• 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…

  • CNN: Interview with Adam Shapiro

    PHILLIPS: Well, we’re about to get an eyewitness account now of the Israeli siege of Yasser Arafat’s headquarters in Ramallah. Adam Shapiro is an American living in Israel. He volunteered to help attend to wounded Arafat guards inside the compound. He joins us now live from Ramallah. Hello, Adam. ADAM SHAPIRO, VOLUNTEER RESCUE WORKER, INTERNATIONAL…

  • Haaretz: Adam’s rift

    By Sara Leibovich-Dar Originally published by Haaretz It was the longest day of his life. By taking over Ramallah, the Israeli army also took over the fate of Adam Shapiro, 30, from Brooklyn. Shapiro, who is Jewish, spent a full 24 hours in the compound of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah, shared a late-night meal with…

  • Witness to Destruction

    By Adam Shapiro The first thing you notice at the entrance to the Balata Refugee Camp is the overturned, burned out car stuck in a huge man-made crater in the ground. But this was the battleground of the previous three days, as the Israeli Army sacked the camp and destroyed homes, cars, property, and lives…