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Third interview with Ilan Pappé: “All international activists that come to Palestine should be VIP’s…they should Visit, they should Inform and they should Protest”
18th June 2013 | International Solidarity Movement | Haifa Ilan Pappé is an Israeli academic and activist. He is currently a professor at the University of Exeter (UK) and is well known for being one of the Israeli “new historians” – re-writing the Zionist narrative of the Palestinian Israeli situation. He has publicly spoken out against Israel’s policies of ethnic cleansing of Palestine and condemned the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime. He has also supported the…
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Land grab in Qaryut; residents fear illegal settlement expansion
16th July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Nablus Team | Qaryut, Occupied Palestine On the 3rd of July 2013, settlers from the illegal colony of Shilo bulldozed land belonging to Qaryut, destroying around two hundred recently planted olive trees. Citizens of Qaryut are now concerned that new houses for the illegal settlement are being built on this stolen land. At around 10am, five settlers with a bulldozer entered onto Qaryut land near to their illegal settlement,…
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In spite of Ramadan, weekly settlers’ ‘tour’ invades Hebron once again
16th July 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Khalil Team | Hebron, Occupied Palestine On Saturday the 13th of July about forty settlers on a settler ‘tour’ once again strolled through the Old City of Al Khalil (Hebron). Today they were joined by almost as many soldiers from the Israeli army, Israeli Border Police and Israeli police force. The occupation forces kept blocking the streets, forcing local Palestinians working or shopping to use longer alternative routes or…

