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Israel/Palestine

geek tragedy

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1. None dare call it fascism

Reply to geek tragedy (Original post)

Wed Feb 8, 2017, 07:45 PM

Feb 2017

Sasson added that "detaining a senior NIF official and former head of the San Francisco Federation at the entrance to Israel is a serious act aimed at intimidating a social activist because of her activities for Israel and Israeli society. The Israeli government, headed by Netanyahu, has been persecuting Israeli human rights activists for some time now. Now this policy is being directed and diaspora Jews as well. This exhibitionary arrests won't deter the NIF, its staff and the organizations it supports from acting for peace, ending the occupation and social justice in Israel."

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