5/22/11 Protesters Picket AIPAC 2011 Convention-Photos & Video

From: http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/151460/index.php
See original article for good photos.
Excellent Video at:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f5f_1306100095
Protests began at about 8AM, and for a good part of the morning protesters were able to close K st in front of the Convention Center. Early attempts by police to drive protesters back to the sidewalk across the street from the Convention Center were not very sucessful, simply inciting more protesters to cross each subsequent time. [As you can see in the video, the Zionist-Nazis had to run the gauntlet of protesters to go to lunch.]

Eventually, a spectacular"US Boat to Gaza" consisting of a banner around protesters in the shape of a boat with an "End the Siege" sail made it across for a short march around the first part of the Convention Center and under their overpass before everyone returned to the park area on the south side of the street.

As Obmama's motorcade approached, cops became very aggressive in trying to keep all protesters out of the street. During this incident and for unknown reasons, cops arrested one person and took him across the street with his hands behind his back.

The arrest infuriated the crowd, which stormed across K st in pursuit after a short delay and surrounded the police car the cops had locked their "hostage" inside. This led to the fighting, with cops trying to forcibly clear an arm-locked line of protesters so they could leave with the arrestee. I saw what appeared to be cops even resort to throwing punches as well as shoves before they finally managed to escape with their prisoner. Had someone partially broken their windshield to obstruct their view, they would have been trapped with an undriveable car-and I did hear the sound of blows on metal as the car pushed through the crowd.

Although not perfect, this was a pretty good effort by a crowd consisting mostly of people not trained for battle and riot in resisting a police effort to take someone away. Although people did not succeed in unarresting the person taken, the cops were sent a loud message that further aggression would not be tolerated and there were no further arrests-even after people closed K st and marched around the Convention Center.

There was minimal if any presence of neo-Nazis as we had been warned would occur. One individual departed after a conversation about a T-shirt he claimed was bought at Target, a T-shirt bearing slogans about battle and honor that could have been worn by a Nazi but by itself is proof of nothing.

The most serious right-wing disruption came from a "Zio-Nazi" with a very, very loud sound system who was allowed by police to set up in the south side of K st-the area anti-AIPAC protesters had a permit for. He was constantly yelling about killing-killing Fatah, killing Hamas, killing this, killing that. He did this while surrounded by his enemies, yet cops made no effort to stop this obvious incitation of a riot, complete with references to killing. Stuffing his speaker with his own display T-shirts get 5 to 15 minutes relief before he would notice over his own yelling that his speaker was muffuiled, though!


A better picture of the "Gaza Boat" banner and flag/sail
Taken under the Convention Center underpass

A crazy Zionist gets a T-shirt stuffed in his PA speaker22 May 2011
by Anonymous
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This man was yelling all day about killing and hate, so twice he got a T-shirt stuffed into the speaker of his PA speaker. In one case, this got 5 minutes relief, in another case it was about 15 minutes before he noticed his PA could no longer be heard over his own loud mouth.

Never say direct action is always bad for peace and quiet-in this case it took direct action to get some peace and quiet!
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ISRAEL NOW REWRITES US PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.
From: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2011/may2011/neta-m21.shtml
Nonetheless, the Netanyahu government furiously objected to the inclusion of any reference to the “1967 lines” i.e., the borders that existed before the 1967 war, when Israel occupied the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, Jerusalem and the Sinai Peninsula.

According to press reports, Netanyahu personally telephoned Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to demand that the phrase be removed from the speech, triggering a debate within Obama’s staff that led the speech to be postponed for some 35 minutes. That the speech was vetted with the Netanyahu government speaks volumes about the US-Israeli relationship.
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Zionists are Jewish fascists by definition. Their predecessors collaborated with Nazi Germany; today they collaborate with Nazi USA. The references are below. As all American presidents do, Republican and Democrat, the fascist war criminal Obama proclaimed his 100% support for Israel at this AIPAC convention. NO ONE CAN CLAIM TO BE "PROGRESSIVE," FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE, IF THEY SUPPORT OBAMA IN 2012. Just his supporting Israel should be good reason to vote Peace & Freedom or Green, both of which support the Palestinian liberation struggle. He is just as reactionary as Bush, and usually much worse. Staying home is the same as voting Democrat or Republican. You have to vote socialist or Green if you want anything to get better. See:
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org/home/
and
http://www.cagreens.org/
Here is the information on the horrors of the US military base and colony called Israel.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
(2006) Oneworld Publications, ISBN 978-1-85168-555-4
(Has full details on the 1948 to present mass murder of boys and men, rape and murder of girls and women and theft of Palestinian land all planned by David Ben-Gurion, first president of Israel, and cohorts, as Ben-Gurion described in his diary quoted in Pappe’s book.)

