[Boston/JP GRP] Wed May 30 Protest against "Jerusalem Day Celebration" at Boston Public Library

[David Rolde]

Protest against the "Jerusalem Day Celebration" at the Boston Public  
Library (Main Copley Square branch)
Wednesday May 30, 2007.  6 PM

Join Boston Anti-Zionist Action to gather in protest on Boylston St  
in front of the Library at 6:15 PM on May 30. Also please call or  
write to the Boston Public Library and Boston City Hall (Boston City   
Councilors, the Mayor, etc.) to object to this racist event being  
hosted at the library and to demand that it be cancelled and not held  
again in future years.

The "Jerusalem Day Celebration" at the Boston Public Library is an  
annual event sponsored by the "Israeli" consulate, i.e., by the  
zionist occupation regime in Palestine.  Jerusalem Day is an  
"Israeli" national holiday commemorating the extension, in a war of  
aggression, of Jewish supremacist colonial rule to East Jerusalem in  
1967. The zionist occupation regime perversely calls this the  
"reunification" or "liberation" of Jerusalem. http:// 
www.knesset.gov.il/holidays/eng/jer_intro.htm

Of course part of Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine, had already  
been captured by the zionists during the Nakba in 1948. The Nakba  
means the catastrophe - the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of  
Palestinian Arabs from their homes - a major episode in the zionist  
genocidal project against the Palestinians.   Many Palestinian Arabs  
were expelled from Jerusalem in 1948.  Some still hold the keys to  
their houses, but the zionist occupation regime prevents these  
refugees from returning.  Today the zionists are continuing to expel  
more Palestinians from Jerusalem http://electronicintifada.net/v2/ 
article6901.shtml .

Nowadays Jerusalem is divided by an apartheid wall. All of Palestine  
is ruled by the racist apartheid "israeli" terrorist colonial  
regime.  Indigenous Palestinian Arabs - the ones who still remain in  
Palestine - are issued region-specific IDs that mark them as being  
allowed to reside in the "West Bank", Gaza strip, Jerusalem, or so- 
called "Israel". These Palestinian Arabs are not allowed free travel  
to the other regions of Palestine, are denied access to decent  
housing, farmland, work, and services, and are subject to constant  
harassment by "Israeli" Jewish-supremacist terrorists who are armed  
by the US government.  Millions of other indigenous Palestinian Arabs  
are refugees in the diaspora who are barred by the zionist apartheid  
colonial regime from returning to their homes in Palestine.  At the  
same time the zionist regime not only allows but encourages Jews and  
persons of Jewish ethnic backgrounds in any part of the world - most  
of whom have no historical connection with Palestine - to come settle  
in Palestine where they enjoy extravagant lifestyles subsidized by  
the U.S. government and denied to indigenous Palestinian Arabs.

Please come protest against this celebration of racism at the Boston  
Public Library and/or please contact the Boston Public Library and   
the government of Boston to tell them how offensive and objectionable  
this is.  Although the "Jerusalem Day Celebration" event at the  
Boston Public Library is supposedly "free and open to the public",  
last year two pro-Palestinian activists were not only denied entrance  
to the event but were arrested for entering the library to try to  
attend the event.

Ideas for protest slogans:
 From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free!
All Palestinian Refugees from Jerusalem and All of Palestine Must Be  
Allowed to Return to Their Homes!
Jerusalem is the capital of Arab Palestine!
Divest from "Israel" not from Sudan!
Long Live the Intifada!
Zionism Is Racism! Zionism is Anti-Semitism! Zionism is Terrorism!
Zionists Out of the Middle East! Zionists Out of Boston!
No More Wars for "Israel"!


Contact Boston Anti-Zionist Action at bostonantizionistaction at yahoo.com
http://bazabaza.blogspot.com/

The announcements from the "Israeli" Consulate and from the Boston  
Public Library regarding this event are below.


> http://boston.mfa.gov.il/mfm/web/main/document.asp? 
> SubjectID=39479&MissionID=70&LanguageID=0&StatusID=0&DocumentID=-1
>
> Jerusalem Day 2007
>
>
> May 30, 6:45 - 9 pm.
> Boston Public Library, Copley Square
> 700 Boylston St.
> Boston, MA
>
> National opening of Israillustrators 2007, a major exhibition of  
> Israeli children's book illustrations. The event will also include  
> live Israeli music and cocktail reception.
>
> This annual event is free and open to the public. For more info,  
> call 617-535-0217. Presented by Zionist House and the Consulate  
> General of Israel to New England.
>
> http://www.bpl.org/news/upcomingevents.htm
>
> Jerusalem Day Celebration -- Wednesday, May 30 at 7 p.m. in the  
> Rabb Lecture Hall. (Ext. 2212) Liora Grossman, an accomplished  
> illustrator and the curator for the exhibition, Israillustrators  
> 2007, to be on display in the Rabb Lobby, will be the featured  
> speaker at the event. The evening will include Israeli songs  
> performed by a trio. Sponsored by Zionist House/Israel Cultural  
> Center and the Consulate of Israel to New England.