Hebron farmers kicked off land

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=568129
HEBRON (Ma‘an) 23 February --' Settlers' and Israeli forces attacked a number of
farmers while working in their lands in *Susiya area of southern Hebron on Saturday,landowners said. Fuad al-Shamsi said that they were surprised when they headed to their lands as they do every Saturday when a group of settlers were shepherding sheep on their land which is planted with blooming trees. When farmers tried to enter their own lands, the settlers attacked them and released their dogs at them, frightening young children, while Israeli forces looked on. Mohammad Mahmoud al-Shamaste, 45, Mahmoud Mohammad al-Shamaste, 25, were arrested and held for half an hour and then released.  The farmers say that Israeli forces announced the territory of Susiya is a closed military zone. They accused the settlers of trying to confiscate their land and include it within Susiya's nearby Zionist/Israeli colony.http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=568129

Palestinian Oscar nominee held at LA airport

Imad Burnat, co-director of '5 Broken Cameras' which was Oscar nominated, had to endure with his family a replay of that all-too-familiar checkpoint experience en route to Hollywood, when he had to call on fellow- documentarist Michael Moore to help prove he was in the US for a legitimate purpose. Unfortunately he didn't get the Oscar this time. http://journomania.net/culture/38-art-and-culture/806-imad-burnat-the-palestinian-director-of-the-5-broken-cameras-on-the-red-carpet.html

Israel - a land without scholars?

Palestinian amateur archaeologist Waleed Al-Aqqad's  collection of ancient artifacts

Since the Nakba there has been an almost unbroken history of Israeli buying up or looting archeological artifacts, often, apparently, without knowledge of their true worth and mainly to use them in re-writing the history of their land with a particular bias. Asmaa al-Ghoul writes in AlMonitor, ' The pillaging from the Gaza Strip of thousands of historical artifacts, some dating back to the time of Alexander the Great, at the hands of the Israeli occupation has stripped Gaza of its rich history.'

Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/02/archaeological-pillaging-gaza.html#ixzz2Ku2pJ3vr