Anarchists Against The Wall
I’ve been asked to forward this press release from the courageous Israeli peace group, Anarchists Against The Wall. So here ’tis:
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Dear friend,
The mounting legal cost of the joint Palestinian-Israeli struggle against the occupation is forcing us to send this urgent appeal for funds. We are asking for your support to continue the work of the Israeli group Anarchists Against the Wall (AATW).
For the past four years, the group has supported the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation and specifically against Israel’s segregation wall. Week after week, AATW joins the Palestinian popular resistance against the wall, in diverse areas of the West Bank, including the villages of Bil’in west of Ramallah, al-Ma’asara, and Ertas, south of Bethlehem, and Beit Ummar, north of Hebron.
Activists have often been arrested and indicted for their participation in the struggle. Fortunately, the group is represented by a dedicated lawyer, Adv. Gaby Lasky. Adv. Lasky has tirelessly worked to defend activists arrested at demonstrations or direct actions in the West Bank and in Israel. Though the legal defense she provides AATW is almost a full-time job, she has agreed to be paid only a token fee. However, the group has not managed to cover even this sum, and now owes approximately $40,000 in legal expenses for over 60 indictments. In addition to this enormous legal debt, AATW activists are forced to spend large sums on transportation and phone bills.
Please make a donation that will enable us to continue this struggle.
Thank you for your solidarity.
Anarchists Against the Wall.
For more information about AATW, our actions and how to make a donation, visit our website: www.awalls.org or contact us at donate@awalls.org.
See them in action here, cutting through the annexation wall near the Palestinian village of Surif a couple of days ago:
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I wonder what these anarchists (criminals) will say to the relatives of a suicide bombing victim when a terrorist takes advantage of these people’s efforts.
Yeh, civil disobedience involves breaking the law. I wonder if you’d have described the black civil rights activists in the U.S. as “(criminals)” too. As for the general point: again, the principle is quite clear. Israel has a right to build a wall if it wants to, but on its own territory.
I was watching a film the other day about South Africa. You know, that place where the vast majority of blacks were kept in shanty towns whilst the minority white population ruled from their houses of luxury. Where ‘the wrong kind’ of blacks were tortured and murdered, and labelled as ‘terrorists’ when they had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism.
And people argued then that the black South Africans had no rights to citizenship because there were plenty of other countries for black people. Looking back, few would deny that their cause was legitimate – and I suspect many would understand why some chose the route of violence when all else was lost.
Israel/Palestine is not South Africa. But there are many similarities and the cause of Palestinian freedom is a just one. Until you, Beaman, see that you are not only fighting against ‘terrorists’ but against freedom and human rights for all, you can only lose. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but eventually truth and freedom will out.
Joe, I have no objections to the Palestinians having their own state but only once they renounce all violence. When they do, nothing will stop the birth of Palestine.
Every occupied people has the right to resist the occupation, using violence if necessary. You have no right whatsoever to not only attempt to deny the Palestinians this right, but to condition the end of the occupation on their surrender. Not a chance.
As in South Africa, the violence is a symptom and a response to the violence and racism of a system that treats people as nobodies, locks up children, shoots toddlers who are in the wrong place and confiscates land. Israel is the one with the stolen land and with the power to do something about it. Therefore the ball is in Israel’s court – rather than constantly suggesting to the abused that it is their responsibility to grovel for any handouts that the oppressor choses to give them.