On today’s episode we get a report from four Bay Area activists who just returned from the West Bank doing protective presence work with the International Solidarity Movement, an attempt to deter Israel’s continued colonial land grabs in the area, where the zionist state has taken more Palestinian land in the past 9 months than in any similar time period since the early 1990s.
The International Solidarity Movement, or ISM, brings in volunteers from around the world to offer what they call a protective presence, that is, to spend time in endangered Palestinian areas, with a hope that the international presence could prevent zionist attacks.
The ISM is building up its protective presence now in the West Bank, and a group of Bay Area activists have just returned from doing that work in the West Bank areas of Massafer Yatta, and in the Jordan Valley.
That group joins us this morning, using pseudonyms or first names only, because being identified as ISM activists risks being prevented from continuing the work.
Our guests are Bella, Ossa, Nina and Maria.
Check out the International Solidarity Movement’s website: https://palsolidarity.org/
Follow ISM on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ismpalestine/
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