In the following video a young man is getting arrested @6:54 during a
demo at the Israeli Embassy on 28th December 2008
Were you at the demo
and/or
Did you witness this arrest/see this man?
If so please send a witness statement and any footage ASAP by
Wednesday evening to gazademosupport@gmail.com and add subject ‘FAO
Legal’.
Peace
Stephanie Westbrook, The Electronic Intifada, 1 April 2010
Activists protesting outside the AIPAC policy conference carried signs highlighting Israel’s rights violations.
The theme of this year’s annual policy conference for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby group was “Israel: Tell the Story.” And it was quite a story that AIPAC wanted to tell. The conference aimed at imparting to the more than 7,000 attendees “an intimate understanding of the many ways that Israel is making the world a better place,” with a focus on peacemaking and innovation.
read on
29 March 2010
Transmission of today’s BBC Radio 3 Wigmore Hall lunchtime recital, given by the Jerusalem String Quartet, was abandoned after a group of anti-Israeli protesters infiltrated the hall and disrupted the performance with shouts, chants and bursts of song. The concert continued once the demonstrators had been removed, but the broadcast was replaced by a performance of the same repertoire by the Salomon Quartet.
Wigmore Hall director John Gilhooly told CM that there had been pickets outside the hall earlier in the morning, so some sort of disturbance was not entirely unexpected, especially in the light of a similar protest that took place when the Jerusalem Quartet appeared at the Edinburgh festival a few years ago. ‘But today’s demonstration was evidently extremely well planned,’ he said.
‘The protesters must have bought their tickets for the concert a long time ago, because they were all sitting in individual seats in different parts of the hall. One stood up and started singing and shouting, and while we were removing him another one started up somewhere else, and so on.’
The quartet continued to play and completed its programme – Mozart’s String Quartet in D K575 and Ravel’s String Quartet in F. ‘The concert took an hour and 20 minutes instead of an hour, and the atmosphere in the hall was very tense,’ said Mr Gilhooly.
The Radio 3 broadcast was truncated ‘in order to deny these people publicity’, and replaced with a performance of the same repertoire by the Salomon Quartet. The Jerusalem players stayed on afterwards to re-record some sections of the music and a patched version of the recital will be broadcast in Saturday’s repeat slot.
Posters to the Radio 3 Performance message board reported that the protest had been announced on Sunday in a Twitter message urging protesters to join an ‘urgent demo against Jerusalem Quartet 12.30 Wigmore Hall’ to ‘boycott ambassadors of apartheid Israel’.
According to a report in the Jewish Chronicle, the protesters were accusing the players of being ‘cultural ambassadors for the state of Israel, promoting the interests of Israel and all its policies against the Palestinians, to the British public’.
However, in response to the incident Mr Gilhooly said: ‘I want to make the point very strongly that we can’t possibly condone any kind of disturbance to an artistic event. Wigmore Hall is a totally non-political organisation, and by disrupting performances the protesters completely take away the whole meaning of an artistic event, which is something that transcends politics.’
The State Prosecutor’s Office appealed Thursday to the Haifa District Court to dismiss outright the civil suit filed by U.S. activist Rachel Corrie’s family against the Defense Ministry for unspecified compensation for their daughter’s death.
Corrie was 24 when she was struck and killed in 2003 by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer as she and other activists tried to stop Israel razing homes in Rafah by using their bodies as human shields.
The driver said he did not see her, and the Israel Defense Forces has ruled her death an accident – a version her parents reject.
“The driver of the bulldozer and his commander had a very limited field of vision, such that they had no possibility of seeing Ms. Corrie,” the Prosecutor’s office said in a statement, adding that the incident was considered “a military action in the course of war” which exempts the state from responsibility for it.
The statement also said that “Rachel Corrie was injured as a result of her prohibited action, for which she is solely responsible, due to her considerable negligence and lack of caution.”
At Wednesday’s opening of the civil case, the Corries’ lawyer demanded a new investigation into her death, to which the States Prosecutor responded: “The IDF thoroughly investigated the incident, including a Military Police investigation, in the framework of which considerable evidence was collected.”
“The bulldozer driver and commander were investigated by the Military Police and the unequivocal conclusion was reached that they did not see ? and could not have seen – Ms. Corrie due to the bulldozer’s limited field of vision,” the statement added.
For the younger generation: this was THE song of the civil rights struggle. It applies equally to the Palestinian struggle.
Manif Palestine, aujourd’hui samedi 14h pl de la république en direction de l’ambassade d’Israël.
De : CCIPPP
Encore la matinée pour appeler vos ami-es et continuer la mobilisation!
Il faut venir accompagné-e-s! Si vous ne l’êtes pas, vous ne vous sentirez pas tout-e seul-e non plus 🙂
Les militant-e-s de la CCIPPP seront dans le cortège du pôle Palestine, juste derrière le carré de tête et le camion de tête qui partira à au niveau du numéro 13 du bd saint martin. Ambiance et détermination.
L’arrivée sera dans la place de l’opéra, une prise de parole est prévue au nom du collectif et sera portée par les représentants de la CCIPPP, l’AFPS et Génération Palestine.
à nous voir nombreuses et nombreux ce samedi.
les militant-e-s de CCIPPP.
http://www.protection-palestine.org
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