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Palestine: What’s Working, What’s Not
Katie Miranda I first arrived in East Jerusalem during a bitterly cold Palestinian winter in late 2005 to join the International Solidarity Movement. My first few nights were spent at a hostel in East Jerusalem. While at the hostel, I kept hearing people talking about one of the co-founders of ISM, Israeli activist Neta Golan. The way people spoke about her was larger than life: she had been shot in the thigh with a tear gas…
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“They take everything,” explains Bruqin farmer during 2018 olive harvest
October 22, 2018 |International Solidarity Movement | Bruqin, Occupied Palestine ISM volunteers spent the day harvesting olives with farmers in Bruqin village, a day that began with Israeli soldiers confronting the farmer and his family and ordering them to leave their land no later than 5 p.m. Since the harvest workday typically concludes around 4 p.m., this did not prove an obstacle for the harvesters. But it was a potent reminder that the residents…
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Residents and schoolchildren blocked at the Tel Rumeida checkpoint for 30 minutes
21st October 2018 | International Solidarity Movement, Al-Khalil Team | Hebron, occupied Palestine This morning, schoolchildren and other passers-by encountered the Eastern Tel Rumeida checkpoint blocked in both directions and had to wait 30 minute to pass it on their way to school or workplace, while a young man was detained inside for 30 minutes. At 7:10 on Sunday, October 21, a young man entered the Easter Tel Rumeida checkpoint and went in the concrete check-cabin…
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