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International Solidarity Movement

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The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a activist organization that recruits civilians from western countries to participate in non-violent acts of resistance against Israeli activites during the Israel-Palestinian conflict.

The ISM is devoted to ending the Israeli "occupation" and supports violent resistance as a "legitimate means of Palestinian struggle".

Past ISM campaigns have used the following strategies:

  • Acting as human shields to deter Israeli military operations.
  • Physically removing roadblocks put in place by the Israeli Defense Force.
  • Attempting to block military vehicles such as tanks and bulldozers.
  • Violating curfew orders.

On March 16, 2003, ISM member Rachel Corrie was fatally run over by a bulldozer during a protest.

The ISM received extensive media coverage of its presence in Yasir Arafat's compound in Ramallah and at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.

(The ISM has no relationship with the Polish trade union, Solidarity.)

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