Author: ISM Media Group

  • Avnery: Blood on Our Hands

    Uri Avnery April 17th is recognized annually by Palestinians as Prisoner’s Day At this moment, negotiations on a prisoner exchange are in full swing. The term “negotiations” is really inappropriate. “Haggling” seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: “trafficking in human beings”. The planned deal concerns living people. They are being treated…

  • Turning the other cheek near Bethlehem

    by Kobi Snitz The first visible achievement of the non-violent resistance of the Ma’asara villages was visible even before the demonstration began. When people began preparing for the demonstration they noticed that, unlike previous Fridays, there was no construction today. The bulldozers were parked far away in their fenced lot and the security guards were…

  • Evening Tribune: ISM at Alfred Univeresity

    “Founder of non-violent Palestinian resistance movement speaks at AU” by Ryan Westerdahl, The Evening Tribune 12 April 2007 ALFRED – For Huwaida Arraf, a young woman who has stared down armed soldiers, a speaking engagement at Alfred University presented a different challenge – persuasion. Arraf, who spoke for more than an hour in AU’s Nevins…