Category: Features

  • We Remember: Tom Hurndall

    We Remember: Tom Hurndall

    13 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement Tom was 21 years old when he was shot. A photography student, he had left the UK to volunteer as a ‘human shield’ in Iraq. Here he heard about the ISM, one of whose volunteers, Rachel Corrie, had just been killed by a bulldozer whilst protesting house demolitions…

  • ISM turns ten

    ISM turns ten

    7 January 2012 | International Solidarity Movement- Northern California As one of the co-founders of the International solidarity movement (ISM) I often refer to ISM as my first baby. Well, my first baby is now an independent unruly and uncontrollable ten-year-old and I am one proud Mama. But I am one of ISM’s many proud…

  • Israeli navy attacks international observers, injures Palestinian, on monitoring boat in Gaza waters

    Israeli navy attacks international observers, injures Palestinian, on monitoring boat in Gaza waters

    28 December 2011 | Civil Peace Service Gaza At 10:55 am, an Israeli naval warship attacked the international observers and Palestinian captain of the Civil Peace Service Gaza (CPSGAZA) boat Oliva, injuring its captain in an apparent attempt to capsize it. “The Israeli navy passed near us and the fishermen, and started to go around…