Steven Plaut looks back at Idiotarian of the Year Rachel Corrie, One Year Later, and the ongoing attempts by the terrorist-supporting International Solidarity Movement to turn her accidental death into a propaganda windfall.

Corrie’s own parents have gone on their own revenge, touring the world to demonize Israel, and represent daughter Rachel as a “victim of Israel’s illegal occupation.” They and other ISM supporters have been organizing a boycott of the Caterpiller Corporation, because it sells machines to Israel, including the one with which Corrie chose to face down a year ago. The Corrie parents insist that Rachel was there to promote non-violence and brotherly love. But Rachel and her ISM friends of course believed in nothing of the sort and were doing nothing of the sort.�The official ISM web site endorses “armed struggle” by Palestinians, which means random mass murders of Israeli children.

Corrie died as a result of her own stupidity. She was in Gaza to help promote Palestinian terrorism and to prevent Israel from protecting its own citizens. She died protecting the illegal tunnels into Gaza from Egypt, through which the suicide bombers obtained their materials.�The most lasting images of Corrie was of her face contorted with rage and as she burned an American flag. When Reuters reported that Palestinians “honored” her after her death in a “symbolic funeral” by flying U.S. flags, James Taranto from the Wall Street Journal remarked that if Corrie were still alive, no doubt she’d have burned the flags. Even the far-Left Mother Jones magazine considers her a dangerous and deluded little twit. The Israeli army investigated the death and concluded that Corrie had effectively committed suicide. Taranto also suggested that Corrie be awarded the “Idiotarian of the Year Award” for playing chicken with a huge earth-mover.

The ISM is not simply an innocent, if evil, fringe debating society.� Within Israeli territories, its members have actively collaborated with terrorists.� They hid weapons and wanted terrorists in their offices.�The local ISM offices hosted two Moslem suicide bombers from the UK, who had entered Israel as “peace activists,”�only to blow�a Tel Aviv bar to smithereens the next day.

The ISM is so closely coordinated with the PLO that it is for all intents and purposes nothing more than a PLO front group (which means that Rachel Corrie in effect died as a member of the PLO).