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ADAM SHAPIRO

The scion of dyed-in-the-wool Stalinist parents from the period of the ComIntern, Adam was raised on a steady diet of Israel hatred at home. He says he no longer considers himself a Jew, but will gladly represent himself as one if it will help him to destroy Israel. He is:

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The ISM is not simply an innocent, if evil, fringe debating society. Within Israeli territories, its members have actively collaborated with terrorists. They hid weapons and wanted terrorists in their offices. The local ISM offices hosted two Moslem suicide bombers from the UK, who had entered Israel as "peace activists," only to blow a Tel Aviv bar to smithereens the next day.
source: FrontPage mag

ISM - International Solidarity Movement


Rachel Corrie ISM Peace Activist


• ISM -- A false legacy
  
• Now “peace activism” ironically sides with jihad
  
• Past ISM campaigns have used the following strategies
  
• Why Does This Group Have So Many Names?

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ISM -- A false legacy
For many, the International Solidarity Movement's blatant support for Palestinian incitement and rejectionism is the antithesis of a human-rights organization. Charges of harboring terrorists , endangering the lives of foreign 'peace volunteers,' and sabotaging sensitive military operations have prompted the Israeli government to limit the activities of members of this organization. The Israeli Chief of Staff even singled out ISM as a direct threat to his soldiers' lives.

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) mobilizes the power of the rhetoric of human rights to justify its position and cries suppression and brutality. Its website defines itself 'an international citizen's peace-making campaign formed in August 2001, using the proactive tactics of non-violent direct action epitomized by Gandhi, Archbishop Tutu, Dr. Martin Luther King, and other practitioners of creative non-violent resistance.' A claim to such an ideological legacy encourages journalists to publish and promote the ISM's pronouncements with little scrutiny, and gives the movement a voice in humanitarian NGO activities and even "human rights film festivals".

The press attention dedicated to ISM is the fruit of the strategy of exploiting the language of morality, ethics and human rights to de-legitimize Israel. The organization was first thrust into the limelight after two of its activists, an American citizen, Rachel Corrie, and a British citizen, Tom Hurndall, were respectively killed and seriously wounded in separate incidents as they positioned themselves in the center of clashes between the Israeli army and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. ISM members have announced that they believe that Israel not only targets Palestinians but has also begun targeting international volunteers. This led to a flurry of diplomatic activity and damning anti-Israel reporting in the international press. This came despite the fact that ISM was discredited by the way it presented Rachel Corrie's death on its website - a sequence of photographs of Rachel Corrie was posted to 'prove' that the death was deliberate. The photos, however, were clearly taken at different times of the day, and the real story of her death was deliberately distorted by the ISM as part of this public relations effort. cont'd...

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Now “peace activism” ironically sides with jihad, at least as embodied by the International Solidarity Movement, which claims a Palestinian Arab “right to resist …via legitimate armed struggle,” including murder by suicide. ISM is just ending its six week “Freedom Summer Palestine Campaign.” Ostensibly to “challenge Israel’s brutal occupation policies,” this sought to halt construction of Israel’s security fence, which ISM derisively labels an “apartheid wall.” To Israel, the fence represents a life-saver to keep suicide killers out. ISM wants them to get in. A fence can be removed; lives cannot be replaced.

For such “campaigns of nonviolent direct-action,” ISM relies on “international civilians.” But ISM volunteers look and sound nothing like the peace activists I recall. ISM’s flashy website mimics propagandistic Arab Muslim war-on-Israel lingo. Embedded in its catch phrases lie the same false assertions and demands as those of the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, Al-Aksa Martyrs, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, ISM’s apparent big brothers: “Palestinian struggle for freedom,” “end to Israeli occupation,” “illegal Israeli actions,” “resist,” and “the right to return of Palestinian refugees and a Palestinian capital in Jerusalem.” Indeed, the similarities may well be intentional. cont'd...

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Past ISM campaigns have used the following strategies

Acting as (Click link for more info and facts about human shield) human shields to deter Israeli military operations. Some ISM volunteers object to the use of the term human shield to describe their work because, they argue, in a Palestinian context the expression more usually refers to forced use of captive Palestinians by the (Click link for more info and facts about Israel Defence Forces) Israel Defence Forces when searching Palestinian neighbourhoods.
Accompanying Palestinians to minimise harassment by Israeli settlers or soldiers, for example ensuring that queues at Israeli checkpoints are processed efficiently and providing witnesses and intermediaries during annual olive harvests, which are often disrupted by settlers.
Removing roadblocks. These are large unmanned mounds of earth and concrete on roads throughout the (An area between Israel and Jordan on the west bank of the Jordan river; populated largely by Palestinians) West Bank, and sometimes placed at the entrances of Palestinian villages by the (Click link for more info and facts about Israel Defence Forces) Israel Defence Forces, thereby isolating those villages' inhabitants.
Attempting to block military vehicles such as (A large (usually metallic) vessel for holding gases or liquids) tanks and (Large powerful tractor; a large blade in front flattens areas of ground) bulldozers.
Violating Israeli (An order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited) curfew orders enforced on Palestinian areas.
Interfering with the construction of the (Click link for more info and facts about Israeli West Bank barrier) Israeli West Bank barrier and damaging the barrier.
Entering areas which have been designated 'closed military zones' by the Israeli military. The latter is not really a 'strategy', but a prerequisite for ISM being able to conduct many of the above activities, since areas in which the ISM are active are often summarily declared 'closed military zones'. cont'd...

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Why Does This Group Have So Many Names?

The Solidarity Movement is not a legally incorporated entity. It is a fairly loose association of individuals free to unite, to depart, and to call themselves by a different name every day. Indeed, it is often to their advantage to do so because if, as has happened, Charlotte Kates, the leader of the New Jersey Solidarity Movement, gives a ringing endorsement of suicide bombing, other branches of the solidarity movement can say: she does not speak for us.

Solidarity movement is also both a proper noun and a term of art. Supporters of the Solidarity Movement have come out of the International Socialist Organization, a group that has spawned other international solidarity movements. Socialists and radical leftists use this sort of phrasing: we should form an international solidarity movement to help in the people's struggle for X since international solidarity movements have been so useful in past struggles.

This particular International Solidarity Movement is often called the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in the United States. Local chapters have myriad names. Names of groups linked in the "local chapters" section on the International Solidarity Movement web site, include: Boston to Palestine, the Palestine Information Project (Seattle), and the Free Palestine Campaign (Ann Arbor), which has a useful section on its web site labeled "attacks on the ISM" [Ref. 1]. The section contains several excellent articles regarding the nature of the ISM and its activities. cont'd...

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