Mahmoud Sarsak - Palestinian Hunger Striker Footballer - London Talk
inminds 27 May 2013
Mahmoud Sarsak
Mahmoud Sarsak is a Palestinian footballer who was abducted, tortured and caged by Israel for 3 years without charge or trial. He finally won his freedom last year after enduring 96 days of hunger strike which mobiliesed an international campaign for his release.
During his first public meeting in the UK Mahmoud Sarsak spoke at length of how he was detained by Israel, of the methods of torture deployed by Israel against him, of his hunger strike, of the suffering caused by Israel's occupation of Palestine, of the destruction of Gaza's sporting and other facilities by Israel, of how unjust it is that a prestigious sporting competition such as the UEFA Under 21 soccer championships has been awarded to Israel when Israel continues to do so much to prevent Palestinians from taking part in sports and of his plans for the future.
Meeting was called by the Islington Friends of Yibna, Payday men’s network, and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network.
Video: Mahmoud Sarsak - London Talk 26th May 2013
0:00:00 Selma James - International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
0:06:45 Yael Kahn - Islington Friends of Yibna
0:10:49 Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi - Red Card Israeli Racism Campaign
0:16:10 Mahmoud Sarsak - Talk
0:55:30 Mahmoud Sarsak - Question/Answer session
1:36:30 Selma James - International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Selma James - International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
Yael Kahn - Islington Friends of Yibna
Yael Kahn - Islington Friends of Yibna
Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi - Red Card Israeli Racism Campaign
Academia is not innocent.. The Hebrew University has been slowly but consistently expropriating land and expelling Palestinian owners in occupied East Jerusalem. Tel Aviv University refuses to acknowledge the fact that it sits on top of an ethnically cleansed Palestinian village. Ben Gurion University has supported in various ways the slow ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian Bedouin's in the Negev, these finding were kept secret until recently and in accordance with the university’s agreement with the Ministry. Haifa University boasts one of the most racist academics in Israel who relentlessly and influentially provides academic justification for ethnic cleansing. Haifa University sponsored a wide campaign attempting to cover up a little known zionist massacre of Tantora near Haifa in 1948. Bar Ilan University not only operates a campus on the illegal colony of Ariel near Nabulas, it has also awarded Sharon an honorary doctorate!