Checkpoint Watch
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Checkpoint Watch

Testimonies from Occupied Palestine

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Checkpoint Watch

Testimonies from Occupied Palestine

About this book

This book is a critical exploration of Israel's curfew-closure policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the eyes of CheckpointWatch, an organization of Israeli women monitoring human rights abuses. The book combines observers' daily reports from the checkpoints and along the Separation Wall, with analysis of the bureaucracy that supports the ongoing occupation. Keshet demonstrates the link between Israeli bureaucracy and the closure system as integral to a wider project of ethnic cleansing. As co-founder of the group, Keshet critically reviews the organisation's transformation from a feminist, radical protest movement to one both reclaimed by, and reclaiming, the consensus. Illustrating the nature of Israeli mainstream discourse as both anodyne and cruel, the book also analyses Israeli media representation of Checkpoint Watch and human rights activism in general. Keshet contends that the dilemmas of these Israeli women, torn between opposition to the Occupation and their loyalty to the state, reflects political divisions within Israel society as a whole.

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Index
1948 war, 6, 108, 152
A-Ram, 67, 101
A-Ram checkpoint, 62, 157
absentees, term used for Palestinians, 3, 155
Abu Dayyeh, Maha, 101
Abu Dis, 71, 96–100; cut off from Jerusalem, 95; wicket, 162
Abu Dis checkpoint, 158
accountability, of Israeli military, 65
Achoti (My Sister), 46
agency, 125; denied, 63
Agmon, H., 69
‘agricultural’ gates, 94, 158
alleviations, 159
Alterman, N., 117
Alternative Information Centre, 133
ambulances, denial of access to, 81–2, 96–7, 117
Amor, Shimon, 140
Anata checkpoint, 157
Anbata checkpoint, 157
Androni, Ghassan, 4
Anglo-Saxons, use of term, 139
Annexation Wall, 7, 24, 25, 86, 89–104, 116, 152, 156, 160, 161, 162; changes in route of, 90; effect of, on health care of Palestinians, 90; opposition to, 45, 89, 123; symbolic aspect of, 103
Arab, used as insult, 2–3
Arabic language, use of, 60; by CheckpointWatchers, 124
Arabs: represented as threat to Israel, 151; seen as indistinguishable mass, 144
Ariel settlement, 161
army service, as rite of passage for Israelis, 64
arrest: and harassment of CheckpointWatchers, 38; arbitrary, of Palestinians, 59
Arutz Sheva (Channel Seven), 133
Ashkenazi Jews, 46, 123
Association for Civil Rights in Israel, 90, 143
Atara checkpoint, 157
Avneri, Uri, 6, 133
Awwarta checkpoint, 157
Azariyeh checkpoint, 157
Back, Hagit, 110
banality of evil, 75–80
Bantustans, creation of, 27
Bar, Iris, 114
Barag, Hanna, 136
Barak, Ehud, 64, 109, 123
Barr, Shula, 115
barricades, internal, 152
Barta’a checkpoint, 157
Beit Furiq, 76
Beit Furiq checkpoint, 125, 158
Beit Iba checkpoint, 77, 83–4
Beit She-an, 98
Beit Sourik, 91
Beit-El, 21
Ben Shemen, 2
Beth Hanina, 101
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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the Book
  3. About the Author
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Maps
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Foreword
  10. Introduction
  11. One | The context
  12. Two | The checkpoints
  13. Three | The observers
  14. Appendices
  15. References
  16. Index