• 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…

  • The International Solidarity Movement: Challenges and Prospects

    Report from a Palestine Center briefing by Ghassan Andoni This information first appeared in “For the Record” No. 103 published by the Palestine Center and the Jerusalem Fund While policymakers have denounced Israeli “rudeness,” and intellects convene to ponder the horrors of occupation, Palestinian citizens are searching for ways to secure their rights. Under international…

  • International Peace Activists Barred from Entering Hebron

    At 8:00 this morning The I.D.F. declared the Kefar Etzion settlement checkpoint a closed military zone thus preventing 300 international peace activists from entering Hebron. The order the soldiers produced stated that the area was closed from the 29th of Dec until the 9th of January. The delegation waited in the area for three hours…