Author: ISM Media Group

  • 1967: Abandoned and rejected

    By Ahmad Shaheen | Guardian: Comment Is Free I was born in a tent and I’m living in a tent, but I hope I won’t die in a tent. I’m a middle-aged journalist and a human rights advocate. My children are grown up and college educated – three of them married with children. I’m far…

  • The world will understand us more

    from The Guardian Unlimited, 6 June 2007 A Palestinian boy blows up a balloon in front of Israeli border police during a non-violent protest against the construction of Israel’s West Bank barrier. Photograph: Oded Balilty/AP Audio can be found HERE In the fields around the village of Ma’asara, south of Bethlehem, between the rows of…

  • (Part 2 of 2): A Hospitality Which Won’t Quit… Nor Submit to the Occupation

    Reportback from Daniel Part 2: the North: Agriculture, Theatre, a Cough to Kill for I took a 3 day, 2 night trip through the northern West Bank that started by going to Qalqilya, a fairly large Palestinian city that is almost completely surrounded by The Wall. The only way in and out is through a…

  • (Part 1 of 2): A Hospitality Which Won’t Quit… Nor Submit to the Occupation

    Reportback from Daniel Part 1: Checkpoints, and Violence Against Nonviolent Demos I’m back from my whirlwind trip to Palestine. The trip was hectic and crazy and shocking. I think I accomplished my goal of seeing first-hand some aspects of the all-encompassing system of Israeli apartheid. Among other things, my trip included participation in 2 very…

  • MEPs stand up for immediate release of 45 Palestinian MPs in Israeli Jail

    from Luisa Morgantini, Vice President of European Parliament 6 June 2007 Brussels– 45 Members of the European Parliament, from different political groups, have decided to express their solidarity towards the 45 Palestinian colleagues imprisoned by Israel, and called for their immediate and unconditional release. All the 45 MEPs stood up symbolically in the plenary, right…