A couple stills from a project we’ve started on a group of Palestinian and Israeli midwives who believe the best way to move towards peace is by doing what they love best: helping women give birth in the most natural way, often without a doctor in the room. Stay posted for more material on this [...]
Settler Rabbi for Peace
Once in awhile we’ll post videos we have made about other peace activists. Rabbi Menachem Froman does not avoid paradoxes – he lives in the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, but he has spent many hours meeting with influential Palestinians, including Yassar Arafat and Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (the spiritual head of Hamas, assassinated by an [...]
Another death
Several days ago (Friday June 5) another Palestinian man, Akal Srur, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the weekly demonstrations in Niilin (we were not there that day). Israeli media is just as manipulative as U.S. media, note the headline of this article, “IDF: Man killed in Naalin was Hamas operative”:
Of course, he may have been [...]
Niilin – the battle of the media
Yesterday, the same Israeli paper ran TWO articles on Niilin, the village where Khaled and I have been shooting for the past several months (and where some of its citizens decided to open their own holocaust museum, see posts below…) On the one hand, two Palestinians were injured there yesterday in the demonstrations.
And on the [...]
Article in The Forward
The venerable “The Forward”, which was first published as a daily Yiddish newspaper, in 1897, published an article quoting Khaled last week – in their English edition. Definitely an evil publication, they came out early in favor of trade unions and democratic socialism – so it figures they would feature Khaled’s work at some point.
The [...]
The famous shoe
Went today on an exploratory trip to Dheisheh Refugee Camp, which is on the edge of Bethlehem (birthplace of Jesus) and only 10 kilometers from Jerusalem, where I live. Short trip into the West Bank, but worlds apart. The usual downer through the checkpoint, in this case a whole warehouse, but almost no human authorities [...]
