I took this photo on the light rail on my way into Jerusalem yesterday.  The train comes in from Pisgat Ze’ev, a large settlement north of the city, and goes through some Palestinian neighborhoods ...
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If you look back at the photo of IDF soldiers launching tear gas at stone-throwers in Abu Dis (see April 16th post), you’ll see that they had taken up a position downhill from the ...
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In Pastoral in Palestine (pp. 72-88) I reported how the extension of “The City of David,” an archaeological site adjacent to Jerusalem’s Old City, and the introduction of settler households within the texture of ...
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Posted on today’s on-line edition of The Electronic Intifada is a video of an IDF patrol back in Abu Dis, yesterday, Friday April 19th, and using a handcuffed Palestinian teenager as a shield as ...
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Today was Independence Day in Israel, a holiday, needless to say, not much celebrated on the West Bank. But it wasn’t an ordinary day at my University, either: there was some question about whether ...
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One of the four larger-than-life stone lions in the center of Al-Manara, Ramallah’s main square, sports a stone wristwatch.  (–Why does a monumental lion need to know what time it is, you ask? –Well, ...
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