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Margaret Cassar

Margaret Cassar is Executive Member, Australian Friends of Palestine Association.

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    • Margaret Cassar July 11, 2012 at 9:16 am

      Thanks straightline, we'd love to see you in the Mall at one of our protests.Yes, it's been extraordinary to look at media interest in our protest. I wrote an article for Mondoweiss last year about how we had been protesting for 44 weeks but not one word had appeared in print in our local media. Now our local media is a one man band, the Murdoch owned "The Advertiser". The following is interesting and I think shows the power of Mondoweiss, 2 weeks after Mondoweiss published the article the Advertiser ran an article on BDS. They did not come down to see or photograph the protests in the Mall but published lots of information about some violent student protests in Melbourne. I have watched hundreds of pro-Palestinian you tubes of flash mobs and protests and they only garner main stream media attention when there is viiolence because that feeds in to the narrative that all Palestinians and their supporters are violent. The only time we will garner mainstream media attention is when there is violence at one of our protests. And believe me the Christian Zionists have doen their utmost to provoke violent reactions.

    • Margaret Cassar July 11, 2012 at 2:38 am with 3 replies

      Once again thanks for great positive comments. Really helps us. We get a fair bit of abuse in the Mall, on our You Tube channel and now hate mail is arriving at our PO box. Just yesterday someone started a letter to us saying "Hey assholes"and it went downhill from there on including a repulsive suggestion about what this chap would do to myself and another woman in our organization. Do they realize how much damage a letter like that does to their cause?

    • Margaret Cassar July 10, 2012 at 7:53 am

      Thanks for your encouraging comments. I'll pass them on to the protesters at the next protest.

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