Author: ISM Media Group

  • Wall and Checkpoints Reach San Jose

    US students set up ‘checkpoint’ on campus by Eyal Marcus, 25 May 2007 Students at San Jose University disguise as soldiers, Palestinians at improvised checkpoint to condemn Israeli army’s occupation of West Bank Photo by Andrew Schwartz On Israel’s Independence Day this year, Max Grossman, an Art and Design lecturer at the University of San…

  • One arrested at demonstration against land destruction

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 25 May 2007 One arrested at demonstration against land destruction in Artas, Bethlehem UPDATE 26 May 2007, Gaby Lasky, George’s lawyer, relayed the news that George has been released from Israeli police custody in Hebron. George was scheduled to appear for trial in 5 hours, around 20:00, this evening at the Russian…

  • Palestinian Information Minister: international community must impose sanctions against Israel

    Dr. Barghouthi condemned the Israeli government aggression against a number of offices for the PLC and other West Bank charities Press Statement, 23-05-2007 Ramallah – Minister of Information and Government spokesperson Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi condemned the Israeli storming of a number of offices for the Legislative Council and other organizations and charitable societies in Jenin,…

  • IMEMC: Nonviolent resistance manages to stop bulldozers in Artas

    by George Rishmawi , 24 May 2007 Photo, ISM The bulldozing of the land in Artas village near Bethlehem has temporary stopped after an Israeli court ruled a preemptive halt of work in the village on Wednesday and Thursday. The court ruling was made after the villagers filed a complaint against the Israeli company which…

  • Haaretz: And now, a fetus

    By Gideon Levy, 20 May 2007 Memorial posters decorate the walls of the Rafidiya government hospital in Nablus, covering earlier posters of countless young people who have been killed. But this poster is like nothing we have seen before: a fetus covered in its own blood, its tiny head blown up by the bullet that…