Author: ISM Media Group

  • Human Rights Worker Released from Israeli Detention

    David Parsons, a Canadian citizen who was arrested while doing human rights work in Hebron, has been released on bail from Israeli detention. An Israeli Interior Ministry official ordered his release on condition Parsons not participate in any “international activity” in Hebron. Parson’s lawyer Gaby Lasky views this as a victory and says that the…

  • Jerusalem Post on Kalandia Grafiti

    Photo: Civil Administration It’s the ISM, not Machsom Watch… From Jpost TalkBack : by Judy – Israel ” Margot Dudkevitch reports that Machsom Watch defaced the Kalandia entrance. I’m no friend of Machsom Watch, but anyone monitoring the rantings of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) will have noticed that on January 19, the day of…

  • A Human Rights Worker Writes of her Christmas in Israeli Detention

    By Shireen In a prison cell, the few times a day when the door opens are an event. On the evening of Christmas Day, when the rattle of keys was followed by a soft Scottish voice asking cheerfully, “is there a bed free in here?” I didn’t know whether to be happy or sad. It…

  • The Occupation Will Not Be Sugar-Coated

    1. Thousands Challenge Israeli Apartheid in Bil’in by Henry 2. IOF Evacuated Human Rights Workers Instead of Illegal Settlers 3. Carmel Agrexico on Trial in Britain 4. A Gun in one hand and the Torah in the other by Caroline 5. 15 hurt in fence protest – from the Israeli press by Ali Waked 6.…

  • 15 hurt in fence protest

    by Ali Waked for Ynet Anti-fence protesters, security forces clash near Palestinian village of Bilin. About 15 protesters have been injured on Friday in clashes between security forces and protesters against the West Bank security fence during a weekling demonstration held by Palestinians and Israeli leftists in Bilin, a Palestinian village between Ramallah and Modi’in.…