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The International Solidarity Movement: Threat to America,

Israel and the World By Lee Kaplan

Al-Jazeera-approved “peace activists” laugh it up while holding weapons in the presence of members of a terrorist group in the West Bank. (Copyrighted photo from “The ISM-Terrorism Connection” at www.StoptheISM.com).

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Executive Summary By Lee Kaplan* The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is technically a Palestinian-led movement but involves heavy use of American radicals and leftists and exploits the U.S. educational system, particularly American colleges, to delegitimize the democratic State of Israel, a U.S. ally. At the same time, it provides support for groups such as Hamas that use armed violence and terrorism against Israel. The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Israel says that Palestinian and American and foreign ISM activists are not terrorists themselves, but have broken Israeli laws while having “abetted the grave wave of terrorism that deluged Israel and the territories [during the years 2001-2005], and disrupted the IDFs [Israel Defense Forces] counterterrorism activities.” But the ISM is not just a problem for Israel. These activities, conducted in part on U.S. soil, raise serious questions about whether U.S. laws are bring broken, since such groups as Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) are officially designated by the U.S. State Department as foreign terrorist organizations. In this regard, it is significant that groups associated with the ISM in Chicago and other cities conducting “solidarity work” on their own were raided by the FBI last September. The Chicago branch of the ISM issued a statement of support saying:

The Chicago chapter of the International Solidarity Movement strongly condemns the continuing witch hunt being carried out by Patrick Fitzgerald, the US District Attorney (who serves at the pleasure of Barack Obama), and the FBI against Palestine solidarity activists across the United States. We know several of the individuals whose homes were the targets of the FBI raids or that were subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury.

The implication is that President Obama should fire Fitzgerald, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the position of FBI director. The raids reportedly involved over 70 FBI agents entering homes and serving subpoenas to “prominent anti-war and international solidarity activists” in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Chicago, Illinois; and Grand Rapids, Michigan. The FBI is looking for evidence that these groups and “activists” have violated a law prohibiting support for foreign terrorist organizations. It is also possible that ISM members have been operating as agents of foreign powers. As this report shows, some of them have even received medals from Hamas leadership for their contributions. Perhaps the most brazen example of activity of this kind was the material aid provided for the benefit of enemy forces in Fallujah, Iraq, during the height of the Iraq War by ISM affiliate Code Pink/Global Exchange, headed by Medea Benjamin. The ISM labeled this

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“humanitarian” aid. The assistance was provided with the help of Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), and and Raul Grijalva (D-Ari.). Benjamin revealed that she recently got a chance to talk to Attorney General Eric Holder and that he told her he would “look into” the FBI’s investigations of domestic Marxist groups being examined for providing support to foreign terrorist organizations in Latin America and the Middle East. Benjamin called the Marxist groups “the peace community” and wants the investigations called off. Holder knows a lot about the “peace community,” having played a key role in President Bill Clinton’s pardons of Weather Underground and Puerto Rican terrorists. It should be noted that “ISM” is a generic term for “solidarity” groups under multiple names acting together as a unified project with no discernable leadership to create the impression they are a simple grassroots movement. As the FBI raids suggest, so-called “solidarity work” has become popular among left-wing and Marxist groups that not only support Palestinian terrorist organizations like Hamas, an affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood, but communist terrorists in such places as Colombia. However, some members of the ISM have organized a single entity operating out of Washington D.C. under the name “The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.” It claims over 300 U.S. affiliated groups, some of which may still call themselves ISM. The authorities may have been slow to crack down on these organizations because “solidarity activists” give the appearance of promoting Western values of peace and nonviolence. They claim, for example, to be representing suffering Palestinians. In fact, a serious analysis shows that the true aim of the key organizers is to promote revolution and victory for terrorist organizations operating in the name of the Palestinian cause and international Marxism. Both are evident in the activities of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a communist group and the second largest faction of the PLO, which has been a beneficiary of ISM support. These days, however, the ISM mostly concentrates its efforts on supporting Hamas, a terrorist group that has become a favorite of Al-Jazeera television and one of whose top officials, Osama Hamdan, was a featured speaker at the 2011 Al-Jazeera Forum. The Muslim Brotherhood, which describes Al-Jazeera as “the greatest Arab media organization” and has published an interview with Wadah Khanfar, Al-Jazeera’s General Manager, wants Egypt to unilaterally open the border with Gaza, a move that would facilitate arms shipments to Hamas and increase military pressure on Israel. A Congressional Research Service report noted, “Egypt sealed the border out of concern for the possibly destabilizing effects of Hamas’s relations with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, which the government of President Mubarak considers a threat.” Thanks to Al-Jazeera’s Middle East revolutions, which threaten pro-Western and secular regimes in the region, Mubarak is now gone. Hamas, which is funded by Iran,

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figures to benefit not only from a new Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Egyptian government, but from the continuing activities of the ISM. Hiding behind talk of educational activities and non-violence, ISM affiliates use tax-deductible contributions and educational tax dollars to promote their programs in the U.S. The ISM has built a network across our nation’s colleges. There have been calls for these groups to be investigated by federal authorities because of evidence that they support the goals of terrorist organizations. Campus “clubs” such as the Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Students Union, both ISM affiliates, are found at every major campus where they support the goals of terror groups like Hamas. Some of these groups have held tributes to terrorist leaders such as Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, or Leila Khaled, a known PFLP terrorist and one of the originators of aircraft hijackings. Well-funded and organized national student “conferences” have been held every year with presentations worthy of those done by many Fortune 500 corporations to promote the goals of groups like Hamas. However, recorders or cameras are banned at these events in keeping with the ISM’s desire to keep some if its activities from public scrutiny. College administrators in some cases have been willing to accommodate this even in publicly funded colleges. Despite the diffuse nature of the ISM, the founding of the movement can be traced to two “activists” who started out as employees for what became a U.S. State Department “peace” initiative in the region, “Seeds of Peace.” This interesting fact is part of the evidence suggesting a possible relationship with the U.S. State Department that should be investigated by the House Homeland Security Committee of Rep. Peter King. In short, is the ISM part of a covert effort by elements of the U.S. Government to promote American public opinion to accept a Palestinian state in the Middle East to conform to Saudi desires and the Saudi Peace Initiative (a.k.a. “the Road Map”)? This initiative calls for Israel to withdraw to 1948 boundary lines and allow any Arab who claims his relatives back in 1948 who lived inside Israel a “right of return” to the very same spot. The CIA may also be involved. Two years ago, Emile Nakhleh, the former head of the CIA’s political Islam strategic analysis program, had said the United States should be “reaching out” to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as well as to Hamas and Hezbollah, to find “common ground.” WikiLeaks released a U.S. Government document that indicates U.S. knowledge of a plot to destabilize Egypt by laying the groundwork for a new government that would include members of the Muslim Brotherhood and Revolutionary Socialists. This sounds suspiciously like the Obama Administration’s policy. A covert U.S. role in promoting the ISM could help explain why the U.S. State Department and various administrations of both political parties have been “looking the other way” at alleged law-breaking by ISM affiliated groups – that is, until the September, 2010, raids by the FBI. It is probably not the case that these raids were approved by Attorney General Eric Holder and Obama himself and that they were

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carried out by the FBI itself. The position of FBI director is technically independent of political control. The House Homeland Security Committee should investigate the progress of these investigations. As serious as the problem is, the activities of ISM reached a dangerous new level when the ship known as the Mavi Mamara was seized by Israel. This was the seventh of the so-called “Gaza Flotillas” organized by ISM activists with international support that are funded at least in part through tax-free donations in the U.S. Key ISM personnel include Huwaida Arraf, a U.S. and Israeli citizen who has been accused of providing material aid to terrorist groups in the Church of the Nativity hostage situation in 2002. Arraf worked in Congress as a staffer for Virginia Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) and concentrated on releasing Islamist foreign combatants being held in Guantanamo Bay. Speaking of Congress, Rep. Kucinich has appeared with high-level ISM activists and hired a well-known ISM leader, Noura Erekat, as a staffer. Tables at one ISM conference featured “Kucinich for President” campaign literature. Although the ISM movement is called “Palestinian-led,” much of it is guided by American citizens. Of particular interest is the fact that William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, former communist terrorists and associates of President Obama, are involved in the “flotilla” and “Free Gaza” movements that have provoked international incidents and controversies. Medea Benjamin, an old friend of Ayers and Dohrn, even acts like an intermediary between Hamas and President Obama. The ISM’s involvement in “human shield” activity on behalf of Palestinians in the West Bank has made some of its activists into military targets, sometimes with disastrous results that are inevitably blamed on Israel. We could see this kind of activity used on the southern border of the United States, ostensibly to protect “undocumented workers” arriving in the U.S. but useful to Latin American terrorist organizations and even drug cartels. The effort is designed to prevent authorities from defending borders and maintaining territorial integrity. In addition to supporting Hamas, ISM activists assist the cause of Iran, not only in its campaign against a U.S. ally, Israel, but also to aid Iran’s geopolitical goals against the United States. The recent Iranian Navy ships deployed to the Mediterranean will serve as supply and weapons support for the next Gaza flotilla that plans on bringing as many as 100 boats to sail into Gaza and reopen shipping lanes to the Iranian proxy Hamas. This next flotilla is being developed, planned, funded and is now drawing passengers from within the United States. The only result of this will be more conflict, deaths, and injuries – and perhaps a new Middle East war. * Lee Kaplan is an investigative journalist who has been published internationally. He has been a contributor to Front Page Magazine, a regular columnist for the Israel National News and Canada Free Press, and is a senior intelligence analyst and

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communications director for the Northeast Intelligence Network. His columns also appear at the International Analyst Network, Campus Watch, and many other websites. He heads the organizations Defending America for Knowledge and Action (DAFKA) and Stop the ISM. He has been interviewed on over two hundred nationally and internationally syndicated radio shows in the United States and Israel and been a guest on the Fox News Channel. He is a regular guest on the Jim Kirkwood Show on Utah's K-Talk Radio am 630 where he discusses Homeland Security issues, the War on Terror and Geopolitics. A graduate of UCLA, he is a member of the Bruin Alumni Association and the UCLA Alumni Association. A U.S. correspondent for the Israel Resource News Agency in Jerusalem, he currently writes editorials for Isracampus.org.il and is an Associate of Israel-Academia-Monitor.com as well as a Fellow at the American Center for Democracy. He is currently working on a book about America's colleges in the War on Terror and the International Solidarity Movement.

