Abdullah Abu Rahme from the Popular Committee of Bil’in was shot in the head by a rubber-coated steel bullet yesterday at the weekly Bil’in demonstration.

[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 [...]

Here is a sample of Israeli occupation practices against Non-Violent demonstrations south of Bethlehem against apartheid wall construction.

[Hat tip: Sami Awad]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

Jewish activist arrested for “illegal” protest against (legal) wall on stolen land. He was activist convicted of participation in an illegal protest against the separation fence asked the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court to sentence him to jail time, rather than community service or a suspended sentence. Despite his request, the court [...]

Colonisation of Palestine - Zionism Must Go Forward! The Iron Wall
by Mohammed Alatar In 1923, Vladmir Jabotinsky – father of the Zionist right – wrote: “Zionist colonization… can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population – behind an IRON WALL, which the native population [...]

The Iron Wall

In 1923 Vladimir Jabotinsky, leading intellectual of the Zionist movement and father of the right wing of that movement, wrote:

“Zionist colonization must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the [...]