Category: Journals
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Two Months Later: Solemn Visit to Ayşenur’s Grave
1 November 2024 Didim, Turkey by Sam The walk to the graveyard where Ayşenur is buried made me feel as though I was back in rural Palestine: the olive groves on either side of the dirt road, the farmers harvesting olives using the same methods I’d seen them use in the West Bank as well…
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ISM Grandmother Recounts Israeli Military Raid on Qusra Home
October 11, 2024 | Helena Sully | Qusra Tonight the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) including police and soldiers raided the home in Qusra in the occupied West Bank, where myself and 16 fellow international peace activists were staying. We were resting after a day at the olive harvest after providing protective presence to the Palestinian…
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Steadfastness and Colonisation in Palestine
Dispatch from June 5th, 2024. Today was the anniversary of Israel’s colonial occupation of East Jerusalem in 1967. Thousands of right wing colonists marched through East Jerusalem – terrorising Palestinian residents and shopkeepers. Racist Security minister Itamar Ben Gvir was among them. I was in Jerusalem this afternoon, and saw the police, armed with baton…
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Dispatches from Palestine
2024 (rolling) | International Solidarity Movement | Occupied West Bank As the Israeli occupation continues its genocidal war in Gaza and Western governments fail to take decisive action to end their complicity in the massacre, the mass movement around the world in solidarity with Palestine is growing stronger and larger. Students have occupied numerous university…
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“We Have Suffered Too Much”: Friday Protests Continue in Kafr Qaduum
1 March 2024 | International Solidarity Movement | Kafr Qaduum It is Friday, and the call to prayer is heard in the rural village of Kafr Qaduum, West of Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank. The streets are quiet, empty except some children playing and a few cars heading early to the…
