Category: Journals

  • Hebron: “We have been waiting over 60 years for this”

    21 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Atta and Rudaina Jeber’s farm is situated upon a hill. The area is called Sheik Sherah, in the Beca’a Valley in the outskirts of Hebron, or Al-Khalil.  Atta’s family has owned the land since the Ottoman Empire was in power, and he explains that he…

  • Protests in Northern Gaza

    15 September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza  The Palmer Report, recently released by the United Nations, was a moral travesty. It asserted that the naval blockade of Gaza was somehow separate from the land siege of Gaza.  The Palmer Report was an attempt to break up the oppression of Gaza into bite size morsels…

  • Today we planted in Gaza’s buffer zone

    6  September 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Strip Today, like every Tuesday in Beit Hanoun, we marched into the buffer zone to protest it and the illegal Israeli occupation.  In many ways it was the same as every Tuesday.  We gathered at the Agricultural College, we marched down the road that leads to the…