United States Campaign for an Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel | Dissident Voice 27 December 2009 December 27, 2009 marks the one-year anniversary of the beginning of “Operation Cast Lead,” Israel’s 22-day assault on the captive population of Gaza, ...
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Threatened and beaten on the way to Gaza
Adam Shapiro | Huffington Post 17 July 2009 I departed Cyprus with 20 others on June 29 in a converted ferry carrying humanitarian provisions intended for Palestinians in Gaza cut off from the world by the Israeli military siege. Our ...
Read More »NST: Fighting the Palestinian cause
P. Selvarani | New Straits Times P. Selvarani speaks to Free Gaza Movement chairperson Huwaida Arraf to discover a woman determined to see an end to violence. She could have lived a blissful life as a successful lawyer, raising a ...
Read More »Fmr. Congressmember Cynthia McKinney back in U.S. after being detained and deported from Israel
Democracy Now 8 July 2009 Guests: Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman and the 2008 Green Party presidential candidate. Adam Shapiro, documentary filmmaker, human rights activist and Palestinian rights activist. Adam was a co-founder of the ISM in Palestine. He was ...
Read More »Israeli navy arrests passengers on Free Gaza Movement boat
Free Gaza Movement Updates from the Free Gaza Movement The Free Gaza Movement is reporting that the passengers have been transferred to a prison in Ramle for illegal immigrants and will be tried for “entering Israel illegally”. Adam Qvist and ...
Read More »Free Gaza Boat “Spirit of Humanity” departs Cyprus
Free Gaza Movement UPDATE, June 30 03:03: We just spoke again with our people aboard the Spirit of Humanity. The Israeli Navy is continuing to try and intimidate the ship, and is actively jamming its radar, GPS, and navigation systems ...
Read More »Free Gaza Movement boats plan to sail for to Gaza
25 June 2009 The Free Gaza Movement will depart from Larnaca Port for the Gaza Strip at 10am today, Thursday 25 June. We are sending two ships, the Free Gaza and the Spirit of Humanity, with 3 tons of medical ...
Read More »Progressive: Critic of Israel Threatened Before Talk in NY
Matthew Rothschild | The Progressive Adam Shapiro has enemies. Especially in the Jewish Defense Organization, the militant Zionist group that broke with the Jewish Defense League back in the 1980s. The group’s website calls Shapiro a “maggot” and a “self-hating ...
Read More »Gulf News: Law of Return and the dilemma
By Abbas Al Lawati To view original article, published by Gulf News on the 9th August, click here Dubai: Adam Shapiro, 36, and the International Solidarity Movement have in many ways been the face of the foreign activism that complemented ...
Read More »Profiles of Peace & Israel’s War Games
Profiles of Peace & Israel’s War Games 1. Israeli government demolishes village of Twail Abu-Jarwal 2. Excessive force in Bil’in leaves Palestinian in hospital with two operations 3. Village near Bethlehem protests against the Wall 4. Flee, Freedom Fighter, Flee ...
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