Ghassan Andoni

Ghassan Andoni (born 1956) is a native of Beit Sahour in the Bethlehem area. He is a professor of physics at Bir Zeit University, and a Palestinian Christian leader who advocates nonviolent resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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).

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).

References

External links

The International Middle East Media Centre

Interview with Ghassan Andoni on YouTube

Ghassan Andoni of the Palestinian Center for Rapproachment provides a history of Zionism and his organizations efforts to use nonviolent direct action to end the Israel's occupation.

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Andoni

Andoni is a Local Government Area in Rivers State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Ngo. It has an area of 233 km² and a population of 211,009 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 504.