In this issue of the Defender we’re devoting a lot of space to the issue of Palestine, for two reasons.
Jews & Palestinians protest racist Israeli minister in D.C.
The D.C.-Metro chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace held a protest March 12 outside a D.C. hotel where Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, an extremist settler leader, was speaking to the Israel Bonds’ leadership.
Our lives in Gaza
An opinion piece on life in Gaza from Ahmed Nasser, a young Palestinian man who was raised and lives in the Gaza Strip. Gaza has been under Israeli military blockade since 2006.
Jacqueline Luqman on the upcoming “Rage Against the War Machine” demo in DC
Jacqueline Luqman provides her analysis of an antiwar demonstration coming up in Washington DC this Sunday. Read her piece, “Why The Rage Against The War Machine Rally Is #AntiwarSoWhite,” at Black Agenda Report.
ANTIWAR ACTIVIST FACES REPRESSION IN GERMANY
A prominent Berlin antiwar activist, Heinrich Bücker, gave a speech this June in which he criticized the German government’s support for neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine. As a result, he is now facing charges which carry the possibility of years in prison.
Israeli forces carry out brutal assault on al-Aqsa mosque
On April 15, Israel carried out a violent assault on Palestinians congregating at the al-Aqsa masjid in East Jerusalem, the third holiest site for followers of Islam. It was a Friday, the Muslim day of worship, in the holy month of Ramadan.
POLITICAL REPRESSION IN UKRAINE
The U.S. media is full of stories about what it calls political repression in other countries, but it’s strangely silent when it comes to Ukraine.
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