Update on 29 January by ISM: There is still imminent threat of eviction hovering upon the Shamane family. The family was given a brief reprieve of two months at the last minute when the Jerusalem District Court ordered the eviction delayed until 1st March 2013. There will be a weekly protest vigil at 3 pm on Friday 1st February and in the following weeks. Organizers call for supporters to come and join.
28 December 2012 | Mondoweiss, Occupied Palestine
By Patrick Keddie
4 August 2012 | International Solidarity Movement
The Israeli authorities’ attempts to ethnically displace Palestinians from East Jerusalem have intensified greatly in recent years; in some areas, such as Sheikh Jarrah, eviction notices have been handed out to nearly every Palestinian family. My Neighbourhood, a recent short documentary film produced by Just Vision, examines the struggles against mass Palestinian eviction and asks important questions of how to resist.
The film focuses on Sheikh Jarrah, an area less than 5 minutes’ walk from the opulent American Colony Hotel (favourite haunt of foreign journalists, NGO workers … Continue reading
by Johnny
29 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
March 30 is Land Day in Palestine. The events of the day annually commemorate the events of 1976, when Israeli authorities seized massive quantities of land from Palestinian owners, and then killed several and injured dozens to crack down on the general strike called to protest the theft.
This year on Land Day, March 30, people from around Palestine and the world will march towards Al Quds (Jerusalem) to protest the theft in progress today: the isolation and ethnic cleansing taking place in Al Quds, as well as throughout occupied Palestine through … Continue reading
12 January 2012 | Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity
The planned national park, located adjacent to the E1 area, on the slopes of Mt. Scopus, would constitute an insurmountable obstacle to any possible future peace agreement involving Jerusalem. Most immediately, it would “choke off” a number of Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, and deny residents access to their private lands. For detailed information on the plan for the national park, click here.
Solidarity’s campaign agaist the park-construction has already recorded some success. Following an investigative report in Ha’aretz, … Continue reading
14 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
ISM has been following the situation of the Al Kurd family from Sheikh Jarrah since 2009 and has kept a presence in the garden of their home.
On December 4th Nabil Al Kurd and his mother, accompanied by international and Israeli activists went to the Court of Magistrate in Jerusalem and sat in the courtroom. After 40 minutes of intense argument between the lawyer of the family and the lawyer representing the Jewish committee, the decision left the Al … Continue reading
by Samar and Meriem
11 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
ISM has been following the situation of the Al Kurd family from Sheikh Jarrah since 2009 and has kept a presence in the garden of their home.
The Al Kurd family is of five other families targeted by these evications. The Fawziya Al Kurd family was evicted 9 November 2008. And the Ghawi and Hanoun families were evicted on 3 August 2009.
The Nabil Al Kurd family was evicted from one of their houses on 3 November 2009, and settlers finally moved in on … Continue reading
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
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
28 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
While Palestinian families continue to defend their right to reside in their homes in East Jerusalem, and while illegal Israeli settlers attempt to overtake whatever home or land to feed their colonial appetite, a different struggle is taking place on the walls of Sheikh Jarrah. As international activists and Palestinians use graffiti to express Palestinian resistance, Zionists scribble over the artful proclamations in reactionary stick images and symbolism of the Zionist agenda. As more walls are built or demolished by Israel, the artwork in Sheikh Jarrah reflects the struggle … Continue reading
16 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank
The ultimate aim of the Zionist organizations is to convert Sheikh Jarrah into a new Jewish settlement and to create a Jewish continuum that will effectively cut off the Old City from the northern Palestinian neighborhoods. On 28 August 2008, Nahalat Shimon International filed a plan to build a series of five and six-story apartment blocks – Town Plan Scheme (TPS) 12705 – in the Jerusalem Local Planning Commission. If TPS 12705 comes to pass, the existing Palestinian houses in this key area would be demolished, about 500 … Continue reading
