Author: ISM Media Group

  • Destroying the Wall in Umm Salamuna

    Two Israeli solidarity activists arrested on Nakba commemoration day by the ISM Media Crew, 18 May 2007 On May 18 2007, a demonstration commemorating the Nakba (the “Catastrophe,” when Israel forcibly displaced three quarters of a million Palestinians from their homes, massacred civilians, and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages) took…

  • Showered with tear gas on Nakba day

    from A-Infos, 19 May 2007 This Friday the theme of the demonstration in Bil’in was the Nakba. This week marked 59 years from the formal robbery of most of the Palestinian lands by the Israeli settler colonialists with blessing of the United Nation and the big imperial powers. We marched at noon on the road…

  • Newsweek: A Grittier Trip to the Holy Land

    A Grittier Trip to the Holy Land, Sarina Rosenberg, May 21 issue The Israel that 18,000 young Jewish Americans will see this summer on the free, 10-day trip offered by Taglit-birthright Israel is a land of ancient religious sites, sandy beaches and buff young soldiers. “It’s a Jewish identity trip,” says Wayne L. Firestone, president…