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Bay Area Resident Threatened with Deportation from Israel
Brooke Atherton threatened with deportation 7:30 p.m. today, Pacific Daylight Time for attempting to enroll in Arabic language school in Palestine
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American citizen Brooke Atherton threatened with deportation 7:30 p.m. today, Pacific Daylight Time
American citizen Brooke Atherton has been told that she will be deported on the next Alitalia flight from Ben-Gurion Airport, at 5:30 a.m. local time, Thursday, June 17 (7:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 16 Pacific Daylight Time). She was enrolled in an Arabic language course being offered by Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem but is being denied permission to attend. Israeli authorities have refused to give any reason for her deportation and Israeli courts have refused to issue an injunction to allow her to remain in the country pending a court hearing, according to her lawyer, Yael Berga.
In the absence of any official explanation or justification, one can only speculate that the Israeli actions are aimed at undermining a legitimate educational activity of a Palestinian organization that is dedicated to peace, nonviolence and understanding, and at preventing visitors from witnessing the repression and ethnic cleansing activities of the Israeli military in Palestinian areas. More than 10,000 visitors have been denied entry to Israel since January, 2001.
Please call and write ASAP to the following. Tell them that Brooke deserves a hearing, that Israel is undermining its own democracy and that paranoia makes for bad policy. Tell them that such deportations give the world a taste of how illegal barriers prevent Palestinians from living their lives. Tell them that when there is no distinction under the law between Jews, Palestinians and other non-Jews, then we can expect justice. However, as long as discrimination, apartheid and genocide persist, we will continue to remind them of the shame in which they are living.
Please remember that the time difference is PDT + 10 hours. The international code from the U.S. is 011 and the country code for Israel is 972. When calling from inside Israel, add a zero to the beginning of the local number. Sometimes you can get cheaper rates by using 10-10-811 or similar codes before dialing the number.
Detention facility where Brooke is being held: tel. +972-3-9795461
U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv
tel. +972-3-6197575
Email: amctelaviv@state..gov
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
tel. 202-647-4000
Interior Minister Avraham Poraz
(fax: +972-2-5666376)(fax: 972-2-6701628)(fax: 972-2-6701585)
Email: sar [at] moin.gov.il
Enav Golomb
Justice Ministry
State Attorney's Office
Fax: 011-972-2-646-6655
Silvan Shalom
Foreign Minister
Fax: 011-972-2-530-3367
Email: sar [at] mfa.gov.il
url for nearest Israeli Embassy:
http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/israel.htm
American citizen Brooke Atherton threatened with deportation 7:30 p.m. today, Pacific Daylight Time
American citizen Brooke Atherton has been told that she will be deported on the next Alitalia flight from Ben-Gurion Airport, at 5:30 a.m. local time, Thursday, June 17 (7:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 16 Pacific Daylight Time). She was enrolled in an Arabic language course being offered by Holy Land Trust in Bethlehem but is being denied permission to attend. Israeli authorities have refused to give any reason for her deportation and Israeli courts have refused to issue an injunction to allow her to remain in the country pending a court hearing, according to her lawyer, Yael Berga.
In the absence of any official explanation or justification, one can only speculate that the Israeli actions are aimed at undermining a legitimate educational activity of a Palestinian organization that is dedicated to peace, nonviolence and understanding, and at preventing visitors from witnessing the repression and ethnic cleansing activities of the Israeli military in Palestinian areas. More than 10,000 visitors have been denied entry to Israel since January, 2001.
Please call and write ASAP to the following. Tell them that Brooke deserves a hearing, that Israel is undermining its own democracy and that paranoia makes for bad policy. Tell them that such deportations give the world a taste of how illegal barriers prevent Palestinians from living their lives. Tell them that when there is no distinction under the law between Jews, Palestinians and other non-Jews, then we can expect justice. However, as long as discrimination, apartheid and genocide persist, we will continue to remind them of the shame in which they are living.
Please remember that the time difference is PDT + 10 hours. The international code from the U.S. is 011 and the country code for Israel is 972. When calling from inside Israel, add a zero to the beginning of the local number. Sometimes you can get cheaper rates by using 10-10-811 or similar codes before dialing the number.