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The International Solidarity Movement: Threat to America, Israel and the World By Lee Kaplan There is a war going on between the democratic countries of the West and an international network of state-sponsored terrorist groups. The United States and Israel are the two main western democracies fighting this battle. Israel today is the equivalent of what Britain was to America against fortress Europe during World War II. In many ways the “War on Terror” is very much the same as the fight against Nazi and Japanese totalitarianism during World War II. But there is one major difference: media and the rapidness of modern communications via the Internet, and government leaders who are ignorant of history and too lazy to act. All this brings us to one of the least understood, but most dangerous methods of infiltration in America and among her democratic allies in the West: the International Solidarity Movement or ISM.[1] [2] It is not a surprise that the Al-Jazeera global television network, known as “Jihad TV,” has showered the ISM with praise in its “news” stories, calling members “peace activists” and so forth. Al-Jazeera is a mouthpiece of the Muslim Brotherhood and is dedicated to bringing radical Islamic regimes to power throughout the entire Middle East. It sees the ISM as critical to this effort. Many commentators know little or nothing about the ISM, and will admit so. But the ISM may be a greater threat than the terrorists themselves. While armed terrorists seek mayhem and outright killing to exact political goals, the ISM infiltrates all levels of free western society in order to assist the armed terrorists via subterfuge and logistical aid, while trying to appear as a benign part of democratic society and discourse. From its creation in August, 2001, the ISM originally concentrated its campaign in the U.S. college system in order to increase its membership. It can be found on most campuses. The ISM claims to be a “Palestinian-led” movement but there is extensive American involvement in its leadership. It claims to be “non-violent” but recognizes the Palestinian “right to resist” by what it calls “legitimate armed struggle.” Other “international solidarity” activists work on behalf of the terrorist groups in Colombia. Perhaps fearful of official investigations, statements from the ISM that were viewed as supportive of armed struggle or terrorism have been purged from the ISM’s U.S. website. [3] But they can still be found archived on the Internet[4] and still voiced on ISM chapter websites in Canada[5] and Europe[6]. Since it is a crime to provide support to foreign terrorist organizations, a history of this shadowy group and its successes over the last nine years is worthy of an examination by Congress. The FBI is certainly aware of this problem, having raided various “solidarity” groups in cities such as Chicago. Anti-communist New Zealand blogger Trevor Loudon, who has specialized in exposing Barack Obama’s communist connections, reveals that several of the terror suspects whose homes were raided in Chicago worked for a political movement that once included Obama and even

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sponsored the start of his political career. Loudon focused on the connections of Chicago activists Stephanie Weiner and Joseph Iosbaker, whose residence was searched. As revolutions sweep the Middle East, there is increasing commentary about the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood here and abroad. The ISM, however, has largely escaped scrutiny. But the fact that the terror channel Al-Jazeera has given the ISM favorable publicity should tell us something about its real objectives. In addition to promoting Hamas and its top officials, Al-Jazeera has promoted Iranian-funded Hezbollah. That relationship during the war with Israel in 2006 has earned Al-Jazeera a lawsuit demanding $1.2 billion for those who were killed and injured. The suit filed by lawyers associated with the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan alleges that Al-Jazeera “intentionally provided real-time coverage of the locations of missile strikes inside Israel in violation of Israeli security regulations, thereby enabling Hezbollah to aim its missiles more accurately.” The victims were American, Israeli and Canadian. History of the ISM The ISM came to prominence in March of 2002 immediately after the Passover Massacre bombing attack by Hamas that killed 31 Israelis, mostly Holocaust survivors, at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel [7]. The Palestinian leadership, then under Yasser Arafat, was conducting a “Second intifada,” or uprising, against the Israelis. Ariel Sharon was the Israeli Prime Minister. Bus bombings and terrorist attacks on civilian targets in Israel by Arab terrorist groups, all under the terrorist umbrella control of Yasser Arafat, made 2002 one of the bloodiest years of terror since 9/11. Then-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Arafat’s closest ally at the time, was in full power and funding the suicide bombing attacks to the tune of as much as $30,000 per attack [8]. Sharon had already used the right of “hot pursuit” in the Oslo Accords thirteen times to send the Israeli army into the Palestinian Authority to clean out terror groups responsible for killing Israeli civilians. After this particular attack, the IDF surrounded Yasser Arafat and 17 of his most wanted armed Palestinian terrorist leaders in Arafat’s headquarters, the Mukata, in Ramallah [9]. The Mukata had been British military headquarters during Israel’s colonial years as Palestine and was a fortress. Sharon had decided to marginalize Arafat and take him out of the negotiations equation, or eliminate him entirely, but this was reportedly prevented by then-President Bush, who felt at the time that killing Arafat might ignite the Arab street and undermine support that he was seeking for the upcoming war with Iraq.[10] Prior to this, when the fighting stopped and Israeli troops were poised in a siege position around the Mukata, a lone ambulance came rolling up to the battle zone which held the individuals who would later garner international attention as the leaders of the ISM.

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Inside that ambulance were Adam Shapiro, [11] [12] an American of Jewish heritage from New York who has renounced his Jewish identity, and Huwaida Arraf, [13][14] a U.S.-born woman whose father was from a Palestinian village in Israel before he emigrated to the U.S. to become an executive at General Motors in Detroit. Arraf is from a Catholic Arab family, and had majored in Middle Eastern Studies in college where she studied both Arabic and Hebrew.

Adam Shapiro and Huwaida Arraf

Both had been counselors at a camp in Jerusalem for Arab and Jewish children called “Seeds of Peace,” funded by the U.S. State Department, which was supposed to be a place of reconciliation for children of both ethnicities to get along despite the conflict. [15] One pro-Israel activist, however, has described “Seeds of Peace” as a place where Arab children are supposed to recount their oppression and mistreatment by Israel and the Israeli Jewish children are supposed to beat their breasts in shame. The camp was originally started as a “peace” venture by a former international correspondent, but eventually became a U.S. State Department-funded entity. Questions about U.S. Government involvement in the program remain. [16] At about this same time, the State Department’s consul general in Jerusalem was negotiating U.S. foreign aid with Arafat ($400 million was provided) and then resigned to reportedly become Arafat’s chief lobbyist in Congress. [17][18] The State Department’s involvement with the ISM clearly deserves scrutiny from Congress. Former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice once described the ISM, whose leadership admits to openly working with Hamas, as being equivalent to civil rights workers in the Jim Crow South of the United States. What’s more, one report has stated that President Obama personally was involved in discouraging Israel from using certain crowd control measures in dealing with the Gaza flotillas, organized in part by the ISM. [19].

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Another member of that ambulance team’s group was George S. Rishmawi, a Palestinian Arab accused of having links to Marxist organizations such as the PFLP [20].

