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Defend the Right to Protest Israeli War Crimes.

2%Human | 14.05.2010 01:01 | Palestine | Repression | Social Struggles | Sheffield

There is disturbing evidence that laws are being used to stifle
political protest; especially when it concerns protest against Israel.
The severity of the sentences passed on demonstrators outside the Israeli
Embassy during the bombing of Gaza is unprecedented. Charges of racist
conduct against demonstrators in Scotland have been rejected by the courts.

A meeting held at the Friends Meeting House in Sheffield organised by the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign, to hear from two protesters who were at the demonstrations against the Israeli War Crimes in Gaza at the turn of the year who witnessed the brutal and racist actions of the police and subsequent disproportionate sentences handed down by a racist judge to the predominantly dark skinned protesters who were arrested at the protest.

These two protesters were so shocked by the discriminatory, islamophobic attitudes of the British 'Justice' system that they are working with the Gaza Demonstrators Support Campaign to bring peoples attention to the plight of the jailed protesters and are campaigning in their support.

 http://gazademosupport.org.uk/

A call was made to support the Campaign with donations and action.

Mick Napier of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign who was a member of a group of protesters who were charged with race crimes after they were arrested protesting the Israeli War Crimes in Gaza. You can read more about the case here,

 http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3328:de-criminalising-solidarity-qracismq-case-thrown-out&catid=332:trial&Itemid=200248

Andy Worthington has more here....
 http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/03/17/vindictive-judge-gives-muslims-prison-sentences-for-gaza-protest/

Further Action.

62 years of the Palestinian Catastrophe 'Nakba'. Protest at Sheffield Town Hall 11 am Saturday 15th May 2010.

Gaza Demonstrators Support Campaign continues

14 May – Bradford: 4.30pm, Claremont Community Centre, 15 Claremont, Bradford, BD7 1BG, (Organised by United for Palestine)

14 May – Leeds: 7pm. Unison Office, 160a Woodhouse Lane. Leeds LS2 9EN, (Organised by Leeds) PSC


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Meeting at London School of Economics on Tuesday 18 May

14.05.2010 11:27

Defend the right to defend Palestine!

Open meeting organised by LSE FRFI society

Tuesday, 18 May 2010
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Location: Room H103, London School of Economics, Connaught House, Aldwych
Nearest tuibe, HOLBORN

On 27 December 2008 Israel began a military attack on Palestinians in Gaza, killing over 1,400 people, including more than 400 children, in three weeks of relentless bombardment. Gaza remains under siege, causing deaths on a daily basis.

* In Britain thousands of people protested against Israeli war crimes in Gaza and Britain’s complicity. The demonstrators were met with targeted brutality. There were 119 arrests; many in shocking dawn raids, which included the handcuffing of entire families and the seizing of phones and computers. 31 have been imprisoned so far and more continue to go on trial. The majority are young and Muslim

* Since Britain joined with the US in invading Afghanistan and Iraq in 2001, it has used anti-terror laws to criminalise militant opposition and attack the Muslim community. Student political activity has become the target of surveillance and suspicion.

Speakers:

* LSE FRFI Society
* Ihtisham Ul Haq – Gaza Demonstrators Support Campaign
* Hicham Yezza – editor of Ceasefire magazine and former Nottingham University student, criminalised for downloading internet material to assist another research student with his PhD

Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!


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