• MIFTAH: Windows of Hope: Insight on the International Solidarity Movement

    By Tala A. Rahmeh, for MIFTAH “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other…

  • Letter From Budrus

    By Mark Sorkin Originally published in The Nation The van drops us off at the top of a hill and rattles around the bend. It is the middle of the afternoon in Budrus, a tiny village in the occupied West Bank ten miles northwest of Ramallah, and the neighborhood seems deceptively quiet. A few boys…

  • Leaving Biddu

    by Mark I have been in Biddu for three days without internet access as there has been a general strike in Palestine. Three days ago we had a pretty bad day there even by normal standards. I only came to Biddu to deliver a bag. Two hours later and the shebab had saved me from…

  • Remembering Rachel Corrie

    by Adam Shapiro Originally published in The Nation On March 7, 2004, an Associated Press photographer in the West Bank village of Beit Dukou captured an image of a Palestinian woman during a protest against the wall Israel is constructing in her village. The image is simple, but it evokes a power beyond words. This…

  • Solidarity Against Occupation

    by Stefan Christoff I travelled to Jordan from Montreal, Canada, at the end of November with plans to cross the Israeli controlled border into Palestine to work with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). I was refused entry into Israel after being held for more than five hours, and deemed a “security threat”, according to information…