This month the Rachel Corrie Foundation is featured on the Mission Non Profit program on Thurston County Television.  Watch our interview here!

 Published: March 26, 2013 at  PalestineCampaign.org

The BBC has admitted that a reference it made to Israeli soldiers dying on the same day US activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza was not ‘duly accurate’. No Israeli soldiers were killed on that day.

The claim was made by veteran BBC presenter, Martha Kearney, on BBC Radio 4’s World at One programme, on the day an Israeli court ruled that Israel was not to blame for Corrie’s death.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has been lobbying the BBC for seven months, since the broadcast in August 2012, to extract an admission that Kearney’s false claim constituted a breach of the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines on Accuracy.

During a segment dealing with the court ruling on 28th August, Kearney interviewed the Israeli government spokesperson, Mark Regev, to ask for his views on the case.

In the course of the interview, she said to him: ‘Clearly Rachel Corrie was one of the casualties of what happened that day – and I know Israeli soldiers died too’.

She concluded her sentence with a question: ‘But has this meant there’s a re-think of the policy of what was happening at that time – bulldozing Palestinian houses?’

PSC objected on the grounds that Kearney’s statement was false and on the additional grounds that the presenter seemed to be implying conflict ‘that day’ between Corrie – an unarmed civilian protestor – and the Israeli army which had resulted in armed Israeli soldiers being killed.

Ten years on I want answers for my daughter Rachel Corrie—Craig Corrie
March 15, 2013

The Corries’ Ten-Year Quest for Justice—Tom Wright & Therese Saliba
March 15, 2013

On March 18, 2013, Democracy Now! covered Rachel’s story.  View the story here (segment starts at 13:23)

This article was originally posted by the International Solidarity Movement on March 12, 2013. Link to full article.

Farmers attacked by Israeli army and settlers, preventing them from planting olive trees in memory of Rachel Corrie

By Lisa Marchant

Farmers peacefully planting olive trees in the land of Asira al Qiblya were today disrupted by Israeli soldiers who halted the planting. The presence of Palestinians on their own land also attracted the attention of illegal settlers from the nearby settlement of Yizhar, leading to them attacking Palestinians farmers and volunteers, throwing and catapulting stones. The army moved immediately to protect the attackers, shooting tear gas and rubber bullets at Palestinians.

The olive trees were being planted in the vicinity of an Israeli military tower, recently built on a hill above Asira al Qiblya. Because of this, soldiers hassled farmers throughout the day, with an escalation of hostility mid-morning, when around 20 soldiers approached and demanded that farmers should stop planting trees and leave the land, despite the fact that the Palestinian owner of the land notified them that he wished to continue farming. The commander advised that the village should contact the Israeli district coordination office (DCO) to request permission – if permission was granted, he intimated, then the farmers would be allowed to access their land unhindered.

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Please check out the listing below of events happening around the world:

UNITED STATES

WA, Olympia- Rachel- the Person and the Continuing Struggle- Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
Join us this year to challenge U.S. aid to Israel, and to remember Rachel.  We have a full schedule of events leading up to March 16th. We will be hosting Remi Kanazi for a BDS workshop and performance, and Fida Qishta will join us for a showing and panel reviewing her film Where should the birds fly. We will also rally to “Stand for Justice” and celebrate and remember Rachel at a community event. Please visit this link for more details.