Posts tagged al-fara'a
THE INCARCERATION OF PALESTINIAN YOUTH
THE INCARCERATION OF PALESTINIAN YOUTH

EDITORS NOTE: This twitter story from delegate @FalafelDad describes some of the challenges of Palestinian youth, systematically criminalized and incarcerated by Israeli occupying forces and police. The tweets below feature the delegation’s visit to the Al-Fara’a Prison, a former detention facility where Israeli occupying soldiers held Palestinian minors:

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Eyewitness Accounts, 2017 May@FalafelDaddelegation 61, al-fara'a, children, detention, youth incarceration, mass incarceration, occupation, criminalization, poverty, military court
ON MOBILITY AND TRAVEL
ON MOBILITY AND TRAVEL

Now I am able to realize a “wish” of nearly 50 years - to come to Palestine and see this “beautiful country” and its brilliant, resilient people. But I must reckon with the reality that being here is largely a matter of privilege - as a white, Ashkenazi Jewish middle-class woman with a U.S. passport.

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Eyewitness Accounts, 2017 MayRosalind P.delegation 61, white privilege, ashkenazi, jewish, jew, attuf, children international, al-fara'a, mobility, travel, youth center, JVP, zionism