Reportback from Al-Khalil
by “D” Twenty-five years ago Baruch Goldstein, a New York-born Israeli settler walked into the Ibrahim Mosque in Al-Khalil and opened fire, killing 29 Palestinians and seriously wounding more than 150. Today Goldstein is worshiped and referred to as “the Holy Saint” by violent extremist settlers in Al-Khalil. In his settlement of Kiryat Arba, there […]
June 8: ISM Newsletter Party for Palestinian grassroots resistance
Saturday, June 81:30 pm – 4:00 pmGrassroots House2022 Blake St.Berkeley, CA (near downtown Berkeley BART station.) Come out to help support Palestinian grassroots organizing and resistance! On Saturday, June 8, we’ll be packaging the ISM Norcal newsletter’s latest edition, hot off the presses, for shipping to thousands of supporters across the country. The newsletter is […]
Feb. 9: Eyewitness Gaza – Palestinian Children Under Siege
Saturday, Feb. 92:00 pm – 4:00 pmOmni Commons4799 Shattuck Ave.Oakland, CAFacebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/328766551180558/ Heather La Mastro, a school teacher in Berkeley, recently traveled to occupied Palestine. She visited several refugee camps, hospitals and pediatric mental health care programs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip administered by the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). Heather will […]
You can help keep Palestinian olive oil flowing – and sustain grassroots resistance
Olive oil is part of the rich lifeblood of the Palestinian agricultural economy. Some of today’s still-standing olive trees in Palestine are over 3,000 years old. Palestinian farmers have developed sustainable, indigenous farming practices that continue to this day. Indeed, the cultivation and processing of olive oil also plays an important role in defending Palestinian […]
November 2018 ISM Newsletter
The all-new November 2018 edition of the ISM NorCal newsletter, “Live from Palestine, ” is now available. The newsletter is edited by ISM’s Jeff Pekrul and contains news reports, diaries, analysis, events and more. Download the PDF copy or read the articles below: ISM Tour Comes at Potential Turning Point for Palestine by Joe Catron […]
ISM tour comes at potential turning point for Palestine
By Joe Catron Joe Catron, a long-term ISM volunteer, lived in the Gaza Strip between March 2011 and October 2014. He spoke on the recent ISM tour. This year’s International Solidarity Movement tour, which brought ISM coordinators and volunteers to speak at over two dozen sites across Canada and the United States, came at a […]
Diary entry by an ISM volunteer in the Northern Jordan Valley
By Kristin Foss Kristin Foss is an ISM volunteer who was shot twice in one week with rubber-coated steel bullets by Israeli soldiers in Kafr Qaddum. The first time with her hands raised, along with another female ISM volunteer from Iceland, and the second time while standing up against the wall of a shop. I […]
Return Solidarity
By Neta Golan Neta Golan is a founder of Return Solidarity https://returnsolidarity.com/ Since March 30th, for more than four months, Palestinians have been peacefully protesting along the fence besieging Gaza in what is dubbed as the Great March of Return. The Great March of Return is a form of popular resistance, organized by Palestinian civilians […]
“I think that today, I’m just going to cry:” A journal entry by an ISM volunteer
By Kristin Foss Kristin Foss is an ISM volunteer who was shot twice in one week with rubber-coated steel bullets by Israeli soldiers in Kafr Qaddum. The first time with her hands raised, along with another female ISM volunteer from Iceland, and the second time while standing up against the wall of a shop. I […]
Free Online Telesummit for Palestine
Have you wanted to attend a conference on Palestine but travel costs are prohibitive? You may be interested to know that you can join ISM’s Katie Miranda as she hosts a FREE online 20 speaker telesummit with some of the best and brightest minds working on the issue of freedom for Palestinians. You can attend from […]