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Support the International week of action against the Apartheid Wall

West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign | 27.10.2005 10:22 | Birmingham

Announcement of Birmingham action as part of the International week of action against the Apartheid Wall

Support the International week of action against the Apartheid Wall

Join us on Saturday 12th November at 1pm prompt on High Street (opposite Waterstones) in Birmingham City Centre.

Answer the call of grassroots Palestinian organisations for a week of international action and solidarity against the Apartheid Wall. Come prepared to leaflet, picket and talk to members of the public.

Under the slogan Through our Hands, the Apartheid Wall will Fall! Palestinian communities in the path of the Wall will mobilise against this further Israeli project of colonization, land grab and expulsion.

In 2004 protests took place in over 30 countries around the world. This is a week of combined Palestinian resistance and global solidarity action.

In Birmingham we will be focusing on shops selling Caterpillar branded goods, urging a boycott until Caterpillar stops selling bulldozers to Israel. These bulldozers are used to destroy Palestinian homes

Organised by West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign

West Midlands Palestine Solidarity Campaign


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Why did you ignore Rwanda and Dafur in Sudan?

28.10.2005 08:47

Why is the left so obbsessed with Palestine at the exenpse of places where there is real suffering and mass sluaghter like Rwanda and Dafur in Sudan? One million people died in Rwanda and the left said and did nothing! That is totally disgraceful. And where has there even been a mention of the suffering of African people in Dafur in Sudan over the past two years by the left? Not one so far, not even on Indymedia. You also totally ignore the fact that the Palestinians suffering is self inflicted, if they hadn't engaged in terrorism for the past 38 years then not one of them would have been killed or the seperation wall even thought of!

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Re: Why did you ignore Rwanda and Dafur in Sudan?

02.11.2005 19:29

Well, dear Concered, I don't think the "Left's obbsession with Palestine" has been "at the exenpse of [other] places, where there is real suffering and mass sluaghter, like Rwanda and Dafur in Sudan". If true, then it's probably due to the fact that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is high on all international agendas, something 'we' don't have a hand in. And do you actually imply that there is no "real suffering and mass sluaghter" in Palestine. Yes, I think you do: "...ignore the fact that the Palestinians suffering is self-inflicted; if they hadn't engaged in terrorism for the past 38 years, then not one of them would have been killed or the seperation wall even thought of!" This is absolutely nonsense. How could it be "self-inflicted" if you're defending your land and country that were, and are being, occupied by someone else; if your witnissing your people being killed and made homeless every single day. This is, apparently, the same twisted narrative of the Israeli government itself, and the Western corporate media that defend it.

As for "the Left said and did nothing" about Rwanda and Darfur, "not even on Indymedia", that is also not true. To mention only a few, these articles were published on UK Indymedia this year:

Rwanda:
 https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/310041.html
 https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/309756.html

Darfur:
 https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/05/311201.html
 https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/05/311115.html
 https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/05/310644.html
 https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/309314.html
 https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/02/304800.html

So please don't just throw arbitrary accusations if you you're not following up (or is it a deliberate attempt of distortion/disinformation?!). And after all, if you're so concerned, then we'll be very happy if you wrote about these massacres and put it on Indymedia. People talk about what they know most, don't they?

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