Detention facility where Brooke is being held: tel. +972-3-9795461
U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv
tel. +972-3-6197575
Email: amctelaviv@state..gov
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
tel. 202-647-4000
Interior Minister Avraham Poraz
(fax: +972-2-5666376)(fax: 972-2-6701628)(fax: 972-2-6701585)
Email: sar [at] moin.gov.il
Enav Golomb
Justice Ministry
State Attorney's Office
Fax: 011-972-2-646-6655
Silvan Shalom
Foreign Minister
Fax: 011-972-2-530-3367
Email: sar [at] mfa.gov.il
url for nearest Israeli Embassy:
http://www.embassyworld.com/embassy/israel.htm
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After putting up valiant resistance to deportation, resisting boarding a flight against her will, she was able to get a court hearing with an attorney. At the court the government said she has been a participant in International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activities in the past, that if permitted to enter the country she be one again and that ISM is a subversive organization that helps Palestinians defy military directives and impedes military actions. (i do expect the govt. failed to mention that the military actions the govt. referred to were a violation of international law)
Brooke has now decided to leave the country.
The fact that the Israeli govt was succeeded to oust one more witness to its crimes is a loss for Palestinians, a loss for human rights. Human rights workers have a right to do there work, and Israel's harasment of international workers and preventing them from doing there work is yet another crime.
I urge everyone to consider going to Palestine. Defy the ban. We need new people to join in non-violent, Palestinian-led, resistance.
Israel, keep one out, and we will send 5 more. Nothing will turn us around!
Please contact ismtraining [at] yahoo.com, for future trainings to go to Palestine.
Brooke has now decided to leave the country.
The fact that the Israeli govt was succeeded to oust one more witness to its crimes is a loss for Palestinians, a loss for human rights. Human rights workers have a right to do there work, and Israel's harasment of international workers and preventing them from doing there work is yet another crime.
I urge everyone to consider going to Palestine. Defy the ban. We need new people to join in non-violent, Palestinian-led, resistance.
Israel, keep one out, and we will send 5 more. Nothing will turn us around!
Please contact ismtraining [at] yahoo.com, for future trainings to go to Palestine.
For more information:
http://www.norcalism.org/Freedom_Summer_20...
Brooke Atherton's ejection from Israel is happening for very simple and deeply sinister reasons:
A) she ain't Jewish; if she were, she'd be an automatic citizen and they wouldn't even try this shit. This reflects a deeper sentiment among zionists that non-Jewish opinions of Israel are totally irrelevant, which in turn reflects the zionist movement's essential bigotry. I'm so sick of waiting for Americans to catch on to this. The big obstacle here is that Americans are themselves psycho nationalist bigots, so they can't analyze the Israeli pathology to save their souls.
B) Fanatical zionists are determined to crush any effort by non-zionists to directly observe Israeli-Palestinian relations, because this would further reveal their diseased genocidal psychology. They're kinda like bugs under a rock, except they have considerable power to keep anyone from overturning the rock, i.e. from discovering their appallingly filthy secrets. Mordechai Vanunu was an insider who exposed their biggest filthy secret, and for this they did their utmost to destroy him. They're vindictive as hell, you see. The same despicable character is presently on display in their treatment of former U.S. Marine and P10K founder Ken O'keefe, who received a concussion last Monday at the hands of Israeli "thugs."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0406/S00196.htm
A) she ain't Jewish; if she were, she'd be an automatic citizen and they wouldn't even try this shit. This reflects a deeper sentiment among zionists that non-Jewish opinions of Israel are totally irrelevant, which in turn reflects the zionist movement's essential bigotry. I'm so sick of waiting for Americans to catch on to this. The big obstacle here is that Americans are themselves psycho nationalist bigots, so they can't analyze the Israeli pathology to save their souls.
B) Fanatical zionists are determined to crush any effort by non-zionists to directly observe Israeli-Palestinian relations, because this would further reveal their diseased genocidal psychology. They're kinda like bugs under a rock, except they have considerable power to keep anyone from overturning the rock, i.e. from discovering their appallingly filthy secrets. Mordechai Vanunu was an insider who exposed their biggest filthy secret, and for this they did their utmost to destroy him. They're vindictive as hell, you see. The same despicable character is presently on display in their treatment of former U.S. Marine and P10K founder Ken O'keefe, who received a concussion last Monday at the hands of Israeli "thugs."
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0406/S00196.htm
"anti bigot"?
>>>"Brooke Atherton's ejection from Israel is happening for very simple and deeply sinister reasons:
A) she ain't Jewish; if she were, she'd be an automatic citizen and they wouldn't even try this shit."<<<
That's a crock of s-h-i-t. You ought to do your homework before sounding these bollocks.
A Jew is only granted Israeli citizenship if s/he wants to move to Israel and says so.
>>>" This reflects a deeper sentiment among zionists that non-Jewish opinions of Israel are totally irrelevant, which in turn reflects the zionist movement's essential bigotry."<<<
Your silly, false, overgeneralizing contentions reflect nothing more than your own raving anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist bigotry.
