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A Bay Area man and former tree-sitter at the University of California at Berkeley was critically wounded Friday in a clash between protesters and Israeli troops over Israel's West Bank separation barrier.

Friends of a Bay Area activist who was critically injured while demonstrating in a village on Palestine's West Bank have organized their own demonstration in downtown San Francisco today as a show of solidarity. Friends of Tristan Anderson, a former tree-sitter at the UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium oak grove, and supporters of Palestine will gather at 4 p.m. Monday outside the Israeli Consulate at 456 Montgomery St. in San Francisco, said Kate Raphael, a fellow activist and friend of Anderson's. "Our intent is to give people a chance to talk about Tristan, to focus on the people who have been...

JERUSALEM (Map, News) - An American demonstrator was critically wounded Friday in a clash between protesters and Israeli troops over Israel's West Bank separation barrier. Peace activists with the International Solidarity Movement said Tristan Anderson, of the Oakland, Calif., area, was struck in the head with a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops. The military and the Tel Aviv hospital where Anderson was taken had no details on how he was hurt. "He's in critical condition, anesthetized and on a ventilator and undergoing imaging tests," said Orly Levi, a spokeswoman at the Tel Hashomer hospital. She described Anderson's condition...

An American demonstrator was critically wounded near Nil'in on Friday, during a clash between protesters and IDF troops over the West Bank separation barrier. Left-wing activists with the International Solidarity Movement said Tristan Anderson, of the Oakland, Calif., area, was struck in the head with a tear gas canister fired by security forces. Neither the IDF nor Tel Aviv's Tel Hashomer Hospital where Anderson was taken for treatment had any details on how he was hurt. "He's in critical condition, anesthetized and on a ventilator and undergoing imaging tests," said Orly Levi, a spokeswoman at Tel Hashomer. She described Anderson's...

Salinas-area activists going to Gaza February 23, 2009 A group of Monterey County peace activists will be traveling to the Gaza Strip in early March to provide humanitarian and emotional support to children, women and women's organizations. Led by Monterey CodePink founder Hanan Sharwar, approximately 25 activists will fly to Cairo and tour the Gaza Strip with former Army colonel and peace activist Ann Wright.

Child Stabs President Bush to Death and Turns the White House into a Mosque in a Hamas TV Puppet Show Following is an excerpt from a puppet show, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on March 30, 2008. Bush: Who are you? What brings you to my home? How did they let you in, boy? My guards! My soldiers! Get this boy out of here. Child: Nobody will take me out of here. Bush: Who are you to come here and threaten me?! You are on my own turf, you little child, you! Get out. My dear, bring your father, your...

I am longing for an American president who will have the courage and the honesty to tell Israeli leaders: Dear friends, you are drunk with power! You are speeding along a highway that leads to an abyss! The US is now the only super-power on earth. It will remain so for quite some time to come. The decisions of the President of the United States affect every human being on this planet. Unfortunately, the citizens of the world have no part in these elections. But they may, at least, voice an opinion. Availing myself of this right I say: I...

NABLUS, West Bank (AP) -- The parents of U.S. peace activist Rachel Corrie, who was killed in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer, marked the fifth anniversary of her death Thursday by dedicating a small West Bank memorial. Corrie was 23 when she was run over by a 60-ton Israeli bulldozer in 2003 as she tried to prevent a Palestinian home from being demolished. The driver said he didn't see her, and the Israeli military ruled her death accidental. On Thursday, about 150 Palestinians and foreigners attended the memorial, gathering in a street in the West Bank city of Nablus, led...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The story of 23-year-old Olympia native Rachel Corrie gripped the Northwest in March 2003 when she was killed in the Gaza Strip by a bulldozer operated by the Israeli army as she tried to block demolition of a Palestinian family's home. The emotions around her death were tumultuous. A New York production of a play about her diaries was shut down after objections from pro-Israel activists. Indeed, the force of Corrie's convictions made her writing shimmer with urgency. On March 7, W.W. Norton published her diaries and poems under the title "Let Me Stand Alone." These excerpts are...

"My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a play about the 23-year-old college student and human rights activist who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza while defending a Palestinian home from demolition five years ago, has been staged in so many places around the world that her parents can't keep track. It debuted at the Royal Court Theatre in London in April 2005. Since then, it's been staged in Peru, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Greece and Canada. Soon it will be seen in Argentina, Africa, Spain, France and Australia. "There are plans for it on all the continents with the...

