top
San Francisco
San Francisco
Indybay
Indybay
Indybay
Regions
Indybay Regions North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area California United States International Americas Haiti Iraq Palestine Afghanistan
Topics
Newswire
Features
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature

SF Demo at Israeli Consulate 6/4/10

by Ed Rippy
Two speech excerpts and three interviews from the 6/4/10 protest at the Israeli consulate
Listen now:
Copy the code below to embed this audio into a web page:
SAN FRANCISCO-- Hundreds of people came to the Israeli consulate protesting the Israeli attack on a Turkish relief vessel near Gaza. They packed one side of the block and most of the other side. I counted about 30 police, and there were more out of sight on side streets; I estimated at least 60 total. About 30 Zionist counter-protesters occupied the middle of one side of the street.

Unfortunately the jostling made it impossible to get good sound quality for the "bullhorn" speakers (and, in one case, even to get his name). One speaker told me that all the organizers were busy with the "mainstream" media which had shown up. I interviewed two of the pro-Gaza protesters, Jack Fertig and Mohamed.

On the Zionist side, I asked several people for interviews. Many were suspicious, and when I told them I was planning on putting this up on IndyBay they generally declined. One man said, "I know about IndyBay. I monitor it to keep tabs on the left -- the *FAR* left -- of the political spectrum." Another said that he didn't think I'd find any friends here. A woman said that she didn't "necessarily" trust what I write. Another woman thanked me for the offer but said that she wanted to pay attention to what was going on rather than talk. One man, Yehiel Yisrael, gave me an interview.
§Speaker: Unidentified
by Ed Rippy
Listen now:
Copy the code below to embed this audio into a web page:
§Interview: Jack Fertig
by Ed Rippy
Listen now:
Copy the code below to embed this audio into a web page:
§Interview: Yehiel Yisrael
by Ed Rippy
Listen now:
Copy the code below to embed this audio into a web page:
§Interview: Mohamed
by Ed Rippy
Listen now:
Copy the code below to embed this audio into a web page:
Add Your Comments

Comments (Hide Comments)
Please do not waste the disk space of this precious website on Zionist propaganda as we get that garbage everywhere in the capitalist press. The obvious lies of the Zionist speaker were shameful: The Freedom Flotilla was filled with humanitarian workers; this was a US-sponsored terrorist attack by its faithful puppet, Israel, to stop the humanitarian aid to occupied Gaza, which is a prison of Israel and the imprisonment, called the blockade, must stop immediately as it is all about genocide. Israel does not exist for 1 second without US aid to the tune of $6 billion a year to be this US military base icalled Israel n the Middle East to protect US oil profits in the Middle East and to do its terrorist bidding around the world, all to maximize the profits of the capitalist class, the primary goal and law of capitalism. The religious drivel spewed forth by the Zionist you interviewed is the propaganda used to whip mentally ill people into line to support this military base. Israel has nothing to do with the Holocaust, either. The US simply took over from British imperialism in 1948 and continued the same imperial project. The Zionists have a history of Nazi collaboration, just as they collaborate with Nazi USA today. Zionists are Jewish fascists and were proud supporters of the murder of Jewish socialists, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, by the anti-communist US government on June 19, 1953, in a horrifying frame up on the false and phony charge of conspiracy to commit atomic espionage all to make Jew, Communist and traitor synonymous, as a means of whipping up support for the war of anti-communism the US was perpetrating in Korea. It does no good to appeal to the 100% pro-Israel Democrat-Republicans to help the Palestinians, either. To put an end to the horror that is Israel, we must not only demand NO US AID TO ISRAEL, support Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party which are for NO US AID TO ISRAEL and support the labor unions' refusal to unload Israeli goods around the world, we must also support labor organizing for a general strike to take state power to put an end to the private profit system. THE SAME PRIVATE PROFIT SYSTEM THAT IS DESTROYING THE GULF OF MEXICO WITH AN OIL VOLCANO ALSO PERPETRATES THE HORROR THAT IS ISRAEL. WE CAN ONLY END THE 62 YEAR OCCUPATION BY ENDING US IMPERIALISM. FOR THAT, WE MUST HAVE A LABOR MOVEMENT.

PLEASE SHOW YOUR CONCERN AND SUPPORT THIS WEBSITE BY CONTRIBUTING TO IT. This writer derives no benefit from this appeal and has no connection to the organizers of this website; it is simply obvious that we need it and I have contributed to it. I see we have finally topped $800, after about a month of appeals. Since the goal is $2,010, so we are not even half way there. The need amount now is $1210. That is 121 people each contributing $10, 60 people each contributing about $20, and so forth. I AM SURE THAT THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE POSTING TO THIS WEBSITE AND REGULARLY READING THIS WEBSITE TO END THIS FUNDRAISER IN ONE DAY, CERTAINLY MORE THAN 121 PEOPLE. I AM ALSO SURE THERE ARE LOTS OF SUPPORTERS WHO CAN CONTRIBUTE AT LEAST $100 IF NOT MORE. NOW IS THE TIME TO GET OFF THE DIME. THIS IS UNCONSCIONABLE THAT THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO READ THIS WEBSITE DO NOT CONTRIBUTE ANYTHING AT ALL TO IT. WE CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE THIS WEBSITE.
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!

Donate

$210.00 donated
in the past month

Get Involved

If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.

Publish

Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.

IMC Network