"As a front group for Palestinian terrorists, the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) sends young people from all over the world to the training fields of the West Bank and Gaza to learn from terrorists and to aid them logistically. Stop the ISM has now obtained photographs of ISM leaders and organizers holding AK-47 assault rifles. The images show some of the ISM women disguised as Jews living in the West Bank and in the company of an Al Aksa Martyrs Brigade terrorist.
One of our volunteers in the United Kingdom for Stop the ISM managed to infiltrate the ISM late last June in the Holy Land where the ISM operates in direct support of terrorists. Our volunteer (who prefers to remain anonymous to avoid retaliatory attacks) has had prior experience going undercover for the police in the UK. The photos and intelligence he brought back are proving invaluable to intelligence agencies watching the ISM and have been in official hands for over a month prior to this publication..."
Now flashback to 2003, to see how this group of terrorist enablers were whitewashed by the Israel-hating lefties at the BBC:
Headline:
"Peace activists caught up in Middle East Conflict"
Note lack of quote marks around peace activists. There's no question that about it - they're activists for peace!
"Reports that two Britons suspected of having mounted a suicide operation in Israel..
i.e. intentionally slaughtered innocent civilians in a crowded nightspot.
"had tried to associate with peace activists in Gaza to disguise their activities have highlighted the difficulties of campaigners operating in the Middle East.
Yes, the only issue raised by terrorists attempting to associate with the ISM, undoubted peace activists that they are, is how difficult it is for 'campaigners' to avoid being unwittingly infiltrated.
"Peace activist Camilla Leyland, who has just returned to London from the occupied Palestinian territories, said she feared the Israeli Government would use the newspaper reports as part of a campaign to crack down on the ISM's activities.
Those peace-hating Israelis just have it in for peace activists.
"...[The ISM's] activities have included joining protests to block construction of a "security fence" around parts of the West Bank, as well as standing in the way of Palestinian homes being destroyed by the army.
Time for the scare quotes! The Israelis call it a "security fence" but perhaps it has a more sinister purpose - after all, how can you trust people who destroy Palestinian homes for no apparent reason.
"Dr Nancy Snow, a political scientist at California State University, who studies social movements, says the group is facing dangerous challenges... They are committed to non-violent action, but when something terrible happens, the government could try to suggest guilt by association. There needn't have been any direct connection between the group and any national security issues, just a suggestion would be enough.
"The ISM agrees. "If we are not welcome, it is first and foremost because we are witnesses of the atrocities carried out by the Israeli army," ISM spokesman Tom Wallace said on Friday.
The ISM's claims are backed by a bona fide scientist of politics! That seals it then. What more is there to say. Except that one quick google reveals that the academic the BBC have implied is simply an impartial expert is in fact a longstanding anti-Israeli radical leftist.
"The government accuses the group of associating with "terrorists". A few weeks ago, the army says it went into an apartment used by the group in Jenin and found an alleged member of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad.
There's no doubt about the peace activists, but whether Islamic Jihad are "terrorists" is very much a moot point for the BBC.
"We have come to learn that it's evident that the so-called peace activists are pro-Palestinian and have been involved with terrorists," the Israeli Government official said. But the ISM says that it had never knowingly had associations with Palestinians affiliated with militant, political or religious groups.
"So committed to their mission are ISM volunteers that they say they will be undaunted by Israel's threats to stop them getting into the country."
Those peace activists are just Sooooo committed to their noble cause (the eradication of Israel.)
