Author: ISM Media Group

  • How Many Escorts Does it Take to Get 3 Children Home?

    “When are we going to get a reality show in Tel Rumeida?” by Shlomo Bloom HRWs (the two women in vests) try to escort Palestinian kids (left) through a razor wire fence while settlers (background) and Israeli activists (foreground) look on 20th May 2006: How many people does it require to escort three Palestinian children…

  • YNet op-ed: “Mr. Occupation Saw the Light”

    From the Hebrew edition of Ynet. Translation by Rann. With his own hands and orders Brigadier General Ilan Paz deepened the suffering in the Occupied Territories. Surprisingly, the political realization and moral insight broke through moments after he returned his equipment. And he’s not the first… “Nothing good can come out of the humiliation of…

  • Shlomo’s Journal: “The Magic Answer”

    By Shlomo Bloom Today I arrived at Qalandia checkpoint on my way to Jerusalem from Ramallah and got in line behind about 15 Palestinians. The line moved at a slow but steady pace until two people showed their IDs to the soldiers behind the glass and an argument in Hebrew began. It was clear the…

  • SchNEWS: “Wall of Shame – West pushes Palestinians further into crisis”

    From SchNEWS number 544 The remnants of Palestinian civil society, brutalized by the occupation and ongoing encirclement by the apartheid wall, is now reeling under the shock of the sudden removal of all US and EU aid. Their crime? To have voted in free and fair elections for a movement, Hamas, which Bush and Blair…

  • Ha’aretz: “British professor confirms ‘silent’ boycott of Israel”

    By Tamara Traubmann, Ha’aretz, 19th May 2005 A British professor has refused a request to write an article for an academic journal funded by Israeli universities, saying that he was taking part in a boycott of Israel. “Alas, I am unable to accept your kind invitation, for reasons that you may not like. I have,…