International Solidarity Movement 16th May 2010 Al Ma’asara: ‘Culture is Resistance’ The village of Al Ma’asara, near Bethlehem, held a Palestinian cultural festival on Friday to mark the 62nd anniversary of the Nakba. Palestinian music, dance and poetry were all ...
Read More »An Nabi Saleh demonstrates against violence in the midst of extensive brushfires
International Solidarity Movement 16 May 2010 This past Friday, May 14, the town of An Nabi Saleh held its weekly demonstration. Overly aggressive Israeli military tactics started a colossal brushfire, which reaped viable farmland. The weekly demonstration confronts the illegal ...
Read More »Victory for Iraq Burin as demonstrators commemorate the Nakba
Today fifty demonstrators from Iraq Burin, together with international activists, marched in commemoration of the Nakba’s 62nd anniversary, and to protest to the illegal Israeli occupation of the village’s lands. Israeli occupation forces enacted their policy of violent “crowd dispersal” ...
Read More »Mabrouk Wadi Rahhal
International Solidarity Movement 15 May 2010 Today, Friday 14th May, the small farming village of Wadi Rahhal, just south of Bethlehem, held its first demonstration against the theft of its lands by the massive Israeli colony/settlement of Efrat. In particular, ...
Read More »Sheikh Jarrah endures settlers’ “Jerusalem Day” celebrations of ethnic cleansing
International Solidarity Movement 14 May 2010 Hundreds of settlers held disruptive celebrations in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah yesterday in honor of “Jerusalem Day”. Dancing, screaming and praying in the street, the settlers disrupted life for over six hours, ...
Read More »BDS action against Israeli pharmaceutical company at COSMOFARMA expo
Rome Palestinian Solidarity Network 13 May 2010 On Saturday, May 8 a protest organized by the “Rome Palestinian Solidarity Network”(comprised of numerous associations and committees who stand with the Palestinian struggle for freedom) was held at the entrance to Rome’s ...
Read More »Settler celebrations of ethnic cleansing disrupt Sheikh Jarrah for second straight day
International Solidarity Movement 13 May 2010 Hundreds of settlers held disruptive celebrations in the Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah yesterday in honor of “Jerusalem Day”. Dancing, screaming and praying in the street, the settlers disrupted life for over six hours, ...
Read More »Weekend demonstrations continue the struggle
International Solidarity Movement 10 May 2010 Bil’in Today’s demonstrators, Palestinians, Israelis, and internationals, marched from the Bil’in mosque towards the illegal apartheid wall. Halfway along the route, the procession picked up several men dressed entirely in black, carrying a coffin ...
Read More »Fields ablaze in Iraq Burin
International Solidarity Movement 8 May 2010 Despite the recent unprovoked, fatal shooting of two of its young men by Israeli forces, the village of Iraq Burin, just south of Nablus, turned out in force again this Saturday, 8th May, to ...
Read More »Demonstrators succeed in delaying illegal wall construction; brutal military violence hospitalizes three
International Solidarity Movement 6 May 2010 Sitting peacefully in front of the formidable D9 Caterpillar bulldozer, demonstrators were successful today in temporarily halting construction of Israel’s illegal annexation wall. In the village of Al Walaja, approximately 20 Palestinian, Israeli and ...
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