At FrontPage, Steven Plaut notices an ironic twist in the ongoing saga of the terror-enabling International Solidarity Movement, and their attempt to lionize member Tom Hurndall, shot by Israeli troops during a firefight with Palestinians: The ISM’s Jihad Against Arabs.

The other near-martyr of the ISM is less known in the U.S. but is being beatified as we speak in the UK.�He is Tom Hurndall.�Israeli soldiers were on a mission last April in the Gaza border town of Rafiah, from which all the tunnels used to smuggle arms and explosives enter from Egypt, when they came under PLO fire.�Hurndall was there, like all ISM provocateurs, to interfere with Israel’s military operations against the terrorists.�At the time of the shooting, Hurndall, along with other ISM members and local residents, planned to set up a “peace tent” on one of the nearby roads to prevent IDF tank patrols from using it.

When the firefight began, Hurndall ran out into the street and was hit by a bullet in the crossfire.� His supporters claim he was just trying to shoo some Arab children away from the battle zone.� Given ISM behavior in the past, it is at least as conceivable that he was planning to serve as a human shield for the terrorists doing the shooting.�He was hit in the head and has been in a coma ever since.

Hurndall’s family and the ISM have gone on a crusade against Israel, claiming son Tom was intentionally shot down in cold blood.�The same people have long claimed that Rachel Corrie was injured deliberately out of Israeli malice, rather than as a result of her own recklessness.�These folks have never come up with a good reason for why Hurndall was running around in the middle of a firefight in the Gaza Strip in the first place, a firefight started by the very same Palestinian terrorists he came there to support and protect.�

But things have gotten “curiouser and curiouser.”�The Israel-bashing�Left has been organizing pressure, including among U.S. and EU politicians, to lobby for the prosecution of any Israeli troops involved in the injuries of these far-Left “activists.” Now just imagine their frustration!�The raison d’etre of the ISM is to�protect those who wage�attacks on Jews and delegitimize Zionism, but the main victim of their agitprop turns out to be a Bedouin Arab.