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Kufr Qaddoum: Not peanuts in the colonists’ jar

Posted on: January 17, 2012
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by Amal

16 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The cold and rain did not keep the residents of Kufr Qaddoum from protesting this past Friday. Even the hail storm did not stop them from demanding their equal rights. The resilience and courage of the residents cannot be summed up in words. However, this is not the message they wanted to broadcast. Besides their everyday demands for justice, they wanted to express their concern for the “Judiazation of Jerusalem.” This term refers to the Israeli strategy of erasing all Palestinian and Arab identity in Jerusalem. Kufr Qaddoum residents expressed this … Continue reading


Updated on January 23, 2012
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Jerusalem: Sumarin family receives news that eviction is temporarily delayed

Posted on: November 28, 2011
Members of the Sumarin family awaits court decision with solidarity activists from Japan, Sweden, Spain, US, and Israel.

by Wahed Rejol

28 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Today in the Wadi Hilweh neighborhood of Silwan, the Sumarin family awaited a ruling from Israeli court on the pending eviction from their home.

Israeli news reported this week that the current eviction set for this week had been delayed. But according to the family, their attorney had not yet received an official ruling. Until today.

According to the Wadi Hilweh Information Center, approximately 60% of the houses have received demolition notices in Silwan – a town in East Jerusalem with a population of 55,000 … Continue reading


Updated on November 30, 2011
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Freedom Rides to Jerusalem

Posted on: November 17, 2011

by Anne Paq

17 November 2011 | Chroniques de Palestine

On the 15th of November, Palestinian activists from the West Bank boarded a segregated Israeli bus used by Israeli settlers to Jerusalem in an attempt to highlight the regime of discrimination on freedom of movement in place in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the fact that Palestinians cannot access Jerusalem freely. After boarding the bus without incidents, the bus was stopped at the Hizme checkpoint, where all the activists were arrested and violently forcibly removed from the bus.


Updated on November 18, 2011
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A visual chronology of the Freedom Rides

Posted on: November 17, 2011
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by Dena Elian

16 November 2011 | Sixteen Minutes to Palestine

On November 15, 2011, six Palestinian Freedom Riders boarded a settler-only bus traveling to occupied East Jerusalem to openly challenge Israel’s apartheid policies towards Palestinians and its minority populations. The following is a visual chronology of the events.


Updated on November 17, 2011
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Freedom Riders: “I felt like I was witnessing history”

Posted on: November 16, 2011
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by Ben Lorber

 15 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Earlier today, 7 Palestinian activists were arrested as part of the Freedom Rides attempt to board segregated buses going from the West Bank into occupied East Jerusalem.

Palestinians, Israelis and ISM activists waited at a bus stop outside the illegal settlement of Psagot, while four settler buses pulled up and drove away, refusing to open their doors. Israeli police and occupation army surrounded the activists, while a group of settlers massed to observe. Finally, a bus took the activists aboard, … Continue reading


Updated on November 16, 2011
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Jerusalem: Explosions, arrests and violence as Israel clears way for settlement activity

Posted on: November 14, 2011
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by Alistair George
13 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

Three Palestinians were arrested and others were detained, beaten and pepper sprayed by the Israeli military in Al-Walajeh yesterday, as villagers attempted to prevent the detonation of explosives used to widen the route for the separation wall on the village’s land.

Previously, large explosions on 3 November2011 in the village had sent large rocks several metres into the air, damaging nearby houses and trees and endangering life.  The explosions have damaged the foundations of nearby properties.  Yesterday, protesters attempted to peacefully prevent a similar explosion from taking place.

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Updated on November 16, 2011
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Jerusalem offices of Peace Now evacuated after bomb threat

Posted on: November 7, 2011
Graffiti sprayed in Hagit Ofran's building two months ago. Graffiti says "Death to the traitors." Photo by Emil Salman

by Oz Rosenberg
7 November 2011 | Haaretz

Anonymous attackers spray-painted “price tag” and threatened to plant a bomb in the Jerusalem offices of “Peace Now” on Sunday.

Hagit Ofran, director of Peace Now’s Settlement Watch project, said that at around 8 P.M., the office intercom buzzed and a man’s voice said, “The building will explode in five minutes.”

The police were called to the scene, and the two-storey building was evacuated.
Jerusalem police are now scanning the scene, and have begun searching for the perpetrators. Last weekend, a … Continue reading


Updated on November 7, 2011
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Eid in Sheikh Jarrah

Posted on: November 7, 2011
Nabil al Kurd and his son Mahmood

by Wahed Rajol

7 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

ISM has maintained a daily presence at the al-Kurd residence in Sheikh Jarrah since August 2009 when Israeli authorities paved the way for Israeli settlers to occupy the front part of the family home.  On the first night of Eid al-Adha, on November 6th, 2011, three international volunteers camped in a make shift area just outside of the residence, located in the same area where the ISM tent was before it was burned to the ground by the settlers just two months ago.

Thirteen al-Kurd family members spanning three generations gathered … Continue reading


Updated on November 7, 2011
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Israel: Charging house demolition victims to pay costs of demolition equipment

Posted on: October 31, 2011
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by Samira | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank

The people in the Bedouin community, Mihtawish, in Khan el Ahmar area outside Jerusalem today faced a house demolition. Three family houses were demolished, which hosted in total 39 people. 30 of them are children. One family lived in their house year round and two were soon to come for the winter. The families will now stay temporary  in tents provided by the UN, but they will have to move to another area, while the demolition order is still valid.

The families received the first demolition order 10 days ago and were … Continue reading


Updated on November 2, 2011
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Welcome to the settler party

Posted on: October 28, 2011
Illegal, Zionist settlers have decorated the Al Kurd home with Israeli flags.

by Jenna Bereld

28 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
As I pass, my Palestinian scarf is hidden in my bag – I do not want to get any spit on me tonight. Around the tomb of Shimon HaTzadik, the festival is going on. The settlers have built a stage, erected a huge party tent and assembled a long line of portable toilets. Danceable klezmer music is booming from the loudspeakers and the Israeli police are present with horses and cordons. Children are playing around amidst guns and dancing men with beards and luminous bracelets.
One wouldn’t … Continue reading


Updated on October 28, 2011
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