George S. Rishmawi

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist–Leninist organization founded in 1967, has benefited from the work of “international solidarity” activists and the ISM. As bloodshed and revolution have been sweeping the Middle East, the PFLP issued a statement declaring, “These popular upsurges are shaking the ground in the Arab world and posing a new and powerful challenge to U.S. imperialism, Zionism, and the Arab regimes which have enabled them by trampling upon their own people for decades.” As America’s Survival, Inc. (ASI) President Cliff Kincaid noted in his report, U.S.-based Marxists Subvert Friendly Regimes and Support Foreign Terrorist Organizations, “The statement by the PFLP about turmoil in the Middle East was a reminder that a terrorist group associated with the Soviet Union is still in existence, active, and prepared to take advantage of world unrest and troubles.” Despite the “collapse” of communism, international Marxism is still a major threat and dozens of communist and Marxist groups operate around the world, in more than 100 countries, including the U.S. The PFLP is the second largest faction of the PLO and was founded by the late George Habash. It is openly Marxist, and carries forth the Stalinist Soviet line. The PFLP is on the U.S. State Department list of designated terrorist organizations. The PFLP invented

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aircraft hijackings and was active in supporting the Baader-Meinhof Gang in Germany during the 1960’s. Since the PFLP was formerly a proxy for the KGB abroad during the Soviet years, this might explain Russian Prime Minister and former President Vladimir Putin’s friendliness toward the ISM’s Free Gaza Movement. Putin is a former KGB officer. The PFLP is also considered one of the main reasons for the FBI raids of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) house/headquarters that took place in September of 2010. We have learned that one of the same houses used by the FRSO is affiliated with ISM and is suspected to be the place where suspected material aid was also given to PFLP and other Marxist revolutionary terrorist groups like FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), a communist terrorist group that works with drug cartels, as well as to Iranian proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Leaflets on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine were passed out at a “Stop the FBI” demonstration in Washington, D.C. The leaflets claimed the terrorist label applied to the PFLP and other terrorist organizations was being used to “criminalize” so-called “popular resistance and national liberation movements.” The international connections are relevant here. The PFLP receives funding from Iran, which enjoys close relations with Russia. [21]. The PFLP uses a lot of Latin American communist imagery such as photos of Che Guevara and the promotion of the Cuban-inspired communist revolutionary movements in Latin America like the Colombian FARC [22] [23][24], but it also uses allusions to Mao and Lenin. In 2002, when that ambulance first approached the Mukata’s compound, it was surrounded by Israeli soldiers and stopped from entering. Shaprio and company explained to the Israeli officer in charge that the ambulance was full of medical supplies for “humanitarian purposes” and they wished to bring these supplies into the Mukata to help the wounded inside. The IDF, of course, said no. However, some phone calls were made and four hours later the ambulance was allowed to enter and join Arafat and entourage where all the parties enjoyed breakfast together. These ISM and other local radicals, many of them communists or anarchists inspired from the local college communities in the U.S. and even in Israel, began to coalesce as an international organization to recruit and for training even more human shields for the ISM. But the ISM nevertheless remained as a “Palestinian-led” organization that claimed it was “nonviolent,” but recognized the “right” of the Palestinians to use violence to achieve their goals. During another incursion by the IDF after more terror attacks in Israel in May of 2002, when a large force of 200 terrorists held up in the Church of the Nativity with the clergy inside as hostages, the IDF surrounded the compound. Huwaida Arraf and her fellow activists ran past the IDF into the church, supposedly to deliver humanitarian aid. In effect, they acted as human shields for the terrorists inside.

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Despite her background and work in the ISM, she worked inside Congress as a legal intern for Congressman Jim Moran (D-Va.) and was assigned to help get imprisoned terrorists released from Guantanamo Bay. [25] Arraf, who literally wrote the ISM training manual, tells ISM activists to say they are “human rights workers” and “peace activists.” [26] However, numerous statements in support of armed violence being acceptable and a “right” of the Palestinians have been attributed to ISM activists. An early Oslo-period PLO website reported that, as an outgrowth of the Mukata breakfast, Arafat gave Shapiro and company, $1million to start the ISM. This information was purged from the PLO website almost immediately so is difficult to verify today. However, given the fact that the ISM’s operations almost immediately began to spread on college campuses across the U.S., the $1 million figure is not unreasonable. In order to keep the Palestinians in control of ISM activities, the ultimate leader of the ISM would be a physics professor from Bir Zeit University named Ghassan Andoni,[27] who is reported to have close links to the PFLP. A report on the ISM by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Israel says that Andoni was active as a student in something called the “Arab Liberation Front,” described as a pro-Iraqi terrorist organization.

Ghassan Andoni

A look at ISM conferences reveals participation from many different Palestinian groups, including the PFLP. A 2009 ISM conference featured a panel of representatives of “Palestinian political leaders on the future of Popular Nonviolent Resistance” that included Abed Elrahim Mallouh, Deputy Secretary-General of the PFLP. PFLP’s relations with the ISM explain in large part the ISM’s affiliation with communist/anarchist ideology. ISM training manuals obtained by this author are replete with communist historical infiltration tactics and they have been used to good result, not only in the United States in its university system and other social organizations, but in Israel as well.

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The Alternative Information Center (AIC), with offices in Jerusalem and Beit Sahour (considered a PFLP bastion in the Palestinian Authority), relies on Marxist philosophy and tactics and was even closed down briefly by the Israelis for PFLP affiliations, but later allowed to reopen.[28]. Today, the AIC operates in Israeli society with a large number of Israeli Communist Party academics and apparatchiks running things within, but with American anarchist-communist leadership. Israel’s minority Communist Party operates closely with Arab communists in the country calling for the end of the Jewish state and in opposition to the United States, a position at odds with most Israelis. As in the U.S., Israeli universities and colleges are used as both training grounds and recruitment for foreign ideologies opposing Western capitalism and accusing the West of “colonialism” and “exploitation of the masses.” Both countries rotate and share their academics to advance this ideology on a regular basis to the detriment of their own democratic governments through unrelenting conferences and direct actions. [29] It can be argued that the ISM is much like a modern-day Comintern [30] [31], the international communist entity that sought to spread revolutionary activities in democratic countries. While it has an overriding purpose – to promote the Palestinian cause -- it is not a centralized organization or single group with a board of directors and card carrying members. It is, in fact, an entity like an octopus with many arms and many names, and frequently members of one group belong to other groups that make up the octopus, the idea being that if one leg is detected or cut off, the others can continue functioning.

It should be noted here again that the ISM operates by admission of its own leadership in cooperation with all the Palestinian terrorist groups. [32 ] [33]. ISM flotilla organizer Paul LaRudee has been recorded on radio and at meetings explaining that the ISM membership are not pacifists and recognize the right to use arms and violence: “We believe in the application of international law. Although we are totally dedicated to nonviolence, we recognize not everyone in the Palestinian community is dedicated to nonviolence and under international law we recognize that violence is necessary and it is permissible for oppressed and occupied people to use armed resistance and we recognize their right to do so,” he has said. [34] [35] [36]

With the growth of the “Free Gaza” flotilla movements to aid Hamas since 2007, the ISM is now working most closely with Hamas leadership, but has never stopped working with Fatah, PFLP, Islamic Jihad and others. The ISM has even posted communiqués from the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade on their U.S. website. The “Human Shield” Gambit George S. Rishmawi, Huwaida Arraf and the Palestinian leadership came up with a plan in 2002 to bring international radicals to the West Bank in order to aid in a new “human shield” program devised for the ISM. [37] [38] It was felt that Israel would be reluctant to harm foreigners for fear of international incidents and Israeli soldiers would hesitate to shoot Americans and Europeans protesting at checkpoints, lying in front of

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tanks, or removing roadblocks, acts that might get a Palestinian killed: “When Palestinians get shot by Israeli soldiers, no one is interested anymore," Rishmawi was quoted as saying. "But if some of these foreign volunteers get shot or even killed, then the international media will sit up and take notice." The presence of foreigners in Palestinian villages made it difficult for the Israeli army to shoot back when terrorist attacks emerged from them. Israel had a policy of demolishing the homes of terrorists or domiciles used as bomb making factories. International human shields could be placed in them to delay or prevent demolitions. The immediate goal of the ISM would be to hamper the ability of the IDF to operate, while the ultimate goal -- although not stated explicitly -- would be to “liberate Palestine” by facilitating the activities of terrorist groups. That is, eliminate the State of Israel entirely. Propaganda would also be a revolutionary function of the ISM by claiming it is "opposed to the existence of the apartheid colonial settler state of Israel." It would also endorse the unconditional "right of return” of Palestinian Arabs to return to the very same spots their ancestors lived on in 1948 and to eliminate the Jewish State demographically. [39][40] Adhering to revolutionary dogma as expressed by the late Malcolm X of the need to make revolution “by any means necessary,” [41] this saying became the motto of the ISM to hasten the destruction of Israel through any actions that assist terrorist groups or inhibit IDF operations. The Marxist bent of the ISM can also be found in is alliance with groups like International ANSWER and the International Socialist Organization. [42] These groups also enjoy support from Cuba, North Korea and Iran. Since Arafat considered Saddam Hussein his closest ally back in 2001, the ISM also embraced the American anti-war movement against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11. Of particular interest was the involvement of former Students for a Democratic Society and Weather Underground members William Ayers [43] and Bernardine Dohrn, [44] who became professors. They helped the ISM increase its influence and recruiting within the United States.

Then and now: Ayers and Dohrn as fugitives and academics.

