--- description: Find out how Issa Amro is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. title: Issa Amro Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68b37e53a7ab7999/6998ca077323afeaef2bcdda/t100-next-2025-issa-amro.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 30, 2025 # Issa Amro by [Karl Vick](/author/karl-vick/) ## Karl Vick Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Editor at Large  JOHN MACDOUGALL—AFP/Getty Images Thirty miles east of the Gaza Strip stands another cauldron: Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, is inhabited by 200,000 Palestinians, 800 Jewish settlers, some 1,000 Israeli soldiers, and Issa Amro, who exists as a category of his own. A student of Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Amro is far from the only Palestinian to embrace nonviolence. Polls show millions share his preference for a peaceful resolution to decades of conflict over Israel’s presence in the West Bank and Gaza. But few have had their conviction tested so sorely. As the founder of Youth Against Settlements, Amro spreads a gospel of resilience, passive resistance, and ­stubborn presence in one’s home. His philosophy stands in opposition to aggression from both settlers and soldiers, one of whom, right on camera, threw him to the ground and started kicking. Labeled a “provocateur” by the Israeli military, the activist has been honored by organizations from the European Union to the U.N. “See us as human beings,” Amro said, receiving the Right Livelihood Award in Berlin in June. “And see us as a nation.” Issa Amro: TIME100 Next 2025 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318824/issa-amro/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318824/issa-amro/"},"headline":"Issa Amro","datePublished":"2025-09-30T10:57:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:55:12.606Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318824/issa-amro/","keywords":["TIME100 Next","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68b37e53a7ab7999/6998ca077323afeaef2bcdda/t100-next-2025-issa-amro.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Karl Vick","jobTitle":"Editor at Large","url":"https://time.com/author/karl-vick/"}],"creator":"Karl Vick","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68b37e53a7ab7999/6998ca077323afeaef2bcdda/t100-next-2025-issa-amro.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time100-next/","name":"TIME100 Next"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318824/issa-amro/","name":"Issa Amro"}}]}] ```