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Scarlett Johansson, West Bank workers need a Christmas miracle! [satire]
In the wake of SodaStream’s apparent capitulation to BDS, an open appeal to ScarJo to save yet another group of West Bank workers. (Satire) Text by Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org Dear ScarJo, Can I call you ScarJo? It’s been a great year for you: you had a baby, you got married, you turned 30. But I…
By +972 Magazine December 21, 2014
With the Israeli settlement Gilo visible on a nearby hillside, Palestinians hold a prayer service as a nonviolent witness against the Israeli separation barrier in the West Bank town of Beit Jala, February 8, 2013. (Photo by Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)
PHOTOS: In fight against the wall, does Cremisan have a prayer?
After more than two years of vigils by Palestinian Christians that gained widespread international attention, the Israeli High Court issued a preliminary order questioning the path of the separation barrier that would further divide West Bank land, cutting off the Cremisan monastery and a valley of olive groves. Photos and text by: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org…
By Activestills February 5, 2014
Hisham Abu Ali stands near road construction that threatens to uproot his olive trees in the village of Al Walaja. (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills.org)
A letter from al-Walaja: Wars, walls and now roads
A new Israeli-planned road, ostensibly meant to give the Cremisan Monastery access to Israel and Jerusalem, will cut off the Bethlehem-area village of al-Walaja from its lands. Its lands were taken and villagers displaced in first in 1948; in recent years Israel began completely surrounding it with the separation wall, taking even more land. Village resident…
By Activestills December 10, 2013
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