ISM turns 10 !

Truth does not matter for “Israel”. Buttons Do. To mute. 7 January 2011 | International Solidarity Movement- Northern California As one of the co-founders of the International solidarity movement (ISM) I often refer to ISM as my first baby. Well, my first baby is now an independent unruly and uncontrollable ten-year-old and I am one […]

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Your help needed! Donating olive trees this holiday season

Settler Violence Topic | Category | Pictures | New: Interactive Map 19 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement West Bank As we creep up to Christmas and are seeing more and more trees appear in houses and high street windows, while we debate when to put up our own, if at all this year, I […]

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Live updates from Sheikh Jarrah – Visit ISM’s Night Watch blog

Ethnic Cleansing – Topic | Settlement Construction – Category – Pictures 14 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank ISM has been following the situation of the Al Kurd family from Sheikh Jarrah since 2009 and has kept a presence in the garden of their home. On December 4th  Nabil Al Kurd and his […]

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Volunteer in Gaza with the ISM

9 December 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza The International Solidarity Movement is appealing for activists to join our team in the besieged Gaza Strip.  After being barred from Gaza in 2003 following the murders of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, ISM Gaza was reinstated in August 2008 when ISM and other volunteers traveled aboard […]

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#HS4Palestine | Hip-hop band DAM supports Palestinian prisoners’ actions with new track – video

Palestine’s Prisoners – Worldwide Event Oct 12,2011 | Pictures | Topic | Category Adri Nieuwhof  | Wed, Oct 12, 2011 |  The Electronic Intifada Yesterday, Palestinian hip-hop band DAM released a new track ‘A Letter From a Prison Cell’ to support the Palestinian prisoners in their hunger strike. DAM wrote the text for the new track featuring […]

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Settlers burn ISM tent in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah

14 September 2011 | The Alternative Information Center |  International Solidarity Movement At about 2am on Monday, 11 September, settlers in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah burnt to the ground an International Solidarity Movement tent that had been established to monitor and prevent settler violence in the neighborhood. The tent, which thankfully was […]

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For human rights advocates, boycotting Israel is a no-brainer

29 July 2011 | The Daily Star, Nadia Hijab | July 29, 2011 Making the Palestinian case has never been a problem. It is a powerful story grounded in universal principles of human rights and in international law. The question has always been how to shift the balance between one of the strongest military powers […]

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Israel shoots live ammunition at ISM activists at sea

24 July 2011 | International Solidarity Movement On Saturday the ISM crew for CPS Gaza rode out on the trawler that rescued us during the second attack on the Oliva on Thursday, July 14th.  As I mentioned before, the Oliva project is currently on an indefinite hiatus.  Nils, Joe and I went to the port […]

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Join demonstration in Kufr Qaddoum, July 1st

  28 June 2011 | Kufr Qaddoum| International Solidarity Movement On Tuesday June 28, ISM visited the village of Kufr Qaddoum in northern Nablus following a call for action after 6 years of now active demonstration. Abdul Ra’ouf Hamsa, representative of the local council, and his assistant, Saqer Obwed, explained to ISM the main problem […]

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Video Shows Family Members Of Arrigoni Kidnappers Urging His Release

Saturday April 23, 2011 13:47 by Saed Bannoura – IMEMC & Agencies “All of the Muslims in the world are wrong, and you three are the only ones who are right?!!” pleads the father of Mahmoud Salfity, one of the kidnappers, in a video published on a the website of the Palestinian Interior Ministry on […]

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Vik’s not gone

22 April 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, Gaza Vik, habibo, you’re not gone, not for me at least. In life you brought the warmth everytime I met you, and to everyone else. You did not see it as a duty or a service but it was just how you were, to rouse and stir the […]

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Gaza bids farewell to slain Arrigoni – video

19 Apr 2011 | AlJazeera Hundreds of Vittorio Arrigoni’s friends and supporters escorted his coffin in a final farewell to the 36 year-old peace activist at a ceremony in Rafah. He is the first foreigner to have been kidnapped and killed in the Gaza Strip. Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory, blamed a Salafi group for his murder. It has […]

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Kidnapped in Gaza | Reports From Vittorio’s Blog

by Vittorio Arrigoni on April 18, 2011 The following was sent to us by Daniela Loffreda, a close friend of Vittorio Arrigoni.  She writes: “This is a chilling account from Vittorio’s blog of what happened to him and other ISM activists when they were kidnapped by the Israeli military in 2008. The media keeps focusing on how […]

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Gaza police: one of Arrigoni’s killers is Jordanian

[ 18/04/2011 – 02:30 PM ] GAZA, (PIC)– The Palestinian police in Gaza said one of the men accused of killing Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni is a Jordanian national. The Gaza police released pictures of the killers including the Jordanian citizen and described them as the most wanted men in the Strip. The wanted men, […]

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Thousands of Gazans Participate in Slain Italian Activist’s Funeral

18.04.11 – 18:33 Gaza City – PNN – On Monday, politicians, NGO workers, and activists took part in the funeral of Vittorio Arrigoni who was killed last Friday by a Salafist group in Gaza. Palestinian police officers carried Arrigoni’s coffin and marched in the funeral. Those in attendence carried his picture and, in reference to […]

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