NEW EPISODE: Producer @maxfreedperson speaks with @Ali_awad1998 about the Israeli High Court of Justice's ruling last week that gave the Israeli military a green light to evacuate the residents of eight villages in Masafer Yatta: https://t.co/XWZY92EbSr
This is a pretty interesting insight into left-wing Jewish Israeli Zionist thinking and argumentation, from @UnsettledP - especially part 2. Credit to Asaf Calderon for airing his family’s laundry in public https://t.co/5mtRRXCQPi
The Vagrant Trilogy is now showing at @PublicTheaterNY through May 15th. Listen to our episode for more about the show's development and the creative inspiration that brought it to the stage.
NEW EPISODE: The Vagrant Trilogy, by @MonaMansourNY is the story of a young Palestinian scholar who is visiting London for the first time in 1967. When war breaks out, he's faced with a decision: to stay in London, or to return home. https://t.co/BXNEybwXau
.@haditabbal, who plays the main character, Adham is also featured. He gives a window into what it takes to survive as a person with both personal aspirations and a connection to his homeland when home is in a constant state of war.
"The Israeli army is asking people if they are Christian or Muslim. If you’re Muslim you weren’t allowed in." - @ajimran
Israeli occupation forces are attacking Palestinians during the funeral of killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh.
Horrible scenes as Israeli security forces beat the funeral procession for slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and the crowd momentarily lose control of her casket
In the wake of the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, who, according to Palestinian eyewitness accounts, was shot by Israeli forces while covering an IDF raid, the Jewish Currents Union sends solidarity to Palestinian journalists attempting to report under Israel's violent occupation.
We spoke to activists @Ali_awad1998 and Maya Rosen in an earlier episode about this decades-long legal battle and what’s at stake. Ali and Maya are both organizers of the Save Masafer Yatta campaign. Listen to our April conversation here: https://t.co/pOcnywX1PU
NEW EPISODE: Producer @maxfreedperson speaks with @Ali_awad1998 about the Israeli High Court of Justice's ruling last week that gave the Israeli military a green light to evacuate the residents of eight villages in Masafer Yatta: https://t.co/XWZY92EbSr
“The Birthday Party” is a multi-part series exploring solidarity work between Palestinians and Jews in the West Bank. Catch up on the earlier episodes here: https://t.co/Lq3Js5fJk9
In the latest episode of our new series, “The Birthday Party,” we follow activists – Palestinians, Israelis, and diaspora Jews (on a @cjnvtweets trip) – as they try to reclaim a fresh water spring in the West Bank. Listen here: https://t.co/I1cIddSAqj
Over the course of a cold Friday morning, producer @maxfreedperson reports from the center of the action: checking in with familiar faces Tariq, Bob, and Lilly. What goes according to plan, what doesn’t, and what happens next? To find out: https://t.co/I1cIddSAqj
“The Birthday Party” is a multi-part series exploring solidarity work between Palestinians and Jews in Israel and the diaspora in a part of the West Bank that is at risk of violence and expulsion. Catch up on the first two parts here: https://t.co/QY8M8NYDNE
Today, in part three of our new series,“The Birthday Party,” we meet Lilly. She's an activist from North London who has been to the West Bank before — just never with other Jews. Listen here: https://t.co/fto7L6GY4C
Producer @maxfreedperson follows Lilly and other activists with @CJNVtweets as they prepare for an action in solidarity with their Palestinian partners. In the West Bank, Max gets to know Lilly, and the questions she asks herself about her presence here. https://t.co/fto7L6GY4C
Bob first visited Israel in 1969, when he was on leave from his U.S. military service in Vietnam. He was raised in a Zionist home; he once volunteered on an IDF base. But now, at 71 years old, Bob is entering the West Bank for the first time.
https://t.co/ovmaD0jJTB
The second episode of our new series, “The Birthday Party,” is out now. In Part 2: Bob, we get to know one of the 44 diaspora Jews who have come to the South Hebron Hills with @CJNVtweets to practice co-resistance with Palestinians. Listen now: https://t.co/ovmaD0jJTB
In the first episode of our new series, we meet Tariq, a Palestinian activist and teacher from Umm al-Khair. He speaks with producer @maxfreedperson about life in the South Hebron Hills and living through multiple home demolitions:
For more about life in Umm al-Khair, read this piece by Tariq’s cousin Awdah (who you’ll also hear in the first episode of the series)
https://t.co/nEWF2bBRTC
The first episode of our new mini-series is out now. Producer @maxfreedperson gets to know Tariq, a Palestinian activist from the village of Umm al-Khair, in the days leading up to a direct action in the West Bank: https://t.co/AiM7wz5gMR