by Lydia de Leeuw 19 November 2011 | A Second Glance Last week Eid al Adha was celebrated in Gaza and other Muslim communities worldwide. Eid al Adha is one of the most important holidays in Islam, marking the end ...
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Hebron: Zionist paraders harass Palestinians, 7 internationals detained
by Alistair George and Ben Lorber 20 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Over 1000 American and International Zionists joined 700 extremist settlers in Hebron this weekend to celebrate the reading of the Torah portion detailing Abraham’s biblical ...
Read More »Imneizil demolitions: “Hanging between the ground and the sky”
by Jenna Bereld 18 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The solar panels in the village of Imneizil, near Hebron, became effective almost two years ago, improved the living conditions for about four hundred inhabitants in the village, ...
Read More »Internationals harassed and denied entry into Nabi Saleh
by Wahed Rejol 18 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank Following last week’s violence in the village of Nabi Saleh near Ramallah, international observers and activists were today denied entry into the village by Israeli soldiers. The soldiers ...
Read More »Al Baqa’a: The struggle of a family in the shadow of illegal annexation
by Alistair George 17 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank “The Israelis hope that that the young people leave, the old people die, and then they can confiscate the land and the houses” says Sami, an activist working ...
Read More »Freedom Rides to Jerusalem
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 ...
Read More »A visual chronology of the Freedom Rides
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. ...
Read More »Gaza lives on
16 November 2011 | Al Jazeera English The Israeli blockade may have taken a heavy toll on Gazans, but this film reveals life and hope among the devastation. Since 2007, most of the approximately 1.5 million Palestinians living in the ...
Read More »Independence Day in the Buffer Zone
by Nathan Stuckey 16 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Twenty three years ago today the Palestinian declaration of independence was released. Written by Mahmoud Darwish, and unveiled to the world by Yasser Arafat in Algiers where he was ...
Read More »Freedom Riders: “I felt like I was witnessing history”
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, ...
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