On Tuesday 29 September, Jerusalem's Regional Planning and Construction Committee approved a plan to build 1,100 housing units in the 40,000 person strong East Jerusalem settlement of Gilo.

“There’s no clear way to stop this violence”, the Jerusalem Post baldly declared in one of its recent editorials.  The recent series of settler attacks in the West Bank and Israel is frightening an important part of Israeli society and even the country’s intelligence services.

The Israeli army and civil administration destroyed tents and barns of Palestinian farmers living in the Jordan Valley community of Malha on Thursday 6 October.

Please join us at the AICafe on Tuesday 4 October at 8.00 p.m. for an evening of Palestinian literature with author Nassar Ibrahim.

Merna al-Marjan is a young Iraqi who is currently in Germany studying European history. We talked in her dormitory room, a spartan but functional cubicle in a building that embodies a hopeful change in European history: it was constructed in the nineteenth century as an army barracks but now houses university students. That's progress.

In the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, Israeli NGOs and state authorities have worked more than a decade to evict 550 Palestinian residents from their homes in order to build a Jewish settlement, rationalizing that prior to 1948 there was a Jewish neighborhood in the same location.

On 1 September 2011 homeless families and activists took over an abandoned building owned by the Hebrew University on Stern Street in Jerusalem.

Hackers have seriously attacked the computer network of the Alternative Information Center (AIC). Since Sunday 25 September, all incoming and outgoing emails have been destroyed. We are working to rectify this problem as quickly as possible. 

Thousands of Palestinians gathered on Wednesday (21 September) in the major West Bank cities to support the Palestinian statehood bid on the eve of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ UN General Assembly speech this Friday.

On Tuesday afternoon (20 September), Israeli settlers from the settlement of Yitzhar arrived at the Palestinian village of Affira Al-Khaeliya outside of Nablus and, after a brief demonstration, stormed the village, assaulting its inhabitants and damaging property.

Politically it’s difficult, if not impossible, to find a Palestinian who is against the idea of having an independent and recognized state. Nevertheless, the picture becomes more complex when concrete and legal considerations are discussed.