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As noted by America’s Survival, Inc. (ASI), Ayers and Dohrn, wrote a revolutionary manifesto, Prairie Fire, [45] dedicated in part to Palestinian terrorist Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy. Sirhan was also a self-declared communist. ASI has held several conferences producing evidence that Ayers and Dohrn have been implicated in the bombing murder of San Francisco Police Sgt. Brian V. McDonnell, a case still open and under active investigation. However, some fear that Attorney General Eric Holder might impede the probe, since Ayers and Dohrn are associates of President Obama. Another professor, Francis Boyle, who has served as a legal adviser to the PLO, originated the boycott and divestment program against Israel that has been promoted by the ISM on college campuses across America. [46]

Francis Boyle

Ayers and Dohrn joined in the Viva Palestina Tour [47] and ISM Flotilla Tours [48] to Gaza in support of Hamas. This may seem new for Ayers and Dohrn, but it is a fact their sympathies for the Arabs and hatred for the state of Israel go way back. In the ASI report, “Communism in Chicago and the Obama Connection,” it is noted that:

Members of the SDS and the Weather Underground had sympathies for Arab terrorist groups, which were viewed as part of the anti-imperialist war. According to Larry Grathwohl, the FBI informant inside the organization, the Weathermen started a newspaper called The First Next Time, which ran an article “on the Arab guerrillas’ fight against the Zionist Jews for Palestine.” The article described Israel as a “colonial-type creature, imposed by forces outside the area” and the Jewish masses “being led by Zionism toward another disaster.”

In his America’s Survival, Inc. report, “What Was the Weather Underground?” Herbert Romerstein wrote, “A particular target of the Weather Underground was the American Jewish community.” He notes evidence that “Some Weather Underground activists

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were born into Jewish families, but they were as anti-Semitic as their gentile-born colleagues.” In a speech about his own Jewish background, Weather Underground leader Mark Rudd said, “The only way Israel has survived so far has been to ally with the sole remaining imperial power in the world. But all empires fall, as Jewish history so clearly tells us.” He went on, “Israel is America’s future: militarized, racist, religio-nationalist, corporate, riven with so many internal splits and hatreds that only the existence of a perpetual enemy keeps the nation from exploding. If we don’t organize to stop the current direction in this country, thirty years from now we will be Israel.” The city of Chicago, home base for Ayers and Dohrn, as well as Obama, served as the initial hub for the Arab-American Action Network (AAAN) [49], founded by an academic by the name of Rashid Khalidi who had been a friend of Obama and official of the PLO press agency WAFA. Khalidi has called suicide bombings a response to “Israeli aggression” and dedicated his 1986 book, Under Siege, to “those who gave their lives ... in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.” Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism.” [50] On the board of directors of the AAAN was a U.S.-born Arab pro-PLO organizer named Ali Abunimah, [51] who traveled internationally between Ramallah, Europe and Chicago organizing anti-Israel events and publicity in association with ISM affiliated groups.

Ali Abunimah

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Rashid Khalidi

Then-State Senator Obama was photographed at an AAAN dinner held on May 24, 1998, in Burbank, Illinois. The Woods Fund, where Obama served as a director from 1994 through 2001, approved a $40,000 grant to the AAAN for “community organizing.” [52] Abunimah also helped set up the Electronic Intifada, a propaganda website promoting the Palestinian revolution run by the former webmaster for Bir Zeit University, a Scotsman named Nigel Parry. [53] Bir Zeit is a known bastion for student government terrorist political parties that represent Fatah, Hamas and the PFLP. It is also the base for ISM co-founder Ghassan Andoni.

Ali Abunimah has written about the use of violence in driving out the Jews. [54] To quote Abunimah: "…calls for nonviolence are just another bankrupt exercise in shifting the blame from the occupier to the occupied, while still posing as advocates for peace." Hence, to Abunimah the term "peace activists" is just a ruse. Another political movement, Al Awda (that links to co-founder, Jess Ghannam, another ISM leader in San Francisco), is an ISM affiliate that considers all of Israel where Jews live as "occupied." AAAN executive director Hatem Abudayyeh, a colleague of Ali Abunimah, had his home raided on September 24, 2010, as part of an FBI investigation into illegal support provided by U.S.-based groups to foreign terrorist organizations in the Middle East and Latin America. Incredibly, the raid followed a friendly visit to the White House by Abudayyeh earlier that year. WLS-TV, a local TV station in Chicago, covered the story,

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highlighting the White House visitor logs showing Abudayyeh’s participation as an invited guest in what was described as a “large Arab briefing.” Reporter Chuck Goudie said that while Obama did not attend the briefing, the AAAN was founded by an “Obama friend and fundraiser named Rashid Khalidi, who became a lightning rod during the presidential campaign for his views on Israel.” The AAAN now wants Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder to stop the FBI investigations and prevent a Grand Jury from bringing criminal charges against the “anti-war” and “peace” activists associated with the ISM. Abudayyeh has stated, “The U.S. and Israel will continue to describe Hamas, Hezbollah and the other Palestinian and Lebanese resistance organizations as ‘terrorists,’ but the real terrorists are the governments and military forces of the U.S. and Israel. The vast majority of the world sees and understands this, and is in full support of Lebanese, Palestinian and worldwide resistance to Israel and the U.S.'s naked aggression, war, imperialism and occupation. As we have seen in Iraq, where the resistance is standing up to U.S. power, the U.S. military is not indomitable.”[55]

Hatem Abudayyeh

Targeting the Campus Back in 2002, as part of the propaganda mandate against Israel abroad for actions by the ISM, the group began using the American college system as part of its publicity arm against the Jewish state and as a prime source locale for recruiting ISM activists to go to the West Bank and Gaza and serve as human shields for Palestinian terror groups. Pro-Palestinian groups at campuses like UC Berkeley and San Francisco State, for example, have a constant media presence and share student demonstrators between campuses for purposes just like this. The ISM leadership began its work in U.S. colleges by joining forces with pre-existing Marxist and communist groups that had for

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years sought the destruction of Israel, usually as part of Stalinist classical anti-Zionism and Soviet anti-Semitism. Outside groups involved in this effort include the Resource Center for Non-Violence (RCNV) [56] based in Santa Cruz, California and located near the University of California in that city. The RCNV is led by former Mayor Scott Kennedy, who became an active participant at ISM functions. It existed before the founding of the ISM, but later became a local headquarters for ISM functions.

. Scott Kennedy with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah.

. Kennedy tours Gaza with armed Hamas terrorists.

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The same thing was happening with the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), which also served to help organize ISM propaganda and training sessions for human shields to go to the West Bank and Gaza, and the fiercely anti-Israel organization Al Awda, the Palestine Right of Return Coalition. Al Awda, as mentioned, was co-founded by San Francisco ADC leader Jess Ghannam, a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco Medical School and a Palestinian-American radical from his undergrad days in Michigan and later in grad school at UC Berkeley.

Jess Ghannam

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Mazen Qumsiyeh

Mazen Qumsiyeh was another Al Awda co-founder and is now back in Beit Sahour, which has a large PFLP presence. [57] [58] [59] ADC leaders over the years have consistently stated Hamas and Hezbollah are not terrorist groups and show up at ISM functions where they toe the party line against Israel and the U.S. ADC’s founder, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, traveled to Damascus and said on Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV that Hamas and Hezballah were “resistance fighters.” [60] Today, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation in Washington, D.C. operates as the renamed central focus for the ISM. Huwaida Arraf appears on its steering committee. In Europe, they call themselves the European Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. The U.S. website lists 320 separate ISM organizations across the country.[61] One such affiliate is in Northern California. An American named Paul LaRudee [62] began a chapter called Norcal ISM and began working with Jess Ghannam to recruit ISM trainees to go to the West Bank. LaRudee allegedly was a former linguistics professor who had spent years working in Saudi Arabia for the U.S. State Department, but was now working as a “free-lance international piano tuner.” LaRudee made several trips to the West Bank where he was involved in confrontations with Israeli soldiers on the borders, even being wounded in the leg once. LaRudee wrote an article about his epiphany of sleeping in the bed of a suicide bomber as he acted as a human shield to prevent the IDF’s demolition of a house that had been a bomb factory involved in the killing of Israelis.[63] More recently, LaRudee and Huwaida Arraf have been instrumental in organizing the Gaza flotillas.

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Personal letter of invitation to Paul LaRudee from Hamas terror leader Bassam Naim, later killed by IDF in Operation Cast Lead in 2009.

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LaRudee with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyah.

ISM activists being awarded gold medals from Hamas. LaRudee and Greta Berlin are seated on each side of Hamas leader Haniyah.

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Hamas gold medals.

Paul LaRudee 2009

LaRudee was caught and deported from Israel in 2006 after trying to enter the country under a false identity to meet with members of Hamas. He followed the deportation by going to Lebanon to act as a human shield for Hezbollah in that summer’s war. At the same time, Adam Shapiro and his wife, Huwaida Arraf, did the same thing, leading a caravan of activist human shields as guests of Hezbollah. In this context, it is important to note that the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, raided by the FBI last September, is being investigated for providing support to Hezbollah, another designated terrorist group. The FBI search warrant sought evidence linking FRSO activist Michael Kelly to having provided “material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations,” including Hezbollah.

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In addition to the support provided to the FARC in Colombia, ISM activists have also met with the Zapatistas, a Mexican Marxist terrorist group. This meeting was attended by an ISM activist anarchist leader named Matan Cohen from an ISM affiliate in Israel, Anarchists Against the Wall (AAW), while Cohen was an exchange student at Hampshire College in the U.S. leading divestment actions against Israel. ISM Revolutionary Activities Joseph Carr, an ISM activist from Christian Peacemaker Teams, part of the American Friends Service Committee, was quoted as saying that Rachel Corrie’s death was “worth the price of the revolution.” [64] [65]. Another group, The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), already existed in Berkeley, California in 2001, and was being run by a radical named Barbara Lubin prior to the founding of the ISM, but has since become a part of it.[66] MECA claimed to be an NGO created to help children by traveling around at seminars at U.S. colleges attacking Israel, but later on became a clearing house to distribute funds to other ISM groups.

