Category: Journals

  • Reflections from an Irish Activist in Palestine (Part 1/3)

    The following is not an attempt at a comprehensive analysis of the current situation in the Occupied Territories of Palestine. Instead, it is a reflection on the past few weeks I have spent with the International Solidarity Movement in the city of Hebron and its environs and what brought me here in the first place.…

  • Reflections on our arrest….

    You go through a strange range of emotions while incarcerated. Being shackled at the ankles forces you to shuffle painfully, ungainly, slowly. It reduces you to an infirm. Our arrest was a strange experience.. It was an immense joy to see over two hundred Palestinians cheer at their removal of the massive concrete blocks which…

  • Colored People to the Back of the Bus

    by: Yifat Appelbaum This summer, the International Solidarity Movement, Art Under Apartheid, Tel Rumeida Project and Glasgow Palestine Human Rights teamed up to take over 100 Palestinian children from Hebron to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the beach in Jaffa. This was no easy task. West Bank Palestinian residents over the age…

  • Teaching Under Apartheid in Palestine

    by: Lina When I first decided to go to Palestine to teach kids English and yoga my main concerns were managing the kids’ behavior, assessing their needs and maintaining their interest. After all, those are the most challenging issues I face everyday in my classroom in Philadelphia. In the US I rarely get through an…

  • Journal: About the Combatants for Peace Meeting in Shufa

    Shufa, Tulkarem Area, 14th August 2007 Members of Combatants for Peace with the Vice President of the European Parliament Louisa Morgantini A meeting of Combatants for Peace, with an audience of more than one hundred people, took place in this small village adjacent to the illegal settlement of Avne Hafez and with a checkpoint blocking…