• Eighteen Palestinian protestors arrested in Deir alGussoun demonstration

    14 November 2009 ISM activists joined residents of Deir alGussoun today in a demonstration against the Apartheid Wall. The Wall cuts deep through the village’s land, located to the north of Tulkarem. In an extreme number of arrests, 18 Palestinian protestors were arrested by soldiers in the aftermath of the demonstration. Meeting in Deir alGussoun this morning, approximately 50 protestors marched from the village towards the Wall, where Palestinian youth succeeded in forcing open the gates…

  • In Gaza even the dead are denied dignity

    Eva Bartlett | In Gaza 14 November 2009 Graves in Gaza: denied dignity Long denied cement, a sparse few are able to improvise with over-expensive, tunnel-delivered Egyptian cement. The others simply bury under the sand. Most of these sand-graves in Jabaliya’s Faluja cemetary are from the Israeli massacre of Gaza nearly a year ago. The same inadequate graves can be found in cemetaries across Gaza. In the Gaza War cemetary, roughly 360 graves were damaged in…

  • Baseball team urged to cut ties with Israeli group

    Eli Clifton | IPS News 14 November 2009 A coalition of 11 U.S., Israeli and Palestinian groups are calling on the New York Mets baseball team to cancel a fundraiser by the “violent and racist” Israeli Hebron Fund which is scheduled to be held at the Mets’ stadium, Citi Field, on Nov. 21. The Hebron Fund participates in “the raising of capital for the improvement of daily life for the residents of Hebron, Israel”, a city…

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