Medea Benjamin (Code Pink/Viva Palestina/Gaza Freedom March) receiving documents from the Hamas Foreign Minister for President Obama.

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Code Pink, a group mentioned earlier, is led by Medea Benjamin, who has stated she resided four years in Cuba under Castro. Her group Global Exchange sponsors trips to Cuba and Venezuela. She joined land tours like Viva Palestina to aid Hamas. [67] Benjamin named her group Gaza Freedom March to retain control but was part of the same Viva Palestina Tour. The American Friends Service Committee, aka Christian Peacemaker Teams, and the International Women’s Peace Service, are other ISM affiliated groups which established permanent locations in the Palestinian Authority early on as well as in the United States. When in need of legal assistance, ISM activists are backed by the National Lawyers Guild (NLG), part of a communist network created by Josef Stalin to protect communist agents in the U.S. The NLG was identified as a Communist Party front by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, a panel that no longer exists because it and its successors were dismantled by congressional liberals. Writing for The American Thinker, in an article titled “The National Lawyers Guild Works for Israel’s Destruction,” Martha O’Connor notes:

In fact, the NLG has cooperated closely with the ISM, one of whose "Free Gaza" board members "has been an active member of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) for 25 years"; and the NLG has advised activists from the student Group Viva Palestina, which the University of California-Irvine has asked the FBI to investigate because of its alleged material support of Hamas, about how to avoid questions from the Israeli authorities during their visits to Gaza.

Still another arm of the ISM, the Sabeel Ecumenical Society, was created to separate Christian support away from Israel as opposed to just relying on Muslim support.[68] A Jewish Voice for Peace was re-established in 2001 to include Marxists and anarchists of Jewish descent. While claiming to be “pro-Israel, pro-Jewish, pro-Peace”, the group follows the ISM game plan in support of Hamas whose charter rejects the Jewish state of Israel. [69] Sabeel and JVP now maintain a permanent presence in the Holy Land also. The newly formed J Street, funded partly by George Soros, emerged from out of Jewish Voice for Peace and is partly funded by Saudi Arabia and Iran according to J Street’s Tax Form 990. LaRudee, Arraf and Shapiro first began organizing the flotillas to sail to Gaza in 2007. Originally dubbed the Free Gaza Movement, LaRudee mostly led the charge from his home in El Cerrito, California. After the first few flotillas successfully got into Gaza, there was a split over money between LaRudee’s group and those aligned with Arraf. Free Gaza stayed under control of Arraf and associates, and LaRudee’s group began to call themselves the Free Palestine Movement, [70] [71] but still operated from the ISM office in LaRudee’s home in California. Another activist leader, Greta Berlin from Los

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Angeles, began a more active leadership role in the ISM, particularly with the flotillas, moving her base of operations later to Europe to organize for Free Gaza. The PLO also had set up an academic organization called the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) that was not a distinct part of the ISM, but would play a role in the ISM promulgation on American campuses.[72] PASSIA began a program of recruiting young Palestinian Arabs of college age with a good grasp of English and sending them to colleges across the United States after putting them through a propaganda training course in public speaking on behalf of “Palestine.”[73] These students were not allowed to pick their schools or majors; their job was to get on the student newspapers at the campuses and write against Israel and to “make the case for Palestine,” or to set up chapters of Palestinian activism such as the Students for Justice in Palestine or General Union of Palestine Students, or similar named groups whose job would be to demonstrate weekly against Israel on campus. Incredibly, PASSIA receives money from the U.S. State Department’s USAID for this program. [74] At the same time, the Saudis were busy planting seed money on all major U.S. campuses to create Middle East Studies centers that would receive matching taxpayer funds from the U.S. government under Title VI since the 9/11 attacks. [75] [76] Title VI of the U.S. Education Fund was set up during the Cold War by Congress to pay our universities to teach students Russian and about Russian culture. After the 9/11 attacks, Title VI was bolstered with funding for Arabic courses and ways to study Arabic culture to be better prepared in the coming war. Sadly, the money was used more for Middle East Studies centers where America was portrayed as the “Great Satan” to the Arab world. These centers were not part of the ISM organization per se, as they are generally Islamist in their outlook and but they do serve mostly as ISM allies. Campuses all across America began setting up chapters of student activity groups to push the ISM agenda mostly under the name, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). An existing network of the Muslim Students Association, set up originally by the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) [77] also provided a ready campus presence. (It should be noted pro-Palestinian clubs on campuses existed prior to the creation of the ISM, but it was their affiliation with the ISM that caused them to coalesce into a more formidable group. For example, the General Union of Palestinian Students at San Francisco State would charter buses with the SJP at Berkeley and bus students inter-campus for demonstrations.) Roving shows such as the Wheels of Justice (WOJ) tour (another ISM group) also use buses to travel around to speak at high schools during school hours. Claiming to be peace activists again, the WOJ tours propagandize against U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and against the IDF. Since Middle East Studies centers could rely on Title VI educational money for their programs, campus clubs linked to these centers could also rely on student activity

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money and support from Arab faculty advisers like Hatem Bazian and Beshara Doumani at UC Berkeley. ISM/PSM National conferences frequently held seminars on how to fund anti-Israel activism by getting money from administrations at their colleges. This was and still is an ideal way for a foreign movement to fund its infiltration in the West, letting the “enemy” fund the war against itself. ISM national conferences always feature a seminar on this. Another one of the ISM methods of infiltration has been to get into the churches with the claim that the Palestinians are the new Jews and a Jewish state should be replaced by reinterpreting the Bible.[78] ISM volunteers managed to penetrate the synods of the Presbyterian Church, the United Church of Christ (Reverend Wright’s Church), some branches of the Methodists and, in the African-American community, the Nation of Islam, as well as the American Friends Service Committee (the Quakers). Libraries were a target through a radical clique at the American Library Association which filled libraries with new revisionist history of the Middle East.[79] Next came labor unions, like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) [80], where support for Palestinian (aka Hamas) goals is becoming more popular. SEIU representative Joe Iosbacher was a target of the raids of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization last September by the FBI. [81] Although there was a strong presence of Palestinian “students” in the Michigan State University and Chicago areas, the central locations for building a strong national student movement centered around the University of Wisconsin and UC Berkeley. However, Michigan has one of the largest Palestinian and Arab immigrant populations in the U.S., and is recognized by the FBI as a hub for Hezbollah support as well as for Hamas. Wisconsin had been a hub of anti-US activity during the Vietnam War and had a strong history of radical leftist organizing. On that campus was set up the Alternative Palestinian Agenda led by Mohammed Abed and Fayyad Sbaihat, who was at the time considered the campus leader of the anti-Israel movement. Sbaihat, according to one Israeli source, had a family history of involvement in the PFLP. [82] [83] A relocation by Rashid Khalidi to Columbia for a new chair from Chicago brought that New York campus to prominence in this circle [84]. UC Berkeley became the first campus for the movement to hold an ISM national organizing conference. The first National Palestine Solidarity conference was held at the Berkeley campus. It was here that exhortations of the Soviet expression that “Zionism is Racism” were expressed and calls to wipe Israel off the map were discussed. Part of the Soviet platform in its alliance with the Arabs, dating back to Stalin’s era, held that Zionism, or Jewish nationalism, was “racist” and antithetical to human rights. Islamic exclusion of Christians and Jews made no difference to the Soviets who saw the Arabs as their agents against U.S. control in the Middle East. The expression also held its place among the communist-inspired PFLP, from which some of the ISM activists came. Fundamentalist Islamic antipathy toward Jews has found a ready alliance with Soviet-era inspired anti-Semitism against the “rich Jews” who are deemed exploiters via

