ISM Wheels of Justice
Wheels of Justice, a bus tour which has traveled across the country with a mission to "educate North Americans on the occupation of Palestine and Iraq" since July 2003, has presented a biased, distinctly anti-Israel view of the Middle East during hundreds of visits to high schools, churches, libraries and college and university campuses.
While the Fall 2006 leg of the Wheels of Justice tour has ended, the tour is scheduled to begin again in April 2007 in the Southwest, "making the tour more accessible," according to its Web site.
Funded primarily by donations and merchandise sales, the tour is sponsored by the
International Solidarity Movement (ISM),
Al-Awda, Voices in the Wilderness and the Middle East Children's Alliance (see below). According to its Web site, the tour was created to "build upon and reassert the massive domestic opposition to war against Iraq and occupation of the Palestinians" by offering "first-hand experience irrespective of partisan politics and sound bite sloganeering." The sponsors and organizers of Wheels of Justice are unapologetic in their criticism of Israel and support for the plight of the Palestinians. No attempts are made to present a balanced view of the conflict. The toll on Israelis and bloodshed by Palestinian terrorists is often minimized.
Many of the activists traveling with the tour have spent time in Iraq as members of Voices in the Wilderness or in Israel as volunteers with the ISM. One of the primary goals of the tour is to present activists that can offer eyewitness accounts of their experiences in Iraq and in Palestinian villages.