Author: ISM Media Group

  • Vacation in Balata refugee camp

    by Lucretia R. I decided to take a vacation to Balata refugee camp and give art lessons to children there. I hadn’t been there since the invasion in February and I recently completed a portrait of Ibrahim, a boy who died while I was there and I wanted to give it to his family. Because…

  • Farmers Fight Against Settlement Control of their Land

    Beit Ummar settlement guards by Zadie At 7:30am yesterday morning Abu Ayyash and his son Yousef, from Beit Ummar, were accompanied by 3 peace activists in order to go to their land to spray the grape vines with pesticides. Despite Israeli army and settler security forces attempts to stop them, they succeeded in working the…

  • Israeli Soldier in Hebron: “I Hate Arabs!”

    Palestinians threatened and abused by soldiers while waiting in their yard for Israeli Police to come and investigate damage caused by settler vandalism. This is where the water pump used to be before Israeli settlers from the Tel Rumeida Settlement stole it. by Jonas Sunday, June 25th: Two Human Rights Workers (HRWs) received a phone…

  • Hebron Settlers Attack Palestinian and His Donkey Near Soldiers

    by ISM Hebron On Monday, June 19th 2006 at 7:00 pm, twenty Israeli settlers stoned a thirty year old Palestinian man named Talab Jabber. Jabber lives in the Old City near the Abraham mosque. He has five children, four daughters and one son. Jabber was cleaning an old room and collecting some metal near the…

  • THES: “Confront the colluders in Israel’s academy”

    by Lisa Taraki, The [London] Times Higher Education Supplement, June 23, 2006. Reposted on the PACBI site. Although Menahem Milson’s career path and mine have been on a collision course, we have never met. In 1976, I joined Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank as a junior instructor in sociology. The same year, Milson,…