Brandeis Students Calling to Arrest Avi Dichter 4.4.11

WALTHAM, MA -- Members of Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine (BSJP) disrupted a panel discussion of six Members of the Israeli Knesset tonight at Brandeis University.
The action targeted MK Avi Dicther, an international war criminal wanted for crimes against humanity and violations of the Geneva Convention. Dichter ordered the tortures of detained Palestinians while he served as head of Shabak, the Israeli Intelligence Services. In July 2002, Dichter ordered the assassination of a Hamas commander by dropping a one-ton bomb on his home in a residential area, causing the deaths of 15 people, including 9 children, and injuring dozens more.
When Dicther spoke, a dozen Brandeis students stood and demanded that he turn himself in to authorities, distributing warrants for his arrest. In English and in Hebrew, the students listed charges against Dichter, including torture and the bombing of civilians. They ended their disruption by chanting in Hebrew "Don't worry Avi Dicther, we'll meet you in the Hague."
The action aimed to alert the Brandeis community to the presence of a war criminal on campus. "We believe that Avi Dichter must be put to trial for his crimes against humanity," said participant Liza Behrendt.
Participant Paraska Tolan stated, "War criminals have a right to speak on our campus, but students also have the right to hold them publicly accountable for their crimes. This serves as a message that Dichter should not feel welcome, even at Brandeis University."
Lisa Hanania, a Palestinian student at Brandeis, said that she was extremely disturbed by the racist comments from some of the MKs. "MK Tzipi Hotovely claimed that 'Arabs have a different D.N.A that lacks humanity'. As a citizen of state, I am concerned that Israel is sliding into an openly racist ethnocracy."
Noam Lekach, a first-year from Israel, stated, "Brandeis claims to promote social justice, but today they invited legislators who openly espouse racist attitudes towards Palestinians."
The students emphasize that, although they targeted Dichter specifically, all MKs should be held accountable for recent racist legislation such as the "Loyalty Oath," the criminalization of Nakba commemoration, and the institutionalization of residential discrimination.

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[gnash555]

@swartzyakov What a load of bullshit. So it's about the freedom to speak a dead language? LMFWAO Just how much space do you need to have a conversation in?

[swartzyakov]

@gnash555 Palestinians want a Palestinian homeland, good, Jews want one place to speak Hebrew, bad.

[gnash555]

I don't get it. Jews want a jewish homeland, good, Hitler wants a German homeland - bad. I don't get it.

[brabon1]

@petersz98 and im still waiting for a link to the fictional letter from einstein

who according to you, isnt really a jew anyway...so who cares

[brabon1]

@petersz98 actually, it is only jew hating bastards like you who keep bringing up the khazar myth

deal with this...long after your jew hating ass is in the grave...both the jew and the state of israel will be here

[petersz98]

@brabon1

Actually it is the Greeks who gave the name Palestina;- the land of the Philistines, consult the works of Philo a Greek speaking Jew who lived in Alexandria Egypt who uses Palestina not "Israel". David Grun, Golda Mabovitch, Szymon Perski, Benjamin Milikovsky who are these Khazars and what ancestry do they have to the "Land of Israel"? Zero! These fake "Jews" renamed themselves David Ben-Gurion, Golda Meir, Benjamin Netenyahu and Shimon Peres just like their fake state "Israel"..

[brabon1]

@petersz98 its so ez to makeup history...isnt it

the romans gave the land the name of palestine

when they did, there were very few, if any, arabs residing in the land

so im not sure where you get this "thousands" of years crap from

the al aqsa mosque isnt even thousands of years old

if you have to lie to prove your point...you had no point to start with

[petersz98]

@brabon1

Unlike Zionists Palestinians can claim continuous ancestry in the Holy Land for thousands of years. No Zionist can ever claim that! Zionists are the biggest enemy of the Jews but they will soon be history just like the Crusaders! LOL!

[brabon1]

@petersz98 the jew has been around for over 3000 years...put me on that ship if it is sinking

you filthy, nazi, jew hating bastard

[petersz98]

@brabon1

Israel is a sinking ship, because as history has taught us over and over, regimes that seek to create a “pure race” – with whatever the twisted ideas of purity mean for each – do not last. LOL!