A core group of Palestinian and Israeli-Jewish activists based in Jaffa which formed around the issue of political prisoners, and has since staged countless demonstrations, vigils, marches and other actions, most of them in the city’s famed clock tower square.
About a hundred activists, Palestinian and Israeli-Jews, staged a protest today in Yafa’s historical clock tower square in solidarity with the political prisoners in Israeli jails. Samer ‘Issawi, a former political prisoner and hunger striker, and brother of Shireen ‘Issawi, a lawyer who is currently in prison, joined the demonstration. The Yafa activists staged numerous…
Days before the annual commemoration of Land Day, Jaffa-based activists left a graffiti on wall surrounding one of the city’s most notable buildings, known as the ‘green house.’ The graffiti reminds passers by that this used to be the home of Shaykh Ali before the Nakba (the catastrophe of 1948, when most Palestinians were forced…
Jaffa-based activists welcome Samer al-‘Issawi, the former political prisoner and hunger striker, recently released from Israeli prison. ‘Issawi was received at the city’s historic clock tower square, where activists staged daily vigils calling for his release over an extended period of time. He was then taken on a walking tour of the city, as local…
Local activists in Jaffa took to the street to protest the unprecedented police violence during the demonstrations against the Prawer plan on the third Day of Rage. As news about police brutality and multiple arrests in Hura and Haifa spread, activists began mobilizing for a spontaneous show of force in the city of Jaffa. The…
Activists from Yafa, both Jews and Palestinians, took to the street Thursday evening to protest against the Prawer plan which will displace at least 30,000 Bedouins in the Naqab / Negev and mobilize for the upcoming third day of rage planned for 30.11. Protesters held banners against the mass displacement and ethnic cleansing and calling…
Over a hundred people, Palestinians and Israeli-Jews, gathered in Jaffa’s historic clock tower square in order to protest the Prawer plan, which is projected to displace some 40,000 Bedouins from ‘unrecognised villages’ in the country’s southern region of the Negev (Naqab in Arabic). Protesters held banners against this massive wave of ethnic cleansing, repeated demolitions…
In anticipation of the nationwide “day of rage” on 30.11.2013, Yaffa-based activists, both Palestinians and Jewish, protested at the historical clock tower square against the Prawer plan which threatens to displace at least 30,000 Bedouins from their home in “unrecognized villages” in the Naqab / Negev, in southern Palestine. Even before the plan has been…
Palestinian and Jewish activists took over Jaffa’s landmark clock tower square to protest the Prawer plan which would displace 30,000 Bedouins in the Naqab / Negev southern region of the country. Protesters chanted “Prawer will not pass” and blocked the road for about an hour and a half. If you like my work, please also…
Planned by a dedicated of Jaffa-based activists, a bus full of Palestinians and Jews left clock tower square in Jaffa, heading to multiple main intersections adjacent to main roads and Palestinian towns within Israel in order to mobilize and show solidarity with the Palestinian political prisoners and their plight. The activists traveled to Taybeh, Qalanswa…
As every Thursday, local Jaffa activists, Palestinian and Jewish alike, held a vigil at clock tower square in support of Palestinian political refugees and protest extra-legal measures such as administrative detention. If you like my work, please also ‘like’ my facebook page. …
