The 85th Academy Awards ‘class photo’ from Monday’s nominee luncheon went live today. Among the 156 pioneers of cinema stood Emad Burnat, co-director of the film 5 Broken Cameras nominated this year for best Documentary Feature. Burnat is directly beneath the green star, wearing a light blue shirt in the last row to the far right.
5 Broken Cameras documents non-violent resistance in the West Bank village of Bil’in primarily through Burnat’s eyes — or lenses, really. With his village split in half by Israel’s barrier wall and as Israeli settlements continue to appropriate more and more Palestinian land, Burnat takes to his camera to share with the world the abuses he and other Palestinians face daily. One by one his cameras are destroyed. [Read more...]
A multi-textured wall of walls stands just minutes from the seacoast in Gaza City.
A large stone hangs from a rope in front of a wall at a fancy hotel in the north of Gaza.
Inside of a small spice and produce shop in a Gaza market, the walls are lined with yellow boxes, yellow oils, yellow prayer rugs, yellow teas, and a variety of other colorful items.
The coastal road between Gaza City and Khan Younis is a place of solitude for many Palestinians where the seemingly infinite sea is complemented by the absence of walls. 
The Barrier Wall is a barrier to peace: The six-year anniversary of an ICJ ruling
On July 9, 2004, the International Court of Justice issued an advisory opinion against the legality of the West Bank Barrier Wall. Six years later, the Wall still stands to plague any possible idea of peace in the territory. (View the ruling here.)
According to Israeli officials, the purpose of the Barrier Wall is to eliminate any threat of a Palestinian attack in Israeli territory. Published statistics show that the number of suicide bombings in particular has decreased since the beginning of the Wall’s construction in 2002. But what effect has it had on Palestinians? [Read more...]