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16 years ago @ Borderline Crimes - Fear and Advice: on Je... · 0 replies · +2 points
16 years ago @ Borderline Crimes - Privileged Pessimism: ... · 0 replies · +1 points
Activists hold signs reading in Hebrew "Freedom - without fences, without borders" (center) and "The wall must fall" (left) during a protest in center Tel Aviv on the 10/12/2009 for the immediate release of Abdallah Abu Rahmah and all the political prisoners.
On the night of the 9/12/2009 seven Israeli military jeeps pulled over at Abdallah Abu Rahmah's residence in the city of Ramallah. Soldiers raided the house and arrested Abu Rahmah from his bed in the presence of his wife and children. Abu Rahmah is a high school teacher in the Latin Patriarchate school in Birzeit near Ramallah and is the coordinator of the Bil'in Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements.
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/4175352...
16 years ago @ Borderline Crimes - Learning About 1948 · 1 reply · +2 points
Pictures from a refugee camp in 1950. The commentary is problematic, but the images are very touching.
16 years ago @ Borderline Crimes - Ma'asara 7/24/2009 · 0 replies · +2 points
Don't listen to me - listen to the Israeli Chief of Staff:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1005914.html
16 years ago @ Borderline Crimes - Stonewall and the Occu... · 0 replies · +1 points
For example, "David Saranga, who works in the New York consulate, was more open about the need to promote Gay Israel as part of showing liberal America that Israel is more than the place where Jesus once walked.
The gay culture is an entryway to the liberal culture, he said, because in New York, it’s that culture that is creating "a buzz."
Israel needs to show this community that it is relevant to them by promoting gay tourism, gay artists and films. Showing young, liberal Americans that Israel also has a gay culture goes a long toward informing them that Israel is a place that respects human rights, as well, said Saranga".
http://www.glbtjews.org/article.php3?id_article=2...
16 years ago @ Borderline Crimes - Stonewall and the Occu... · 0 replies · +2 points
One issue you hint at is how these riots have now been canonized. According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots#Open...
it looks like no one was seriously hurt, but some of the people routinely arrested and assaulted for years by the police did strike back at them ("An officer shoved a transvestite, who responded by hitting him on the head with her purse as the crowd began to boo"). For Palestinians, any form of protest gets stigmatized as violent, even when it is non-violent. No kind of Palestinian violence is ever seen as legitimate (an application of pacifism towards Jews only, even if they are members of armed forces), whereas the routine and often harsher violence of the occupation is presented as a legitimate enforcement of law and order.
I also there are parallels to be drawn between the ritualistic sadism policemen practiced in gay bars and the ritual humiliations of Palestinians at checkpoints, like the ones in this report - Israeli troops humiliate Palestinians - and put it on YouTube
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094242.html