The ISM Uses Lies 

This section will be devoted to showing how the ISM uses lies in its presentations and recruiting as well as its training sessions. In coming weeks we will expose the real ISM and its leadership. We will also show you how the ISM collects donations in the names of Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall by lying about how these people were really used by the ISM to help the plan Arafat’s media campaigns. 

ISM activities 

Here we will alert you to ISM activities in your area so you can take countermeasures.

How effective are we? 

Very. Due to our exposure of the ISM, the Israeli government has finally recognized the ISM is a danger to Israeli soldiers and begun deporting ISM members who try to lie their ways into Israel to endanger the Israeli public and Israeli soldiers in combat zones.


ISM individuals and our Rogue’s Gallery

Here we will profile ISM individuals and expose them. Find out who is active in the ISM and see what they really say and do. Below is an email exchange message from one ISM activist, Daniel Sword from Macalester College is St. Paul, Minnesota, on advising another ISM member about how to enter Israel to aid the PLO. We urge you to read this and see how the ISM encourages its members to lie. In coming weeks we will have more on ISM activists worldwide to give you the tools to fight them.

re: where's jonathan? 

> > > > § from: daniel sword dsword@macalester.edu 

> > > > 

> > > > as for the rachel corrie stuff, my advice

> would be 

> > > to 

> > > > find another excuse 

> > > > for your name. a famous author or something-- 

> > > corrie 

> > > > mcdermott is the first 

> > > > one i found on yahoo. also, i'd emphasize that

> you 

> > > 

> > > > changed your middle name 

> > > > because it was your father's name. emphasize

> that 

> > > a 

> > > > lot. tell them he's 

> > > > been harassing you, harassing our mother, his

> wife 

> > > is 

> > > > threatening, and that 

> > > > he's altogether manipulative and cruel, so you

> 

> > > wanted 

> > > > to distance yourself 

> > > > from him as much as possible. hell, tell them

> she 

> > > > threw you out of his 

> > > > house for bringing your jewish girlfriend

> over. 

> > > tell 

> > > > them she used to live 

> > > > in afghanistan and is a raging anti-semitic.

> tell 

> > > them 

> > > > her name. tell them 

> > > > she spends lots of time in south america, 

> > > venezuela, 

> > > > yes, but also 

> > > > argentina. something like that. if they ask

> you 

> > > about 

> > > > her, trash her. hell, 

> > > > if you can, make up so much shit about her

> that 

> > > she 

> > > > gets strip searched 

> > > > every time she flies back to venezuela to pick

> up 

> > > a 

> > > > new vase. also, you 

> > > > could use the excuse that "jonathan corrie 

> > > coleman" is 

> > > > a bitchin' name to 

> > > > publish under because it sounds so cool. 

> > > > 

> > > > be honest about facts that can be verified,

> like 

> > > when 

> > > > you went to olympia. 

> > > > why, though, you can embellish. your jewish 

> > > girlfriend 

> > > > was going to study 

> > > > there, and you moved with her to work with the

> 

> > > state 

> > > > legislature for a 

> > > > while. don't tell them her real name. maybe

> you 

> > > feel 

> > > > estranged from all the 

> > > > political shit going on in olympia... it seems

> 

> > > radical 

> > > > and reactionary, and 

> > > > you want to see what the world's really like

> and 

> > > to 

> > > > learn more about jewish 

> > > > culture and heritage. during your

> interrogation, 

> > > don't 

> > > > seem afraid or 

> > > > nervous. ask about hebrew university and what

> it's 

> > > 

> > > > like to live in tel 

> > > > aviv. if they ask you why you came to tel aviv

> 

> > > after 

> > > > being denied entry, 

> > > > tell them its because you are thinking of

> marrying 

> > > 

> > > > this girl and moving to 

> > > > israel and really have to talk to schools

> while 

> > > you're 

> > > > there. wait off 

> > > > bringing the congressman into the picture and

> see 

> > > if 

> > > > you can get by without 

> > > > trying to get into a power struggle. these

> seem 

> > > like 

> > > > crazy people, like 

> > > > children... treat them like children. have a 

> > > response 

> > > > for every question 

> > > > they can ask you about why this and why that,

> and 

> > > make 

> > > > all your responses 

> > > > consistent. that's my best guess as to what

> will 

> > > help 

> > > > you get into israel. 

