Global Intifada Reaches the US

700 “arrested” in New York and protests spread to many cities around the US.

Photo: intifada-palestine.com

(BETHLEHEM) - Every day brings some good news on the shaking of the status quo in a positive direction. In my last book and in my writings elsewhere, I predicted that the next intifada (uprising) would be global.

The Arab spring in the past few months gave renewed energy and it has spread to even Tel Aviv and New York.

But the empire strikes back; settlers go on rampages/pogroms attacking peace activists and burning another mosque, peace activists get arrested by the hundreds, the CIA assassinates US citizens without trial, Israel accelerates its colonial activities, US allied government of Bahrain imprisons many demonstrators, US congress cuts humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinians under occupation (an act of extortion on the behest of the Israel lobby), and more. But if anything, these actions show that we are in the final stage of this epic.

It only means we should work harder together to be the change we want to see in this world. Read below about BDS successes and the spread of memes of information that is making the racist elites lash out in irrational behaviors that ultimately will bring them down. Stay tuned or better yet, let us all get into the streets and march for freedom.

http://kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=48885

Testimonies (key points highlighted):

http://kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=48885 (eng)

http://kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=48884 (heb)

New Bypass Road takes Beit Ommar and Schoukh Land: http://palestinesolidarityproject.org/2011/10/02/new-bypass-road-planned-on-beit-ommar-and-schoukh-land/

BDS Success 1: 218 signed the call for a Swedish academic boycott of Israel, Action Group at KTH for Boycott of Israel: http://www.psabi.net/

Coordinating Committee of BDS Sweden: http://isoleraisrael.nu/

BDS Success 2: Ahava finally closes its doors in London Cosmetics company Ahava is finally to close its controversial Covent Garden store this week, and manager Odelia Haroush said that the company had no plans to move elsewhere in the city, at least for the foreseeable future. Demonstrations by pro-Palestinian activists have dogged the store for years. Protesters claim the products sold in the store are manufactured in a factory in Mitzpe Shalom, an Israeli settlement.

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/55465/ahava-%EF%AC%81nally-closes-its-doors-london

From "If Americans Knew": Ethnic cleansing has been an integral part of the Palestinian tragedy from the earliest days of the Partition of Palestine and the creation of Israel. October marks the anniversaries of 10 massacres of Palestinian villagers in 1948, as well as a massacre carried out by a unit led by Ariel Sharon in 1953 and another in 1956 in which Israeli border police killed 48, including 6 women (one of them pregnant) and 23 children aged 8–17. To commemorate these dates, we ask you to help fight the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by sharing the booklet  <http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/ref-qumsiyeh.html> "Palestinian Right to Return and Repatriation," by Mazin Qumsiyeh, which details the plight of Palestinian refugees and lists the many massacres Palestinians suffered during the creation of Israel. Please order copies to give out to your neighbors, friends, coworkers or strangers, on your campuses, in your congregations, on the street, at a public event or at a private gathering.

http://secure.campaigner.com/Campaigner/Public/t.show?NnKI--9vja-c3QCf4

Global intifada reaches the USA: 700 “arrested” in New York and protests spread to many cities around the US

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44742659/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.ToeWqE_ers0

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-wall-street-protest-20110930,0,6859500.story

http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution/

http://www.occupytogether.org/

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD (formerly of Yale and Duke universities) teaches at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine and chairs the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People. Professor Qumsiyeh has authored over 110 scientific papers in areas of mammalogy, biology, and medicine including mammalian biology and evolution, clinical genetics, and cancer research. He has published over 100 letters to the editor and 30 op-ed pieces in International, national, regional and local papers on issues ranging from politics to environmental issues. His appearances in national media include the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, CNBC, C-Span, and ABC, among others. He is the founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-President of the Middle East Genetics Association, and Prof. Qumsiyeh won the Jallow activism award from the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. Those are just a small list, visit Mazin Qumsiyeh's amazing and informative Website to learn more: qumsiyeh.org, and also pcr.ps.