Posts Tagged ‘ISM’

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

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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 [...]

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Qaffin: my home town against apartheid

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I’m proud to announce that my home town village, Qaffin, Tulkarem, started this year’s camping, ‘Summer Against Apartheid.
Following reports was issued by ISM:
Protest camp built in Qaffin, Tulkarem, as part of ‘Summer Against Apartheid’
On the 5th June, hundreds of Palestinians, joined by international and Israeli activists demonstrated in the village of Qaffin, in the Tulkarm [...]

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Support Anti-War / Anti-Bush Activists

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ISM members arrested in Chicago Need Your Support
On Monday, January 7th while President George Bush was visiting downtown Chicago, four anti-war activists were arrested as Bush left the exclusive Union League Club following his meeting with Mayor Richard Daley, Cardinal George and a coterie of wealthy businessmen.
Charged with disorderly conduct are Buddy Bell, 25, of [...]

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A Day With Hedy Epstein

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A warning to readers, the below article contains graphic passages.
In January of this year, my teenage daughter and I went to an event in Los Angeles sponsored by Women in Black at which Hedy Epstein*, a Holocaust survivor, ardent anti-Zionist, human rights worker spoke. Hedy did not speak of her own biography today, but from [...]

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Israel occupation and the non-violent Intifada

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With Israel always refusing the presence of International monitors, civilian activists around the world recognized that they did not need to wait for their governments to take action.
Few years ago, the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement, with the support of Italian activist and European Parliament member, Luisa Morgantini, called for a week of non-violent direct action [...]

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The Jewish People are not my People. My People are Hashem and his Family from Bil’in

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[Excellent reading especially on Passover] By. Benny Ziffer
Ha’aretz (only in the Hebrew Edition, not in their English Edition):
“There is nothing festive in this posting. Passover, shmassover, I hate the holidays because while we celebrate, while us Jews babble slogans about freedom, and fantasize that we are a miserable enslaved nation, we are in fact [...]

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The curious boy: A Grieving Mother’s battle with the IOF

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After her son’s quest for answers led to his being gunned down, Jocelyn Hurndall faced a bitter battle with the Israeli army to get at the truth.
It was the last day of term when Sophie, my daughter, called me at school. “Mum,” she said, “Tom’s been shot . . . The phone keeps on ringing [...]

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