Sister of Local Flotilla Activist Urges Action at Vigil

Summary

---

"The Israelis have a wonderful PR team and we all know that," she said. "They kept members of the flotilla's crew detained so that they wouldn't be able to speak to the media. That's why we have to speak up for them."

"Her husband Adam (Shapiro) said that Huwaida was just screaming 'We are unarmed civilians! We are unarmed civilians!" [Mariam Arraf] said.

A youthful crowd of about 150 people held a vigil and demonstration against the Israeli raid on a flotilla of aid ships to Gaza that left at least 9 activists dead. Speaking at the event was Mariam Arraf, sister of Huwaida Arraf, the co-founder of the ISM. Huwaida Arraf was on board one of the captured ships and said she was thrown from a moving car before being imprisoned by Israeli police. Nafeh AbuNab/American Elite Studios

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

Sister of Local Flotilla Activist Urges Action at Vigil

DEARBORN - Speaking in Dearborn for the first time since her sister, University of Michigan graduate and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement Huwaida Arraf, was loc...

See the full content of this document

---