>>>"Fanatical zionists are determined to crush any effort by non-zionists to directly observe Israeli-Palestinian relations, because this would further reveal their diseased genocidal psychology."<<<
Judging by real facts on the ground, they've been persistent in trying to prevent you from "observing" because you and your ilk are not only decidedly pro-Palestinian, but have aided and abetted Palestinian terror and terrorists, have gone at times beyond being merely non-violent, and have lied too many times to be considered reliable and credible, let alone trustworthy.
>>>"Mordechai Vanunu was an insider who exposed their biggest filthy secret,"<<<
Israel's nuclear capabilities hadn't been a secret. The only novelty was his photos that presented certain structures within the nuclear facility.
>>>"They're vindictive as hell, you see. The same despicable character is presently on display in their treatment of former U.S. Marine and P10K founder Ken O'keefe, who received a concussion last Monday at the hands of Israeli "thugs." "<<<
Perhaps that nitwitted dipshit wouldn't have gotten a concussion if he hadn't provoked the guards.
>>>"Brooke Atherton's ejection from Israel is happening for very simple and deeply sinister reasons:
A) she ain't Jewish; if she were, she'd be an automatic citizen and they wouldn't even try this shit."<<<
That's a crock of s-h-i-t. You ought to do your homework before sounding these bollocks.
A Jew is only granted Israeli citizenship if s/he wants to move to Israel and says so.
>>>" This reflects a deeper sentiment among zionists that non-Jewish opinions of Israel are totally irrelevant, which in turn reflects the zionist movement's essential bigotry."<<<
Your silly, false, overgeneralizing contentions reflect nothing more than your own raving anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist bigotry.
>>>"Fanatical zionists are determined to crush any effort by non-zionists to directly observe Israeli-Palestinian relations, because this would further reveal their diseased genocidal psychology."<<<
Judging by real facts on the ground, they've been persistent in trying to prevent you from "observing" because you and your ilk are not only decidedly pro-Palestinian, but have aided and abetted Palestinian terror and terrorists, have gone at times beyond being merely non-violent, and have lied too many times to be considered reliable and credible, let alone trustworthy.
>>>"Mordechai Vanunu was an insider who exposed their biggest filthy secret,"<<<
Israel's nuclear capabilities hadn't been a secret. The only novelty was his photos that presented certain structures within the nuclear facility.
>>>"They're vindictive as hell, you see. The same despicable character is presently on display in their treatment of former U.S. Marine and P10K founder Ken O'keefe, who received a concussion last Monday at the hands of Israeli "thugs." "<<<
Perhaps that nitwitted dipshit wouldn't have gotten a concussion if he hadn't provoked the guards.
CT since you have nothing to add but tired disinformation, i say do us a favor, unplug. If you're on wifi just pick up and start walking, 300 metres or so. Or try this: put your laptop on "hibernate" mode and throw it out a window, at least 3 stories.
Dunno what you meant by "wifi", though I can tell you that if I were bent on spreading disinfo I wouldn't be spending time countering all the rubbish I see on certain threads, courtesy of your friends and you too (maybe). I can back up my above claims with links, but what's the use? You and your ilk are probably inclined to dismiss the facts anyway.
It is ironic that so many are being withheld from entering Israel while American government is being over run by foreign nationals with billions of dollars.
The American government perpetuates a caste system and should be viewed as the mortal enemy of the mix-breed lower American caste. When they are ousted we should fire our weapons with Saddam Hussein and send him home and let Iraq sort out their own problems.
Israel saddens me because they have fascist leaders just like the United States. They behave like they are not even human in many cases.
I heard it said once that humankind is a salivating dog. Perhaps it is time to be put down. Our enemies in America government are leading little "us" to our ends.
"We want to roar like pre-historic beasts into the night to warn off our enemies on the hill of ill-gotten wealth" Instead they drive past us in their Mercedes and Lexus and Jaguars, etc." When the oil runs dry, perhaps we will make barn fires from their luxurious hide outs for the super wealthy and be able to live in their abondoned autos when they are dead from starvation, disease, and malady.
The American government perpetuates a caste system and should be viewed as the mortal enemy of the mix-breed lower American caste. When they are ousted we should fire our weapons with Saddam Hussein and send him home and let Iraq sort out their own problems.
Israel saddens me because they have fascist leaders just like the United States. They behave like they are not even human in many cases.
I heard it said once that humankind is a salivating dog. Perhaps it is time to be put down. Our enemies in America government are leading little "us" to our ends.
"We want to roar like pre-historic beasts into the night to warn off our enemies on the hill of ill-gotten wealth" Instead they drive past us in their Mercedes and Lexus and Jaguars, etc." When the oil runs dry, perhaps we will make barn fires from their luxurious hide outs for the super wealthy and be able to live in their abondoned autos when they are dead from starvation, disease, and malady.
For more information:
http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/democracyor...
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