Category: Journals

  • Existence is Resistance: Challenging the Assault on Ordinary Life in Palestine

    Existence is Resistance: Challenging the Assault on Ordinary Life in Palestine by Anna One week after I left Nablus I found myself again looking out across the city’s majestic sunlit hills, this time from one of the highest mountains in the West Bank. In all my reporting on Israel’s invasion and human rights violations, I…

  • Remembering Rachel, 4 Years and Still No Justice. Dispatch #2

    by Martinez, March 17 It’s been a week since I returned home here to Palestine. And it has been four years since a twenty-three year old American peace activist, named Rachel Corrie, was killed by an Israeli Occupation Forces bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. I never met Rachel. But I can feel what drove her…

  • War and Irony on Hebron Hilltops

    by Anna, March 10th No matter how bad things get in the North West Bank, it’s never as bad as in Hebron. I’m back in the ancient city exactly two years after my last visit: Previous Reports: http://annainpalestine.blogspot.com/2005/03/from-jericho-to-hebron.html http://annainpalestine.blogspot.com/2005/03/conversation-with-hamas-supporters.html I participated in several solidarity actions, among them school patrol in Tel Rumeida. This small Palestinian…

  • “We are a Democracy!”

    by Hugh, March 11th Walking through Bethlehem yesterday I was stopped by a taxi driver I have come to know over the years, Abu Anwar. He seemed agitated and angry. He knows of my work over here and was keen for me to go back to his house to show me what had happened during…

  • Dos meses en palestina como ISM

    Primeramente son galega aunke escribiendo en mi lengua llegaria a mucho menos personal asi k por favor k no se ofenda nadie y a pesar de luchar en ontra de la ocupacion israelita en palestina y su derecho a tener un estado estoy mas pro la desaparicion de las fronteras k la creacion de nuevas,…