Author: ISM Media Group

  • Tree planting as popular resistance in the Jordan Valley

    by Jamil al-Husni It is surely a celebration. Everyone is bustling about, preparing for the day’s activities. But it is different than a typical celebration. Instead of carrying brightly colored drinks and holding plates of food, people are carrying shovels and pick-axes to plant seedlings as part of a plan to grow trees throughout the…

  • “We are a Democracy!”

    by Hugh, March 11th Walking through Bethlehem yesterday I was stopped by a taxi driver I have come to know over the years, Abu Anwar. He seemed agitated and angry. He knows of my work over here and was keen for me to go back to his house to show me what had happened during…

  • Volunteers rebuild demolished homes – An Appeal

    by the ISM media team, March 11th The rebuilding effort described below requires finances that the local Palestinians, impoverished by the ongoing siege, do not have. The materials for the rebuilding were bought on credit so that the villagers could live in houses again as soon as possible – they had been living in tents…