• “Palestinians won’t give up the struggle”

    Huwaida Arraf interviewed by the Socialist Worker Could you give your impressions of the scale of Israel’s devastation in places like the Jenin refugee camp? Jenin is unimaginable–the level of destruction that has been wreaked on this refugee camp and the amount of terror that people have gone through. The International Solidarity Movement was among…

  • International Activists Reach the Door of the Church of the Nativity

    By Larry Hales We walked right in to Manger Square–“right through the front door.” The writer in me wants to create some suspense, but I am ecstatic–my heart continues to beat at the rate it was when we were walking through. We were planning the night before and were planning around another demonstration led by…

  • Voices in the Wilderness

    By Jeff Guntzel We left for Ramallah yesterday morning. In order to enter the city, our little group had to avoid the Israeli checkpoint by walking (and sometimes running) through the brush just south of the checkpoint. Once we were safely inside the military zone, a taxi driver with whom we had made advance arrangements…

  • Witness To The Israeli Military – Is Adam Shapiro A Traitor?

    by Laura Flanders Originally published by TomPaine.com For days they’ve been calling one of my fellow New Yorkers “traitor.” For city dwellers who’ve been encouraged to feel pretty darn protective of one another, such dangerous talk comes as a shock. It began when Adam Shapiro from Brooklyn talked to the international media from inside Yasser…

  • Adam Shapiro Ranks As a Mideast Hero

    by Sheryl McCarthy Originally published in Newsday Wherever Stuart Shapiro may be, he gets my vote for father of the year. His son, Adam, is a Jewish child of Brooklyn who in the last few years has been living in the Mideast and advocating for the rights of Palestinians. Last week, he spent a night…