Here is an amazing video of the late Vittorio Arrigoni, journalist and activist, in which he explains his commitment to Gaza (thanks to Max Blumenthal):
Because his grandfathers fought the Nazi occupation of Italy
Because he sought to do what the United Nations was failing to do, and is charged with doing, enforcing international law– he was willing to serve as a “human shield” against violent Israeli encroachments on human freedom in occupied Gaza
Because arriving by boat in 2008 [his date in video is wrong] he helped to restart the International Solidarity Movement which had been stymied by Israel’s killings of American Rachel Corrie and Englishman Tom Hurndall in 2003
We mourn the lionhearted Vittorio’s death. And while we recognize that he was killed by a radical Palestinian faction, and we condemn radical Islamism, this in no way diminishes our own commitment to ending the cruel occupation.