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capitalism. Arab oil money thus feeds the communist machine in a unified goal in which “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” and they are united against the Jewish state. The first national conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement and the second one that followed at the University of Michigan a year later, both called for the destruction of Israel and promoted the concept that “Zionism is racism.” It was at these conferences that other radical leftist groups were invited to help promote the Palestinian cause and swell ranks. At Michigan, calls were shouted of “Itbah Al Yahud!” in Arabic (Slaughter the Jews!). By the time of the Third National Palestine Solidarity Conference held at Ohio State, a new sophistication was shown. There was a plethora of anti-Israel groups were present, some who were set up with vending tables. These included Alison Weir’s “If Americans Knew” and even a Dennis Kucinich for President table. Weir, a divorced mother of three with time on her hands, had traveled to Afghanistan and was now based in San Rafael, California with the address for her foundation being in Los Angeles. The source of her funding was unclear, but she would hand out brochures that claimed the Jews promoted the Holocaust on their own people in order to create Israel and she had four color post cards with illustrations of Arab terrorists brandishing knifes or other weapons and calling for the annihilation of Israelis. Also present at this Ohio event were representatives from the American Indian Movement and assorted other radical leftist or communist causes opposed to the U.S. government. The Ohio State event in 2003 was too sophisticated to be a simple meeting of students interested in a political cause. Metal detectors were set up to prevent recording devices and cameras from being brought in to the “planning sessions” that ran four seminars per hour. One session was planned to teach how to tie the Palestinian cause into the environmental movement, but was canceled. One was dedicated to how to deconstruct negative public reactions to suicide bombings going on in Israel. Another was on how to get an ISM activist into your college administration. Mohammed Abed spoke at one seminar on how to deconstruct the notion of a Jewish state and another speaker discussed how to infiltrate Jewish organizations like Hillel on U.S. campuses to change the perception of Israel as being less than a pariah state. Ways to wean American Jewish support away from Israel were deemed vital. Jewish participants were paraded around to imply that American Jewish support for Israel was not sacrosanct. One rabbi’s daughter, Ora Wise, spoke at the opening next to Fayyad Sbaihat declaring “Zionism is Racism” and calling for the end of a Jewish state. Fatima Ayub, another student leader, spoke in praise of the “freedom fighters” fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. [85] An ISM activist for years, Ayub had majored in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University [86] and now is on the Board of Human Rights Watch. At this Ohio State event in 2003, various student leaders spoke of their “successes” on their campuses of getting their schools to divest from Israel. One student, Abe Greenhaus, boasted about how he had smashed a pie in the face of Israeli Minister of

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Diaspora Natan Sharansky during a visit to Rutgers University. Greenhaus now works for “Palestine freedom.” [87] Another representative from New Jersey Solidarity is Charlotte Kates, who reportedly called Israeli children killed by suicide bombers, “fair game.” The highlight of the second day was a visit by ISM co-founder Adam Shapiro himself. Shapiro explained during an impromptu lecture that the ISM was not a single entity but a consortium of different groups-- “grassroots” groups he called them—that made up the umbrella organization that held no central leadership. Stop US Taxpayer Support for Israel (SUSTAIN) was in Los Angeles, Jews Against the Occupation was in New York, and Norcal ISM was in San Francisco. Together groups like these were what is called the Palestine Solidarity Movement in the United States. When PSM members were in the West Bank and Gaza operating as human shields they called themselves the International Solidarity Movement because they included activists from the UK. He emphasized that the PSM and ISM were one and the same. He boasted about how the ISM managed to get U.S. volunteers over to the Palestinian Authority for free by using the Jewish Birthright Program -- in essence, tricking a Jewish pro-Israel philanthropic organization into providing free trips for ISM activists. The event had about 450 attendees at its peak. The Rachel Corrie Case About this time, George S. Rishmawi got his wish of having an international volunteer of the ISM becoming a victim by being a human shield when a young woman from Evergreen College in Washington State, Rachel Corrie, was killed when she plunked herself down in front of an IDF bulldozer clearing weapons smuggling tunnels near the Rafah border with Egypt in Gaza. The ISM used Corrie’s death for every bit of propaganda it could. [88] One ISM activist, Joseph Carr, declared her death “...well worth the price of the revolution” for its publicity value. [89] Not long after that, a British ISM activist, Tom Hurndall was shot by an IDF sniper, an Arab-Israeli named Wahid Taysir, who failed to properly follow the rules of engagement while continually being provoked by the ISM activists who screamed, “Shoot me! Shoot me!” Taysir was sentenced to eight years in jail by the IDF, but the ISM had another foreign martyr to call attention to the Palestinian cause. A third ISM human shield, Brian Avery, was wounded at night while knowingly violating a curfew in Jenin when he was hit by ricocheting bullets that were never determined to be from the IDF. This, too, became another publicity bonanza for the ISM. The following year, in 2004, the Fourth National Palsolidarity Conference was held at Duke University in North Carolina. Again, about 400 were in attendance with rotating seminars, four per hour as at previous conferences. At one conference, Abe Greenhaus gave a lecture on the anarchist movement and explained that the rioting the ISM engaged in at the Security Fence in the West Bank was training to bring the same tactics eventually to the Mexican border with the United States. Greenhaus, as a

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representative of “Jews Against the Occupation,” later led a seminar in which he named every pro-Israel and Jewish organization in America, including individual leaders and Jewish businesses and gave instructions to infiltrate them and work to undermine Jewish-American support for Israel. He also instructed on boycotting these businesses and their Jewish management. Huwaida Arraf led a recruiting seminar for ISM activists to go the West Bank and openly admitted the ISM works with Hamas, Palestinian Isamic Jihad and the PFLP. The International Socialist Organization also played an active part in planning “strategy” for the future. Brian Avery spoke about the Jews controlling American foreign policy at the main conference on the last day. A resolution that had been put forth to condemn suicide bombings as a tactic was voted down to the cheering and standing ovation of the attendees on the last day. [90] [91] The final National Palsolidarity Conference at a college took place in 2006 on the campus of Georgetown University.[92] Georgetown had received $20 million from Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal just before the event.[93] The Georgetown administration turned out even non-security administrators and staff to work security for the event behind closed doors. No cameras or recorders were allowed and once again metal detectors were in use at all entrances. Rotating sessions as at earlier conferences highlighted sophisticated seminars on how to destroy the Jewish state of Israel and to erode U.S. support. Huwaida Arraf was present and led things along with Noura Erekat from UC Berkeley. This time, however, enrollment had dwindled and it was speculated the core activists from most campuses had graduated and moved on leaving only the professionals and non-students. Attendance was estimated at about 250 people at its peak. During the Conference, one Jewish protestor was severely beaten by Georgetown security guards after they were directed to seize him for asking questions about terrorism. The victim, Bill Maniaci, sued Georgetown, settling for an undisclosed amount. Since the last conference produced dwindling numbers, the ISM under Huwaida Arraf then reinvented itself with offices in Washington, D.C. under the new name “The U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation,” which had all former ISM leadership on its board of directors, its affiliates and as individual members. The new entity appointed a radical token Jewish leader named Josh Ruebner to head the organization who was recently replaced by Anna Baltzer. Arraf still played an active role but became more oriented toward lobbying congress and arranging national and international publicity events and tactics. Membership fees were charged for “affiliated groups” that were made up of the usual core of the ISM such as Students for Justice in Palestine at assorted campuses, Interfaith Peace Builders, Al Awda and any other anti-war pro-communist or anti-Israel groups across the country. The Gaza Flotillas In still another effort to reinvent itself and find new avenues of publicity, the ISM’s Paul LaRudee, Huwaida Arraf, and Greta Berlin embarked on a new program to create the so-called “Gaza Flotillas” designed to reopen the shipping lanes by sea to Gaza that were closed by the Israeli navy after the capture of the Karine A weapons transport ship

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for Hamas that was sent by Iran, but paid for by Saudi money. The same tactic had been tried before in 1988 by Scott Kennedy of the Resource Center for Nonviolence, but that boat was destroyed by a bombing while it was berthed in Cyprus without any explanation of who did it. The Israeli intelligence service, the Mossad, was suspected That first Free Gaza flotilla boat set sail from Cyprus in 2008 and the Israelis planned to board the boat and stop it. However, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak allowed it to enter Gaza, feeling that stopping it would give the ISM a publicity moment. The successful landing of the first boat led to the sailing of a second by 2009. It was at this time that Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn re-emerged openly on the radical scene as it relates to Israel. Ayers had never stopped being an unrepentant pro-terrorist, even posing for a magazine cover published on 9/11 desecrating a U.S. flag. But he had now become an academic, a Professor of Education, who had signed a petition by academics put out by the renamed ISM, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, that erroneously accused Israel of being like 1980’s apartheid Africa and of “violating international law.” Naturally, Dohrn was also involved. Ayers had been always an activist against Israel. In his manifesto for a communist takeover in the U.S., written in 1974 with Dohrn and others, Ayers wrote long-winded passages against Zionism and in support of the Palestinian revolution in grand Soviet Stalinist propaganda style. He even dedicated the book in part to the Palestinian assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, who murdered presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. Ayers and his wife hadn’t chimed in publicly as much about Israel up to that point as much as in support of Castro and Latin American communist movements. With the political fortunes of Barack Obama entering the White House, and after Ayers’ having been being thrown under the bus during the election campaign when it was revealed he and Reverend Jeremiah were close confidantes of Obama, Ayers and wife jumped onto the ISM’s anti-Israel bandwagon in earnest as the Gaza flotillas became a new attempt at gaining media attention by the ISM leadership. It should be noted the ISM worked with the Turkish non-governmental organization (NGO) IHH with the later flotillas. The ISM had put out feelers for foreign governments to cooperate with them in their activities in ISM communiqués over the Internet. IHH has known links to terrorist groups and an IHH operative was involved in the failed millennium bomb plot to blow up the Los Angeles Airport in the year 2000. [94] [95] ISM leadership, however, saw no problem with this. Neither, apparently, did the U.S. State Department or the White House. Medea Benjamin’s Code Pink, another ISM affiliate, had gained notoriety over the years by sending $600,000 in “humanitarian aid” to that benefited Iraqi forces fighting U.S. Marines in Fallujah during the Iraq War, and by picketing marine recruiters. Code Pink’s co-founder and a fundraiser for Obama, Jody Evans, organized a “land flotilla” to Gaza along the same lines as the ISM sea flotillas to bring support and aid to the Hamas government in Gaza.

