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Protest against Israel’s founding
Published Aug 28, 2008 10:42 PM
On Aug. 21, about 70 protesters challenged the “Fair to
Remember” event at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit that marked
the 60th anniversary of the founding of the U.S.-backed Israeli settler state,
an event known in Palestine as the Nakba or the catastrophe.
Protest sponsors and endorsers included the Middle East Task Force, the
Michigan Peace Team, Ann Arbor Middle East Film Society and Jewish Witnesses
for Peace. In an article entitled “Demonstrators protest apartheid at
State Fairground,” the Arab American News quoted an organizer who was
“enraged at the idea of holding a celebration of what she calls
‘the violent ethnic cleansing and colonization of Palestine in
1948,’ in a poor neighborhood in Detroit.”
Members of the Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice held a
banner with the message: “Israeli terror paid for by U.S.A. Money for our
cities, not for war.”
–Report and photo by Cheryl LaBash
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