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ISM Freedom Summer Campaign Approaches - Slander Campaign Against ISM Stepped-Up

ISM Media Group | 18.06.2006 13:40 | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Freedom Summer 2006 is nearly here. Palestinians are continuing to employ a greater variety of creative, non-violent resistance to the occupation and you’re invited to participate.

Boosted by international support, including the recent advances in the boycott, sanctions and divestment campaign, Palestinian non-violent resistance is growing and needs your support! The International Solidarity Movement’s (ISM) annual Freedom Summer Campaign is a vital effort that has brought thousands of international citizens to occupied Palestine. Now it is time once again to lend your support to Palestinian non-violent resistance and join the ISM Freedom Summer Campaign set for July and August!

Supporters of the occupation are desperate to undermine growing international support for the Palestinian non-violent movement because they know that this is one of the most powerful mechanisms to end the occupation. For the past several weeks, their slander campaign against the ISM and individual ISM activists has escalated.

This campaign only encourages us! Our work to support Palestinian non-violent resistance bothers those who support the occupation. It worries them enough to attempt to sabotage our movement and activities. Like the FBI’s COINTELPROs of the 60s and 70s whose aim was to “disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” civil rights and anti-war groups, these campaigns aim to turn us against each other and create divisions within our movement by spreading lies.

The aim of this campaign is to discourage visitors from overseas from coming to the occupied territories and from acting in solidarity with peaceful Palestinian resistance. Two methods are current - sending names and pictures to the Israeli authorities and claiming the people are a “security threat,” and spreading false rumors that cast doubt on the reputation of the ISM in general as well as some of our most prominent and active individuals (Palestinian and international). There is also an attempt to damage the reputation of the ISM within Palestinian communities.

Some of the people behind these slanderous assaults are the usual extreme right-wing conspiracy theorizing, suspects who discredit themselves with their own words. Other aspects of the campaign are more sophisticated. Unknown and unaccountable individuals pretend to be concerned about the future of ISM and its reputation within Palestinian communities, while at the same time spreading lies, making veiled threats, and calling for us to stop operations. Some of the false rumors bare striking resemblance to lies that Israeli security officials have told notable Palestinian non-violent activists when they pass through the border on their way to trips outside the country, in an attempt to divide Palestinians from internationals.

Join us in Palestine this summer during our Freedom Summer Campaign. Stand in solidarity with Palestinians, Israelis and internationals calling for justice for the Palestinian people - for an end to the occupation!

For details on how to join us see our website:
www.palsolidarity.org/main/join/

For the original call for Freedom Summer 2006, see:
www.palsolidarity.org/main/2006/02/19/freedom-summer-2006-building-bridges/

Statement by ISM Media Group

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ISM: I Support Murder

18.06.2006 17:27

"
Join us in Palestine this summer during our Freedom Summer Campaign."

Mommy and daddy take my hand, take me of to PaliLand...
Please help us to lend logistical support to Hamas, PFLP, Tanzim, Islamic Jihad et al...
Together, we can peacefully keep the Israelis from saving Israeli lives while simultaneously enabling "freedom fighters" to kill Jews. It's fun and it's a tradition that we can all enjoy.

Suicideal Maniancs


ISM: I Support Murder

18.06.2006 18:37

The writer of this is clearly a troll, but I shall respond nevertheless. The ISM does nothing of the sort. It, among other groups, prevents illegal actions being taken against an oppressed people. I am sure that this will enflame you, but the Israeli state treats Palestinians as the Nazis treated Jews (minus the gas chambers). I presume you already know this, so will persue it not further. By the way, if you are so opposed to violence and terrorism, I suppose you oppose Israel, for it was only established due to a sustained terrorist campaign against the British occupiers.

Lee


ISM: I Support Murder

18.06.2006 19:16

anti-ISM Troll


Typical

18.06.2006 22:01

Thanks, Zionist Plants, for proving the article's points for us.

Field Guide To Hasbara (Zionist Propaganda):
 http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/28174.php

25 Tactics of Disinformation:
www.benfrank.net/disinfo/

Zionism, Irrelevant Within A Generation


ISM and all people with moral will always face abuse

19.06.2006 11:47

ISM and all people with moral will always face abuse from nationalists.

Nationalism at its heart is illogical and irrational and Jewish nationalists whom blindly support the Israeli state are just so ignorant about the horrific abuse that the Palestinians suffer that they think the ISM are just evil.

The crititisms of the ISM from Blind-Zionists are so contradictory it is a joke. They moan about how evil the Palestinians are for using violent resistance but finally when there is non-violent resistance from the ISM they forget about that.

But i dont think ISM people need to worry about this. Everytime in history when people have taken a stand they have faced abuse from nationalists. The same happened in the 1960s and 1970s inside South Africa and the same happened during the First World War in Britain.

Personally i am Jewish and i 100% support the work of the ISM. They are non-violent and are extremly good human beings.

Shlomo
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