In 1982 , in response to news reports of massacres committed by a Lebanese Phalangist militia with the complicity of the IDF during Israel 's 1982 invasion of Lebanon , Epstein developed a different perspective on the Arab – Israeli conflict ; she began to express opposition to Israel 's military policies . In 2001 , she founded a St. Louis chapter of the Women in Black , an anti-war group that originally focused on Israel 's occupation . In 2003 she traveled to the West Bank to work with the International Solidarity Movement . She returned once a year , saying to '' CounterPunch '' that she had been strip searched and cavity searched in 2004 by guards at Ben Gurion International Airport
massacres committed by a Lebanese Phalangist militia
Sabra and Shatila massacre
Hedy Epstein