47 schools, run by the Roman Catholic Church stayed closed on the first official day of the school year, Tuesday, in Israel and East Jerusalem, in protest against the Jewish state’s new education funding policy, AFP reported. READ MORE: Israel questions, sets free 16 young Jewish settlers after Christian church burned down While the state […]
Posts Tagged ‘east Jerusalem’
Number of migrants entering Britain breaks all records: Zio-Watch, August 28, 2015
(JTA) — Approximately 50 Israeli Jews, accompanied by police, moved into a five-story building in an Arab neighborhood of east Jerusalem. Activists from Ateret Cohanim, a right-wing group, moved into the building in the Silwan section of Jerusalem on Thursday morning, claiming the property had belonged to Jews before Israel’s 1948 War of Independence, when […]
Kinder Morgan Paid Pennsylvania Police to ‘Deter Protests’
ACLU calls arrangement “flat out unconstitutional” Earth Island Journal – Between June and October 2013, Kinder Morgan, the largest energy infrastructure company in North America, paid a local Pennsylvania police department more than $50,000 to patrol a controversial pipeline upgrade. The company requested that the officers, though officially off-duty, be in uniform and marked cars. […]
Zionist Security Officials Meet Zionist “arab” Counterparts as Zionist Settlers march in East Jerusalem Celebrating Israel’s 1967 occupation of the city.
Over 30,000 Israelis marched through the streets of the Muslim Quarter in East Jerusalem’s Old City on Sunday, in commemoration of Israel’s 1967 occupation of the city. Police ‘sterilized’ the route of the march, closing Palestinian shops and preventing Palestinians from passing through the area. At least two Palestinians were arrested in clashes that broke […]
Clashes as Israel Marks Anniversary of East Jerusalem Occupation
IMEMC : Israeli nationalists and police clashed with Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, as crowds of Jewish hardliners marched across the city to mark the 48th anniversary of its capture. Known as Jerusalem Day, the anniversary marks the seizure in the 1967 Six-Day War and later annexation of East Jerusalem in a move […]
Gush Shalom: Abolish ‘Jerusalem Day’ – the settler holiday
Clashes as Israel marks 1967 east Jerusalem capture JERUSALEM (AFP) 17 May by Shatha Yaish –– Israeli nationalists and police clashed with Palestinians in occupied east Jerusalem on Sunday as crowds of Jewish hardliners marched across the city to mark the 48th anniversary of its capture. Known as Jerusalem Day, the anniversary marks the seizure in […]