I haven't seen those facts ...care to show them? I suggest you read this article:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9564(...)
Nominally, at least, ISM was co-founded in December 2000 by former Brooklyn radical Adam Shapiro, his Arab Palestinian-American wife Huwaida Arraf; <1> and Ghassan Andoni and George Rishmawi, the Palestinian Center for Rapprochements respective executive director and coordinator. Andoni, a Bir Zeit University physics instructor, also heads Beit Sahur-based Alternative Tourism, which made arrangements for two British perpetrators of an April 30 suicide bombing, the 89th in the Oslo Wars 33 months. Arafats Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades and Hamas jointly claimed responsibility for the blast that killed two musicians and a waitress and gravely wounded 16 at Tel Avivs packed Mikes Place music bar. <2>
True peace activists would sympathize with such Israeli victims. Not ISM. Rather, the group openly trumpets its activities via official Palestinian Authority websites. It links to PA mouthpiece Palestine Chronicle, where Shapiro and Arraf on January 29, 2002 claimed a Palestinian right to resist with arms and advocated against using nonviolence alone or the methods of Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr.
For the record, Palestine Chronicle pipes in news from radical outlets like Qatars Islam Online, atop whose governing committee of major scholars sits Muslim Brotherhood leader Shaikh Yusuf Al Qaradawa, who in a September 1999 al-Istiqlal (Palestine Times) interview blessed martyrdom operations that transform each Muslim fighter into a human bomb that casts terror in the hearts of the enemy. He repeated his call for such operations in June. Islam Onlines Fatwa Bank includes radical religious rulings, intolerance and hatred for non-Muslims and non-Muslim customs and incites violence and Islamic world domination.
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On February 3, 2003, ISM coordinator Rebecca Murray appeared at a day-long protest against the impending Iraq war at New Yorks St. Marks Poetry Project (...) As others distributed Al Awda fliers seeking a Palestinian right of return to overwhelm Israel and boasted of coups elsewhere in the literary world, Murray praised Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade terrorist Ziad Dias, and portrayed Israelis as evil oppressors. Seven months after United Nations investigators concluded otherwise, she baselessly claimed that Israel had committed massacres in Jenin and elsewhere. Murray had herself witnessed none of these alleged atrocities. But she liberally parroted hearsay as fact in a vicious tone that undoubtedly convinced many unsuspecting dupes. <4> In August 2002, Dias was assassinated in Tulkarm. What Murray didnt report: he had planned suicide bombings with Tulkarm Fatah officers among other things. ISM claimed his death was a war crime. <5>
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On March 27, coordinator Susan Barcley compromised her peace activism by refusing to open ISMs Jenin office to an Israel Defense Force search. Inside, the IDF found Islamic Jihad terrorist Shadi Sukia. <10> Israel deported Barcley for her connections to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in April. <11>
At such a juncture, a peaceful group would presumably revise its strategy. But on April 11, ISM activist Tom Hurndall was shot in the head in Rafah, near the smuggling tunnels that Corrie had died trying to protect. He was dressed in military fatigues, and firing at IDF personnel.
In short, ISM supports the terrorist infrastructure and engages in military action.
ISM plays campus rallies, tooand not with peaceful types. A well-funded annual Palestinian Solidarity Movement National Student Conference in February 2002 allied closely with the Islamist Muslim Student Association. The MSA co-sponsored the University of California at Berkeley event, at which it spearheaded a call to divest investments in Israel. Three months later, 60 Solidarity Movement students attended MSAs Washington, D.C., annual conference to advance divestment strategies. Like several other Islamist groups, MSA featured Corrie on its web page after her death.
Strangely, Solidarity Movement held its second National Student Conference nine months later in Ann Arbor, Michigan in October. It featured Sami Al-Arian, since imprisoned for financing Palestinian Islamic Jihad suicide bombings at the University of South Florida. The Muslim Student Association, a key organizer, was evidently in a hurry to find new student recruits. Indeed, the FBI is investigating MSA donations at the University of Idaho and Washington State University for links to terrorism.
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Like ISM, the Islamic Association for Palestinewhich ISMs parent group lists as a religious organizationparades as a social action group, a "not-for-profit, public awareness, educational, political, social, and civic, national grassroots organization dedicated to advancing a just, comprehensive, and eternal solution to the cause of Palestine and suffrages of the Palestinians." But the IAP in 1994 spun off the Council on American Islamic Relations, which joined with the Muslim Public Affairs Council, American Muslim Alliance, Islamic Circle of North America, Islamic Society of North America and the Muslim American Society, among others, in sending representatives to the Jerusalem Conference. <12> Not surprisingly, ISMs Rapprochement parent also links to CAIR, which it likewise deceptively describes as religious.
Concurrent to its peace activities, ISM runs campaigns to release Marwan Barghoutiaccused of masterminding several dozen terrorist attacks that ended the lives of equally many Israeli civilians and raise funds for questionable charities such as Palestine Childrens Welfare Fund and Palestine Childrens Relief Fund. (PCRF founder Stephen Sosebee, according to Joe Kaufman, espouses the lunatic theories of the Zayed International Centre for Coordination and Follow-up, Holocaust deniers David Irving and Roger Garaudy and Saudi professor Umayma Jalahma, who last year claimed Jews use non-Jewish blood to prepare their Purim pastries.)
ISMs parent, Andonis Rapprochement Center, lists among political parties the Hamas and Hizb-ut-Tahrir terrorist groups. The latter, founded in Jordan, now sponsors much of the terrorism in Central Asia.
Rapprochement likewise considers Ali AbunimahAmerican-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee acolyte, Electronic Intifada founder and Al Awda devoteea legitimate source of news. It links to a rabid conspiracy site purporting to prove that Israel purposefully bombed the USS Liberty during the Six Day War, despite recent disclosuresand U.S. documentsproving the attack a grievous accident of war. Rapprochement links to several many other groups coyly claiming to support peace and justice that in fact seek only to delegitimize Israel.
New Jersey residents, Rutgers alumni and others urge the university and state officials to suspend current plans to facilitate and fund the October hate-fest, noting ISMs open espousal of genocide. Peaceful resistance principles, insists Rutgers Law student and organizer Charlotte Kates, include supporting Palestinian suicide bombers. Resistance in all its forms constitutes a powerful tool of justice. Israelis deserve death, Kates says, since they live in an apartheid colonial settler state. I do not believe apartheid, colonial settler states have a right to exist. In July, Rutgers President Richard L. McCormick refused to pull the conference plug and New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey backed him. New Jersey had to protect free speech, they contended.
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