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 […]
May 25: Pick up your essential food items: Palestinian olive oil!
Monday, May 25 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm at Grassroots House 2022 Blake Street Berkeley, CA 94704 Are you missing the taste of Palestinian Olive Oil and looking to pick up some for your home – and support the work of the International Solidarity Movement while doing so? Come to Grassroots House this Monday, May […]