The Spectacular North America ISM Tour
ISM volunteers are getting in to Palestine. The other NGOs are honest about their intentions, and Israel turns them away. We lie about our intentions and we get in. Sorry, but that’s what we have to do. But our supply of money and volunteers is very low because people are beginning to forget who […]
At Home in Solidarity
By Billy, April 2018 Since Syria took down the Israeli fighter jet in early February, the F16s have been circling more frequently overhead. Their droning sounds distinct as they drop light flares and play war games in the sky. I get lost looking up, forget where I am, retrace my steps and find myself on […]
Palestinian and International activists plant olive saplings on village land ordered for confiscation by Israel in Burin
By the International Solidarity Movement March 18, 2018 Palestinian and international activists successfully planted dozens of olive saplings in the village of Burin near Nablus, located in the northern West Bank. Palestinians and internationals together laid pictures of prominent activists in front of the planted saplings; some of these activists were killed by the Israeli […]
Book Review: “The Other Side of the Wall” by Richard Hardigan
By Paul Larudee, April 2018 Live from Palestine, the newsletter of the International Solidarity Movement support group in Northern California, has been publishing reports from ISM volunteers for fifteen years now, but only twice before to our knowledge has the ISM experience been expanded into a book. This one is very special indeed. Richard Hardigan […]
Sun, May 27, 2018: ISM Newsletter Party to Support Palestinian Grassroots Resistance
Date: Sunday May 27 2018 Time: 10:00 AM-4:00 PM Place: Grassroots House, 2022 Blake St, Berkeley CA (near downtown Berkeley BART station) Come out to help support Palestinian grassroots organizing resistance! We’ll be packaging the ISM Norcal newsletter’s latest edition, hot off the presses, for shipping to thousands of supporters across the country. We’ll also […]
ISM Tour 2018 statement on the Land Day Massacre and the need for action
ISM-NorCal is the major sponsor and organizer of the ISM Spring Tour, which is bringing four long-term ISM coordinators and activists to cities across North America for two months. The Tour issued the following statement after the Israeli attack on the Great March of Return in Gaza, Palestine on March 30: Today in Gaza, as […]
Straight from the front lines: Bring the Palestinian resistance to speak to your group
Are you ready to take your activism for Palestine to the next level? In 2002, the International Solidarity Movement grabbed world attention by bringing volunteers from around the world to defend Palestine through nonviolent resistance. They stayed with resistance fighters in the Nativity Church in Bethlehem. They brought medical supplies to the besieged Palestinians in the ancient […]
Film Premiere: Tue, Feb 13, Grand Lake Theater, Oakland: Radiance of Resistance
February 13 Grand Lake Theater, Oakland, 7 & 9 p.m. Radiance of Resistance a film featuring Ahed Tamimi and Janna Ayyad In 2015 and 2016, three American filmmakers joined the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in Palestine and filmed Palestinian nonviolent resistance in the West Bank village of Nabi Salih. They quickly realized that two young girls would […]
ISM Tour 2018: Bring the Palestinian resistance to speak to your group
In 2002, the International Solidarity Movement grabbed world attention by bringing volunteers from around the world to defend Palestine through nonviolent resistance. They stayed with resistance fighters in the Nativity Church in Bethlehem. They brought medical supplies to the besieged Palestinians in the ancient Nablus Casbah. They documented and filmed the destruction and mass killing of Palestinians […]
The International Solidarity Movement survives in Palestine
< In 2002, the International Solidarity Movement grabbed world attention by bringing volunteers from around the world to defend Palestine through nonviolent resistance. They stayed with resistance fighters in the Nativity Church in Bethlehem. They brought medical supplies to the besieged Palestinians in the ancient Nablus Casbah. They documented and filmed the destruction and mass killing of […]