Category: Reports

  • PACBI: A million dollar festival will not rescue Israel’s image as an apartheid state

    17 August 2010 | PACBI Occupied Ramallah, 15 August  2010 Once again, the Brand-Israel machine is in high gear, this time organizing a million-dollar international youth extravaganza in Eilat in September 2010 called “Funjoya.”  This unabashed propaganda exercise is sponsored by the Israel Ministry of Tourism and the Israeli Student Union, among other official and…

  • Army violently attack Hebron demo again – yet only an innocent British peace activist is charged with assault

    15 August 2010 | International Solidarity Movement On Saturday Palestinians were joined by internationals and Israelis in their weekly demonstration, asking for the opening of Shuhada Street and responding to the closure of three shops in the old city earlier in the week. The Israeli army, represented by soldiers and border police, entered from the…

  • Support our work in Palestine

    International Solidarity Movement 14 August 2010 The ongoing suppression of the Palestinian grassroots resistance has included targeting international solidarity activists. Numerous volunteers with the International Solidarity Movement have been arrested or deported in past months. A tactic of challenging the occupation and the Israeli authorities is via legal measures. As Israel’s crackdown on popular resistance…

  • BDS court victory in London: ‘Ahava four’ found not guilty of trespass in Israeli store

    11 August 2010 | ISM London Four campaigners against Israeli apartheid were acquitted yesterday (August 10th) of all charges related to two direct action protests against the Israeli cosmetics retailer Ahava in Covent Garden, London. The campaigners locked themselves onto concrete-filled oil drums inside the shop, closing it down for two days in September and…

  • Israeli army close down shops opposite Shuhada street in Hebron

    11 August 2010 | ISM Yesterday, August 10th, between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon, in response to peaceful Palestinian resistance to the military occupation of Hebron – and ongoing settler violence – the Israeli army decided to collectively punish Palestinian shopkeepers in the Old City. They had been threatening for weeks to close certain…