Author: ISM Media Group

  • Successful Land-Access Action in Beit Omar

    Sunbula’s Journal: “Settler Brats and Weed Pulling” 20th May: From Jerusalem to Beit Omar, you need to change taxis three times in order to get there, partly because of two Israeli checkpoints. It is a small village outside Hebron (al-Khalil) past Bethlehem. An international presence was needed there today in order to help the farmers…

  • Successful Wire Cutting Action in Beit Omar

    Today, May 17, two international and one Israeli human rights activists joined a small group of Palestinian farmers in their non-violent action of cutting up 50 meters of a 500 meter long barbed wire fence. A fence the Israeli army illegally had set up the previous day on Palestinian owned land. Together with the two…

  • Ezra’s Car

    1. Ezra’s Car 2. Medical Workers Targeted by Israeli Army in Raid in Nablus 3. Israeli Occupation Forces Violently Suppress Peacefull Protest Over Right to Worship 4. Bil’in Protest: Journalists Targeted, Many Injured 5. The “Only Democracy in the Middle East” 6. Villagers fight West Bank Barrier 7. Israel should face sanctions —————————————————————————————————————– 1. Ezra’s…

  • Guardian: “Israel should face sanctions”

    by Ronnie Kasrils and Victoria Brittain. The Guardian, Friday May 19, 2006. The Palestine crisis is now more dramatic even than apartheid, but it is the victims who are punished. Western leaders are frustrating democratic elections in Palestine by withholding aid, and using collective punishment, an economic siege and starvation as political weapons in their…

  • Canberra Times: “The Other Aussie Heros”

    posted in the Canberra Times May 18th Every Friday for the last fifteen months Palestinian farmers from the West Bank village of Bil’in and their Israeli and international supporters have marched out of the village to reach their lands on the other side of the “Separation Barrier” Israel is building to confiscate 500 acres of…