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Joseph Dana
Joseph Dana is a writer based in Cape Town. Previously he worked across the Middle East.
Recent Articles
Police crack down on my talk (in Pittsburgh, not Palestine)
While Joseph Dana was giving a lecture at the University of Pittsburgh recently, police intervened to block the entry of a number of Occupy Pittsburgh activists. The experience reminded him of the very tactics – about which he was lecturing – designed to stifle Palestinian activism and debate. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0pX9LeE-g8[/youtube] Recent police violence at Occupy Wall…
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Joseph Dana
November 9, 2011
Replacing the peace narrative with discussion of rights
Non-violent methods being used by Palestinians and their international supporters are helping to reframe the conflict from a discussion of peace vs. violence, into a struggle for rights under Israeli occupation. Next week, a group of young Palestinians will board Israeli settler buses in the West Bank with the intention of traveling to East Jerusalem.…
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Joseph Dana
November 9, 2011
New flotilla en route to Gaza Strip nearing coast
Update, 10:00 A.M. Friday, Israel time: Flotilla activists report they are some 80 miles from the Gaza Coast. Army Radio reports that Israel Navy ships are already at sea, set to stop the ships from reaching the coastal territory. AFP quotes a flotilla spokesperson who says all ship passengers have pledged not to resist an Israeli…
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Joseph Dana
November 2, 2011
WATCH: Olive harvest brings settler violence in West Bank
On the outskirts of the northern West Bank village of Qasra, a 19-year-old resident recently told me that settlers are not going to stop attacking Palestinians, simply because they don’t have too. According to the man, settlers live in a world of no consequence as if removed from the normal social contract of Western societies.…
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Joseph Dana
October 21, 2011
WATCH: Films explore human side of Sheikh Jarrah protest
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2u5MwVNPHo[/youtube] The affluent Palestinian East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has become, in the words of one observer, the new battleground of the Israeli left. By now, most readers of +972 are familiar with the story of struggle and dispossession which has typified the Sheikh Jarrah protest movement. In early 2009, Jewish settlers, backed by American-funded organizations…
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Joseph Dana
October 12, 2011
Palestinian bloggers called to join prisoner hunger strike
On 27 September 2011, activists with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) launched a prisoner hunger strike in protest of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians prisoners in Israeli jails. Rallies have been held throughout the West Bank in support of the hunger strike and now activists are calling on bloggers throughout the world…
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Joseph Dana
October 10, 2011
‘Scuffles’ between Israelis, Palestinians on Jerusalem’s light rail
Jerusalem is one of the focal points of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its architecture of settlement is one of the most profound examples of Israel’s control over Palestinian sovereignty. Since the 1967 conquest of the eastern parts of the Jerusalem as well as the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula, Israel has moved quickly to…
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Joseph Dana
October 9, 2011
WATCH: Violent eviction of Palestinian family from Jaffa home
New video shows Israeli police beating a Palestinian man during a house eviction in Jaffa. The video raises fresh questions about Israel’s treatment of non-Jewish citizens. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRHqU8H1CVk[/youtube] A new video has been posted on YouTube of Israeli policeman from the special YASSAM riot police unit beating and kicking a 34 year old Jaffa man during a…
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Joseph Dana
October 6, 2011
WATCH: Tony Blair and the Quartet
Former British PM Tony Blair has come under fire for alleged bias in the Middle East. The Guardian reported last week that Blair visited Gaddafi during Libyan loan negotiations by JP Morgan, where he is employed as an adviser. The Telegraph in the UK reported that PLO senior leaders are considering a proposal which would label Blair “persona non grata”…
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Joseph Dana
October 4, 2011
Is the United States going to cut off PA aid money?
The United States Congress is set to withhold upwards of 200 million USD from the Palestinian Authority according to The Independent. On the surface this sounds like a blow to the Palestinian Authority but it will be the Palestinian people which suffer the most. It is unlikely that the Palestinian Authority will not be fully…
By
Joseph Dana
October 1, 2011
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