The Israeli daily Maariv reported Monday that the Israeli army will deploy the “Kfir” infantry brigade to the border with Lebanon further north. Maariv said that the security situation in the West...
I have been to the West Bank, I have seen with my own eyes how the settlers walk around with machine guns, terrorizing the native Palestinian population. They are only in the West Bank to justify a...
2 September 2010 | Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
Haifa, ISRAEL
On Sunday, September 5th, the Haifa District Court will resume hearing testimonies in a civil lawsuit filed by...
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2 September 2010
Ramallah, WEST BANK
A military court of appeal yesterday (1st Sept. 2010) rejected a petition calling for the release of Adeeb Abu Rahmah, a leading activist...
1 September 2010 | ISM Media
Just after midday a large group of settlers from an illegal outpost near to where four Israeli settlers where shot and killed last night, carried out an attack on an...
The soldiers of the US 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division hollered as they made their way into Kuwait. ‘We won,’ they claimed. ‘It’s over.’ But what exactly did they...
I wrote Fast Times in Palestine because so many Americans still don’t have even a basic grasp of the realities in the Holy Land despite (or perhaps because of) watching hours of mainstream...
31 August 2010 | BBC News
More than 150 Israeli academics say they will no longer lecture or work in Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
In a letter, they said they supported the recent...
31 August 2010 | ISM Media
The past two weeks in Sheikh Jarrah have seen a resurgence of settler harassment and violence against the local Palestinians – beyond low intensity abuse that is the...
The Economist is always an interesting newspaper to read. For myself, I’m especially fascinated with the uniquely Western perspective that it portrays as neutral and balanced. In their recent...
An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was...
A rabbinical guidebook for killing non-Jews has sparked an uproar in Israel and exposed the power a bunch of genocidal theocrats wield over the government. When I went into the Jewish religious book...
Unos 150 académicos, personalidades de las letras y autores, se han sumado al boicot de medio centenar de actores que anunciaron el fin de semana pasado su negativa a actuar en una gran colonia judía...
31 August 2010 | ISM Media
Bi’lin – Palestinian shot in the knee with a rubber-coated steel bullet
On the third Friday of Ramadan the Bil’in popular committee marked the 9th anniversary...
“Besides bordering on Israel, Lebanon’s resources make it vulnerable, namely its water and natural gas reserves, one reason for the 2006 war, South Lebanon to the Litani River especially...
In the late 1950s, my father would drop by Reynolds paper shop in Maidstone High Street to buy pipe tobacco for himself and comics for me. War comics, 64 pages of pocket-sized violence in which...
Weak, desperate and vulnerable to Israeli and western pressure, Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas has decided to resume what seems to be another futile round of so-called “peace...
29 August 2010 | The Guardian
60 actors, writers and directors argue that performing in occupied territories would legitimize illegal settlements
Dozens of Israeli actors, playwrights and...
At a time of increasing settler violence in the West Bank, the International Solidarity Movement is issuing an urgent call for volunteers to participate in the 2010 Olive Harvest Campaign at the...
Ismail Haniyeh, senior political leader of Hamas, visited a house in Gaza which is considered to be one of the poorest homes of refugees in the Gaza Strip – A family of 8 which is confined to...