Journals

by Abdullah Abu Rahme, Coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in Bil’in. Translated By Nasir Samara, February 3rd Throughout the history of the occupation, Palestinians have sought every means to resist, to make their voices heard to the ...

by Noura Khouri, January 26th At around 12:30 am this morning I was heading back to Bethlehem, by myself, from Ramallah so as to avoid the early morning delay at the dreaded Qalandia terminal. At night there are very few ...

by Peter, January 25th Recently, I was able to accompany three Palestinians on a drive through the Jordan Valley. The more scenic aspects aside, a trip through the area revealed the slow, destructive siege of the Valley. Movement restrictions have ...

by Yifat Appelbaum, January 24th A. made some fried squash tonight at the office. He looked a little more serious than he usually looks. As we were eating, he told me a story. “Today I was at Qalandia,” he started, ...

by Lucretia Reflection, Yesterday I had to take some things to be mailed at the post office in Jerusalem and had conservatively estimated 4 hours for the trip. Oops, silly me ! When I first came to Palestine a year ...

By Katie Miranda

by the ISM media team, December 23rd Last night Israeli forces invaded Ramallah Old City around midnight, occupied a family home, blindfolded the twenty-year old son, banged his head against a door and refused to allow the grandmother suffering from ...

by John, December 18th “Israel is a democracy and a friend and has every right to defend itself from terror.” George Bush, May 2004 I had a tour of Hebron today going a bit further than the Tel Rumeida settlement. ...

by Mary, December 18th There have been four occasions in the last two and a half months when the Israeli army and police have helped and encouraged Israeli settlers to trespass on Palestinian land. This is against Israeli law. The ...

The other day as we were travelling through Zatara checkpoint between Ramallah and Nablus, I witnessed a particularly disgusting display of power by the Israeli army. An extremely public humiliation of a woman, who was taken out of a shared ...