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Ayers and Dohrn made certain they were mentioned on the guest list of both revolutionary land trips organized by Code Pink, bringing their names credibility as leaders again and celebrities to attract a new generation of revolutionaries. As mentioned, Ayers and Dohrn joined the sea flotillas also that followed and both became fixtures among the ISM supporters of the Hamas regime in Gaza, equally responsive in voicing support for the other Iranian proxy, Hezbollah, and the government of Iran. Ayers is suspected of writing one of Obama’s books, Dreams from My Father, and has explained that he and his wife had no regrets for their bombings. However, one of the bombs killed a San Francisco Police Sergeant Brian V. McDonnell, and a law enforcement task force continues to investigate the case, including testimony from a former FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, that Dohrn had planted the bomb with the knowledge and approval of Ayers. Ayers had always belonged to -- and still does – an international communist network. Now with the ISM’s flotillas in full swing, Ayers could once again be the revolutionary of the moment. Bernardine Dohrn went with a Code Pink organized ground tour in 2009 to show support for Hamas in Gaza, as well. Stopped by the Egyptians from entering Gaza, Dohrn blamed America and Israel for her inability to enter. [96] [97]

The ISM in Congress Huwaida Arraf, as leader of the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, after the Georgetown conference, began working within Congress. At one point, various leaders of disparate ISM groups were allowed to testify with Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), in an attempt to get a resolution to condemn the Jewish state for its incursion into Gaza in 2009. This was done by Israel to stop rocket attacks. [98] The speakers alongside Kucinich’s presentation were all ISM activists, including Mitchell Plitnick and Noura Erekat, formerly from the Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley, who is a niece of PLO negotiator and Arafat’s former second-in-command, Saeb Erekat. A report on the testimony published by the pro-Arab Washington Report on Middle East Affairs completely whitewashed the 8 years and 8,000 rockets fired into Israeli communities from Gaza that precipitated the Israeli invasion. Arraf managed to secure herself a position as a legal intern for Rep. James Moran (D-Va.). While doing this, she allegedly was attending law school at George Washington University where she earned a law degree that made her a law professor at Al Quds University in the Palestinian Authority. Al Quds University has developed a strong relationship with Bard College in New York where it has the only official ISM chapter on an American University campus that identifies itself as part of the ISM and even trained ISM activists to go to Gaza and the West Bank with campus funding.[99] Her job was to help release al Qaeda terrorists imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.

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Meanwhile, Arraf, since leaving Congress, has stayed busy organizing more flotillas to enter Gaza and assist the Hamas government there. Despite her group’s splitting from Paul LaRudee’s group a year ago over the issue of how money was being handled, it did not deter the two groups from sailing together at the same time. LaRudee’s Free Gaza Movement is now allegedly separate, but the two flotilla groups do coordinate things together. It was Arraf’s group that sought to find a nation to back them up and that resulted in getting the Turkish government under Erdogan to aid in the usage of the Mavi Mamara ship to join the seventh flotilla. The sixth flotilla had a ship that was allegedly commanded by a Turkish Navy Captain who ignored IDF calls to heave to and sailed straight into Gaza. The flotillas have finally become a media bonanza for the ISM after the seventh try.

The ISM on our Southern Border In keeping with the notion of “solidarity” between revolutionary movements against the United States, ISM affiliated groups are looking toward the Mexican border and Latin America. In so doing, there appears to be a Hezbollah link as well as one with Hamas. Since Hezbollah and Hamas are both proxies of Iran, the danger to national security should be obvious. The ISM and their allies have been aligning themselves steadily with any “revolutionary” group that is anti-US and anti-Israel. There is a definite connection between these subversive groups here in the United States and over in Israel. For example, a visit to the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem reveals the management of the office is led by American anarchist-communists, and in some cases members of Israel’s communist party elite from Israeli universities who travel back and forth between the two countries and Britain. Connie Hackbarth, an American ISM activist, is currently Executive Director of the Alternative Information Center. An American with a long track record with the ISM in the U.S., her appointment suggests American anarchist and/or Marxist leadership is guiding ISM activities around the world. Many of these activities lead back to the PFLP base of operations in the Palestinian Authority, even if it is currently concentrating to aid Hamas in Gaza. But, if the Israeli fence can be protested, what about the plan to create a fence on the southern border of the U.S.? That figures to be another target of the ISM. Imagine chartered buses of college students and others from anarchist-communist groups in the U.S. going to the Mexican border to destroy any fence constructed to keep out illegal immigrants and to riot against U.S. soldiers and border police much as Israel experiences on a weekly basis in the West Bank. Using the Spanish “Viva” in Viva Palestina, the name for the ISM affiliates land convoy, is no doubt intentional to try and link Mexico and Latin American countries into a communist anti-U.S. and anti-Israel

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alliance axis. Viva Palestina has been led by George Galloway who admitted that “humanitarian aid” actually constitutes material support for Hamas. [100] There are reports about the digging of tunnels by Hezbollah into the U.S. from Mexico that are similar to those used by Hezbollah in Lebanon against Israel. Reports of beheadings in Mexico and alliances between Hezbollah agents and Mexican drug cartels have also made the news. [101] Congress should investigate these reports. The Iranian Connection During a fund raising event in Newark, California, last year, Paul LaRudee revealed the plans of the ISM coming this May as having as many as 40 ships sail toward Gaza all at the same time, from as many as ten countries. Many of these small craft will be moored just outside the Gaza water limits with the intent to enter Israel’s security zone when the opportunity presents itself. The idea is to have so many boats in so many different places the IDF Navy will be unable to monitor each one all of the time. At the same time, LaRudee’s faction is also planning on buying aircraft to fly into Gaza and create another confrontation with the IDF. At the Newark, California, event, LaRudee and company raised $50,000 toward the purchase of the airplanes. In addition, the plan is to get over 100 “Palestinians” with U.S. citizenship to land at Ben Gurion airport with keys saying they have come back to Israel to retake their “homes.”[102] Huwaida Arraf’s crew is also working with a European Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. The recent reports of Iranian warships passing through the Suez Canal have ominous implications. One was a long term supply ship, ostensibly to support an Iranian frigate, but the supply ship could also be there to supply the ISM flotillas off the Gaza coast long term so they can remain outside Gaza’s waters as a continual threat. At the same time, the frigate can serve as a military escort if and when some of the flotilla boats decide to make a run for Gaza. This poses a genuine security threat to both Israel and the United States as it could lead to war if the Israelis determine a need to sink the warships to stop the importation of weapons and war supplies by sea to Hamas in Gaza. One thing is certain: the ISM is undermining the peace process, and could ultimately drag the U.S. into another war. It is working to enable Hamas in any way it can by opening up the sea lanes to Gaza for Iran. What the U.S. and Israel Must Do This is occurring because of a laxity on the part of the U.S. and Israeli governments to enforce laws they already have on the books. The Free Gaza Movement and Free Palestine Movement were not set up by the IRS as tax deductible 501-3 nonprofits so they could raise money for boats and airplanes to go to Gaza. Most of the ISM chapters were set up as non-profits whose purpose was to be educational and not to engage in international political activities serving the interests of terrorists.

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The U.S. government could enforce the U.S. Neutrality Act that would prohibit the flotilla groups from raising money and interfering with the IDF on behalf of Hamas and Iran. Most important is that in 1997 Congress passed a law making the boycott of Israel illegal. This law is supposed to be enforced by the U.S. Department of Commerce. All of the ISM affiliated groups promote the economic boycott of Israel or divestment from it, and even an academic boycott of Israel in the world’s colleges is ongoing. Despite this, the U.S. government does not enforce the law. Incredibly, Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at a conference organized in Washington, D.C. by ISM San Francisco leader Jess Ghannam of the Arab-American Anti- Discrimination Committee. Holder delivered the keynote remarks at the Annual Civil Rights Luncheon during ADC’s 30th Anniversary National Convention in 2010. [103] Given that the highest law enforcement officers in the land are lending their names and support to an ISM-affiliated group, one wonders how the conflict between Israel, Hamas and its allied terror partners will ever be solved. The so-called “peace process” that was to take 5 years when the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993 has dragged on now for 19 years with no end in sight and the prospect of a war between Israel and Iran is on the horizon. We believe the Congress should investigate the ISM and well as its relationship with the U.S. State Department. The ISM on its website and manuals has encouraged ISM activists to obtain U.S. passports in order to deceive the Israeli law enforcement authorities. This is also taught in their training sessions in the US and abroad. [104] When ISM activists are deported from Israel for security concerns their passports are stamped to deny them reentry to Israel for 10 years. Despite this, the ISM encourages its members to file for passports under other names or identities to reenter to again break Israeli law. The Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) is responsible for enforcing the passport laws. Paul LaRudee was caught and deported from Israel in 2006 for trying to meet with Hamas because this writer alerted the Israeli authorities that he was traveling under another passport with the name Paul Wilder. LaRudee, in a San Francisco newspaper article, admitted he had obtained the new passport with the new name specifically to reenter Israel. He was never prosecuted for this despite his admission in a public forum. This writer interviewed an ISM activist involved in the Flotillas from the San Francisco Bay Area named Naim Frangieh, who has stated the ISM and flotilla groups have “an excellent relationship with the U.S. State Department.” DSS is part of the U.S. State Department. The passports of ISM activists who have been proven to work in cooperation with terrorist groups can and should be revoked. It is time Congress investigates what relationship exists between the U.S. State Department and members of the ISM. Given the ISM penchant for using multiple names and identities, some uniform system of investigation should be done by Congress to find out what

