[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [HumanRights] Update before I return home

Tue Mar 9 21:22:26 CST 2010

FYI.

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> From: Mazin Qumsiyeh <mazin at qumsiyeh.org>
> Date: March 8, 2010 8:02:57 AM CST
> To: Mort Brussel <brussel at illinois.edu>
> Cc: Human Rights Newsletter <humanrights at lists.qumsiyeh.org>
> Subject: [HumanRights] Update before I return home
> 
> Below is an update including action calls, interviews by several languages,
> and more videos of civil resistance actions being persecuted by occupation
> authorities.
> 
> Many people have been injured and killed in the past few weeks as both the
> local population and the occupation authorities realize we are in the birth
> pangs of a new uprising against the occupation focused on civil resistance
> in villages and towns impacted by the colonization policies.  A 14-year-old
> Ehab Afdal Barghouthi was critically injured after Israeli occupation
> soldiers shot him in the head earlier this week during one of these
> demonstrations. The concern that hundreds of you showed to my situation with
> a potential arrest upon return home moved me. Of course, I am more protected
> and privileged than most Palestinians who engage in civil resistance and we
> must not forget about them.  But in discussion with many hundreds of friends
> via my appearances in the US in the last few days and via the internet, we
> come to the conclusion that it might be good to use my story as a way to
> draw attention to these other cases.  If the Israeli army is allowed to
> persecute a Palestinian American academic and professor who always advocated
> civil and nonviolent resistance, then obviously they would have more freedom
> to do far more against others. And not being able to intimidate me might
> give more courage to other Palestinians from exile to return and struggle in
> our homeland. So with those ideas in mind, I contracted with the law offices
> of Jonathan Kuttab (famous Palestinian civil resister himself) to represent
> me upon my return.  We will also wage a media and other campaigns as the
> need arise. I thus spoke strongly against repression in several venues in
> the past few days including Bradeiss, Brown, UMAss, and Northeastern
> Universities.  I will also be speaking March 10th at Noon at Graduate
> Student Lounge (just behind Au Bon Pain), Rutgers Student Center, 126
> College Avenue, New Brunswick Directions:
> http://maps.rutgers.edu/building.aspx?id=278
> Sponsored by the Emeriti Assembly of the Rutgers Council of AAUP-AFT
> Chapters
> 
> Supporters of freedom have also took initiatives to act on their own.  Some
> started a petition to describes the situation surrounding the threats by the
> Israeli Army: http://www.thestruggle.org/beit_s_petition.htm
> And some American professors and representatives have already expressed
> support:
> http://www.thestruggle.org/we_ask_beit_sahour.htm
> 
> Others have continued to put videos on Youtube showing indeed who the
> aggressors are.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4he1vayLrfo
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuzk9k7y_9Q
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4MDxqrofhU
> 
> Other peace and justice groups have asked for action.  For example Palestine
> Action Group wrote to their supporters:
> This is a call for action on behalf of our friend, Dr Mazin B. Qumsiyeh,
> whom we know as a tireless advocate for human rights and justice. Mazin is a
> Palestinian American citizen who lived in the US for 29 years before
> returning to Palestine nearly two years ago. He received his higher
> education in the US and served as a faculty member in schools of medicine at
> the Universities of Tennessee, Duke and Yale. He has also written several
> books, the most recent of which is Hope and Empowerment: A History of
> Popular Resistance in Palestine.……………Israel receives billions of our tax
> money, and carries out its targeting of nonviolent peace activists, like
> Mazin, with the tacit complicity of the US government.  Please join us in
> writing to Israelis officials (that we are aware of Mazin's situation and
> concerned for his safety) and US officials (asking that they use their
> influence on Mazin's behalf).  Below are the addresses, and thanks for any
> attention you can bring to his case.
> Israeli Embassy in US: Ambassador Michael Oren, Embassy of Israel, 3514
> International Drive, NW, Washington DC 20008 Telephone: (202) 364-5500
> Fax: (202) 364-5423  E-mail: info at israelemb.org
> Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, 456 Montgomery St,
> Suite 2100, San Francisco, CA 94104
> Telephone: 415-844-7500    Fax: 415-844-7555 E-mail: sf at israelconsulate.org
> Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
> http://contact-us.state.gov/cgi-bin/state.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php or
> Secretary at state.gov
> U.S. Department of State, 2201 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20520, Main
> Switchboard: 202-647-4000 / Comment Line:  202-647-6575 or 202-647-5291
> US Embassy in Israel: U.S. Embassy, Israel 71 Hayarkon Street, Tel Aviv
> amctelaviv at state.gov
> Israeli minister of justice: Min. of Justice Yaakov NEEMAN, Salah -a - Din
> 29   P.O.Box 49029  Jerusalem 91490  ISRAEL
> 
> *Interview of Mazin Qumsiyeh by Silvia Cattori*
> English
> http://www.silviacattori.net/article1130.html
> http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/03/03/israeli-repression-in-palestine-is-escal
> http://imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=58126
> http://www.uruknet.de/index.php?p=m63886&hd=&size=1&l=e
> http://intifada-palestine.com/2010/03/04/mazin-qumsiyeh-israeli-army-wants-me/
> http://net-news-global.com/index.php?lang=en&PHPSESSID=b36244cd870f8b700667b6a5023e5eb0
> http://www.profi-reporte.de/php/pr/include.php?path=content/articles.php&contentid=4180&PHPKITSID=960f46979538b1afd93c1e1af66dc423
> http://www.dynastie-schubach.ch/de/press/index.php4
> http://www.blogfrommiddleeast.com/?new=63886
> 
> French
> http://www.silviacattori.net/article1132.html
> http://www.mondialisation.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17930
> http://groups.google.be/group/medias-mensonges-desinformation/browse_thread/thread/382f9f47d60d1988
> http://w41k.info/36847#36847
> http://www.belkacem.net/spip.php?article3637
> http://www.info-palestine.net/article.php3?id_article=8279
> http://www.palestine-solidarite.org/interview.Mazin_Qumsiyeh.030310.htm
> http://alwissal.wordpress.com/
> http://resocial.info/Mazin_Qumsiyeh__Larmee_israelienne_me_cherche_/comments#Mazin_Qumsiyeh__Larmee_israelienne_me_cherche_/comments
> http://www.rene-balme.org/24h00/spip.php?page=site
> http://emmalaluce2.blogspot.com/
> http://legaysavoir.blogspot.com/
> http://sergeadam.blogspot.com/2010/03/lula-refuse-de-sanctionner-liran.html
> http://www.urgencepalestine.ch/Agenda/news.html
> http://anniebannie.net/2010/03/06/la-repression-israelienne-en-palestine-s%E2%80%99aggrave/
> 
> German
> http://www.silviacattori.net/article1131.html
> http://www.anis-online.de/1/ton/64.htm
> http://www.rssdoor.de/home/nachrichten/31,0,10699,13,1,1,0.html
> http://www.net-news-global.de/
> http://www.arendt-art.de/deutsch/palestina/
> http://www.palaestina-portal.eu/
> 
> Spanish
> http://www.silviacattori.net/article1138.html
> http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=101670
> 
> Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
> A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home
> http://qumsiyeh.org
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