Feb. 25: Protest former IDF officer and Drone expert at U of Chicago

Israel has TORTURED and KILLED another Palestinian in prison!  Do Palestinian lives have any value to the U.S.  government?

Maan News Agency reports that political prisoner Arafat Jaradat was beaten and hanged for many hours on end in Israeli custody, this according to his lawyer, Kameel Sabbagh. And an autopsy conducted in Israel in the presence of Palestinian officials revealed that the 30-year-old Jaradat had six broken bones in his neck, spine, arms and legs.

As we call for the release of Samer Issawi and the other Palestinian hunger strikers and prisoners, and protest yet another representative of the Israeli Occupation Forces and criminal government INVITED to the U of C, this news demands that we respond like the thousands of Palestinians already demonstrating back home.

Join us Monday, February 25th, as we Protest Former Israel Defense Forces officer at the University of Chicago

Stop Israel’s Killing Machine
Free All Palestinian Prisoners Now

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WHEN: Monday, February 25, 2013, at 5:45 PM

WHERE: U of C’s International House
1414 E. 59th Street, Chicago

Please wear black, bring a flashlight or candle, and come prepared to raise your voices in chants.  We will have signs, or you can make your own.

Suggested additional slogans:

No Drone Wars
No New Wars
End Israeli Occupation Now
Free Palestine
Money for Human Needs, Not War
End U.S. Aid to Israel
End the Siege on Gaza Now
War Criminals Not Welcome Here
Money for Education, Not Occupation

The title of Amos Guiora’s talk at U of C is “Legitimate Target: A Criteria Based Approach to Targeted Killing.”  He is on campus to spread Israeli propaganda, what his criminal country calls “self defense”–its targeted assassinations of Palestinians by drones.  Self-defense is the same argument Israel uses when it massacres thousands in Gaza, slices up the West Bank with an Apartheid Wall, and violently intercepts humanitarian aid ships in international waters.  In fact, Guiora was Israel’s Legal Advisor for the Gaza Strip, which indicates clearly that he believes that the thousands of Palestinians killed and injured over the years in Gaza were and are “legitimate targets.”

In addition, Guiora’s “collateral damage” and “legitimate targets” include the hundreds massacred by extrajudicial U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Yemen.

The Zionists have no problem proclaiming openly what Brennan and the Obama administration wouldn’t say in the glare of the Senate confirmation hearings.  Brennan wiggled back and forth, and came up with, “We only take such actions as a last resort to save lives when there’s no other alternative.”  The Zionists don’t wiggle and they don’t blink: “we kill these people at our discretion, and here’s the formula we use to do it.”

Initiated and sponsored by:

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-U of C
Anti-War Committee of Chicago
SJP-DePaul University
United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)-Chicago
Palestine Solidarity Group (PSG)-Chicago
American Muslims for Palestine
Chicago Movement for Palestinian Rights

Email [email protected] with any questions, or for more information.