Author: Ben Lorber

• Freud and Zionism

  In February 1930 Freud was asked, as a distinguished Jew, to contribute to a petition condemning Arab riots of 1929, in which over a hundred Jewish settlers were killed. This…

• Occupation in the Jordan Valley

  In the last month ISM has joined up with Jordan Valley Solidarity and a slew of other international activists to make mud bricks for a new house and football field…

• Occupation in Kufr Qaddum

  We just got back from the weekly demonstration at Kufr Qaddum, a small town in the North West Bank that since 1975 has suffered from the nearby (illegal) Israeli settlement…

• Neturei Karta and the Revolutionary Intelligentsia

  Neturei Karta is a group of anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox Jews who pray for the ‘peaceful dismantling of the State of Israel’. Descended from the Orthodox Jewry who, for hundreds of years…

• Sheikh Jarrah House

  This is the Sheikh Jarrah house we are camped at, seen from the front. The settlers occupy the front, while the Palestinian family is around back. (These were taken awhile…

• Sheikh Jarrah House

  This is a photo i found online of a settler standing on the roof of a house across the street from the ISM tent. next to him you can see…

• ISM in Sheikh Jarrah

  so what is the ISM, and what is the ISM tent in sheikh jarrah, and what is sheikh jarrah? let me try to answer these questions now, as I sit…

• Call to Prayer

  I am currently sitting in the ISM tent in Sheikh Jarrah, and the evening call to prayer has begun to blare out of the speakers of a nearby mosque. This…