Brazil to Host World’s Biggest Pro-Palestine Event

Last Days Watchman ^ | Julio Severo

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Brazil to Host World’s Biggest Pro-Palestine Event

By Julio Severo

The “World Social Forum - Free Palestine” meets in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from 28 November to 1st December 2012, in light of stormy changes known as “the Arab Spring,” where Muslim governments have been replaced by radical Islamic governments, with dire consequences for Christian populations in these nations.

The organizers of the massive pro-Palestine forum have thanked the Brazil government for hosting it, and they regard it “as a crucial and extraordinary landmark in a process that will widen support” for the Palestinian struggle to exercise what they consider a “Palestinian inalienable right: an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital”.

Support from Liberal Christians and Jews

WSF Free Palestine boasts that its event has the official support from “prominent theological figures and the World Council of Churches”.

Leonardo Boff, the most prominent liberation theology advocate in Brazil, has showed his support for the WSF Free Palestine. He said, “It is our duty to be on the side of the Palestinians.”

Nancy Cardoso, a Methodist minister from CEBI (Ecumenical Bible Center) in Rio Grande do Sul, said, “We see the WSF Free Palestine as a key space to give voice to our Palestinian brothers and sisters.”

Liberal religious authorities from Israel and other nations have confirmed their presence, including Jewish theologian professor Marc Ellis, an American author and liberation theologian activist.

Delegations from 36 countries from all five continents have already registered for the World Social Forum Free Palestine turning this event into the largest gathering of solidarity for the Palestine cause. Delegations from the following countries have confirmed their presence: South Africa, Germany, Argentine, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Scotland, Spain, United States, Philippines, France, Ghana, Guinea, India, England, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lebanon, Norway, Palestine, Pakistan, Paraguay, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Swaziland, Togo, Tunisia, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Radical Speakers

Among international speakers are:

Ronnie Kasrils (born 15 November 1938) is a South African politician. He was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) as well as a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party (SACP). He is one of the most eloquent speakers against Israel and an advocate for a Palestinian state.

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an Afro-American and prominent leader of the Communist Party USA. She was the director of the Feminist Studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her expertise is feminism, African American studies and Marxism. Her membership in the Communist Party led to Ronald Reagan’s request in 1969 to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. She was one the suspects in the abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in 1970. She is the author of nine books and has lectured throughout the United States as well as in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, and South America.

Aims

In its event in Brazil, the “World Social Forum - Free Palestine” aims to:

1) Defending the right of the Palestinian people to fight Israel.

2) Strengthening and expanding involvement in the global, Palestinian-led campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. This campaign, which encompasses boycotts of and divestments from Israeli and international companies, has already been embraced by US mainline Protestant denominations, including Presbyterian, Lutheran and Anglican.

3) Making the WSF Free Palestine a platform for building BDS strategies against Israel and in particular for ending free trade agreements between Israel and other countries or groups of countries (such as the European Union, Mercosur, etc.).

4) Recognizing and supporting the struggle of progressive Jews everywhere, particularly those who support the creation of a Palestinian state.

5) Supporting Palestinian resistance against Israel.

6) Launching effective public information campaigns to encourage the media in exposing and condemning Israel.

Strategic Location

The “World Social Forum - Free Palestine” chose Brazil for its massive event because of its politically strategic importance. Two years ago, former socialist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva officially acknowledged Palestine as a national state. His successor, Dilma Rousseff, has kept his Palestinian advocacy.

The forum will happen in Porto Alegre, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, where the ruling Workers’ Party has a stronghold. The Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil, with its 700,000 members, has also a stronghold in this state.

This Brazilian Lutheran denomination has had a crucial role in the liberation theology advocacy and a former president, who is a prominent leader in the World Council of Churches, was implicated in Soviet schemes decades ago, according to an exposé by FrontPageMag.

Yet, more strategic is the region. Porto Alegre is near the Triple Frontier (Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay), where terrorist groups like Egypt’s al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda draw some of their funding.

Portuguese version of this article: Brasil vai sediar maior evento pró-Palestina do mundo

Source: www.lastdayswatchman.blogspot.com

Other articles by Julio Severo:

Brazilian President Lula acknowledges “Palestinian” State

Are the Palestinians a distinct people?

Dividing land with Palestinians or returning it to Mexicans?

By deciding on Israel, Bush is deciding the destiny of the United States

Born-again 'Son of Hamas' now fights 'Islam's god'

What every Christian should know about Israel

Lula humiliates Israel

Could 'Frankenstorm' be a sign from God?

Lula’s foolishness is joke in Israel

In search of the ancient altars: Rejecting the Israel roots and welcoming the Afro roots

Message to President Lula on Israel

World Council of Churches: Babylon and Sodom among Evangelicals

[TruthInThoughtWordAndDeed]

Brazil is just begging to be zotted by the Creator of the universe.

The blindness of man is astounding.

[albie]

Pork chops for everyone!

[MestaMachine]

The Boys from Brazil. It’s not just a movie anymore.

[BigFinn]

Psalm 2 comes to mind.

1 Why are the nations so angry?
Why do they waste their time with futile plans?
2 The kings of the earth prepare for battle;
the rulers plot together against the Lord
and against his anointed one.
3 “Let us break their chains,” they cry,
“and free ourselves from slavery to God.”
4 But the one who rules in heaven laughs.
The Lord scoffs at them.
5 Then in anger he rebukes them,
terrifying them with his fierce fury.
6 For the Lord declares, “I have placed my chosen king
on the throne in Jerusalem,
on my holy mountain.”

[agere_contra]

All those individually home-made signs!

[throwback]

“Think not that I came to send peace on the earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law” Matthew 10:34-35

[Augustinian monk]

The obsession with Israel by communists and apostates says it all. There are dozens of border disputes and conflicts around the world to focus on other than this one.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Next assignment for the Mossad: Rent a big hall for them, get them inside, lock the doors and burn it to the ground.

[dfwgator]

[mosesdapoet]

No surprize here Rousseuff is a communist who spent time for treasonous activity and one of the reasons why Obama gave billions for off shore oil exploration.

[NormsRevenge]

with the 2016 Olympics on deck.. oh boy.. hope all the gangs and slums are leveled and converted to condos by then..