> > > > 

> > > > keep in touch. please let me know when you're 

> > > planning 

> > > > on going wherever, 

> > > > and when i should call brian baird (i.e. if i 

> > > don't 

> > > > hear from you in a day 

> > > > or two, should i wait for you to send an email

> or 

> > > > call). you can reach me 

> > > > or leave a message 24/7 at 615-668-0333, or

> email 

> > > > dsword@macalester.edu. if 

> > > > you need me to call anybody, send emails or 

> > > letters 

> > > > for you, just let me 

> > > > know. 

> > > > 

> > > > i love you jonathan. 

> > > > stay safe, fuck the military, 

> > > > 

> > > > daniel 

Daniel Sword contacted us demanding his name be removed from the email exchange we ran above

and denying any affiliation with the ISM. We do note however, he advised how to lie and help terrorists.

Please read the entire exchnage below:

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·  From: jonathan@riseup.net 
·  To: jonathanpalestineupdate@lists.riseup.net 
·  Subject: where's Jonathan? 
·  Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 14:52:27 -0700 (PDT) 

I was turned away at the King Hussein (Albeny) bridge.
They said I was a 
"security risk." My passport was stamped "denied
entry" and is now worthless 
for all middle east countries, including Israel --
except Jordan and Egypt. 

I left my friend's house at 6:15am, Wednesday. My
friend drove me tp the 
border. We arrived at around 7:15, then waited until 8

when they opened. It was pretty quick (at the time it
seemed to take a long 
time) to get through their security, and I loaded a
bus to drive across the 
bridge with a bunch of Palestinians. Then came 13
hours of hell. I felt 
like I'd been in jail all day. I was. They x-rayed
everything, searched 
the seems of my backpack, looked through every piece
of paper I was 
carrying. They made me go into a room and I thought
they were going to 
strip search me, but they just made me take off my
belt, shoes, and untuck 
my shirt to be frisked more thouroughly than I've ever
been frisked before. 
They took my passport, and made me march from one room
to another half a 
dozen times, waiting for up to an hour in each new
room. Finally I got led 
into a grizzly hallway where a bunch of rude Rusians
kept speaking Arabic 
to me, I guess to see if I would respond. Then came
the interogation with 
the boss. I asked him how to ask what his name was in
Hebrew, and after 
giving me a smart alek response, he told me how to say
it. So I asked him, 
and he said, "boss." 

His job is to be an intimidating asshole. He's good at
his job. He lectured 
me about how Israel is going through their own 9/11
right now, about how 
they never can be too careful, especially after theose
two British guys 
blew themselves up last April. Then he asked me who
"Marissa" (my step 
mother's name is Maritza) was, and what my dad's name
was, and if I'd had a 
different last name in the past. He asked how many
siblings I had, their 
names and ages, and if they'd ever been to Israel.
They wanted to know the 
names of all my family members (I told him.) They
wanted to know if I had 
recently changed my name. (I have, and I told them
this too.) They wanted to 
know where I 
stayed in Amman. With Arabs? I told him the friend I
was staying with was an 
Egyptian Orthodox Christian who my sister met in
college. I noticed an 8 1/2 
by 11 piece of paper in front of him with a bunch of
Hebrew witten on it and 
the 
letters "I S M" in parenthesis in the middle. I trided
to pretend like I 
hadn't seen it. Then I said I hadn't talked to my dad
in years, I lied and 
said I was living at my mothers house in Nashville,
that I had worked at 
the State Capitol in Olympia last year, and procured a
drivers license 
then, but was watching and fixing my mom's house in
Nashville as she had 
just moved to New Orleans (partly the truth.) I had my
license in my 
bilfold, so he asked about the address... After I saw
that I was ISM 
suspect material, I felt compelled to try to get the
Olympia aspect of my 
reality to go away. But to no avail.

I told them I had a Jewish girlfriend, wanted to learn
more about Jewish 
history and culture because of this... That I was
thinking about studying to 
be a preacher, and was looking at seminary schools. I
had a whole application 
with me, printed out from St. George's web site. I
told them I was going to 
be staying at the Petra Hostel, in the old city. I'd
heard it had a good view 
of the wailing wall and the mosque. When he asked me
about "Marrisa" I said I 
knew 
of of such person. "Maritza maybe?," I asked. But he
said, "never mind. 
Never mind.... 

Also, he kept speaking Arabic, to see if I understood.
He seemed to be 
fishing for racist statements that would let him know
I was okay to let in. 
I guess I didn't give him enough. 

