My name is Tair Kaminer, I am 19. A few months ago a finishes a year of volunteering with the Israeli scouts in Sderot. In a few days, I will be going to jail.

An entire year I volunteered in Sderot, working with children living in a war zone, and there I decided to refuse to serve in the Israeli military. My refusal comes from my will to make my contribution to my society, and make this a better place, and is part of an ongoing struggle for peace …

Khalida Jarrar Solidarity Campaign: Free Khalida Jarrar!

UPDATE, April 5, 2:30 pm: Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian leader, parliamentarian and feminist, has been issued a six-month administrative detention order imprisoning her without charge or trial, at the behest of the Israeli military commander in the West Bank, reported Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association – Jarrar’s lawyers – on April 5. Mahmoud Hassan, lawyer with Addameer …

Israeli women who have stood up to the occupation for 26 years

972mag.com In honor of International Women’s Day, Activestills pays tribute to more than a quarter century of anti-occupation activism by the ‘Women in Black’ group in Israel. Every Friday since 1988, the women have stood in the main squares of cities or at highway junctions with signs calling to end the Israeli occupation. Often spat at, cursed …

Rachel Corrie’s family loses wrongful death appeal in Israel’s supreme court

Israel’s supreme court has rejected the appeal by the family of Rachel Corrie – the US activist who was crushed to death by a military bulldozer in Gaza 12 years ago – which had sought to hold Israel liable for her death. The ruling, which followed a high-profile hearing before Israel’s top court last year, …

Palestinian girl, 14, locked up in Israeli prison for two months for throwing rocks

A 14-year-old Palestinian girl who was tried before an Israeli military court for throwing rocks at passing cars in the West Bank has been sentenced to two months in prison. The case of Malak al-Khatib, from Betin, in the West Bank, has gripped Palestinians who say her treatment demonstrates Israel’s ‘excessive’ measures against stone-throwing youths. …