Author: ISM Media Group

  • Showered with tear gas on Nakba day

    from A-Infos, 19 May 2007 This Friday the theme of the demonstration in Bil’in was the Nakba. This week marked 59 years from the formal robbery of most of the Palestinian lands by the Israeli settler colonialists with blessing of the United Nation and the big imperial powers. We marched at noon on the road…

  • Newsweek: A Grittier Trip to the Holy Land

    A Grittier Trip to the Holy Land, Sarina Rosenberg, May 21 issue The Israel that 18,000 young Jewish Americans will see this summer on the free, 10-day trip offered by Taglit-birthright Israel is a land of ancient religious sites, sandy beaches and buff young soldiers. “It’s a Jewish identity trip,” says Wayne L. Firestone, president…

  • IWPS: Family home in Al Funduq to be demolished in three days

    by Sue, IWPS, 16 May 2007 A family in Al Funduq had a demolition order delivered to their home while both were at work yesterday, 16th May. The paper was left on the door. It was the third final order and it left them three days to leave before destruction of their home. The man,…

  • Please don’t shit on the apricots

    by: Yifat Appelbaum this is an infographic Today I feel frustrated. I sat in a cute little apricot orchard in a village near Beit Lahem as the army watched us through binoculars from the hill, a menacing bulldozer in the background. They’re going to ‘doze this orchard to make way for sewage pipes from the…

  • Israeli police to human rights workers: “Don’t do anything stupid!”

    Tel Rumeida Report by ISM Hebron, 17 May 2007 A Palestinian got arrested and brought into the Israeli settlement of Tel Rumeida between 7 and 8 o’clock this morning. Three human rights workers (HRWs) started to film the incident and the Israeli border police from a distance. Israeli soldiers at the Tel Rumeida army post…