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What you don’t see on CNN: IOF Shoot Live Ammunition on Peaceful Protest

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Warning: Parental Guidance Suggested!

June 13 2008 - A young man from Bilin was shot with live rounds during the weekly Bilin Protest. Ibrahim Burnat who was shot in his right thigh was taken directly to Sheik Zaid Hospital in Ramallah and was described by doctors as being in critical condition. Ibrahim posed no threat to [...]

Video: Na’alin - Direct action to stop bulldozers - 25-5-08

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Palestinian youths, men, women, elders and foreigner supporters against the coward Israeli Terrorist Forces, protesting building part of the Apartheid Wall on Na’alin – near Ramallah, Occupied Palestine.

Update:

On 27th May 2008, Robert Birch, an Australian retiree from Pacific Palms, was shot in the lower-back by a rubber-coated steel bullet while participating in a non-violent demonstration [...]

‘Art Attack’: meet the new creative dissenters for Palestine

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Artist Peter Kennard meets members of a new generation of artistic dissenters in a movement spearheaded by artist Banksy, whose art has featured in Occupied Palestine as well as his native UK.

Art attack

by Peter Kennard | New Statesman | 17 January 2008 (cross-posted at peoplesgeography.com)

Banksy attracts the press attention, but around him is an increasingly [...]

Palestinian children cut off from their homes

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Video Transcript:
Cameraman: What are you doing here?
Girl: Going back home from school!
Cameraman: Where are you going now?
Girl: Home!
Cameraman: Where is your home?
Girl: Behind the Wall!

Boy: My home is behind this wall. We study at Bet Nabal!
Cameraman: What happened here today?
Boy: They closed the passage, we are not able to go through

Cameraman: Where do you live?
Boy: [...]

Bilin Victory

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

[Image by Ben Heine]

ISM Media Alerts

Victory for the residents of Bil’in village
4th September 2007:

Following popular non-violent resistance through joint struggle between Palestinian, Israeli and international activists, a court decision has been made in favor of the petition by Bilin village to change the current route of the Apartheid Wall.

The court decision dictates that [...]

Violinist Nigel Kennedy in Israel on the wall

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Punk rebel with a classical cause
Via: Haaretz

“…And today, I was really shocked when I saw the wall here. It’s a new type of apartheid, barbaric behavior. How can you impose collective punishment and divide people from one another? We are all residents of the same planet. I would think that the world learned something from [...]

Dutch gov’t warns company to stop work on W. Bank “fence”

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Via Haaretz:

The Dutch foreign minister, Maxime Verhagen, recently warned a construction company from the Rotterdam area to terminate its involvement in work on the separation fence in the West Bank.

“I expect Riwal to stop providing cranes for the wall. I hope this will be the last we hear of it,” Verhagen said in a media [...]

Menachem Begin’s grandson Protesting Apartheid Wall

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

A grandson of Israel’s legendary right-wing prime minister Menachem Begin is a regular protester against the country’s controversial West Bank separation barrier, media reported on Thursday.

The tabloid-style Maariv newspaper published a photograph of 32-year-old Avinadav Begin and a young Palestinian facing off with Israeli soldiers in riot gear during a weekly demonstration against the barrier.

Maariv [...]

Israeli friends of Bil’in call for international support

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Israeli Friends of Bil’in is a group composed of Israeli individuals and organizations who oppose the construction of Israel’s “separation fence” on the land of the Palestinian village of Bil’in, and of the construction of the Israeli settlement of Matityau East, also on the village’s land.

They have written a letter addressed to the consulates and [...]

Operation Security Roof

Thursday, August 10th, 2006

If the the Zionist apartheid wall is not protective enough for the Zionist state Gilad Atzmon has a better idea with a conclusion:

“They all agreed that such a solution would fit nicely with the concept of modern Jewish life in general and Zionism in particular. Israelis love the sea. Israelis are not afraid of water. [...]