Category: Journals
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al-Mufaqarah Resists
09 October 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank At one in the afternoon on Monday, the 8th of October, we received a call in Arabic: “We have big problems. Can you come?” Two calls later and we were on our way. We reached al-Tawani in a service taxi. Along with two volunteers from Operation…
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Letter from International Activist Under House Arrest in Israel Asking for Support and Solidarity
September 25, 2012 Dear Friends of Palestine, I am writing to you from an apartment in Tel Aviv where I am under house arrest for standing in solidarity with Palestinians fighting a twelve-year road closure in their West Bank town of Kufr Qeddoum. This weekend, I spent forty eight hours in Israeli prisons. I was…
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A day of violence and intimidation in Hebron
By Anna Conroy September 12, 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank On the morning of September 10 in south west Hebron, at Checkpoint 56, a Palestinian man was shot with live ammunition by the Israeli military. Residents and army officials reported that Molotov cocktails were thrown at the checkpoint, and in response the soldiers…
