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Items by Mariam Barghouti
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The First Intifada showed that if we stay silent, we lose
Palestine experiences a plethora of daily human rights violations by the Israeli occupation. However, the soundtrack of gunshots, teargas thrown between homes, the armoured jeeps’ doors closing behind detained Palestinians, and the violence screaming at us in the form of land annexation and discrimination is not new. This invasion of...
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Behind Israel’s Democracy: Deconstructing the Israeli military system
On January 21st 2015, the Israeli military court sentenced Malak Khateeb, 14 years of age, to two months in prison. Lina Khattab, 18, who was just beginning her freshman year of university has been in the Israeli military court system since December 13th 2014. It has been a month...