North America Nakba Tour
Author: Norcal ISM Editor Date: April 2016 Amena and Mariam Photo Credit: Samir Salem We are strong in spirit and we know that justice is on our side. We believe that our exile will end if we do not give up.
IOF Executions in Hebron Caught on Camera
Author: Badee Dwaik Date: March 2016 Photo Credit: Imad Abu Shamsiyya This is what I documented with my camera from the Human Rights Defenders Group and what my wife Faiza and I saw with our own eyes.
From a Stateless Palestinian Refugee to Signers of the “Leahy letter” in the US Congress
Date: April 2016 Mariam cooking while on tour The following letter is from 86-year- old Mariam Fathalla, a stateless Palestinian from a refugee camps in Lebanon. It is addressed to the eleven Congressional signers of the “Leahy letter”, asking secretary of State John Kerry to report on Israeli and Egyptian violations of human rights. Mariam […]
Tree Planting and Protest in Beit al-Baraka
Author: International Solidarity Movement, al-Khalil Team Date: April 2016 Palestinians fear is that the entire Gush Etzion junction will be closed to Palestinians, permanently closing the road between Hebron and Behlehem for them. Villagers Protesting on their Land Photo Credit: ISM
SUPPORT PALESTINE! PROTEST AIPAC! #SupportPalestineInDC2016
March 20, 2015, 12-5pm 12 Noon: Assemble at the White House 1pm-5pm: March to the Washington, D.C. Convention Center Facebook Event Page Al-Awda, The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition and the ANSWER Coalition are co-sponsoring the National March to Support Palestine and Protest AIPAC. We are expecting hundreds of organizations and individual leaders to endorse […]
DECEMBER 2015 NEWSLETTER
Witnessing Apartheid in Al-Khalil (Hebron) and Susya One Broken Camera (so far) Palbox Solidarity Through Filmmaking It is a Life of Desperation: Palestinian Refugees in Jordan **In PDF Format: ISM_News_V12 No 2 December 2015
It is a Life of Desperation: Palestinian Refugees in Jordan
Author: Claire Thaliana | Date: April 2015 Jabal al-Hussein refugee camp in Jordan. Photo: C. Thaliana This message came from Umm Ahmed, a Palestinian grandmother who’s lived her whole life in the Jabal al-Hussein refugee camp in Jordan. She was recently able to visit her daughter in Palestine for the first time after seventeen years […]
Solidarity Through Filmmaking
Author: Daniel Roberts | Date: September 2015 Ahed struggling to pull her brother away from a soldier in their village of Nabi Saleh. Photo: Bilal Tamimi Earlier this year I went to Palestine for my second stint as a volunteer with ISM. When I made the crossing via the Allenby Bridge from Jordan I was taken out of […]
Our solidarity community is growing and has made much positive progress over the years like the rise of the BDS campaign, an increase in campus activism and the increased visibility of Palestinian voices in the media. But we can’t can’t overlook the Palestinian economy which has been strangled and blockaded just like Palestinian lives and property. […]
One Broken Camera (so far)
In February, 2008, our ISM chapter in Northern California received a request to buy a new camera for Emad Burnat in Bil’in, on the Palestinian West Bank. Our donors responded, and that became the second of Emad’s Five Broken Cameras, the film that was nominated for an Academy Award in 2011. In the report by […]