news through Facebook that Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, formerly of the faculty of Duke and Yale University, and now teaching at Bethlehem University, was arrested yesterday for objecting to an expanding settlement in a Palestinian town. Today, he and two others were released again. Five people from Walaja remained imprisoned by the Israeli army at the publishing...
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