Category: Journals

  • Meanwhile in Gaza

    Meanwhile in Gaza

    by Radhika S. 15 November 2011 | Notes from Behind the Blockade I awoke today with the news that the NYPD was clearing out Occupy Wall Street and that Israeli tanks were shelling “northern Gaza.”  In the West Bank, Palestinian Freedom Riders, inspired by the US freedom riders of the 1960s, were getting ready to board segregated…

  • “Only one half of me is free, but the other half is still there, locked up behind Israeli bars”

    “Only one half of me is free, but the other half is still there, locked up behind Israeli bars”

    by Shahd Abusalama 13 November 2011  | Palestine from My Eyes In a nice restaurant overlooking Gaza’s beach, beneath a full moon with a beautiful halo surrounding it, I sat with my new friends who recently were released from Israeli prisons. Their freedom was restricted by Israel’s inhumane rules, including indefinitely deportation from the West…

  • Eid in Sheikh Jarrah

    Eid in Sheikh Jarrah

    by Wahed Rajol 7 November 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank ISM has maintained a daily presence at the al-Kurd residence in Sheikh Jarrah since August 2009 when Israeli authorities paved the way for Israeli settlers to occupy the front part of the family home.  On the first night of Eid al-Adha, on November…