• Who Killed Tom Hurndall? ISM London action in Camden

    On the day that the verdict was given in Israel on the killer of Camden resident Tom Hurndall, ISM London held a small action pointing out that systematic Israeli government/military policy is responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians – not just some “bad apples”. On a busy intersection near Camden High street, we…

  • Israeli soldier is convicted of killing British student

    By Eric Silver in Jerusalem Originally published in The Independent A former Israeli soldier has been found guilty by a military court of shooting dead the British student Tom Hurndall while he acted as a human shield for Palestinian children amid gunfire in the Gaza Strip. Anthony Hurndall, Tom’s father, welcomed the outcome, but said…

  • The Tom Hurndall Shooting – The International Solidarity Movement comments upon the verdict

    The ISM acknowledges that though the Israeli military court has found Wahid Taysir guilty of manslaughter it has failed to question the policy and decision makers responsible for Tom’s murder and the murder of thousands of other innocent people. Tom would want us to remember him. But we also know he’d want us to remember…

  • Week of Palestinian nonviolent resistance met with violence

    By Hannah, Joy, and Suraiya Marda village, Salfit region, West Bank Twenty kilometers east of the Green Line, the settlement of Ariel (population 20,000) looms above a village one tenth its size. Marda was one of the four villages named in a recent Israeli court decision that cancelled all previous injunctions halting construction of the…

  • Against the Fence: Children of Bil’in Village demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court

    Translation of http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3098699,00.html: After the Israeli Army forbade adults resident in the village to enter Israel in order to protest in front of the Supreme Court that has been deliberating their appeal against the building of the separation fence on their land, dozens of children were brought from the village to demonstrate. Friction was created…