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Bikes vs. Bombs by Martinez It started out to be a magnificent afternoon here in Ramallah. Being an avid bicyclist back home in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, biking against oil wars, my eyes lit up like a small child in ...
Read More »They Want To Live Inside Us
By Saif AbuKeshek In memory of Fadi AbuKeshek, was murdered on the March 21, 2007. They run from a house to another, they invade the towns, camps, and cities and then they say security reasons. Israel is trying to live ...
Read More »Not a happy Mother’s Day
Not a happy Mother’s Day by Martinez “No, this is not a happy Mother’s Day!” said Fatima Brijea as she pointed to the framed photograph behind me. It was her son. He was assassinated by the Israeli army. I sat ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »“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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »‘When they took us… they did not even look at our IDs.’
my day in Huwwara by J. On Wednesday I was in an Israeli prison for one day. As you know, Nablus, and the old city mainly, is now undergoing the Israeli operation of ‘The Hot Winter’. The operation started on ...
Read More »death, destruction, racism, flowers
by Yifat Appelbaum, February 26th Monday morning I got a call saying there is a major invasion in Nablus because soldiers had uncovered an explosives laboratory. The entire city was under curfew, and ISM needed volunteers to go there and ...
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