- Press TV documented protests in the US, Chile, Thailand and the Philippines.
- Received first-hand accounts of recent protests in places such as Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Mogadishu, Somalia.
- In London, an estimated protest between 12,000 and 50,000. An extremely diverse crowd braved freezing temperatures. (Hear George Galloway’s speech).
- Athens, Greece was the site of two demonstrations yesterday against Israel’s offensive in Gaza. In one, some set fire to a bank.
- More than 100 Australian Jews, including some prominent members of the Jewish community, have condemned Israel’s incursion into Gaza as “inhuman, superfluous and abominable”.
- Around 250 people gathered Sunday afternoon in downtown Portland, Oregon.
- Lebanese protesters battled with police, in Syria, 5,000 gathered.
- Palestinian police broke up a pro-Gaza march at Bir Zeit university in the West Bank.
- Protests took place in small-town America: Sioux Falls, South Dakota and Western Michigan.
- And thousands more gathered in Tel Aviv, in Israel, to oppose their government’s brutality.
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Its quite amazing how animalistic these protestors are. They are truly the brown shirts of our generation. I dpn’t know why they think they are helping the palestinians – they come across as the same raving lunatics per hamas, and makes people much more sympathetic to israel.
Posted by Concerned | January 5, 2009, 6:00 amhey will, what about the 4,000 protestors in chicago?
Posted by ally | January 5, 2009, 7:27 amHello, I just found your blog, and want to congratulate you for your coverage of the Palestinian Genocide.
Here´s a link, about the demostrations in Barcelona, Spain:
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma;=CAS&idnoticia;_PK=575834&idseccio;_PK=1007
Keep the good work. We need information about what´s goin' on with the innocent people in Palestine.
Saludos desde Barcelona.
Posted by Sumud | January 5, 2009, 8:08 ami am an avid follower of your blog though this is the first time i’m writing. please add 1 million people who gathered in Istanbul, Turkey this past sunday! there have been many demonstrations all around Turkey and the first night of the ground invasion thousands gathered around the israeli embassy protesting.
continue with the good work
from istanbul
Posted by Anonymous | January 5, 2009, 8:44 amthe Palestinian Genocide
This phrase always gives me a chuckle. Thanks, Samud.
Posted by Roy | January 5, 2009, 10:05 amIt gives me a chuckle because it's a ridiculous bit of hyperbole. There's no genocide going on. At the current rate — and that rate has been slowing, not increasing — it would take over 50 years to kill all the Palestinians in Gaza.
If that's what Israel had in mind, they'd be cutting a much bloodier swath.
Posted by Roy | January 5, 2009, 10:08 amWell, Roy I’m glad that somebody is having fun with my comentaries. You’re welcome.
Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as:
…any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
– Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,article 2.
If you follow the last 25 years of slow killing of the palestinian people, you’ll will find some of the lines above very interesting.
I don’t give them 50 years (you are pretty generous) its been goin on to much for the palestinian people during the last 60 years.
Saludos.
Posted by Sumud | January 5, 2009, 10:44 amAnonymous, I am Palestinian and i am so happy to see the Turkish people calling for an end to the genocide of my people. I saw the Turkish protest on the news. It was amazing!
Posted by feda | January 5, 2009, 11:07 amSumud,
I think you’re stretching the “in whole or in part” so much that the definition becomes meaningless.
At the very least, it applies equally well to the rocketing of Israel. Are you opposed to that genocide?
Posted by Roy | January 5, 2009, 2:02 pmIf you follow the last 25 years of slow killing of the palestinian people…
There are 3.5 million of them in the Palestinian territories now, and 10 million worldwide. How does those numbers compare to the numbers from 5, 10, and 25 years ago?
In 1948, there were about 1.35 million in the territory, but I don’t have figures for the interim. My guess is that the “slow killing” is actually a fairly healthy rate of growth.
So…what’s your guess about when the “genocide” will be complete?
Posted by Roy | January 5, 2009, 2:07 pmWhat Israel is doing constitutes as collective punishment, and its treatment of the Palestinian people can be regarded as ethnic cleansing.
Israel will have to face justice for the crimes it has committed.
Posted by mechakcha | January 5, 2009, 2:19 pmWhat Israel is doing constitutes as collective punishment,
No, it doesn’t. What Hamas has been doing does, though. Are you opposed to collective punishment?
Are you opposed to attacking civilians? Are you opposed to hiding weapons in civilian areas, and generally putting civilians at risk during war?
its treatment of the Palestinian people can be regarded as ethnic cleansing
Wrong again. But Palestine did cleanse itself of Jews. Israel has plenty of people of the same ethnicity as live in Gaza. Not cleansed. Nor is Gaza being cleansed, except of Hamas. Everyone else that is killed is a sad byproduct of the way Hamas fights, maximizing the danger to civilians.
Israel will have to face justice for the crimes it has committed.
And you’re completely silent on the crimes that Hamas has committed. That’s about par for the course.
Posted by Roy | January 5, 2009, 2:35 pmPlease “Roy”, your propaganda is ridiculous.. Comparing the brutality and inhumanity of Israel to the desperate resistance of the Palestinians is beyond belief. But do keep it up, it’s amusing to say the least.
Posted by Hila | January 5, 2009, 3:22 pmNo, what’s ridiculous is calling attacks on civilians “resistance”. What are they resisting? The right of Israelis to live?
Posted by Roy | January 5, 2009, 3:25 pmI notice you failed to address Hamas’ putting Palestinian civilians at risk. I guess we should just ignore everything except Israel’s transgressions.
Posted by Roy | January 5, 2009, 3:26 pmcheck out http://gaza-peace-n-freedom.blogspot.com for more reports on mobilizations around the world.
Posted by as-Salam wa al-Hurriya | January 5, 2009, 4:11 pmThere were a bunch of protests all over Canada. 10,000 people showed up to the Toronto protest. Check flickr for pictures.
Posted by majd | January 5, 2009, 4:48 pmRoy said: “I notice you failed to address Hamas’ putting Palestinian civilians at risk. I guess we should just ignore everything except Israel’s transgressions.”
Whatever Roy, you’re right and everyone else is wrong.
I guess, this UN’s school in Gaza was also a hidden place for Hamás people (mode ironic off).
http://tinyurl.com/8h4m8l
(I translate: yesterday the “glorious” and “fair” israelian army bombed a UN School and killed 3. There were 450 people hidden there (I repeat in a UN SCHOOL)-
As usual, in 25 years time the international comunity will ask for forgiveness and all that bullshit they do, when is already too late.
Saludos.
Posted by Sumud | January 6, 2009, 2:33 amI said: “I notice you failed to address Hamas’ putting Palestinian civilians at risk. I guess we should just ignore everything except Israel’s transgressions.”
And then you did exactly what I just described: ignored Hamas’ putting Palestinian civilians at risk, and only mentioned Israel’s transgressions.
So thank you for agreeing with me, Samud.
Posted by Roy | January 6, 2009, 10:55 am