Ellen cantarow biography
Ellen Cantarow is a retired journalist who published widely in left of center media (The Village Voice, Mother Jones, Grand Street, Truthout and others)....
Ellen Cantarow: Living by the Gate From Hell: A Portrait of Nonviolent Resistance in One Palestinian Village
[Ellen Cantarow, a Boston-based journalist, first wrote from Israel and the West Bank in 1979.
Her work has been published in the Village Voice, Grand Street, and Mother Jones, among other publications, and was anthologized by the South End Press.
Biography.
More recently, her writing has appeared at Counterpunch, ZNet, and Alternet. This essay is part of a series on Palestinian non-violent resistance,"Heroism in a Vanishing Landscape." ]
Much is heard of violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but the story of the determined, long-term nonviolent resistance of many Palestinian villagers to the loss of their lands, striking as it may be, is seldom told.
Here’s my report from just one village on the West Bank.
At no time since its 1967 West Bank occupation have Israel’s seizures of Palestinian land and water resources seemed as shocking as the ones attending its construction