Author: ISM Media

  • Access denied to Nabi Saleh

    10 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Saturday 9th July, seventy people – including thirty internationals from Sweden, France, Britain, Australia, Mexico, the United States and Denmark – demonstrated at a military checkpoint outside Nabi Saleh, after the army denied them entry into the village where Palestinians lead peaceful demonstrations weekly. The…

  • Israeli military targets al Khalayla in demolitions

    11 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On Monday, July 11th, the Israeli military demolished 5 buildings of local Palestinian businesses in the closed neighborhood of al -Khalayla near al-Jib village outside of Jerusalem. At 6:30am the owner of a window shop received a call  from the Israeli military that part of his business’s building structure would…

  • +972: A special form for Arab passengers to warn airport ahead of their arrival

    +972: A special form for Arab passengers to warn airport ahead of their arrival

    9 July 2011 | +972 Magazine Israel responded to the “flytilla” with a wildly disproportionate deployment of police and extraordinary security checks. But Palestinian citizens of Israel are discriminated at the Ben Gurion Airport on an hourly basis – and are now able to racially profile themselves, using a specially provided form to warn the…

  • A few Welcome to Palestine activists arrived yesterday

    8 July 2011 | Alternative Information Center Others are in flight and hundreds more prevented from boarding The first international activists participating in the Welcome to Palestine campaign arrived yesterday to Ben Gurion airport from Europe. This morning hundreds more tried to board planes to Tel Aviv to join the week of activities in the…

  • ISM volunteer kidnapped from court–finally released

    8 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank An ISM volunteer was detained and threatened with deportation for participating in a peaceful, nonviolent demonstration in the village of Iraq Burin last week, and was finally released by Israel since there was no justification for her arrest or deportation. These weekly demonstrations come following the…