Somebody ratted on me and told them I was coming. I
have not spoken to this 
person in many months, so I do not know for sure, but
I do know my prior 
stepmother (my dad is on his 3rd wife) emailed my
father a copy of athe 
fundraising letter I sent out, and he never responded
to me, but did to her, 
with a "thank-you for this piece of information."
Perhaps my dad called the 
Israelis, thinking he would be helping me. Perhaps his
current wife, Maritza 
did. She is the daughter of a Venezuelan airforce
pilot, who was trained at 
Ft. Benning GA (the School of the Americas.) She
despises the politics of my 
father's children, and has helped perpetuate a painful
bout of 
non-comunication between my father and his children.
(I have been working on 
dealing with my emotions regarding this whole
situation: I made a lot of 
progress at the meditation retreat last week in
Colorado.) I should have 
considered this as a possibility before coming, and
communicated with my 
father to make sure this wouldn't happen. I am sorry
for letting this happen.

I was quite upset; didn't know what to do. I tried to
refuse to leave 
the Israeli inspection agency unless they would give
me a written letter 
stating why I was rejected, but that didn't work, and
they told me if I 
didn't leave voluntarily, they would take me in
handcuffs to a Jordanian 
jail; that I was actually still in Jordan, not
"Israel." I sulked to the 
bus, yelled at the jerk who kept telling me to quit
arguing with him, 
telling him I'd shut up if he'd shut up, that I was
pissed because I'd spent 
a thousand dollars to come to 
Israel and I didn't see why they at least wouldn't
give me an explanation 
as to what the problem was. I got back on the bus, and
there were two other 
Palestinian women who had also been rejected, and
three little children 
were with one of them. The one without the kids spoke
excellent English. 
She told me her husband had died in 1987, leaveing her
with 3 children of 
her own to support by herself. She left her home town
of Nablus, and went 
to work in Quatar. She stayed away too long. Now she
can never go back 
home. They took 14 hours to tell her this today. When
she got home, she 
said, she will be alone, and would cry; she had so
many wonderful plans for 
her visit to Palestine. 

The Jordanian border agents asked why they rejected
me. I told them what I 
had wanted to do. They all shook my hand and told me
how 
glad they were to meet me and told me I was welcome in
Jordan anytime.

Now I am in Aqaba. I came here a couple days ago, with
the intention of going 
to Petra, but have been unable to get any money out of
the ATM machine, so 
have been hanging out, frugally, as I only have 5JD,
until tomorrow, when the 
banks open again. I was thinking about going to Petra
tomorrow (I was going 
to go today (but then this money problem arose,) but
now I have decided to 
try to cross the border tomorrow. I am not going to
bother getting a new 
passport, as they already have my name and number in
their computers... 
Instead, I am going to tell them more of the truth. I
want to visit 
seminaries, as I might like to be a preacher someday.
I am also going to be 
more honest about my connection to Olympia. I did know
Rachel Corrie, I will 
tell them. That's why I changed my middle name to
"Corrie." (I changed my 
last name to my mom's name a few months ago, and took
Corrie as my middle 
name, at the same time. Perhaps I should have
waited... too late now though.) 
I will tell them I have plans to meet with the Corries
in Jerusalem. (I do.) 
I will tell them I know who ISM is, that I suspect
they think I have planned 
to work with them, because Rachel was working with
them, and because I saw 
that piece of paper when I was being interogated. I
will tell them I do not: 
it is far too dangerous in the Palestinian
territories, it's not my war, I 
really just want to hang out in Israel. I will tell
them I have suspicions 
that someone made something up about me, that I
suspect it was a woman who 
used to be my dad's girlfriend, because why else would
the interogator have 
asked me who "Marissa" was? If they do not let me in,
they will hear from my 
congressman, and there will be negative press reports
about this situation in 
the American media. If they ask, I will sign a
statement "promising" to stay 
out of the Palestinian territories.

If they do not let me in, I am thinking of going back
to Amaman and buying an 
airplane ticket to Tel Aviv. ($100 one way.) There, if
they try to deny me 
entry, they can't just kick me out... they have to get
me back on a plane, 
and it's easy enough to get yourself kicked off a
plane (just start smoking 
or whaling.) Then I would quickly make a phone call to
my lawyer, to let them 
know I need assistance. I can get an Orange (Israel)
chip for a GSM phone 
here in Aqaba, and I will do this first, before
attempting to fly in. There 
are jail cells at the airport, where many ISM
activists have spent time. They 
have to give you a hearing before they deport you, so
I would get to see a 
judge, within a week. If it comes to this, legal
expenses for the hearing 
would be about $500. A friend in Jerrusalem has told
me I should look for 
someone to sponsor my legal expenses, if I decide to
do this. If you hear 
that I am detained, please consider a(nother)
contribution.

