physicist university professor
He is a professor of physics at Bir Zeit University, and a Palestinian Christian leader who advocates nonviolent resistance in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During the First Intifada Andoni was imprisoned for being involved in Beit Sahour’s tax revolt.
Andoni is co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement (Institute for Supply Management), founder of the International Middle East Media Centre and director of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between Peoples (polymerase chain reaction). 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).
