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San Francisco - Palestine Solidarity Actions

by compiler
This list will continue to be updated, so bookmark this URL. A list of San Francisco actions in support of Palestinian resistance at this critical juncture in the second intifada.
Since the recent invasions of Palestine in March and April 2002, SF Indymedia has covered the major solidarity actions happening throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Protesters have promised continued protests and disruption until Israeli occupation and US-supported Israeli apartheid ends once and for all.

11 April 2002
A week of action at the Israeli consulate in San Francisco continues with a protest sponsored by Tikkun, a pro-Israel Jewish magazine which supports both an Israeli and Palestinian state, but opposes the war criminal Ariel Sharon.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/122014.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121981.php (picture of flyer)

10 April 2002
An action at the Israeli consulate was held with representatives from ILWU longshore workers and a gay labor organization (Pride at Work).
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121819.php

9 April 2002
Eighty people are arrested during a protest in Berkeley advocating that the university divests from Israel, a campaign similarly used against South Africa in the 80s. Pictures & video:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/122022.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121943.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121537.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121531.php (video)
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121533.php (video)
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121509.php (video)
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121508.php (report)

9 April 2002
A second protest in San Francisco was held by the General Union of Palestinian Students.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121514.php

9 April 2002 (realaudio)
The Flashpoints radio program at KPFA in Berkeley aired eyewitness accounts of Israeli settlers.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121552.php

7 April 2002
One thousand people protest against Israel's invasion of Palestine in San Francisco. Picture:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121409.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121607.php

6 April 2002 (audio)
KPFA Flashpoints aired live reports from Palestine and Israel.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121068.php

5 April 2002
Market Street in San Francisco was shut down by people protesting in solidarity with the Palestinian resistance.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/121171.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/120947.php

5 April 2002
Women in Black protested in San Francisco against "Israel's barbaric invasion."
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/120905.php

2 April 2002
A protest was held in downtown Berkeley. Video:
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/120374.php (pictures)
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/120462.php (video)
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/120362.php (report)
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/04/120393.php

30 March 2002
Thousands protested in San Francisco against the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/03/120018.php (video)
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/03/119996.php (report)

29 March 2002
A Good Friday protest was held in Arcata against Israeli aggression and the US war against Iraq.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/03/120086.php

13 March 2002
Hundreds marched through North Beach district of San Francisco to show solidarity with Palestinian resistance.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/03/118547.php (photos)
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/03/118594.php (photos)
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/03/118514.php (report)
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/03/118553.php (flyer)

by PeaceInMiddleEast
All of those who participate in these protests are essentially helping terrorists get away with their heinous crimes. Blood of thousands of people is on the hands of all those who participate in anti-israeli protests. We all know that Palestinians are the ONLY people in the world who celebrated the attack on WTC on 9/11, and who supported Iraq invasion in Kuwait, and the list might go on forever. The only reason for why Arafat and his supporters are still alive is the "liberal dudes" all around the world who don't know what the fuck they are talking about. Join thousands of people this Sunday in Golden Gate park to support Israel and the global war on terrorism !
by sane, moral, just and sensible
All of those who DON'T participate in these protests are essentially helping ISRAELI terrorists get away with their heinous crimes.

Why don't you tell us exactly where exactly in GG Park you'll be rallying, just in case any of the sane, moral, just and sensible people of this town want to show up and give you venomous scum the treatment you so soundly deserve?
by Jay McIntyre
Open Letter to the World (by Ariel Ben Attar)

A timely and powerful letter to the world by an Israeli, Ariel Ben Attar.

Dear World, I understand that you are upset by us, here in Israel. Indeed, it appears that you are quite upset, even angry (Outraged?). Indeed, every few years you seem to become upset by us. Today, it is the "brutal repression of the Palestinians"; yesterday it was Lebanon; before that it was the bombing of the nuclear reactor in Baghdad and the Yom Kippur War and the Sinai campaign.

