Author: ISM Media Group
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Al Nakba Remembered
By Joharah Baker | MIFTAH On May 14, 1948, Israel declared its independence. Although it is not unprecedented in history that countries gain their independence through war, either by conquest or by flinging off the yoke of colonization, there are few examples in history that match the circumstances under which Israel was created. The Palestinians,…
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Shofat Camp Non violent Demonstration for Right to Worship Successful
Residents of Shofat refugee camp in Jerusalem, along with international and Israeli supporters, today demonstrated non-violently against the Israeli Border Polices’ often violent suppression of the camps residents’ right to cross the checkpoint at the camp entrance to pray in Al-Aqsa Mosque on Fridays. Palestinian men women and children marched peacefully alongside Israeli and international…
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Bil’in: Un-cage Palestine!
by an ISM Media office volunteer The non-violent demonstration against the Apartheid Wall on the land of Bil’in village this week was themed around the economic siege of Palestine by western powers. Israeli and international activists with pictures of western leaders taped to their chests carried a barbed-wire cage in which a Palestinian dressed in…