Category: Press Releases

  • ISM activist’s killer sentenced; will similar legal action now be available for Palestinian victims? Not likely in the near future.

    Justice is difficult to come by in the middle of an illegal military occupation. For some, with the legal and financial resources and freedom to pursue it, there is a slim chance that they might see some limited response. For many others, though, the chance to have the wrongs committed against them addressed will never…

  • The Ariel Finger and its Impacts

    by Nijmie of the International Women’s Peace Service Ariel settlement – the strategy then and now The settlement of Ariel was established in 1978. Its founding population of forty settlers has burgeoned due to its strategic location (close to Tel Aviv and approximately in the middle of the West Bank) and generous government aid to…

  • Threat to divest is Church tool in Israeli fight

    by Laurie Goodstein, The New York Times August 6th, 2005 www.catdestroyshomes.org/article.php?id=454 The Presbyterian Church U.S.A. announced Friday that it would press four American corporations to stop providing military equipment and technology to Israel for use in the occupation of the Palestinian territories, and that if the companies did not comply, the church would take a…

  • Bil’in villagers build a wall of their own to protest land annexation

    By ISMedia Villagers from Bil’in on Friday, along with Israeli and international peace activists and Internationals dressed in black, will participate in a demonstration against the Israel’s Annexation Wall, currently under constructed in Bil’in. Completion of the Wall could mean death of the Palestinian identity, security and any chance for sovereignty. That message is the…

  • Who is terrorizing whom?

    Photo courtesy of Operation Dove (At-Tuwani, Southern Hebron Hills, Palestinian Occupied Territories) IDF soldiers, without respecting Israeli or international laws, assault a Palestinian shepherd. The soldiers claimed he was allowing his sheep to graze on land under military closure. August 1 by Operation Dove volunteers A group of shepherds from the village of At-Tuwani, in…