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| Written by Mazin Qumsiyeh | |
| Thursday, 17 April 2008 | |
 Faddel Ouda Shana'a, a local cameraman who works for Reuters Television, was killed on Wednesday The chorus of public discontent is rising and the media and politicians cannot continue to ignore it. In the US and Canada, alternative Jewish voices are getting organized in forming lobbies to counteract the Israel-first right wing lobbies. Boycotts, divestments, and sanctions are spreading like wildfire prompting Israeli authorities (both in an out of Israel) to divert significant resources to combat these efforts. The ensuing discussions only act to expose Israeli apartheid. The Nakba events and commemorations are raising significant awareness about the 60 year process of ethnic cleansing that is continuing and was and is intended to create a more homogenous Jewish state in a land that was and is inhabited by Christians, Muslims, and others. For example, LeftTurn just had an issue devoted to the Nakba including excellent articles about Refugees and about the upcoming August Popular Palestine conference in Chicago (2). It is gratifying to see Nobel Peace Prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu endorses the Nov. 2008 anti-apartheid organizing tour of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (3). It is nice to see for a change fair coverage of the demonstration that challenged Zionism in the center of the highest concentration of Zionists in the US (4). It was also gratifying that other local newspapers are publishing our letters to the editor on such subjects (5). It is nice to see the Huffington Post ridicule the front page coverage in the LA times about Obama's "Palestinian Connections" (6). It is nice to see a new survey shows public in Arab world becoming even more opposed to the US and Israel (and thus at odds with their governments) despite over hundreds of millions spent by the US to sway public opinion in the Arab and Islamic world to support their (political Zionist) agenda (7) And it is nice to see that those who support apartheid and racism on college campuses are frustrated; see for example what this person reports in Israel's right wing newspaper about the University of Texas in Austin (8). These examples are of tens of thousands. The chorus is getting louder and will become deafening when more US citizens find out how their economy was fleeced. NOTES: 1) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/975574.html 2) http://leftturn.org/?q=currentissue 3) For more info, please see: http://www.endtheoccupation.org Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrgGW5Q-f7s 4) Protestors at street fair denounce Zionism http://www.teanecksuburbanite.com/NC/0/98.html 5) Letter to the editor published in North Jersey Record April 13, 2008 http://www.northjersey.com/news/nationalpolitics/17572724.html?c=y&page=2 6) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jon-wiener/breaking-news-obama-met-p_b_96115.html Original LA Times article at http://tinyurl.com/4hp855 7) http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9458.shtml 8) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1208246577144&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull ================= Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD http://qumsiyeh.org http://peace-action.org http://justicewheels.org http://palestineconference.org |
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