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penetration the ISM has made into the State Department that ultimately may go to assist the terrorist groups that ISM admittedly works with. If Huwaida Arraf can get a job working in Congress after her stunt as a human shield for terrorists at the Church of the Nativity, then perhaps members of Congress are not performing adequate security background checks of their staffers. But there is another question: is she acting on behalf of the U.S. State Department in some of her activities? If she is, then Congress and the American people should know about it. Executive Order 12947 is titled “Prohibiting Transactions With Terrorists Who Threaten To Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process.” Why is it not enforced? The Shurat HaDin—Israel Law Center, in an article, “Implementing the US Neutrality Act to Prevent Support for Hamas,” contends that organizations in the United States that are seeking to fund flotillas to breach the Israeli blockade of Gaza are “acting in direct violation of the US Neutrality Act, when considering the circumstances surrounding the blockade and the support being provided by the flotillas.” It says, “Such organizations should be criminally prosecuted under the law.” Equally important are the investigations underway into U.S.-based Marxist groups suspected of assisting groups like Hamas and Hezbollah. Attorney General Holder cannot be permitted to interfere with or stop these probes. And the last thing the United States needs is a propaganda television network like Al Jazeera to misrepresent and sugar coat what the ISM is doing. The recent raids on “activists” who allegedly provided material aid to members of foreign terrorist groups is an example of our law enforcement agencies responsibly caring for the U.S. population in general. A new FBI director must continue and expand these investigations to include the ISM, which by subterfuge poses the greatest long-term threat of all. The House Homeland Security Committee, which has begun hearings and investigations into radical Islam on American soil, should examine the role of Al-Jazeera here and abroad.

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End Notes: Link to Title Photo in header from StoptheISM.com: http://www.stoptheism.com/content/index.php?pid=1&cid=43 [1] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2601 [2] www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/31.pdf and [3] www.palsolidarity.org and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Khaled [4] http://palsolidarity.org/about-ism/ [5] http://web.archive.org/web/20020805193207/www.palsolidarity.org/about_us.htm [6] http://www.ism-vancouver.org/whyism.html [7] http://www.ism-france.org/charte.php?id=1 [8] http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/3/Passover%20suicide%20bombing%20at%20Park%20Hotel%20in%20Netanya [9] http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/04/03/world/main505316.shtml [10] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/1457952/Israel-to-turn-its-sights-on-the-terrorists-surrounding-Yasser-Arafat.html [11] http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=6&x_article=316 [12] http://jat-action.org/ISM_essay_ref12.htm [14] http://reocities.com/nstix/shapiro2.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huwaida_Arraf [14] http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/speakers/168.html The above link is to ISM affiliate website for Code Pink but provides a reasonable biography except the deception that Ms. Arraf is a “peace activist.” She has made previous comments in support of violence. [15] http://www.seedsofpeace.org/about/mission [16] http://www.hirhome.com/israel/seeds.htm [17] http://www.investigativeproject.org/430/former-ambassador-defends-hlf [18] http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1355&q=1 [19] http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/138006 [21] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/georgerishmawiprofile.html [22] http://www.answers.com/topic/popular-front-for-the-liberation-of-palestine [23] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9000912038601222320# [24] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oBOoOTpub8&feature=related [25] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71GoLKq0Qcs&feature=related [26] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/huwaida-arraf/8/a04/550 [27] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=12370 Author was provided with an ISM training manual for Northern California that advised trainees not say they were human shields but human rights workers or peace activists in order to deceive people. This was repeated in the London training manual and the one in use today. Huwaida Arraf has taken credit for writing the manual. [28] http://www.analyst-network.com/article.php?art_id=3249 [29] http://www.isracampus.org.il [30] http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUScomintern.htm [31] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comintern

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[32] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/11/AR2006021101014.html [33] http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40973 [34] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9171 [35] http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127400 [36] http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2008/08/isms-paul-larudee-on-secret-tape-we-are/index.shtml [37] http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/2449/pid/897 [38] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=9171 [39] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_return [40] http://www.zionism-israel.com/issues/return_detail.html [41] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Malcolm_X_any_means_necessary.jpg [42] http://infoshop.org/page/WWP-FAQ [43] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2169 [44] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190 [45] http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/Prairie-fire.pdf [46] http://www.divestmentwatch.com/NewsStories/BIS2003-10/BIS-Letter-10-03.PDF [47] http://www.vivapalestina.org/ [48] http://www.freegaza.org/ [49] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/aaan5.html [50] http://sandbox.blog-city.com/khalidi_of_the_plo.htm [51] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1426 [52] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funderProfile.asp?fndid=5340 [53] http://www.omdurman.org/columns/nigelparry.html [54] http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_ID=10&article_ID=8158&categ_id=5#axzz1FHDkcYKG http://www.stoptheism.com/content/index.php?pid=149&cid=222 [55] http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2011/02/15/chicago-seiu-local-leaders-probed-terror-links [56] http://beckyjohnsononewomantalking.blogspot.com/2009/10/resource-center-for-no-israel.html [57] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=933 [58] http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2006/nov/30/peres-stresses-globalization/ [59] http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2010/03/mazin-qumsiyeh-israeli-army-wants-me/ [60] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=28887 [61] http://www.endtheoccupation.org/groups.php [62] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=7587 and http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6158 http://www.palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=14653 [63] http://www.gush-shalom.org/diary/diary37.html [64] http://struggle.ws/mexico/reports/encount2_sol_meet_jun97.html

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Additional information about this meeting regarding the ISM was obtained by the author while working undercover. [65] http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/kristin-bricker/2009/01/mexican-rebels-stand-solidarity-gaza [66] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/printgroupProfile.asp?grpid=6158 [67] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=626 [68] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Overview%20of%20Sabeel.html [69] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=1416  [70] http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4458 [71] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=13551 [72] http://www.passia.org [73] http://www.passia.org/seminars/98/S01.htm [74] http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=1636&q=1 [75] http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4458 [76] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=13551 [77] http://www.islamicfinder.org/getitWorld.php?id=48513 [78] http://www.sabeel.org/ [79] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11041 [80] http://freedomist.com/2010/09/09/teachers%E2%80%99-unions-afscme-seiu-create-%E2%80%9Clabor-for-palestine%E2%80%9D-freedom-news/ [81] http://freedomist.com/2010/09/09/teachers%E2%80%99-unions-afscme-seiu-create-%E2%80%9Clabor-for-palestine%E2%80%9D-freedom-news/ and http://www.nlpc.org/stories/2011/02/15/chicago-seiu-local-leaders-probed-terror-links [82] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=15272 [83] http://www.dafka.org/news/index.php?pid=4&id=463 [84] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1347 [85] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=15272 [86] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1612 [87] http://www.palestinefreedom.org/ [88] http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/editordetail.php?id=345 [89] http://www.omdurman.org/columns/carr.html [90] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=10792 [91] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=11021 [92] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=5159 [93] http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2329 [94] http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/0601/Targeted-by-Israeli-raid-Who-is-the-IHH/(page)/2 [95] http://www.investigativeproject.org/1998/ihhs-deep-longstanding-terror-ties [96] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualprofile.asp?indid=2169 [97] http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190 [98] http://wrmea.com/component/content/article/3031-waging-peace-congressional-briefing-on-operation-cast-lead.html [99] http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/3796 [100] http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/322.pdf

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[101] http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/evidence-hizbollah-muslims-crossing-illegally-into-arizona-video/ [102] An undercover recording was made of the meeting that is available to law enforcement. [103] http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/3796 [104] http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=12370

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In this explosive report, The International Solidarity Movement: Threat to America, Israel and the World, Lee Kaplan reveals:

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) misrepresents itself as a grassroots movement of pacifists and humanitarians.

Heavily influenced by the Popular Front for the Liberation of

Palestine, a Marxist group, the ISM claims to be nonviolent, but its activities further the terrorism of groups like Hamas.

The ISM is not just one group, but an interlocking umbrella of many

groups, most of them Marxist-oriented.

ISM activists include Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, former leaders of the communist terrorist Weather Underground.

The ISM uses the American college system to promote its agenda, as well as churches, libraries, and labor unions.

The ISM improperly and illegally relies on tax-deductible contributions collected in the U.S.

The ISM has infiltrated Congress and has enjoyed a privileged status relationship with the U.S. State Department.

U.S. law enforcement authorities have generally failed to recognize the danger from the ISM.

ISM activities planned for 2011 could further undermine the peace process with Israel and even bring on another Middle East war. It is time for America and Israel to take action against the terrorist-supporting subversive network.