Adam Horowitz writes:
A protest against the war in Gaza that was planned in Tel Aviv was being prevented by Israeli police not because they were afraid of violence, but because they were afraid that protesters would raise the Palestinian flag. Wow. This is shades of the pre-Oslo days when it was illegal under Israeli occupation law to raise the flag in the occupied territories.
More from the Alternative Information Center on recent protests in Jaffa:
More than ten public figures from Jaffa, both men and women, were taken on Tuesday for interrogation by the Israeli police and General Security Services (GSS). The interrogators were told they are suspected of inciting terrorism and throwing stones, one day after a legal demonstration that was held in Jaffa and ended peacefully. The national leadership of the Hadash political party and the Abna' al-Balad association were also interrogated. Arab journalists who covered the various demonstrations were detained. A 65-year-old woman from Jaffa wearing an Islamic head-covering was attacked by fellow passengers on a bus and the driver forced her off the bus. Legal, non-violent demonstrations in which Arab citizens participated were met with inexplicable police violence and mob attacks. The police, who are supposed to protect the civil rights of the war protesters to demonstrate, join the angry mob, attack and detain Arab protesters participating in joint Palestinian-Israeli demonstrations. Such is an atmosphere of intolerable terror…
If Palestinian citizens of Israel have no right to protest the slaughter of their people, then what is the meaning of the fake Israeli citizenship in the 'Jewish and democratic' state? What message is this sending?
The protests in Tel Aviv are going forward. The email below is from the organization Reut Sadaka, a joint Palestinian-Jewish youth organization in Jaffa.
Subject: In the Jewish democratic state
Hello everyone,
Notice: although the police tried to stop us from protesting on Saturday- asking us to sign a paper saying that there would be no Palestinian flags in our demo – the High Court has ruled the police's demand as non-democratic and has given us permission to protest tomorrow.
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'A 65-year-old woman from Jaffa wearing an Islamic head-covering was attacked by fellow passengers on a bus and the driver forced her off the bus.'
Perhaps she is the Rosa Parks of apartheid Israel.
We're all Freedom Riders on this bus.
Amen. On the other foot, SOG aka Bill Pearlman, Steve R et seq &
Witty, have their Richard Daley water hoses and night sticks out. Witty of course wouldn't handle the hoses and night sticks himself–he'd be Daley's PR guy.
rabbi, somehow this does not sound like Bill/SOG, at least it's not what we read from him so far. Some Jim Haygood messages no doubt may have originated in his fingers. But this?
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