• Solidarity demonstration in Ni’lin

    Tristan Anderson, a 38 year old American citizen, was critically injured during a demonstration in the village of Ni’lin after being shot in the head with a tear-gas canister from Israeli forces. Being unable to visit Tristan in the hospital in Tel Aviv, Ni’lin villagers decided to dedicate the demonstration on the 20th of March…

  • The Nation: Palestinian Revolution?

    Roane Carey | The Nation On Friday I went to the anti-separation wall demo in Ni’lin in the West Bank, the same village where International Solidarity Movement activist Tristan Anderson was critically wounded last week. Several hundred villagers were accompanied by Jewish Israeli activists (most with Anarchists Against the Wall) and ISMers, plus a few…

  • Speaking Truth to Power

    Sharon Lock | Tales to Tell We were back at Faraheen this morning accompanying farmers again, eying the jeeps driving along the Israeli border while our farmers removed the irrigation pipes from one of the fields we have visited regularly. Since Mohammed was shot in the leg, the farmer here has decided to give up…

  • Protests in Solidarity with Tristan Anderson and Palestinians

    Tristan Anderson, from Oakland, CA, was shot and critically injured in the West Bank on March 13 while protesting the Israeli apartheid wall. Demonstrations were held in solidarity with him and with all Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Below are videos from the rally in San Fransisco at the Israeli consulate and some images from a…

  • Farmers attempting to reach their fields in Deir Istiya turned back by settlers

    International Women’s Peace Service 20 March 2009 IWPS was asked to accompany around 20 farmers, including children, from Deir Istiya to their fields in Wadi Qana. The only road leading to their fields passes from the illegal Israeli settlement of Yaqir, which is also illegal according to Israeli law. The farmers were planning on preparing…