Hanan Greenberg | YNet News 2 June 2009 Israel Defense Forces soldier Taysir Hayb, who was convicted of the manslaughter of British peace activist Tom Hurndall in Gaza in 2003, will remain in jail despite having served two-thirds of his ...
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Heed voices calling for justice for Palestinians
Huwaida Arraf | The Seattle Times 24 April 2009 We Palestinians are often asked where the Palestinian Gandhi is and urged to adopt nonviolent methods in our struggle for freedom from Israeli military rule. On April 18, an Israeli soldier ...
Read More »The Independent: A brave man who stood alone. If only the world had listened to him
Robert Fisk I don’t know if I met Tom Hurndall. He was one of a bunch of “human shields” who turned up in Baghdad just before the Anglo-American invasion in 2003, the kind of folk we professional reporters make fun ...
Read More »Tristan Anderson: A voice for justice in Palestine
Starhawk | Al Arabiya 22 March 2009 As I write, my friend Tristan lies in intensive care in an Israeli hospital, shot in the head with a tear gas canister at a nonviolent demonstration in the West Bank town of ...
Read More »Six years without Rachel – We still demand justice
16th March, 2009 | ISM Gaza Strip Every year we remember 16th March. We remember a kind, insightful, talented person committed to the plight of the Palestinian people, who genuinely had the courage of her convictions. Her name was Rachel ...
Read More »Amnesty International UK: Hurnall case – Israeli military forces still kill civilians with ‘near-total impunity’
To view original article, published by Amnesty International UK on the 7th October, click here Ahead of a new television drama based on the controversial killing in 2004 in Gaza of British national Tom Hurndall (‘The Shooting Of Thomas Hurndall’, ...
Read More »Former Iraq hostage, assaulted, unlawfully deported by Israel for human rights work, files official complaint
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – Harmeet Singh Sooden, who was held hostage in Iraq for four months in 2005-2006, has filed an official complaint to the governments of Canada and New Zealand and the United Nations for human rights violations committed ...
Read More »ISM re-establish presence in the Gaza Strip
The International Solidarity Movement would like to announce the re-establishment of a presence in the Gaza Strip. International solidarity activists will be based in Rafah in efforts to show support for non-violent direct action against the Israeli occupation. As activists ...
Read More »Sailing into Gaza
By Huwaida Arraf • August 25, 2008 On Saturday, after 32 hours on the high seas, I sailed into the port of Gaza City with 45 other citizens from around the world in defiance of Israel’s blockade. We traveled from ...
Read More »The Guardian: Parents of Briton shot by Israeli soldier seek talks with ambassador
By Rory McCarthy (for original article click here) Five years after their son was fatally shot by an Israeli soldier in Gaza, the parents of the British student Tom Hurndall are still pressing the Israeli government for compensation and a ...
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