Documentaries Jeremy Hardy vs. The Israeli Army, The Killing Zone, Rachel Corrie: An American Conscience, Arna'a Children, Route 181, Jenin Jenin, The Color of Olives, Gaza Strip, Goal Dreams, Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land, People and the Land,
Fictional Films Paradise Now, Rana's Wedding
Books
Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement - International Solidarity Movement The Iron Wall - Avi Schlaim, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid - Jimmy Carter, Live From Palestine - Nancy Stohlman, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuses of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History - Norman Finklestein, Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Michael R. Fischbach, The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East - David Hirst, Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians - Baruch Kimmerling, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 - Nureldeen Masalha, The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians - Joseph Massad, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 - Benny Morris, Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 - Tanya Reinhart, The Question of Palestine - Edward Said, The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State - Zeev Sternhell, Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine - Naseer H. Aruri, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians - Noam Chomsky, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby - Paul Findley, The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent - Roane Carey ed, Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege - Amira Hass, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness - Rashid Khalida, The Palestinian People: A History - Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation - Zachary Lochman and Joel Beinin, eds., Against the Wall: Israeli's Barrier to Peace - Michael Sorkin, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema - Hamid Dabashi, ed., Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1976-1948 - Walid Khalidi, Occupied Minds: A Journey through the Israeli Psyche - Arthur Nelsen, Bad News From Israel - Greg Philo and Mike Berry, A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture - Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman, eds., Rabbis, Prophets, and Peacemakers: Conversations with Jewish Critics of Israel - Seth Farber, ed.
Who We Are The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded by a small group of activists in August, 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by providing the Palestinian people with two resources, international protection and a voice with which to nonviolently resist an overwhelming military occupation force.
Check our current updates for reports, journals and press releases.
Why ISM? Occupation is not going to be defeated by words alone; occupation, oppression an domination are going to be dismantled the same way they were erected -- through people's action. The Israeli army and the Israeli occupation can be defeated by strategic, disciplined unarmed resistance, utilizing the effective resources Palestinians can mobilize -- including international participation.
In April 2002, with help from Palestinians, international activists were able to outmaneuver the Israeli military during two of its biggest military operations, entering and providing support to those trapped inside the Presidential Compound in Ramallah and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. More recently, ISM has supported strong Palestinian-led, nonviolent resistance movements against Israel's Apartheid Wall in villages like Budrus and Biddu. In these villages peaceful community marches have succeeded in altering the Wall's path and even stopping Wall construction.
International participation is important for a number of reasons:
Protection: An international presence at Palestinian civilian actions can ensure a degree of protection for Palestinians engaged in nonviolent resistance.
Message to the mainstream media: The Palestinian struggle is not accurately reported by the mainstream corporate media. The mainstream media portrays Israelis and Palestinians as two equal sides who can't live together fighting over a piece of land, instead of an Israeli military occupation and a Palestinian struggle for freedom, self-determination and human rights. People from all over the world that join us can reach out to their respective media and help dispel this notion.
Personal witness and transmitting information: International civilians joining Palestinians can bear witness and return home to talk to their communities about what is happening.
Break isolation and provide hope: The occupation isolates Palestinians and cuts them off from the rest of the world and from each other. International ciivilians coming in, despite restrictions, send a message to the Palestinian community - "we see, we hear and we are with you." Hope that people acting together can change things is a cornerstone of our philosophy and message.
Internationals with the ISM are not in Palestine to teach nonviolent resistance. Palestinians resist nonviolently ever day. The ISM lends support to the Palestinian resistance to the occupation and their demand for freedom through the following activities:
Direct Action - challenging crippling checkpoints and curfew, confronting tanks and demolition equipment, removing roadblocks, participating in nonviolent demonstrations, accompanying farmers to their fields and protecting families whose homes are threatened with demolition.
Emergency Mobilization - escorting ambulances through checkpoints, delivering food and water to families under curfew or house arrest, assisting the injured or disabled to access medical care and walking children to school.
Documentation - documenting and reporting to local and international media about the daily life under occupation and the countless human rights and international law violations by the Israeli military.
Get Involved
ISM offers many ways for you to get involved in the struggle for Palestinian freedom. Whether you're thinking of traveling to Palestine to work with us, or you'd like to work to educate your community about the reality in Palestine, we welcome your involvement. Please visit the websites of the support group nearest to you. Links to our international support groups are found to the left, and on the contact page.
We call upon people around the world who are committed to human rights, civil rights, and the principle of self-determination to join Palestinian and Israeli citizens engaged in nonviolent resistance to the illegal Israeli occupation!
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LEARN THE FACTS, Read the UN Report on War Crimes in Gaza
"The report concludes that the Israeli military
operation was directed at the people of Gaza as a whole, in furtherance of an
overall and continuing policy aimed at punishing the Gaza population, and in a
deliberate policy of disproportionate force aimed at the civilian population.
The destruction of food supply installations, water sanitation systems,
concrete factories and residential houses was the result of a deliberate and
systematic policy which has made the daily process of living, and dignified living,
more difficult for the civilian population."
This Friday our documentary film To Gaza With Love is being screened at the excellent Portobello Film Festival, as part of a whole night of Palestinian Films,
The easiest way to get to the Studios is from Westbourne Park Station
on the Hammersmith and City line. Buses 23, 28, 31 and 328 stop
either outside or very near the station. Buses 18, 36 and 7 are
fairly close.
From the station turn right and then right again past the pub. You
will need to walk through the Tavistock Crescent paved area for about
two minutes. In front of you will be The Mother Black Cap pub. To the
right of the pub you will see a pedestrian and cycle bridge. Cross
the bridge. turn right and Westbourne Studios will be in front of you.
Hope you can all make it, it is going to be a very fantastic and inspiring night.
If you would like to show our film, please get in touch.
The holy month of Ramadan
For all Muslims has begun.
Praising Allah through the day,
From dawn to dusk we fast and pray.
We pay zakah (charity) for those in need,
Trying hard to do good deeds.
When the sun has set, and day is done-
I'll break this chain, but only one.
By the end of Ramadan, this whole chain will be all gone!
It's time for Eid and lots of fun!!!
Thank you for standing for the truth, free speech, common sense, and our U.S. Constitution. It is the right thing to do and the only way to honor our troops, our nation, and ourselves.
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking; where it is absent, discussion is apt to become worse than useless." -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." --William O Douglas
"You cannot be free by obeying the rules. You cannot be free by waiting for someone to rescue you. You cannot be free simply by hoping for a brighter day tomorrow. Freedom comes from within. It does not come from without. It does not come from a charismatic leader. It does not come with a set of instructions. It does not come from being raised with doses of discipline and dogma. It does not come from being given your freedom only after you prove yourself to your parents, teachers, pastors, or other authority figures. It does not come from any God who demands obedience before He promises blessings (or threatens curses). It does not come from delineated rights. It does not come from The Constitution. It is you from whom freedom springs. It is you in whom freedom thrives. No one gave it to you. Like Dorothy and her ruby slippers, your way home was with you all the time. You just didn't realize it. Do you understand? You are freedom. Contrary to that tiresome cliché, freedom is free. -- B.R. Merrick.
Hope your weekend was grand and your week will be pleasant.
And I honor the man who is willing to sink half his present repute for the freedom to think, and, when he has thought, be his cause strong or weak, will risk the other half for the freedom to speak." -- James Russell Lowell
"When even one Person -- who has done nothing wrong -- is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth, then all People are in peril." -- Harry S. Truman
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