after police cut the locks at Israeli consulate in San Francisco: ‘We’ll be back!!’

by Philip Weiss on January 15, 2009 · 10 comments

Just got this now: 30 to 40 Gaza solidarity activists took over the building housing the San Francisco Israeli consulate shortly after 8am today, putting bike locks on the doors to prevent anyone from opening them. Activists then locked themselves together with chains, locks. Shut down the building for more than two hours. 9 arrested.

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1 Anne Silver January 15, 2009 at 10:49 pm

And here we are-some of us locked down, others supporting. It was a successful protest, some passers by grumbling, some vicious, most very happy to see us.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/15/18563491.php

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/15/18563447.php

2 Anne Silver January 15, 2009 at 10:55 pm

And here we are. And we will be back.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/15/18563491.php
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/01/15/18563447.php

3 americangoy January 15, 2009 at 11:07 pm

Good luck to all of you, rightous Jews and Gentiles.

4 Mike January 15, 2009 at 11:14 pm

We will not go down (Song for Gaza)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlfhoU66s4Y

5 Dan Kelly January 15, 2009 at 11:18 pm

Thank you Anne Silver.

6 Dan Kelly January 15, 2009 at 11:41 pm

Those who want to bump off the witnesses of the slaughter

The call is clear: to kill a group of people, with their first and last name, habits and ideas, political affiliations and pictures easily identifiable. They also demand informers’ cooperation so as to complete the list with addresses. The dossiers are openly addressed to the Israeli military so as to help them eliminate “dangerous” targets physically, unless others see to it first: the foes to be hit are western activists—health assistants and other volunteers—who work and are witnesses to what is unfolding in the Occupied Territories.

You may read all this on a website, run by a group of extremists, a sort of American-Jewish Ku Klux Klan: Stop the ISM. It may be worth noting that an Italian, Vittorio Arrigoni, whose touching reports from Gaza we have read, is amongst those targeted.

The person who runs the site is Lee Kaplan. He’s one of the many quasi-fascist instigators of the American far right underbelly, a medley that has recently taken root both amongst the Christian movements and the fringes of Jewish fundamentalism, now joined by an unusual anti-Islamic extremism. In the US, this linking between these two milieus has strengthened to the extent that Kaplan often hangs around the wannabe high society circles of the TV talk shows famous for their foaming at the mouth, on Fox News channel.

But, above all, this phenomenon is getting stronger in the Holy Land. The Jewish fundamentalists control the most extremist settlements in the territories (as it was already possible to learn by reading Israel Shahak’s and Norton Mezvinsky’s Jewish fundamentalism in Israel, London, Pluto Press 1999). The Christian fundamentalists help them hasten the coming of Armageddon, the final battle between Good and Evil, that is supposed to take place precisely there. Maybe in order to get ahead with his work, Mr Kaplan gives free rein to the site in order to call for Arrigoni and others to be eliminated. Moreover, without expecting any concern from the Italian government, in case someone should see to our fellow countryman’s wished-for “permanent removal”. We shall repeat: these criminal hopes haven’t turned up on a semi-underground web forum, but on a site open to everyone and run by a public figure.

Those who want to bump off the witnesses of the slaughter

7 Anne Silver January 16, 2009 at 12:29 am

Thanks Dan. No business as usual! We got to do what we can in a world we can't find words for.

8 Glenn Condell January 16, 2009 at 3:06 am

Anne, wonderful stuff, thank you.

9 Jim Haygood January 16, 2009 at 8:51 am

Sandy Stone! Great to see you! Howzit? Good on ya, matie, for keeping up the good fight.
So tells me–how is everything in Gumdale?

10 Tommy January 16, 2009 at 11:06 am

I found a Middle Eastern restaurant that sells Palestinian kafiyehs. I will purchase one tomorrow and wear it in solidarity with the Gazans when I go to my local Trader Joes.

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