Last Friday (27/5) hundreds activists and local residence joint the demonstration organized by ‘Solidarity’ against the expansion of the settlement in Ras El-Amud neighborhood and in support of the ongoing Jewish-Arab struggle against the settlement and the oppression in other areas of Jerusalem. The demonstration stood at the gate to the settlers’ fortified compound.
Despite the violence we encountered, from the settlers themselves, their private security company and Jerusalem’s police, the hundreds demonstrators stood firm in their protest and remained persistent in their struggle against yet another new settlement in East Jerusalem. During the demonstration 6 activists got arrested, 10 were injured, 5 of which needed medical care.
Read more:
- Read the news report and watch a short video here.
- More photos from the demonstration here, here, here and here.
- David Shulman, one of Israel’s leading intellectuals, a former MacArthur Fellow, and a long-time activists, shares his impressions from the demonstration: The Beauty of Defiance.
- The largest government-supported extreme right-wing settlement in East Jerusalem, or:
Why is it important to come to the demonstration in Ras Al-Amoud?
‘Solidarity’ Movement is committed to deepen the Jewish-Arab joint struggle
against the settlements and against oppression.
For the continuation of the struggle we need financial support. Help us!
Democracy Defense Fund, P.O. Box 10393, Jerusalem, 91103, Israel.
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Police Violence, Ras El-Amud, 27, May 2011. Photo by Oren Ziv, Activstills
Police Violence, Ras El-Amud, 27, May 2011. Photo by Oren Ziv, Activstills
Police Violence, Ras El-Amud, 27, May 2011. Photo by Oren Ziv, Activstills
Police Violence, Ras El-Amud, 27, May 2011. Photo by Oren Ziv, Activstills
Police Violence, Ras El-Amud, 27, May 2011. Photo by Oren Ziv, Activstills
Police Violence, Ras El-Amud, 27, May 2011. Photo by Oren Ziv, Activstills
Solidarity demonstrating agaisnt the new settlement in Ras El-Amud. Photo by Oren Ziv, Activstills
Police violence, Ras El-Amud, 27 May, 2011. Photo by Oren Ziv, Activstills
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A state built up on on apartheid principles has no future, but an ephemeric, traumatic & shameful span in the annals of Human Race. Yet, the one founded on One Humanity shall remain for ever, for all, for you & me, once the ignorant arrogant egotistic occupiers have eventually attain the Nirvana to realise that the Occupied (that are daily denied their basic Human Dignity by the gang of the chauvinst militaristic Fascists working under the disguise of the religion), are also their Brothers & Sisters…
Fi amani All.ahi (S.W.T.),
Akhukukhum Sulayman,
Jacob de Haan Institute for Palestine Studies,
P.O. Box 1040,
PS-91009 Al-Quds Ash-Sharif Al-Muhtalla,
Ethnicly Cleansed Palestine.
All.ahu akbar wa liLlahi hamd…
DEIR YASSIN & ALL OTHER NAKBA ’48 CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY:
NEVER FORGET!
DEAR BROTHERS & SISTER, HERE I SUBMIT MY CORRECTED POSTING VERSION BELOW. THE ONE SENT SEVERAL MINUTES AGO HAD A FEW TYPOS. SORRY FOR MY ERROR & THANKS FOR YOUR GREAT HUMANITY JOB! ‘STAND UP, GET UP, FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT!’ (BOB MARLEY).
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A state built up on apartheid ideology has no future, but an ephemeric, traumatic & shameful span in the annals of Human Race. Yet, the one founded on One Humanity shall remain for ever, for all, for you & me, once the ignorant arrogant egotistic occupiers have eventually attained the Nirvana to realise that the Occupied (who are daily denied their basic Human Dignity by the gang of the chauvinst militaristic Fascists working under the disguise of the religion), are also their Brothers & Sisters…
Fi amani All.ahi (S.W.T.),
Akhukhum Sulayman,
Jacob de Haan Institute for Palestine Studies,
P.O. Box 1040,
PS-91009 Al-Quds Ash-Sharif Al-Muhtalla,
Ethnicly Cleansed Palestine.
All.ahu akbar wa liLlahi hamd…
DEIR YASSIN & ALL OTHER NAKBA ’48 CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY:
NEVER FORGET!