Photo: A Palestinian woman whose house has been occupied by Jewish settlers faces Israelis who came to celebrate Jerusalem Day in the mainly Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, occupied East Jerusalem (Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images). Source, WSJ via Mondoweiss.

Israeli Apartheid Week

"One Israel-bashing Web site declares: "Mark your calendars - the 6th International Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) will take place across the globe from the 1st to the 14th of March 2010!" "

Israel denies Belgian minister's request to visit Gaza Strip

"Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon told the Belgian minister that Israel could not authorize the request, as official visits to the Strip are interpreted as giving legitimacy to Hamas."

Interview: 'Israel is a very racist society'

" "We are racist. Israel is a very racist society. I know what olim have gone through over the past 20 years. Our nation does not know how to receive new immigrants," Landver says in a wide-ranging interview ahead of next week's Ashdod Conference on Immigration and Absorption. The main topics to be discussed during the event will be "Racism in Israeli Society," "The Immigrant Youth Crisis" and "Absorption Economics - Government Policies Versus Implementation." "

Sa'ar: Arab citizens' search for equality stymied by conflict with Palestinians

" Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai (Labor) said that until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was resolved, equal rights would never be on the top of the national agenda, but that on the local level things could be corrected more easily. He cited Jaffa as an example of the course of actions that should be followed. "

Rights group demands indictments for settlers who assaulted Palestinians

" The human rights group Yesh Din is demanding that the Shai police district indict four settlers who were filmed attacking Bedouin in the West Bank in the summer of 2008. The police closed the cases against the suspects, despite a police camera having documented them in action. Members of the police Special Patrol Unit surveilled dozens of settler youths, accompanied by armed adults, from a stakeout near the Alon road in the northern West Bank.

Police footage shows that when the marchers came across a Bedouin tent, they started cursing the Bedouin. An argument ensued and one of the youngsters threw a stick at one of the Palestinian adults. At this stage, both sides began throwing stones at each other. Only when the settlers retreated, firing shots in the air, did the policemen emerge from their stakeout and detain four of the perpetrators. (...)All four cases were closed by the police. "

Les Olim racontent leur Alyah

"Salut Laurent,

Si je te dis que tout se résume en 2 phrases …

Erets Israël Niknit Beissourin

Ein Kmo Israël

Les enfants sont bien entrés à l'école, tout se passe globalement bien, mais nous attendons avec impatience que l'oulpan démarre pour les enfants, pour E. et S. (Kita vav et beth), cela se passe bien, mais Y. (kita Dalet) fait un rejet total de l'école, on gère au quotidien …

Grace à David Ouaki (qui fait un boulot formidable), nous avons réussi à trouver un oulpan à notre pieds (même s'il est remplit à 80% d'arabes) et une crèche pour le petit Emeth.

A part ça, je ne pense pas avoir autant dépensé d'argent en si peu de temps, mais tant qu'il en reste encore un peu ça va …

J'espère que tu nous donneras signe de vie lors de l'un de tes prochains passages, merci encore et à bientôt…

M.C. "