palestinians and is inspired countless activists including her own parents craig and cindy one of the rachel corrie foundation a nonprofit group that encourages grassroots efforts in pursuit of human rights social economic and environmental justice of world wide so now to speak about rachel's case the ongoing struggle of palestinians and activism through the rachel corrie foundation i'm joined by both her parents craig and city corey thank you so much for coming on you guys it was really amazing to meet both of you last night at the press club and i said that those greatly with your case and rachel's served as a symbol for me to really wake up about this issue so thank you so much for coming on and for viewers who may not be familiar with her case i'm hoping you could talk about what the international solidarity movement is and why she decided to go to palestine let's start with. the international solidarity movement was founded in i believe it was two thousand and two actually there had been a resolution at the united nations to bring the human rights monitor. forced to israel palestine when the s

almost ten years ago twenty three year old american peace activist by the name of rachel corrie had her life cut tragically short while protesting against the demolition of the palestinians family's home rachel was crushed to death by an israeli bulldozer she was a member of the international solidarity movement and had gone to gaza at the height of the second palestinian intifada in march two thousand and three. seeking justice for their daughter's death rachel's parents filed a civil suit against the israeli government in two thousand and five for failing to conduct a full investigation into the case but lost it was purely symbolic and only asked for one us dollar in damages in an effort to clarify that the case against the government was about justice both for rachel and for the cause that she had so bravely defended finally last year israeli court rejected the suit ruling that the israeli government and defense forces would not be accepting responsibility for her death rachel's name has since become an international symbol for the rights of palestinians and is inspired countless act