Author: ISM Media Group

  • End the Occupation Now

    End the Occupation Now by Mairead Corrigan Maguire, 26 April 2007 On Friday April, 20th, 2007, my friend Ann Patterson and I joined the Bil’in Peoples Committee, a Palestinian peace group (based outside Ramallah) for their weekly nonviolent protest and march to the Apartheid Wall. We were joined by Israeli peace activists and some two…

  • Art Under Apartheid in Tel Rumeida

    ISM Freedom Summer 2007 invites you to teach creative workshops with Art Under Apartheid in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of Hebron. Art Under Apartheid workshops were started as a result of the international boycott of aid to the Hamas government and the resulting strike of Palestinian public sector workers including public school teachers in the…

  • The city in two pieces

    by: -bat. There are no other events in this account which are violent and dramatic in the way Bil’in was, but in the days since I have been back I have had some bad dreams about the trip, and it hasn’t been that which comes back to haunt me. Violence is shocking, but for something…

  • British human rights worker arrested in Tel Rumeida under false charges

    British human rights worker arrested in Tel Rumeida under false charges, released unconditionally. by the ISM Media Crew, 26 April 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Today at 10:45am, Joanne Crouch, a British human rights worker (HRW), was arrested in the Tel Rumeida district of Hebron. Israeli police at the Kiryat Arba police station tried to charge…

  • Diplomatic Mission intervention unites foreign passport holders with their families;

    the Campaign for the Right to Enter/Re-enter April 26, 2007 (April 26, 2007 – Ramallah) –Israeli border control authorities continue arbitrarily denying entry to foreigners traveling to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The pattern was first identified by the Campaign for the Right to Enter/Re-Enter the oPt in early 2006 when long-time residents returning from…