I have also met some folks in Amman who do relief work
with Palestinian 
refugees, and have thought I could work with them for
a few weeks if it 
appears I just can't get into Israel. I visited the
Hussein camp, in Amman, 
the other day. It reminded me of parts of Guatemala
City, (poor parts,) 
except there were many more people, and you never hear
the call to prayer 
wailing from a mosque in Guatemala. It was really
something. I know there are 
a lot of opportunities to do important work here in
Jordan, and though I am a 
little lonely and frustrated, my eyes are open to many
possibilities before 
me.

I would like for people receiving this to be prepared
to contact my 
congressperson, Brian Baird, if the Israelis do not
accept me again. His 
phone number in Washington D.C. is (202) 225-3478, fax
is (202) 225-3478. In 
Olympia, it's (360) 352-9768, fax is (360) 352-9241. I
met with him at a town 
meeting a couple months ago, and told him I was
planning on coming here ( to 
Israel/Palestine -- not Aqaba.) He should remember me.
If you contact him, 
please do not mention ISM. I want to meet up with
Rachel's parents, offer 
emotional support, and visit schools and learn about
Israel. That's all. It's 
outrageous that they will not let someone like me, a
Quaker, with a letter of 
reference from my meeting in Nashville, someone who
has never broken any law, 
and has never been to Israel before, so I have never
done anything illegal 
there, into this country of theirs that recieves over
five billion dollars 
each year in aide from the US.

Thank-you,

Jonathan


§	From: Daniel Sword dsword@Macalester.edu

As for the Rachel Corrie stuff, my advice would be to
find another excuse 
for your name. A famous author or something-- Corrie
McDermott is the first 
one I found on Yahoo. Also, I'd emphasize that you
changed your middle name 
because it was your father's name. Emphasize that a
lot. Tell them he's 
been harassing you, harassing our mother, his wife is
threatening, and that 
he's altogether manipulative and cruel, so you wanted
to distance yourself 
from him as much as possible. Hell, tell them she
threw you out of his 
house for bringing your Jewish girlfriend over. Tell
them she used to live 
in Afghanistan and is a raging anti-semitic. Tell them
her name. Tell them 
she spends lots of time in South America, Venezuela,
yes, but also 
Argentina. Something like that. If they ask you about
her, trash her. Hell, 
if you can, make up so much shit about her that she
gets strip searched 
every time she flies back to Venezuela to pick up a
new vase. Also, you 
could use the excuse that "Jonathan Corrie Coleman" is
a bitchin' name to 
publish under because it sounds so cool.

Be honest about facts that can be verified, like when
you went to Olympia. 
Why, though, you can embellish. Your Jewish girlfriend
was going to study 
there, and you moved with her to work with the State
Legislature for a 
while. Don't tell them her real name. Maybe you feel
estranged from all the 
political shit going on in Olympia... it seems radical
and reactionary, and 
you want to see what the world's really like and to
learn more about Jewish 
culture and heritage. During your interrogation, don't
seem afraid or 
nervous. Ask about Hebrew University and what it's
like to live in Tel 
Aviv. If they ask you why you came to Tel Aviv after
being denied entry, 
tell them its because you are thinking of marrying
this girl and moving to 
Israel and really have to talk to schools while you're
there. Wait off 
bringing the congressman into the picture and see if
you can get by without 
trying to get into a power struggle. These seem like
crazy people, like 
children... Treat them like children. Have a response
for every question 
they can ask you about why this and why that, and make
all your responses 
consistent. That's my best guess as to what will help
you get into Israel.

Keep in touch. Please let me know when you're planning
on going wherever, 
and when I should call Brian Baird (i.e. if I don't
hear from you in a day 
or two, should I wait for you to send an email or
call). You can reach me 
or leave a message 24/7 at 615-668-0333, or email
dsword@macalester.edu. If 
you need me to call anybody, send emails or letters
for you, just let me 
know.

I love you Jonathan.
Stay safe, fuck the military,

Daniel

P.S. The FBI is reading this, I'm sure.

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