Author: ISM Media Group

  • Protest at Beit Sira

    On 14th April, my second day in Palestine, I visited the small village of Beit Sira, near Ramallah. In many other countries the inhabitants of such a village would spend today tending their farms, being with their families and friends, or popping down to the local shop. But Beit Sira has lost 70% of its…

  • The Lobby and the Bulldozer: Mearsheimer, Walt and Corrie

    Published on Thursday, April 13, 2006 by CommonDreams.org by Norman Solomon Weeks after a British magazine published a long article by two American professors titled “The Israel Lobby,” the outrage continued to howl through mainstream U.S. media. A Los Angeles Times op-ed article by Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Max Boot helped to set…

  • Two Bil’in Teens Arrested During Night

    By Jane Just when I thought I was in for a quiet night, saying good bye to the resisters in Bil’in, the Israeli army came into the village and arrested 2 young men, Yassar aged 16 and Tariq aged 19. It was a beautiful warm night at the outpost. R and I arrived just after…

  • Stop the Shelling of Gaza! – Action Alert and Digest

    1. ACTION ALERT: Stop the bombing of Gaza! Prevent a humanitarian crisis! 2. Laila El-Haddad: “Just another Gaza Friday” 3. Laila El-Haddad: “And suddenly, the seams of childhood disappeared” 4. Video: Shelling of Gaza Continues 5. Amnesty International Calls for Halt to Gaza Attacks 6. Human Rights Watch: “UNRWA Director: ‘Counting down to a crisis…

  • Stop the bombing of Gaza! Prevent a humanitarian crisis!

    UPDATE: Since this Action Alert was posted, the shelling of Gaza has continued almost non-stop. Eight days [now 17 days] and thousands of shells later, the assault on Gaza continues. Israel has vowed that it will continue to intensify the attack. Eighteen people are dead, including at two children, and many more are injured. Amnesty…