16 June 2011 | Adam Shapiro Freedom Flotilla 2 is setting sail to Gaza soon. Despite claims that the flotilla is not needed because “Rafah is now open”, the people of Gaza are still trapped and suffocated by Israel’s cruel ...
Read More »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 »Interview with Adam Shapiro, co-founder of the ISM
Kourosh Ziabari | Palestine Think Tank Adam Shapiro, the symbol of a courageous, pure peace advocate, has long been under fire for his unconditional and categorical criticism of Israeli occupying state. Born in 1972, the perseverant and steadfast anti-Zionist campaigner ...
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 »Hundreds Salute International Solidarity Movement, Rachel Corrie’s Parents
Pat and Samir Twair | Washington Report on Middle East Affairs The world was shocked March 16 by photos of International Solidarity Movement volunteer Rachel Corrie standing before an Israeli bulldozer that, seconds later, crushed her to death. The international ...
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