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Israeli authorities deport African American political activists

Press release, Al-Awda New York, 1 December 2009

Al-Awda New York condemns the racist denial of entry to Palestine of African American political activists Dhoruba Bin Wahad and Naji Mujahid by the Israeli occupation.

The occupation of Palestine has always been based on the racist theory and practice of Zionism, including the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and the denial of millions of Palestinian refugees' right to return home as part of building a "pure Jewish state" through the dispossession and oppression of the indigenous Palestinian Arab people.

Zionism and racism have always gone hand in hand -- the Israeli occupation regime was one of the greatest military sponsors of apartheid South Africa. US racism has sponsored and encouraged Zionist racism, made apparent in the denial of entry to Palestine, abuse, and detention of Bin Wahad and Mujahid.

On 11/23/09, Wahad, a former US political prisoner and leader of the Black Panther Party, and Mujahid, a student activist from Washington DC rode tourist bus en route from Amman, Jordan to the West Bank to attend the International Conference on Palestinian Political Prisoners in Jericho.

As the bus crossed the bridge, it stopped for a border inspection by Israeli occupation officers. Of the numerous individuals on the bus, only Dhoruba and Naji, the only Black people on the bus, were ordered to disembark.

The border officers searched Dhoruba's name on the Internet as the rest of the tourists passed without incident. They discovered he is Muslim, a former Black Panther leader and spent 19 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Both Dhoruba and Naji were interrogated, strip searched and their property confiscated and searched. Despite their cooperation and offer to return into Jordan, their detention continued for over 12 hours. They were ultimately released but denied permission to enter occupied Palestine and returned to Jordan.

Their would be outrageous if it occurred to anyone, and echoes the ongoing abuse of Palestinians and Arabs seeking to enter Palestine and the drive to push Palestinians and Arabs to leave their homeland through settlement, land confiscation, checkpoints, the Israelization of Jerusalem, discrimination, and laws targeting Palestinians in occupied Palestine '48. As Mujahid himself stated, "the humiliation and frustration we endured was a small taste of what we can be sure the Palestinians go through daily."

This incident occurred as a clear manifestation of Zionist racism. Dhoruba and Naji were ordered off the bus before Israeli border officials had any idea of their country of origin, personal histories, or plans. At the time they were targeted, the occupation officers knew only they were Black.

[mises]

When I see the world racism now I immediately think "weak argument".

Anyways, are these two muslim-named African Americans members of the NOI? Maybe the muslim wing of the New Black Panthers?

And what the hell are you doing reading electronicinfatada.net?

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Reading the article, one of the two is from the new black panthers.

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Absolute non-story. A biased, selective article written by fascists; read by fools.

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The key message here is that Zionism is hypocrisy.

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Jews Against Zionism

Posted: 2009/12/07
From: Mathaba

by Stephen Lendman

They're numerous, outspoken, and range from secular to orthodox to one group calling itself "True Torah Jews Against Zionism."

They believe that "traditional" Jews don't support Zionism, an ideology they call "contrary to Jewish law and beliefs and the teachings of the Holy Torah." They say Zionism:

-- advocates "a political and military end to the Jewish exile;"

-- fosters "pseudo-Judaism" based on secular nationalism;

-- coercively seeks "armed materialism" in place of "a Divine and Torah centered understanding;"

-- endangers all Jews worldwide;

-- wants to disassociate Jews and traditional Judaism from ideological Zionism; and

-- calls Israel a "Zionist State," not a Jewish one.

They:

-- cite their concern for "peace and safety of all people throughout the world including those living in the Zionist state" and in Occupied Palestine;

-- say from ancient times until 100 years ago, Jews and Arabs lived in peace and friendship until Zionism changed the relationship;

-- believe Zionists abandoned the Torah and traditional Judaism, demanded political sovereignty over the Holy Land, and aroused anger in the Arab world; and

-- Torah Jewry doesn't recognize or support a Zionist state; nor do they represent world Jews; even the name "Israel" is a "forgery," they believe, because the Torah forbids violence in the words of the prophet Isaiah who said:

"And they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. No nation will lift its sword against any other, nor will they learn warfare anymore."

Toray Jewry says that believing Zionism protects Jews is "probably the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the Jewish People" and accuses Zionists of fostering global anti-Semitism. "Indeed, hatred of Jews and Jewish suffering is the oxygen of the Zionist movement, and from the very beginning has been (used) to deliberately incite hatred to justify the existence of the Zionist state - this is, of course, Machiavellianism raised to the highest order."

Zionist founder Theodor Herzl (1860 - 1904) said:*

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