It appears that Jews who triumph and who, therefore, live, upset you most extraordinarily. Of course, dear world, long before there was an Israel, we- the Jewish people - upset you. We upset a German people who elected Hitler and upset an Austrian people who cheered his entry into Vienna and we upset a whole slew of Slavic nations - Poles, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Russians, Hungarians and Romanians.

And we go back a long, long way in the history of world upset. We upset the Cossacks of Chmielnicki who massacred tens of thousands of us in 1648-49; we upset the Crusaders who, on their way to liberate the Holy Land, were so upset at Jews that they slaughtered untold numbers of us.

For centuries, we upset a Roman Catholic Church that did its best to define our relationship through inquisitions, and we upset the arch-enemy of the church, Martin Luther, who, in his call to burn the synagogues and the Jews within them, showed anadmirable Christian ecumenical spirit.

And it is because we became so upset over upsetting you, dear world, that we decided to leave you - in a manner of speaking - and establish a Jewish state. The reasoning was that living in close contact with you, as resident-strangers in the various countries that comprise you, we upset you, irritate you and disturb you. What better notion, then, than to leave you and thus love you - and have you love us? And so we decided to come home - to the same homeland from which we were driven out 1,900 years earlier by a Roman world that, apparently, we also upset.

Alas, dear world, it appears that you are hard to please. Having left you and your pogroms and inquisitions and crusades and holocausts, having taken our leave of the general world to live alone in our own little state, we continue to upset you. You are upset that we repress the poor Palestinians.

You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The "radical" Arabs are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset.

Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel. In 1920 and 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered tens of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in Hebron in 1929.

Dear world, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots between 1936-39? Was it because Arabs were upset over 1967? And when you, world, proposed a UN Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a "Palestinian State" alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried "no" and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that "upset" caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of "upset" then?

The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who - when they had all the territories they now demand be given to them for their state - attempted to drive the Jewish state into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "itbach-al-yahud" (Massacre the Jew!) that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel.

What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today, but we should not "repress" them.

Dear world, you stood by during the holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres. You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction.

And since we know that the Arabs-Palestinians dream daily of thatextinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear world, well - think of how many times in the past you bothered us. In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, hereis one Jew in Israel who could not care less.

Ariel Ben Attar, Israel

by Arabs for Israel


Who Are We?

We are Arabs and Moslems who believe…

We can support Israel and still support the Palestinian people. Supporting one does not cancel support for the other.
We can support the State of Israel and the Jewish religion and still treasure our Arab and Islamic culture.
There are many Jews and Israelis who freely express compassion and support for the Palestinians. It is time that we Arabs express reciprocal compassion and support.
The existence of the State of Israel is a fact that should be accepted by the Arab world.
Israel is a legitimate state that is not a threat but an asset in the Middle East.
Every major World religion has a center of gravity. Islam has Mecca, and Judaism certainly deserves its presence in Israel and Jerusalem.
Diversity should not be a virtue only in the USA, but should be encouraged around the world. We support a diverse Middle East with protection for human rights, respect and equality under the law to all minorities including Jews and Christians.
Palestinians have several options but are deprived from exercising them because of their leadership, the Arab League and surrounding Arab and Moslem countries who do not want to see Palestinians live in harmony with Israel.
If Palestinians want democracy they can start practicing it now.
We stand firmly against suicide/homicide terrorism as a form of Jihad.
We are appalled by the horrific act of terror against the USA on 9/11/2001.
Arab media should end the incitement and misinformation that result in Arab street rage and violence.
We are eager to see major reformation in how Islam is taught and channeled to bring out the best in Moslems and contribute to the uplifting of the human spirit and advancement of civilization.
We believe in freedom to choose or change one’s Religion.
We cherish and acknowledge the beauty and contributions of the Middle East culture, but recognize that the Arab/Moslem world is in desperate need of constructive self-criticism and reform.


http://arabsforisrael.com/pages/1/index.htm

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