Anarchist Resistance at Bil’in
Tel Aviv’s Anarchists Against the Wall continue to oppose construction of Israel’s Separation Wall. Last week they protested at Bil’in, a village I’ve noted a couple of times after visiting it two months ago. An excerpt:
At Bila’in the bulldozers are working quite close to the village houses, about four or five kilometers from the Green Line (pre-’67 border). Not that this is the decisive factor for us, we would protest even if the Wall was being built on the Green Line itself, since we oppose the whole idea of erecting walls to separate people from each other. Anyway, Bila’in and its neighbor Safa to the south are suffering very much from settlement expansion. There is the big settlement-town of Kiryat Sefer inhabited by ultra-Orthodox, and another settlement called “Menora” which is supposed to be an extension of a third settlement called “Mattityahu” – not that these names make much of a difference to the Palestinians whose land is taken.