Best-selling, Award-winning Palestinian novelist and activist Susan Abulhawa talks about participating in the Oxford Union debate on Israel's genocide. Parts of her speech were censored by the organization. Susan explains she was inspired to partake in the debate by others who had like Malcolm X and James Baldwin. When Susan mentions that the Oxford Union embargoed the speech of another speaker, Miko Peled, for being criminal Katie and Susan point out that by that reasoning, anyone praising Nelson Mandela while he was on the terrorist list would have been breaking the law.
Democracy Now! Eleven peace activists and one journalist on board the Gaza Freedom Flotilla ship, the "Madleen," were detained by Israeli soldiers as their ship carrying vital humanitarian aid for starving Palestinians approached Gaza. The ship was intercepted by Israeli forces in the middle of the night in international waters. Its supplies were seized and communications jammed. The unarmed activists will likely be transported to Israeli detention or "immediately deported," says Ann Wright, a U.S. military veteran who has participated in four Freedom Flotilla journeys and now serves on the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. She calls on citizens of countries around the world to push for the activists' release and an end to Israel's war on Gaza.
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