• Bil’in: Excessive Aggression by IOF against demonstrators continues

    By the ISM Media Team At 1:30 on the 22nd June 2007, Palestinian, Israeli and international activists gathered together for the 124th demonstration against the Apartheid Wall being built and the expansion and occupation of the nearby illegal Settlement of Mode’in Illit. The demonstration began with chanting in both Arabic and English by the demonstrators…

  • Um Salamona: Tree Planting met with violence by IOF

    By the ISM media team At approximately 10.30 am a group of about 60 Palestinians, Israelis and Internationals gathered near the Palestinian village of Um Salamona to support Palestinian farmers in their protest against Israeli Apartheid Policy and to help them plant olive trees inside the nearby olive groves. Although these olive groves are part…

  • El-Farra: Palestinians must have hope to move forward

    by: Mona El-Farra, SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR As a physician from Gaza, I have treated far too many Palestinians wounded by Israeli troops. Now a day has come that I thought I would never see. Throughout our 59-year struggle to obtain our freedom, we Palestinians debated strategy and tactics. Political factions competed for popular support. But never…

  • YNet: UK trade union backs total boycott of Israel

    UNISON calls for cultural, economic, academic and sporting boycott of Israel until it ends occupation by Ronen Bodoni The UK’s largest trade union, UNISON, advocated on Wednesday a total boycott of Israel over its continued occupation of Palestinian territories. A statement issued by delegates meeting in Brighton read: “The conference believes that ending the occupation…

  • Soldier to human rights worker: “In case you haven’t noticed, Israel is not a democracy”

    by ISM Hebron On Saturday June 16, at 8.15 am, two human rights workers (HRWs) were taking a tour through the olive groves near the illegal Israeli settlement of Tel Rumeida when they heard dialogue in Hebrew coming from the second floor of a Palestinian home. The owner of this house is a Palestinian man…