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This is what it looks like to be hit by Israel’s ‘Skunk’
The ‘Skunk,’ a foul-smelling liquid most often used to suppress Palestinian demonstrations, is now finding a new target: ultra-Orthodox Jews. For much of the past year, Israeli forces have been using a foul-smelling liquid shot from a water cannon at high velocity to try and put down a burgeoning protest movement by ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem.…
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Edo Konrad
November 27, 2017
A promise: My first time in Bil’in will not be my last
Last week I went to the Friday demonstration in the West Bank village of Bil’in for the first time. Some of the people who know me found it hard to believe. “Only now? Next week they will be marking eight years of demos, and only now you come, Ami?” Yeah. I guess I’m what you…
By
Ami Kaufman
February 21, 2013
Resource: Israel’s use of crowd control weapons in the West Bank
B’Tselem released a new report on the crowd control weapons used by the Israeli army. The report also details the relevant orders of the military and the Israel Police which regulate the use of these weapons, and which the security forces refuse to divulge. In addition it surveys the implementation of the regulations in the…
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+972 Resources
January 28, 2013
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Nabi Saleh is the embodiment of the Palestinian Arab Spring
Why is it that Palestinians are the only people in the Middle East seemingly not allowed to throw stones at a military regime which oppresses and controls them? Why are Palestinians branded as violent when they use the same tactics which the Egyptian and Tunisian protesters used during their historic revolutions? This question has been stuck in my…
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Joseph Dana
May 21, 2011
Video: A putrid price for nonviolent resistance – the ‘Skunk’
How do I convey the smell of the ‘Skunk’? Imagine rolling around the floor of a dairy farm for a few hours and the subsequent smell of your skin. A smell so overbearing that people can’t bear to be in the same room with you. Now, imagine that you can’t get that smell two weeks.…
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Joseph Dana
May 1, 2011
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