Update
Before I Return Home: Free The Palestinians
8 March 2010By Mazin Qumsiyeh
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 merican 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@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@israelconsulate.org
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
http://contact-us.state.gov/cgi-bin/state.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php
or Secretary@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@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/../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/../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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