Huwaida Arraf
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Huwaida Arraf, born in Detroit, Michigan, is a co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a pro-Palestinian organization, the stated mission of which is to resist the Israeli occupation using nonviolent tactics, but which is regarded by some as condoning terrorism, a charge ISM vigorously denies. Arraf is married to Adam Shapiro, another ISM co-founder, whom she met while both were working at the Jerusalem center of "Seeds of Peace", an organization that sought to foster dialogue between Jewish and Palestinian youth.
Arraf, who is Christian, is the daughter of an Israeli Arab father and a Palestinian mother. She majored in Arabic and Judaic studies and political science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She spent a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and studied Hebrew on a kibbutz.
External links
- [International Solidarity Movement] (official)
- [ISM FAQ's]
- [Guardian article] about Arraf, Adam Shapiro and the ISM
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