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Posted on Sunday, 7 February, 2010 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
And here we have further proof that the International Solidarity Movement continues to be one of the most effective organisations at bringing together diverse people to highlight the central crime in the region: the ongoing occupation of Palestine. Israeli occupation soldiers have invaded Ramallah (again) to seize international activists with ISM.
“The raid and detention of the two is in direct violation of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which clearly forbids any Israeli incursion into Area A for reasons not directly and urgently related to security. Even the conduct of “hot pursuit” is disallowed in non-security related matters, which overstayed visas are.”
There are loads of people in Area A with various degrees of Visa rights to be there. ISM’s effective, longstanding platform as an international device for spreading news about the conditions Palestinians are held in by this foreign, occupation government make it a target of the military. In short: they only target you when you’re being effective. Still it begs the question why the PA would enter any such agreements with an occupying regime who have clearly shown no interest in any sort of peace deal or form of co-existence.
— International Solidarity Movement.
Posted on Monday, 12 January, 2009 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Well for crying out loud it’s about time and what an improvement! The design I made for ISM long ago when I was just learning how Wordpress works has been changed by my cohort and it’s about time. hop on over to the International Solidarity Movement’s spiffy new site at palsolidarity.org.
When I worked on it a few years ago, it was a jam session to get the site back up after someone had gone in and maliciously erased it from the server. Thanks to different people keeping files on their own machine, and the magic of InterWeb archiving at the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, we were able to relaunch the site in a matter of days.
The former design was always meant to be temporary and had outlived its usefulness by years. I was glad to see it replaced with something else as my design and Wordpress chops have grown since.
Like the last one, this launch also looks to come as another nasty bit of hackery is taking place against ISM, though. Someone or some people are successfully gaming search engine results against http://palsolidarity.org as a number of stale old articles slamming the organization and some fringe-rightwing low-traffic websites are suddenly getting higher placements. Dear google, please note: ou are being played. It seems that, almost overniight (as of this writing), a google search of “international solidarity movement” doesn’t actually bring up the organization’s official website. It used to come up first, now it’s not coming up at all.
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Posted on Wednesday, 25 April, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Posted on Friday, 6 April, 2007 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
Here at TMICSIT, we’re against hacking for the purposes of limiting others speech just because we disagree with it, much in the way we’re against violence and coersion of any kind to limit speech. That said, these folks said they were hacked before and it was complete bupkis. — Link
Posted on Sunday, 17 September, 2006 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
International Solidarity Movement announcement:
Your presence is needed
for the Olive Harvest 2006 in Palestine!
Palestinian communities are calling for the presence of international activists to support them in the 2006 Olive Harvest. Throughout the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinian land continues to be stolen for illegal Israeli colonies and the Apartheid Wall as well as settler roads, checkpoints, and closed military zones.
Since October 2000, hundreds of thousands of olive trees have been bulldozed, uprooted, or burned by the Israeli military and Israeli settler colonists. The olive tree has been a native symbol for Palestinians for hundreds of years. As well as a source of livelihood and a symbol of the people’s bond to their land, the olive tree is also a powerful symbol of cooperation between peoples.
Posted on Friday, 15 September, 2006 By yours truly | TOOLS: Talk or Share
The curious travels of Paul Cinato
On websites such as FrontPageMag, Stop The ISM and Dafka, there are some curious photos showing up with westerners, alleged to have been in ISM at the time of the shutterbugging, posing with AK-47s and wandering around a Palestinian prison facility. While none were actually trained or working with ISM, just one of these westerners, who I’d been referring to as Mr. Pixelface, had his own likeness distorted in every image.
In his article that appears on the above-mentioned websites, “investigative reporter” Lee Kaplan repeatedly refers to Mr. Pixelface as “our volunteer” 
from Britain, sent to “infiltrate” ISM. He didn’t. But he met some other people who had also yet to be trained or work with the orgainzation, and that’s who he decided to tag along with. Everyone else in the photos on Kaplan’s various sites are shown clearly, their names and home countries displayed for all to see. But not Mr. Pixelface. His ID was being obscured for “security purposes.”
The article goes on to detail numerous falsehoods about the people within the photos as well as ISM iteslf. But what is a Stop The ISM devotee doing running around the West Bank looking for AK-47s to be photographed with? Well , first off, it has been learned from looking at a copy of the man’s passport that his name is in fact Paul Cinato. And he looks like this:
Paul Cinato had been telling those he met in a hostel and around the West Bank that his name was “Paul Andrews.” He was apparently being honest, however, about where he’s from. Only a single reference to a Paul Cinato in Dunstable Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, shows up on the internet. And that’s as a representative for a business called Zion Computers. Apparently Mr. Cinato was borrrowing a page from Lee’s playbook. For the next time Paul gets sent by Lee to go play with guns in some sort of smear campaign attempt, maybe he should just say his name is Mr. Mulberry.
For an account about what happened according to those there, here’s a statement from ISM.
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