I was brutalized by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. It was only a fraction of what Palestinians experience every day. – Mondoweiss

Editor’s note: the following Op-Ed was written by an ISM volunteer who requested anonymity in order to continue engaging in direct action and the documentation of human rights violations without retribution.

In mid-August, I, along with another international activist, was beaten and robbed by armed Israeli soldiers in the rural village of Ibziq. The assault gave us only a faint, yet utterly incommensurate, glimpse of the imminent danger that Palestinians experience every…