Peace under fire : Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement / edited by Josie Sandercock ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandercock, Josie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Solidarity Movement--Political activity.

International Solidarity Movement.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Peace.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

xxii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Verso, 2004.

Summary:

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was founded to support Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israel's military occupation. Its highly visible actions, which have included breaking the sieges in Ramallah and Bethlehem, as well as saving countless lives, have shone a spotlight on Israel's illegal, thirty-seven-year-old occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and threatened the governing coalition with fears that Israeli opinion might at last be turning against them.

In Showing What Risks Palestinians Take, ISM volunteers have also tragically been targeted. The deaths of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, as well as the shootings of Kate Edwards, Caoimhe Butterly, Brian Avery and others, have never been fully explained, were covered up in the US and the UK, and brushed aside in Israel as an unfortunate consequence of Israel's own "war on terror".

This Collection of Accounts, Drawn from the web-logs and diaries of ISM volunteers, news articles, press releases, writings from the Corrie and Hurndall families, Rachel Corrie's last e-mail home, and cover photograph by Tom Hurndall, reveals the real horror of life under occupation and describes the first signs of a new wave of international solidarity.

Contents:

Foreword: the meaning of Rachel Corrie / by Edward W. Said

Founding the ISM

First and second campaigns

Siege of the Muqataʻa

Siege of the Church of the Nativity

Invasion

Defying curfew

Checkpoints and freedom of movement

Ambulance accompaniment

Home protection

The olive harvest

The apartheid wall

The largest concentration camp in the world

Rachel Corrie, Brian Avery and Tom Hurndall

Crackdown on ISM

Here to stay

Epilogue: a letter from an Israeli to ISM.

ISBN:

1844675017

1844670074

OCLC:

54775237