Nonviolent Resistance: Lessons from Issa Amro

Issa Amro is a Hebron-based Palestinian human rights defender, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee who has dedicated his life to the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience to fight Israel’s occupation in the West Bank. In 2007, Issa founded Youth Against Settlements which seeks to end the expansion of illegal settlements in the West Bank through nonviolent popular struggle and civil resistance.

In 2010, Issa was declared a “human rights defender of the year in Palestine” by the Office of the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights. Last year, the New York Times called him “one of the followers of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” and the New York Times Magazine called him “the Palestinian Gandhi.” Amnesty International and the United Nations have also recognized Issa as a Human Rights Defender. In 2023, he received the HLS Advocates/Harvard Human Rights Journal’s Global Advocacy Award.

Join Advocates for Human Rights, the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World and the Middle Eastern and North African Law Students’ Association for a conversation with Issa, where he will share insights on his decades of activism in the West Bank, the situation in Hebron currently, and will connect his work to nonviolent resistance movements in the United States.
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