Author: ISM Media Group

  • Bil’in Locked Down in Curfew

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ISM Media Team Contact: Mohammed 0545851893 Media Office: 022971824 Greta: 0542011548 At 5:00 am, three border police cars broke the peaceful sleep of the villagers in Bil’in, moving through the village with their bullhorns blaring. “You are under curfew. All Israelis in Bil’in must leave. No one is allowed to move.” Peace…

  • Israeli army continues uprooting in Salem

    Salem is a small village of about 6,000 residents that is the site of some recent Israeli construction, which tends to come with a certain amount of destruction of Palestinian property. It started this morning, when an Israeli earth-crusher began tearing through the olive fields near the settlement road. On the opposite side of the…

  • More people rally to Bil’in’s defense against occupation army

    The world is paying attention to the injustices and illegality of the Israeli occupation, annexation barrier and settlement expansion thanks in large part to the steadfast resourcefulness of people in the small West Bank village of Bil’in. After the violent military siege last Friday aimed at stopping a demonstration before it began, organizations and individuals…

  • Nobel Peace Laureate writes in support of West Bank village’s protests against annexation wall

    Mairead Corrigan Maguire, founder of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement and recipient of the Nobel peace prize, wrote a letter this week to the poeople of the West Bank village of Bil’in in support of their continued struggle against Israel’s illegal annexation wall. Dear Friends, To : Palestinian and Israeli Peace Activists – Support For…

  • Does this deserve a “Sh’hechiyanu”?

    by Lawrence Zweig Here is a prayer that traditional Jews say when they do something for the first time in any specific year, and even in their life. Last Friday I got my first dose of tear-gas and sound-bombs. It was at a demonstration against the occupation, the wall and other inhumanities, in the West…