Author: ISM Media Group

  • Normal Life, Destroyed Homes, and Israeli Apartheid

    by Schlomo Bloom The other day, I got a tattoo. Actually, I should say that I got another tattoo, as it is not my first, or for that matter, my last. The day I got my tattoo, was more or less like any other; I got to work by my usual bike route (uphill, unfortunately),…

  • “Israeli settlement sale in Teaneck discriminatory, may violate international law and the roadmap”

    Press Release from ADC New Jersey and 11 other Civil and Human Rights groups February 23, 2007, Clifton, New Jersey – The New Jersey Chapter of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC New Jersey) was joined today by 11 civil and human rights groups in warning New Jersey public officials that the February 25 planned sale…

  • Water cannon fails to dampen spirits on Bil’in second anniversary demo

    by the ISM media team, February 23rd Around 1500 demonstrators attended today’s second anniversary protest against the Apartheid Wall in Bil’in. Despite the peaceful nature of the protest the IOF used violent means to try to disperse the crowd, including firing sound bombs directly at protesters at close range. Several needed medical treatment for injuries…

  • The Guardian: “Anti-wall protests hit second anniversary”

    by Rory McCarthy, February 23rd Israelis and Palestinians will gather today for a demonstration to mark the two-year anniversary of their most high-profile joint campaign against Israel’s barrier in the occupied West Bank. Weekly protests at Bil’in, a village west of Ramallah, may have done little to alter the path of the 437-mile concrete and…

  • The Wall – The Battlefield in Bil’in

    by Abdullah Abu Rahme, Bil’in is a small, peaceful village surrounded by hills and valleys, lying halfway between Yaffa and Jerusalem and is among the villages that fall under the governorate of Ramallah, 16km west of Bil’in. It has a population of 1800 in an area approximately 4000 dunums in size. Its people are known…