Over ten thousand local residents protest Israeli murderous campaign against Palestine
Over ten thousand local residents and activists gathered this weekend in protest of the latest Israeli ethnic cleansing campaigns in occupied territories of Palestine over the weekend.
The Israeli government has sanctioned tactics of attacks aimed at the dispossession of residents from their homes, recently targeting the densely populated neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. It has also shored up right wing nationalist segments of Israeli society, cracked down on protests over the expropriation of Palestinians from their homes, and conducted multiple assaults on the holy Al-Aqsa mosque during Ramadan. This occurred in the lead-up to Hamas shooting its first retaliatory rockets, in response to which Israel has bombarded Palestinian families into a second week on Monday, killing scores and displacing tens of thousands.
The Arab American News has continued to report on Israel’s ongoing crackdown on resistance efforts and its current bombardment of Gaza that has left over 200 Palestinians dead, including some 6o children, and a thousand more wounded. The death toll in Israel is at 10, including a child and a soldier. Israeli military says it has shot down over 90 percent of the rockets aimed at it with its well funded Iron Dome project.
In a recent report, the Human Rights Watch has “accused Israel of pursuing policies of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians– and against its own Arab minority- that amounts to crimes against humanity.”
International protests have erupted in the midst of the destruction in Gaza, attracting tens of thousands of people. Protesters came together in nation-wide rallies in U.S. cities, including Chicago, Buffalo, New York City, St. Louis, San Francisco, Portland, and Los Angeles.
In conjunction, Dearborn residents gathered in a massive turnout of over ten thousand people for two protests and marches in a show of Palestinian solidarity and bringing awareness to the relentless Israeli genocidal atrocities in occupied Palestine over the weekend.
Saturday, May 15th: Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) organized rally draws in over a thousand Dearborn, Detroit resident and activists:
“Today is the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, which is Arabic for catastrophe,” began Sahar Faraj, one of the main organizers for the Palestinian Youth Movement-Detroit. She spoke to a diverse crowd of over one thousand Dearborn and Detroit activists and concerned residents gathered behind the Arab American National Museum.
“Watching my people resist, watching my people return,” she said, choking back tears as the crowd cheered. “This is the first time I see that what is acceptable to me is liberatory, revolutionary history.”
Former Black Panther member and Detroit activist, Baba Blair Anderson addressed the protesters by recalling the murder he witnessed of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in the 1969 Chicago police shooting and raid. Anderson drew connections of struggle between the politically repressed cause for Palestinian liberation and the historic Black American struggle against systemic violence.
Detroit Will Breathe organizer, Jennifer Nichols, helped organize on the ground in solidarity, guiding people to safety in the front of the marching line.
“I’ve always supported Sahar (Faraj) and PYM,” she said. “We are all in this together as one. I was born in South Africa so I know what apartheid is like.”
Max Barnatt, a local Jewish resident, came out to the protest in support. “I have family in Israel, in the U.S., and Lebanon. We have lived our lives by replicating the rules of colonialism for too long for no reason. It can’t be something that continues if there isn’t a future there.”
President Biden is excepted to visit Dearborn tomorrow to tour the Ford River Rouge Plant. Protests from residents are expected to take place in response.
Source of information: www.arabamericannews.com
The Israeli government has sanctioned tactics of attacks aimed at the dispossession of residents from their homes, recently targeting the densely populated neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. It has also shored up right wing nationalist segments of Israeli society, cracked down on protests over the expropriation of Palestinians from their homes, and conducted multiple assaults on the holy Al-Aqsa mosque during Ramadan. This occurred in the lead-up to Hamas shooting its first retaliatory rockets, in response to which Israel has bombarded Palestinian families into a second week on Monday, killing scores and displacing tens of thousands.
The Arab American News has continued to report on Israel’s ongoing crackdown on resistance efforts and its current bombardment of Gaza that has left over 200 Palestinians dead, including some 6o children, and a thousand more wounded. The death toll in Israel is at 10, including a child and a soldier. Israeli military says it has shot down over 90 percent of the rockets aimed at it with its well funded Iron Dome project.
In a recent report, the Human Rights Watch has “accused Israel of pursuing policies of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians– and against its own Arab minority- that amounts to crimes against humanity.”
International protests have erupted in the midst of the destruction in Gaza, attracting tens of thousands of people. Protesters came together in nation-wide rallies in U.S. cities, including Chicago, Buffalo, New York City, St. Louis, San Francisco, Portland, and Los Angeles.
In conjunction, Dearborn residents gathered in a massive turnout of over ten thousand people for two protests and marches in a show of Palestinian solidarity and bringing awareness to the relentless Israeli genocidal atrocities in occupied Palestine over the weekend.
Saturday, May 15th: Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) organized rally draws in over a thousand Dearborn, Detroit resident and activists:
“Today is the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, which is Arabic for catastrophe,” began Sahar Faraj, one of the main organizers for the Palestinian Youth Movement-Detroit. She spoke to a diverse crowd of over one thousand Dearborn and Detroit activists and concerned residents gathered behind the Arab American National Museum.
“Watching my people resist, watching my people return,” she said, choking back tears as the crowd cheered. “This is the first time I see that what is acceptable to me is liberatory, revolutionary history.”
Former Black Panther member and Detroit activist, Baba Blair Anderson addressed the protesters by recalling the murder he witnessed of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton in the 1969 Chicago police shooting and raid. Anderson drew connections of struggle between the politically repressed cause for Palestinian liberation and the historic Black American struggle against systemic violence.
Detroit Will Breathe organizer, Jennifer Nichols, helped organize on the ground in solidarity, guiding people to safety in the front of the marching line.
“I’ve always supported Sahar (Faraj) and PYM,” she said. “We are all in this together as one. I was born in South Africa so I know what apartheid is like.”
Max Barnatt, a local Jewish resident, came out to the protest in support. “I have family in Israel, in the U.S., and Lebanon. We have lived our lives by replicating the rules of colonialism for too long for no reason. It can’t be something that continues if there isn’t a future there.”
President Biden is excepted to visit Dearborn tomorrow to tour the Ford River Rouge Plant. Protests from residents are expected to take place in response.
Source of information: www.arabamericannews.com