Occupied Territories Bill: Government Defies Dáil Majority Leaving the Jaber Family to their Fate

On a crisp, sunny morning in Hebron in January of this year my friend Atta Jaber tells me: ‘The settlers have what they wanted and Randina sits on a chair.’ Atta resembles a Kerry farmer, one in particular comes to mind: the late Sam Brown from Maharees in West Kerry. He is sinewy, with a … Read more

Palestine – To Exist is to Resist

I have just returned from Hebron in the West Bank, a city where nearly sixty Palestinians have been extra-judicially executed by Israeli forces since the end of September 2015. On my last stint in Hebron, West Bank, while doing check point duty one morning one of my team mates overheard two very small children chatting: … Read more