Ghassan Andoni

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox person/Wikidata Ghassan Andoni (Template:Langx; born 1956) is a Palestinian activist.

Born in Beit Sahour to a Palestinian Christian family, he is a professor of physics at Bir Zeit University at the West Bank. He advocates nonviolent resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.[1]

Andoni is co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), founder of the International Middle East Media Centre and director of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between Peoples (PCR).[2][3]

During the First Intifada Andoni was imprisoned for being involved in Beit Sahour’s tax revolt. In 2006, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee along with Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD).[4]

Bibliography

  • Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement, Editor, Verso Books (2004). Template:ISBN

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