ISM Online Store
NorCal ISM sells kuffiyas, hand made soap and organic, fair-trade olive oil via our online store. You can support Palestinian farmers and crafts people, help ISM and enjoy wonderful products by buying from our online store. And, we will even deliver free to addresses within 30 miles of Berkeley! https://shop.ism-norcal.org/
Summer 2020 ISM Newsletter
The all-new Summer 2020 edition of the ISM NorCal newsletter, “Live from Palestine, ” is now available. The newsletter is edited by ISM’s Jeff Pekrul and contains news reports, diaries, analysis, events and more. Download the PDF copy or read the articles below:
Keep Palestinian-led Activism Alive During COVID-19
To our friends and comrades: We would like to thank all of you for your continued solidarity and support for the freedom of the Palestinian people, whether through activism, protest, boycott, donations, or raising awareness online and personally. Because of you, the International Solidarity Movement has been able to continue using non-violent methods to resist Israeli […]
What’s it Like to be an ISM Volunteer? Interview with Edmond Sichrovsky
For this issue of the ISM Newsletter, our team talked with Edmond Sichrovsky, an Austrian ISM volunteer of Jewish origin who was forcibly deported from occupied Palestine after six hours of searching, interrogation and harassment at the Ben Gurion airport in October 2019. During his time in occupied Palestine, he volunteered with ISM’s media team […]
Waiting at the checkpoint
by Ladina Testini – March 2020 This is what normality in al-Khalil looks like I was somewhere between excited and afraid the night before the visit of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to al-Khalil (Hebron) on September 4 this year as part of his re-election campaign and timed with a ceremony commemorating the 1929 […]
Postcards from Palestine
ISM’s Katie Miranda created this “Postcard from Palestine” to highlight the story of Yusef, a 10-year-old boy who was violently attacked and his teeth forcibly crushed by a colonial Israeli settler woman in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of al-Khalil (Hebron). Sundus al-Azza speaks more about her brother’s experience here. As the postcard notes, Yusuf’s attacker […]
Winter 2020 ISM Newsletter
The all-new Winter 2020 edition of the ISM NorCal newsletter, “Live from Palestine, ” is now available. The newsletter is edited by ISM’s Jeff Pekrul and contains news reports, diaries, analysis, events and more. Download the PDF copy or read the articles below: Interview with Abdelkarim Dalbah, 17-Year ISM Volunteer Interview with Artist and ISM Activist […]
Interview with Abdelkarim Dalbah, 17-Year ISM Volunteer
The ISM Northern California newsletter team spoke with Abdelkarim Dalbah, a Palestinian journalist, field researcher and human rights defender. He has been an ISMer for 17 years as an activist in nonviolent resistance. Our supporters’ donations go mainly to help support the work of the ISM in Palestine, from sending volunteers to helping maintain daily […]
Interview with Artist and ISM Activist Katie Miranda
by Valerie Behiery Katie Miranda Al Ali is committed to illuminating beauty and truth through the mediums of painting, comics, and Arabic calligraphy jewellery. Passionate about art, the artist studied at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, receiving both a BFA and an MFA. From 2005-2008, Katie lived in the West Bank cities […]
On the 71st week of the Great March of Return, the world forgets while Gazans remember
Republished from ISM Palestine Eleven consecutive weeks of protests in Hong Kong have captured the focus of online commentators, heads of state, and global media. In France, 39 weeks of protests by the Yellow Vests movement continues to garner widespread interest. In the US, Occupy Wall Street is now an international household name after occupying Zuccotti Park for 9 straight […]