Carrying a 20-foot long mock snake with a dove baring the colors of the Palestinian flag in its mouth, about 100 Palestinian peace activists in the West Bank village of Bil’in on Friday were joined by 50 Israelis and 30 ...
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Boys Abducted by Israeli soldiers from West Bank village
A CALL FOR ACTION… Thursday, August 4 by Dorothy International Women’s Peace Service The Israeli army invaded the village of Marda on the night of Tuesday, Aug. 2, searched homes and abducted about 15 boys. They arrested four of the ...
Read More »Checkpoints destroy Palestinian economy
Street theatre and demonstration in Deir Ballut By Sarita Deir Ballut villagers were joined today by 30 International and Israeli activists in a demonstration against the military check point blocking the entrance to their village. Deir Ballut, southwest of Salfit, ...
Read More »They still find ways to have fun
by Devon Sixty percent of the West Bank village of Kifl Haris are children under the age of 17. on August first some of the village’s children demonstrated with us and stayed non-violent in the face of a foreign military ...
Read More »Settlers in the midst
By Andrew Kids are jumping around. Dancing. A perspiring, lanky gray haired guy is fiddling nonstop and Harry Borrey, fresh from a brief kidnapping experience in Gaza is singing things like “We Shall Overcome” and telling various Israeli soldiers that ...
Read More »Update on Shora Esamilan
Shora Esamilan, ISM activist from Sweden, has arrived back in her country after being deported from Israel. She was forced onto a plane by five policemen, including two brought in specially from Austria. On her way onto the plane, the ...
Read More »Peace means the freedom of movement
July 29, 2005 by Sarita Ahooja Eight ISM Internationals from Canada, Sweden, and Spain, along with 5 Israeli activists joined in a spirited march with the villagers of Asira to protest military closures and demand free movement for Palestinians. The ...
Read More »Trio of protests against the wall set for communities across the West Bank
A trio of demonstrations are planned for Friday in villages and cities around the West Bank. If the Israeli military’s history is any indicator, violent response to the peaceful protests is expected. I. PROTESTING THE “BARRIER” IN JENIN: Israel’s illegal ...
Read More »Israeli military targeting Palestinian leaders of nonviolent resistance: update
I. Abdullah Abu-Rahme: Arrested in a nonviolent protest on July 15, 2005. A Judge at Ofer military base on Tuesday, July 26, ruled that Abu-Rhame was “too dangerous” to be released on bail and that he will be held until ...
Read More »My Wife is in Jail, Again
by Adam Shapiro (The following was written by ISM cofounder Adam Shapiro after the June 20 arrest of Huaida Arraf in Bil’in, where she had joined villagers in protesting construction of Israel’s wall on their land.) Once again, for probably ...
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