TULKAREM (Ma’an) — Israeli forces handed demolition orders to six people on Thursday southeast of Tulkarem, locals said. Shufa village resident Abdul Fattah Enaya told Ma’an that the demolition orders gave him just one week to vacate his property. The other residents to receive demolition orders were Fuad Kamal Mustafa Ismail, Moaway Mussa, Ameen Odeh and Raed Muhammad Hassan Yousef, according to Enaya.

RAMALLAH, October 1, 2011 (WAFA) – Israeli soldiers Saturday declared the West Bank village of Iraq Burin, near Nablus, a closed military area and erected a number of checkpoints at the village entrances, according to local sources. They said soldiers prevented residents from entering or leaving the village. The Israeli measures against Iraq Burin aim to prevent international and local activists from entering the village to participate in a protest held there every Saturday against settlement activities, said the local sources.

Study group reveals plans to cut off Jerusalem’s Palestinian villages from their West Bank hinterland

The Jerusalem Society for Arabic Studies has revealed Israeli plans to build a new illegal settlement which will cut-off Palestinian villages in the Holy City from the south of the West Bank. The head of the Society, Khalil Al Tafakji, said that the Israeli Occupation Authorities plan to establish a large settlement on the Palestinian village of Walaja north-west of Bethlehem. Called Givat Yael, the new settlement will stretch from Walaja and Battir across to the western edge of the Gilo settlement to the south of Occupied Jerusalem. The huge settlement bloc will be a physical barrier between Jerusalem’s Palestinian villages and the southern part of the occupied West Bank. ”Israel is using the current international and domestic situation as a diversion to approve the construction of more illegal settlement units as part of a huge settlement scheme to provide 58,000 housing units,” said Mr Al Tafaki.

Palestinian Protests & Israeli Regime Violence Against Activists

Sakhnin; Thousands Mark 11th Anniversary Of Al Aqsa Intifada

Responding to a decision by the Arab Higher follow-up committee in the 1948 territories, thousands of Arabs, Palestinians, participated in a ceremony commemorating the 11th anniversary of the Al Aqsa Intifada.

Isolated Detainees Announce Open-Ended Hunger Strike

Palestinian Minister of Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs, Issa Qaraqe’, stated Friday that around Twenty-five Palestinian detainees in solitary confinement at the Nafha. Ramon, Al Ramla and Asqalan Israeli detention facilities declared an open-ended hunger strike. Palestinian Minister of Detainees and Ex-detainees Affairs, Issa Qaraqe’, stated Friday that around Twenty-five Palestinian detainees in solitary confinement at the Nafha. Ramon, Al Ramla and Asqalan Israeli detention facilities declared an open-ended hunger strike.

Racism / Discrimination

Knesset legal advisor: ‘Nakba Law’ is constitutional Law grants Israel’s finance minister the power to reduce budget of state-funded bodies that openly reject Israel as Jewish and democratic state or mark Independence Day as a day of mourning.

Arabs outraged over ban on October riots studies

Education Ministry warns schools in Arab sector against organizing political activity in classrooms. Many parents respond by keeping kids at home.

Thousands of Israeli Arabs march to commemorate October 2000 riots Demonstrators in several towns across Israel wave flags, chant anti-Israel slogans and hold up photos of the 13 Israeli Arab protesters killed in clashes with police at start of Second Intifada.

Activism / Solidarity “We Stand With the Irvine 11” Following the convictions of the students known as the “Irvine 11” this past week, over thirty chapters nationwide of Students for Justice in Palestine have signed on to a message of support for the Irvine 11. The students were arrested in February 2010 and charged with “conspiracy to disrupt a public meeting” and “disruption of a public meeting,” after interrupting a speech by Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren.

Film review: Can hip hop be “bigger than the occupation”? How can one expect any art to take root under Israeli occupation, let alone for a small delegation of artists, DJs and rappers to make any impact?

Statehood Bid

More than a dozen U.S. and international human rights and arms control groups are urging Congress to block a proposed 53- million-dollar arms sale to Bahrain, which hosts the U.S. Fifth Fleet, until it ends its crackdown against the opposition and adopts serious reforms.

Palestinian Youth Movement: Statehood Bid Harmful to Struggle

We, in the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), stand steadfast against the proposal for Palestinian statehood recognition based on 1967 borders that was presented to the United Nations this September by the Palestinian official leadership. We believe and affirm that the statehood declaration only seeks the completion of the normalization process, which began with faulty peace agreements. The initiative does not recognize nor address that our people continue to live within a settler colonial regime premised on the ethnic cleansing of our land and subordination and exploitation of our people.

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/palestinian-youth-movement-statehood-bid-harmful-struggle?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AlAkhbarEnglish+%28Al+Akhbar+English%29 We, in the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), stand steadfast against the proposal for Palestinian statehood recognition based on 1967 borders that was presented to the United Nations this September by the Palestinian official leadership. We believe and affirm that the statehood declaration only seeks the completion of the normalization process, which began with faulty peace agreements. The initiative does not recognize nor address that our people continue to live within a settler colonial regime premised on the ethnic cleansing of our land and subordination and exploitation of our people. Sullivan on Obama’s ‘capitulation’ at the UN

The explanation for the humiliation of Obama at the UN, where he gave the kind of speech a junior congressman might give at an AIPAC break-out session, is pretty simple. Obama was checkmated. Netanyahu and the GOP recognized immediately that the Cairo speech could have opened up a whole new chapter in America’s relationship with the Arab and further Muslim world. And so they, in active collaboration, did all they could to stop it in its tracks. They succeeded in handing Obama the clearest defeat of his first term. http://mondoweiss.net/2011/09/sullivan-on-obamas-capitulation-at-the-un.html A Palestinian-American view of the US veto

The Palestinians have been suffering for decades at the hands of one of the most brutal military occupations in the modern world. They are dehumanised on a daily basis, their civil and human rights are violated and their land is stolen; any attempt at self defence is considered to be an act of terrorism by the occupiers and their backers. http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/articles/middle-east/2881-a-palestinian-american-view-of-the-us-veto Talking With Alice Walker on Palestine, DENNIS BERNSTEIN Alice Walker is Pulitzer Prize winning poet, author and activist. She participated recently in the U.S. Boat to Gaza, which was a part of the Freedom Flotilla, to break the Israeli embargo on the Gaza Strip. Last year, a flotilla was attacked by Israeli commandos and a number of people were killed and wounded. Walker’s boat was stopped by Greek authorities before it could traverse the eastern Mediterranean to Gaza. http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/talking-with-alice-walker-on-palestine/ Ikhras Shoe Of The Month Award Winner – September 2011

September 23, 2011, after leaving occupied Palestine with an Israeli-issued VIP pass, Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), the head of the Israeli sponsored, Western-funded, American supervised collaborationist Palestinian (illusory) Authority in occupied Ramallah begged the United Nations for a facade of a state situated on 22% Palestine