Author: ISM Media Group

  • Photostory: The Old City of Nablus

    by Bill Dienst MD, November 13th, Nablus, population 113 thousand, is the West Bank’s second largest city: second only to East Jerusalem. Founded during the time of the Romans, it is over 2000 years old. Here is a fruit market in the center of town. The heart of Nablus is Al Dowaar Square, also known…

  • Negotiating Daily Life: Land Access and Checkpoint Encounters

    by Steph, November 6th During this last week while I’ve been picking olives in the Nablus area with Palestinian families and occasionally encountering/confronting soldiers, I’ve been thinking a lot about the role of negotiation in daily life here in Palestine, and also about the role of internationals in that. I often find myself in situations…

  • Jerusalem Post: “Rabbis for Human Rights volunteer held”

    Theresa in the Bengurion airport detention centre after being prevented by Israel from attending the Celebrating Nonviolence conference in Bethlehem last December. UPDATE: Theresa remains in detention after an Israeli judge today postponed a decision on her appeal against denial of entry until November 15th. by Ori Raphael, November 13th Theresa McDermont came to Israel…

  • “The only way to live” — fear and fury in Urif and Asira

    by ISM Nablus Urif, 9th November There is chaos in the air. A couple of the young boys have climbed up to one of the upper ridges of the hillside and are scorching the earth with a small blowtorch — an ancient agricultural technique designed to improve the quality of the soil. “Come down immediately!…

  • CNN editors pull Palestinian quotes, replace with US

    by cnnexposed.com CNN editors replaced all Palestinian quotations with quotes from the US and Israel in its story ‘U.S. vetoes U.N. condemnation of Israel’s Gaza strikes’. The new, more prominent article begins with the exact same wording as the original, but all Palestinian remarks are gone. The two versions have identical first and second paragraphs:…