The International Solidarity Movement or ISM, which was an active protective presence in Palestine for many years in the earlier 2000s has returned. The perhaps-best known activist from that earlier round of International Solidarity Movement protective work was Rachel Corrie, a name many of our listeners are familiar with, because while putting her body in between an Israeli bulldozer at the home of a Palestinian family she was staying with in Rafah, the bulldozer drove over her, crushing her to death. Now, international activists are returning to provide a protective presence, with the same group – the International Solidarity Movement, now in the West Bank. A delegation from the Bay Area just returned from that protective presence work. We’ll hear more from them later in the week, but today, we hear a brief reflection from one of those Bay Area activists who just returned, Maria Lewis. 

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