In the Media

by Patrick Connors Originally published by CommonDreams.org At the White House last Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon again pledged to remove West Bank settlement outposts. But despite similar promises, and televised images of Israeli soldiers wrestling with Jewish settlers ...

by Johann Hari Originally published by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer In the hills of Palestine, next to a village called Anin, three groups of people stood one recent afternoon amid clouds of tear gas and the boom of bullets to yell ...

By Arnon Regular Five peace activists were lightly injured yesterday in clashes with the Israel Defense Forces. The activists, members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), were demonstrating with hundreds of Palestinians from Kafr Anin and dozens of Israelis in ...

by Adam Shapiro Originally published in The Nation The International Solidarity Movement’s second Freedom Summer has begun, and much has changed since our last: the war on Iraq, which focused all eyes on the region; the much-hyped road map; full-blown ...

Compiled by The Guardian 23-year-old American ISM activist Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by a bulldozer as she tried to prevent the Israeli army destroying a home owned by the Nasrallah family in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. What ...

Pat and Samir Twair | Washington Report on Middle East Affairs The world was shocked March 16 by photos of International Solidarity Movement volunteer Rachel Corrie standing before an Israeli bulldozer that, seconds later, crushed her to death. The international ...

By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Staff The Military Advocate General, Major General Menahem Finkelstein, has decided to close the file on the death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie, who died after being crushed by an army bulldozer ...

It is a romance intertwined with the formation of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) on the West Bank. Both were born in the US: she is Palestinian, he is Jewish. As the ISM has come into the firing line, so ...

By Annette Young Originially published by Haaretz “I’m helping the Jews by being here,” says Laura Gordon, who has joined the International Solidarity Movement It is probably not what the founders of Birthright Israel – the program that brings thousands ...

By Gideon Alon and Amos Harel Three International Solidarity Movement activists watched from the Knesset gallery yesterday as right-wing MKs lashed out at the organization, calling them “warmongers” who should be deported. The three women, one from Ireland and two ...