Category: Protests Against Israel’s Genocide 2014

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Various groups protest at Luskin center as UC Regents meeting takes place on Daily Bruin

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Protesters from various campus groups demonstrated in front of a meeting of the governing board of the University of California on Wednesday. The UC Board of Regents is meeting at the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center this week to discuss issues such as nonresident tuition increases and the University’s financial operations.

…Mariam Alkhalili, a third-year political science and international affairs student at UC Riverside, said the UC is funding violations of Palestinian human rights by investing in some companies that do business in Israel. “Our tuition dollars should not be used to fund an occupation,” she said. “(There) are victims of genocide; innocent people are getting killed every day.”

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Hungarian official: Israel committed genocide in Gaza on Middle East Monitor

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Israel committed genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during its 2014 offensive, Mayor of the Hungarian Municipality of Erpatak, Mihaly Zoltan Orosz, said on Monday.

… The Hungarian Public Prosecution filed a complaint against Orosz, accusing him of “inciting hatred and hostility” after organising a demonstration against the Israeli offensive on Gaza in 2014. Speaking during the hearing, Orosz said that he would not rescind his remarks about the Israeli genocide. The Judge adjourned the hearing to 12 June.

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Video: ‘Day of Rage’ flash mobs performed Dabke inside the British Museum & Barclays by RussiaTV

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“We’re calling out Israel’s brutal genocide of the Palestinian people. We’re in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, which is why we’re outside Barclays. Because they invest in illegal Israeli arms companies.”

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Protests planned at Edinburgh Israel games on Gaza anniversary by Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign

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Human rights campaigners are planning protests at Israel’s participation in the FIL Rathbones Women’s 2015 U19 Lacrosse World Championship that starts tomorrow in Edinburgh at the Peffermill sports centre.Campaigners are responding to the Palestinian call for a campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel in support of Palestinian rights… Angus Maclean, of Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, explained the reasons behind the demonstrations. “For 67 years Israel has defied international law and Palestinians are calling on civil society and grassroots organisations to take a stand against ethnic cleansing and genocide. We will be present at each of the matches to protest and send a clear message that Israel’s involvement in this, and any, international sporting event is unacceptable.”

Continue reading at http://english.pnn.ps/2015/07/22/protests-planned-at-edinburgh-israel-games-on-gaza-anniversary/

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Chennai Muslims march for Palestinians by C D S Mani

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Shias, Sunnis, a section of Hindus, scholars and social activists participated in the rally. “Freedom of Palestine is the most important issue of the Muslim world. The genocide conducted by Israel against the Palestinians over the last several decades is despicable and we condemn it,” chief Shia qazi Moulana Ghulam Mohammed Mehdi Khan said addressing the gathering.

Continue reading at http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Chennai-Muslims-march-for-Palestinians/articleshow/48115898.cms

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Protesters march for Charleston victims by The Philadelphia Tribune

The front line held posters that showed the faces of the nine victims — Susie Jackson; Sharonda Coleman-Singleton; DePayne Doctor; Ethel Lance; Daniel Simmons Sr.; Clementa Pinckney; Cynthia Graham Hurd; and Tywanza Sanders.

Other signs and posters stated messages: “From Palestine to Charleston, stop racist genocide,” and “Stop the war on Black America” included.

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Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine conduct die-in in protest of Hillel Israel Day

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Texas: Israel Block Party sparks annual protest

While more than a thousand students came to celebrate Israeli culture at the Israel Block Party on the East Mall, dozens protested the party from feet away… “Our biggest goal is to send a specific message [and] express exactly what we feel the block party is doing, which is a propaganda event which hides a very heinous reality of cultural appropriation and genocide,” Khan said.

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Students for Justice in Palestine at Sydney University condemns unprovoked violence against peaceful protest

“I find it deeply disturbing that violence was used against students engaging in peaceful protest,” said Christopher Warren, SJP Treasurer. “Views that normalise genocide and defend war crimes should be consistently challenged at every opportunity.” SJP is committed to opposing Israeli war crimes, and will continue to express our right to peaceful demonstration against genocide apologists on campus.

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