Category: Press Releases
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ISM Call to Action: Save Masafer Yatta!
The International Solidarity Movement is calling all activists and supporters to take urgent action against Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Masafer Yatta region in the occupied West Bank. What is Masafer Yatta?: Masafer Yatta is a rural region to the south of Hebron along the southern border of the occupied West Bank. It…
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“Ridiculous, spurious, and easily disproved” – Huwaida Arraf responds to recent right-wing attacks on the International Solidarity Movement
Once again right-wing media, politicians, and even supposed academics are attacking the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) with spurious allegations that are easily disproved. This time it comes in their ongoing effort to undermine Representative Ilhan Omar, the Congresswoman from the 5th district of Minnesota. On June 8, Rep. Omar retweeted a post by Marwa Fatafta,…
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Resistance in a time of annexation and Covid-19 – an ISM webinar
ISM will be hosting a webinar on June 30th, Tuesday 20:00 Ramallah time, on annexation, COVID-19, resistance and international solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for equality and justice.
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ISM statement on reported FBI probe
Recently, the Intercept published a report of a surveillance investigation conducted by the FBI on the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). We denounce this shameless abuse of power and misuse of public funds in an attempt to criminalize Palestinian solidarity and anti-occupation activism, as well as the current ongoing campaign in some American states to criminalize…
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Grandson of Holocaust survivors deported from Israel for volunteering
An Austrian citizen of Jewish origin and grandson of Holocaust survivors was banned yesterday from entering Israel on suspicion of volunteering in Palestine. After being interrogated, searched, and held for 6 hours at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport, Edmond Sichrovsky, 23, was forcibly deported to Amman, Jordan.
