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 Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 9:08 pm Post subject: Longest hunger strike in history gets noticed |
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This brief article reads like a Kafka anthology:
| Quote: | It is day 55 of Khader Adnan's hunger strike. After pleas from a Twitter campaigns (#Dying2Live), and calls from human rights organizations, mainstream media finally noticed the longest single-man hunger strike in history. The articles came on the same day as Adnan's last military court appeal, where it will be decided today if his imprisonment without charge will be upheld.
...To date, no one in a position of agency to release Adnan has made a public statement, other than confirming his internment. On January 8, a judge issued a fourth-month extension of administration detention. Like others held in this legal limbo, Adnan's incarceration is predicated upon secret evidence that the prison advocacy Adameer explains, is "collected by Israeli authorities and available to the military judge but not to the detainee or his lawyer." |
After 55 days of hunger strike MSM finally reports on Khader Adnan
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| Quote: | | An Israeli military court has rejected the appeal of Khader Adnan against a 4-month “administrative detention” order, leaving the 33-year-old Palestinian prisoner near death as he enters the 60th day of a hunger strike. Amidst hundreds of Palestinians joining in a solidarity hunger strike, calls for international action and pleas from his wife for global action, Adnan sent out a letter vowing to continue his strike on behalf of "my dignity and my people’s dignity." |
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al-Qa'bong
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| Quote: | By the time you read these words, Khader Adnan could be dead. After 58 full days on hunger strike, his body is already well past the stage where his vital organs may cease to function at any moment. But Khader Adnan is dying to live.
The 33-year-old Palestinian baker, husband, father, and graduate student has refused food since December 18, a day after he was arrested in a nighttime raid on his family home by Israeli occupation forces in the West Bank. He has lost over 40 kgs and his wife Randa and young daughters have described his appearance as "shocking".
Adnan, whom Israel says is a member of Islamic Jihad, was given a four month "administrative detention" order by the Israeli military - meaning that he is held without being charged for any crime or trial, a practice continued by Israel that dates back to British colonial days.
Yesterday an Israeli military court rejected Adnan's appeal against the arbitrary detention.
...Khader Adnan's struggle reminds us that nonviolence is not the easy choice. It is often the harder one.
Yet the world is still failing to act. The Palestinian prisoner's group Addameer undoubtedly spoke for many when it declared that it "holds the international community responsible for not taking action to save Khader’s life". It demanded "that the European Union, the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross intervene with Israel immediately before it is too late".
And there has been silence too from prominent voices such Nick Kristof, the New York Times columnist famous for using individual stories to draw attention to human rights abuses around the world. In a 2010 column titled "Waiting for Gandhi", Kristof scolded Palestinians for not adopting nonviolent tactics.
Of course Kristof was ignoring or simply ignorant of the rich history and present of such popular resistance in Palestine ably documented by Mazin Qumsiyeh in his recent book, Popular Resistance in Palestine: a History of Hope and Empowerment- which includes hunger strikes. Last Autumn hundreds of Palestinian prisoners spent weeks on hunger strike against punitive Israreli prison conditions, and many are on hunger strike now in solidarity with Adnan.
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Starving for freedom: The hunger strike of Khader Adnan
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al-Qa'bong
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| Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | What’s so notable here isn’t merely that the U.S. and Israel are engaged in the very practices which the U.S. annually and flamboyantly condemns as “human rights abuses” when done by others. It’s that these abuses have now been going on for so long in the two countries, are so entrenched, that they have been absorbed into the political landscape as barely noticed accoutrements. They have become completely normalized — not just legally and politically but culturally – to the point where they are scarcely controversial. |
Glenn Greenwald - Khader Adnan and now-normalized Western justice
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| Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | hey have become completely normalized — not just legally and politically but culturally – to the point where they are scarcely controversial.
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That capture the way the media and politicians and folks in the street they all cared not one iota for Omar Khadr.
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| Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Can anyone doubt that if there were more than 1,300 hunger strikers in any country in the world other than Palestine, the media in the West would be obsessed with the story? It would be featured day after day, and reported on from all angles, including the severe medical risks associated with such a lengthy refusal to take food. At this time, two Palestinians who were the first to start this current wave of resistance, Thaer Halaheh and Bilal Diab, entering their 64th day without food, are reported by the prisoner protection association, Addameer, and the NGO, Physician for Human Rights-Israel, to be in critical condition with their lives hanging in the balance. Despite this dramatic state of affairs there is scant attention in Europe, and literally none in North America.
In contrast, consider the attention that the Western media has devoted to a lone blind Chinese human rights lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, who managed to escape from house arrest in Beijing a few days ago and find a safe haven at the U.S. Embassy. This is an important international incident, to be sure, but is it truly so much more significant than the Palestinian story as to explain the total neglect of the extraordinary exploits of these thousands of Palestinians who are sacrificing their bodies, quite possibly their lives, to nonviolently protest severe mistreatment in the Israeli prison system? Except among their countrymen, and to some extent the region, these many thousand Palestinian prisoners have been languishing within an opaque black box ever since 1967, are denied protection, exist without rights, and cope as best they can without even the acknowledgement of their plight.
There is another comparison to be made. Recall the outpouring of concern and sympathy throughout the West for Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who was captured on the Gaza border and held captive by Palestinians for five years. A powerful global campaign for his release on humanitarian ground was organized, and received constant reinforcement in the media. |
The Massive Palestinian Hunger Strike: Traveling below the Western Radar
The explanation is simple. This story doesn't register because the Palestinians have been typecast as suicidal terrorists. For them to deviate out of character makes them invisible to western media. This is a victory for Zionist propaganda.
Twenty Palestinians could sit down in an Israeli pizza parlour and starve to death and nobody would talk about it.
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| Quote: | As soccer fans around the world watch the Eurocup play out, Palestinian soccer star Mahmoud Sarsak, 25, lies near death in his 84th day of a hunger strike, the only prisoner held without charge or trial under Israel’s “Unlawful Combatants Law.” From Sarsak and two fellow hunger-strikers, who feel an uncaring world has "stood on our wounds and our pain," an "urgent and final distress call from captivity."
"Know that your sons and brothers are still struggling against death... From here, we cry out to you...for after God, we have no one but you and the freedom-loving people of the world."
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