Caught: Ahava's theft of occupied natural resources finally exposed http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/18

After years of strenuous denial, Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories, an Israeli cosmetics firm with its main manufacturing plant in an illegal West Bank settlement, is proven by documentary evidence to be in violation of international law through its theft of Palestinian resources. This evidence was recently discovered by Who Profits (www.whoprofits.org), a research project of the Israeli Coalition for Peace, which documents corporate activity in the Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territory. Prior to this finding representatives of Ahava repeatedly claimed that the company does not make use of natural resources from the West Bank

Tell me who your friends are by SettlementWatchEastJerusalem http://settlementwatcheastjerusalem.wordpress.com/2011/05/15/tell-me-who-your-friends-are…/

The close relationship between the Jerusalem police and the settlers is proved again at the ceremony for new Jerusalem District Commander. The newly appointed Jerusalem Police Commander Niso Shaham invited some old friends, among them settlers and extremists rabbis.

A local Haredic website published some interesting pictures from the event in which Shaham was seen exchanging hugs, and posing for photographs with the East Jerusalem settler leadership, among them Yonatan Yossef, the head of the Sheikh Jarrah settlers gang .... Who was not invited? The citizens of Silwan, Sheikh Jarrah and other East Jerusalem neighborhoods that are suffering daily from the pressure and violence of settlers’ guards in their midst.

1-minute video from 22 April: Blindfolded in Silwan (Kfutim) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo-AMxM20Q4&feature=player_embedded#at=15

Solidarity activists tried to give the visitors of the "City of David" site, located in Silwan and run by the radical settler organization "ELAD", a taste of the reality that exists only yards away. Some did not like to be reminded what their entrance fees support. [very ugly language from the ELAD people]

Rightist Jewish organization sues Sheikh Jarrah activists for libel http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/rightist-jewish-organization-sues-sheikh-jarrah-activists-for-libel-1.362403

Elad demands NIS 500,000 in damages from leftist activists for claiming that Elad's operations cause harm to East Jerusalem Palestinians

Israeli activist attacked, unprovoked, by Israeli soldiers in Silwan http://silwanic.net/?p=16610

 Pro-Palestinian Israeli activist Gil Gutglick was detained today by Israeli troops, after he and several other activists attempted to non-violently defend a tract of land in Silwan slated for settler annexation on Tuesday afternoon. Despite the act triggering no confrontation, Gutglick was attacked by Israeli troops and arrested. He was then transferred to Oz police station and moved to another, unknown station.

Female prisoner's detention without charge extended for the seventh time http://silwanic.net/?p=16679

The Jerusalem Magistrates Court extended the detention of Silwan woman Su‘ad Shoyoukhi on Tuesday for a further 24 hours, marking the seventh time since the beginning of May that such a decision be passed. Shoyoukhi remains in detention without charge. Her mother states that "Su‘ad is blessed with high morale, but it is clear that this experience has damaged her. She is forced to undergo perpetual interrogation, and has been beaten and tortured during these days in detention."