{{Short description|Palestinian physicist and activist}} {{Infobox academic|image=File:Ghassan_Andoni.jpg | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1956}} | birth_place = Beit Sahour | citizenship = Palestinian | alma_mater = University of Baghdad<br/>University of Reading | occupation = Physicist, professor, and peace activist | discipline=physics|work_institutions=Bir Zeit University|notable_works=''Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement''}} '''Ghassan Andoni''' ({{langx|ar|غسان أنضوني}}; born 1956) is a Palestinian activist.
Born in Beit Sahour to a Palestinian Christian family, he is a professor of physics at Bir Zeit University at the West Bank. He advocates nonviolent resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kaufman-Lacusta |first1=Maxine |title=Refusing to Be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation |last2=Franklin |first2=Ursula |author-link2=Ursula Franklin |last3=Ghassan |first3=Andoni |last4=Halper |first4=Jeff |author-link4=Jeff Halper |last5=Kuttab |first5=Jonathan |last6=Starhawk |author-link6=Starhawk |date=2022-07-01 |publisher=Ithaca Press |isbn=9780863725296 |language=English}}</ref>
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).<ref>{{Cite web |last=El-Haddad |first=Laila |author-link=Laila el-Haddad |date=2005-07-03 |title=Israeli activist bridges worlds |url=https://palsolidarity.org/2005/07/israeli-activist-bridges-worlds/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=The International Solidarity Movement}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=American Friends Service Committee |date=2007-05-10 |title=Profiles of Peace: Faces of Hope campaign |url=https://palsolidarity.org/2007/05/3-ism-cofounders-celebrated/ |access-date=2024-03-06 |website=The International Solidarity Movement}}</ref>
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).<ref name = "AFSC" />
==Bibliography== * ''Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement'', Editor, Verso Books (2004). {{ISBN|978-1844675012}}
==See also== *List of peace activists
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<ref name = "AFSC" >{{cite web | url= http://www.afsc.org/story/jeff-halper | title= Jeff Halper | date= 30 March 2010 | publisher= American Friends Service Committee | accessdate= 2011-06-04 }}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.imemc.org The International Middle East Media Centre] *{{YouTube|oz8R2DaamkQ|Interview with Ghassan Andoni}} *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH75dFWLzSw Ghassan Andoni Interview 1989 on Youtube] *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXMX-feexMU Ghassan Andoni Interview 1996 on Youtube] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110709093105/http://atlanta.indymedia.org/newswire/display/19822/index.php Ghassan Andoni of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement] provides a history of Zionism and his organizations efforts to use nonviolent direct action to end the Israel's occupation. *[http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=10430&nav=topic-directory& On the situation in Palestine After Arafat - 2004-11-18] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525164717/http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=10430&nav=topic-directory& |date=2011-05-25 }} *[http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=10470&nav=topic-directory& Sharon under Pressure: Analysis by Ghassan Andoni - 2004-11-25] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525164751/http://www.radio4all.net/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=10470&nav=topic-directory& |date=2011-05-25 }}
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