Israel-Palestine on Record by Howard Friel and Richard Falk
(2007) Verso, ISBN 978-1-84467-109-0 (Contains eyewitness testimony for 2000 to 2006 of Israeli destruction of Palestinian homes and the horrors of daily life in Occupied Palestine due to daily Israeli terrorism, all paid for with $6 billion US tax dollars annually, making Israel the 4th largest military gang in the world).

http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/

Zionism in the Age of Dictators by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/brenner/

The Iron Wall by Lenni Brenner at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/ironwall/

The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman at
http://www.marxists.de/middleast/schoenman/

Boycott, Divest, Sanctions Movement against Zionist Israel at
http://bdsmovement.net/

Gaza Freedom Flotilla
http://gazafreedommarch.org/cms/en/Solidarity.aspx

The Israeli Military State starts in childhood at:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com/2010/04/indoctrinating-israeli-youths-to-be.html

Israel’s nuclear war capacity and history of threatening the former Soviet Union in an excellent article by John Steinbach:
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-weapons/issues/policy/israeli-nuclear-policy/steinbach_israeli_program.pdf

51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis edited by Lenni Brenner
(2002) Barricade Books, New Jersey, ISBN 1-56980-235-1

The Transfer Agreement by Edwin Black
(1984, 2001) Carroll & Graf, NY, ISBN 0-7867-0841-7

The Third Reich and the Palestine Question by Francis Nicosia
(1985) University of Texas Press, ISBN 0-292-72731-3

Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse by Sylvain Cypel
(2005, 2006) Other Press, ISBN 13:978-1-5905 1-210-4
(A good early history of the apartheid wall and history and contemporary life of Israel and its relationship to the US as a military base. The lack of separation of church and state is evident as “All Israeli students study the Hebrew Bible in public school for several hours a week, from the elementary grades through high school (knowledge of the Bible is tested on the high school exit examination.)” (p. 177) Superstition and militarism clearly go together This is a sign of an extremely backward society).

A Wall in Palestine by Rene Backman
(2006, 2010) Picador/St. Martin’s Press, NY ISBN 978-0-312-42781-8
(Good maps of the apartheid wall and description of resistance to it; it is clearly a land grab as there are means of going through wall and thus it has nothing to do with security; also describes segregated roads and racist license system).

An Israeli in Palestine by Jeff Halper (an American who moved to Israel in 1973 at age 27, is a professor of anthropology, is the leader of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and supports the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Campaign against Israel described in Appendix 4). (2008) Pluto Press, ISBN 978-0-7453-2226-1. “There is not even a civil mechanism by which Jewish, Christian, and Muslim citizens of Israel can marry each other since personal status, citizenship, marriage, death, inheritance, is regulated by religious and not civil law.” p. 76

Palestine Inside Out by Saree Makdisi, (2008, 2010) Norton Press, ISBN 978-0-393-33844-7. With a beautiful foreword by Alice Walker, comparing the racist horrors of Zionist Israel to white racism in the USA, Makdisi, a Palestinian-American professor of English literature at UCLA, writes a detailed account of the daily horrors of life in Occupied Palestine. His periodic sections “By the Numbers” offer useful statistics, his maps are plentiful, and his entire book is a ringing indictment of the mental illness that is religion and the anti-women horror of theocratic states. As Americans read it, we must remember that this is all paid for with our tax dollars and supported 100% by every single Democratic and Republican politician at every level of government. It is opposed by all socialist parties and the Green Party.

DVD-Warner Classics: The Ramallah Concert: Knowledge Is The Beginning with West-Eastern Divan Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim. Ramallah Concert program: Mozart Sinfonia, Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, Elgar’s Nimrod from Enigma Variations. Orchestra consists of young Jewish Israelis and Arabs of many countries, including Palestine, plus some Europeans.