• Democracy Now!: International Solidarity Movement Activist Adam Shapiro, On the Role Americans Can Play in Bringing U.S. Media Attention to the Palestinians

    Click here to listen to the Democracy Now! segment with Adam Shapiro. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government of national unity has run into a serious crisis after he sacked four ministers from a key coalition party, the ultra-Orthodox party Shas. The four Shas ministers and several deputy ministers from the United Torah Judaism party…

  • CNN: Interview with Adam Shapiro, Huwaida Arraf

    Transcript originally published by CNN Paula Zahn, CNN anchor: As events unfold in the Middle East, Adam Shapiro and his fiance, Huwaida Arraf, are here in America watching. The couple had been working in Israel with the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group advocating the non-violent end to Israeli occupation. You might remember that Shapiro,…

  • “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…