Rachel Corrie was killed by Israeli forces over four years ago while working in Gaza as a peaceworker with the International Solidarity Movement. Her family filed a lawsuit in US court against the American company which built the Caterpillar-brand bulldozer that killed Corrie, but that lawsuit has now been dismissed by a Judge in the US Court of Appeals. Bla Bla Bla Caterpillar brand D9 armored bulldozer - Articles Photo D9 bulldozer with IDF soldier - credit SmallDeadAnimals

Follow the link to read about a play making a hero out of Rachel Corrie that is running in Montreal. Corrie was a nitwit, indoctrinated by Israel-hating leftists at Evergreen State College who got flattened by an Israeli military bulldozer. Good riddance to her! Anyone dumb enough not to move out of the way of a slow moving bulldozer shouldn't be using up valuable oxygen. Does the play have a bulldozer come on stage, like the helicopter in Miss Saigon? Because watching a re-enactment of the flattening of the unlamented Rachel Corrie might be worth the price of a ticket.

The parents of Rachel Corrie, the US peace activist who was crushed to death four years ago in the then Israeli-occupied Gaza as she was protesting against the demolition of Palestinian homes, have been refused permission to sue the company which made the bulldozer that killed her. On Monday a federal appeals court ruled that Caterpillar Inc, the Illinois-based company that has supplied several bulldozers used by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) in house demolitions in the occupied territories, could not be sued as to do so would bring the judiciary into conflict with the executive branch of the US...

WARDLAW, Circuit Judge: Plaintiffs Cynthia and Craig Corrie, Mahmoud Al Sho’bi, Fathiya Muhammad Sulayman Fayed, Fayez Ali Mohammed Abu Hussein, Majeda Radwan Abu Hussein, and Eida Ibrahim Suleiman Khalafallah filed this action after their family members were killed or injured when the Israeli Defense Forces (“IDF”) demolished homes in the Palestinian Territories using bulldozers manufactured by Caterpillar, Inc., a United States corporation. The IDF ordered the bulldozers directly from Caterpillar, but the United States government paid for them. The district court dismissed the action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), finding it lacked jurisdiction because, inter alia, the political...

Palestine Mickey Mouse, Rachel Corrie Parents Incite Violence Against Israel By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel ---- May 13, 2007 ...... Perhaps not since the days of Nazi Youth, Hitler Youth has the Western world witnessed the systematic teaching of racist hatred to children. In the 1920's, 30's and early 40's the Hitler-Jugend had enlisted over 25,000 boys aged fourteen and upwards. It also set up a junior branch, the Deutsches Jungvolk, for boys aged ten to fourteen. Girls from ten to eighteen were given their own organization, the Bund Deutscher Ma"del (or BDM), the League of German...

Your daughter was in a war zone as a belligerent. Dear Mr. and Mrs. Corrie, You are continuing with your campaign of demonization and delegitimization against Israel, a campaign that now manifests itself in a shallow anti-Israel propaganda play being staged in Seattle. All this, of course, came after your earlier open letter to the world, "A Call to Action; Rachel's Words Live," which was reprinted in many different media outfits, including the viciously anti-Semitic Counterpunch magazine, and the Guardian of the UK. Your daughter conscripted herself as an aid for those seeking to murder my children. In that letter,...

The extermination of Jews is Allah’s will and is for the benefit of all humanity, according to an article in the Hamas paper, Al-Risalah. The author of the article, Kan'an Ubayd, explains that the suicide operations carried out by Hamas are being committed solely to fulfill Allah’s wishes. Furthermore, Allah demanded this action, because “the extermination of the Jews is good for the inhabitants of the worlds.” The killing of innocent Jews by terrorist attacks is portrayed as Allah’s plan for the benefit of humanity. It should be noted that Hamas’s justification for the extermination of Jews, both as God's...

Why is it so hard to believe that Arab "Palestinians" murdered Rachel Corrie in cold blood to make her a "hero symbol"? If they do it with their own kids like Muhammad Al Dura.Rachel Corrie Palestinian Propaganda How do we know where she was killed? The Palestinians are quite capable of murdering her themselves, looking for more propaganda? Who is Rachel Corrie? ... http://www.geocities.com/Rachav/Rachel_Corrie_Propaganda.html Who killed Rachel Corrie?Rachel Corrie, the Olympia, Wash., college student killed trying to protect a Palestinian house – a house, remember, not even a human being – against an ... http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31705 Who Killed Rachel Corrie? American...

The deplorable state of Middle East Studies on college campuses has been a topic of grave concern for many of those who follow the declining fortunes of American scholarship. That an entire field of academic study has grown up in the last quarter-century that seeks to delegitimize Zionism and Israel is not news. But efforts to do something about it are worth mentioning. How bad is the situation? Bad enough that Gratz College, a nondenominational Jewish institution here in the Philadelphia area, feels that it's worth it to create a new institute specifically designed to be an academic answer to...

NEW YORK--Politics makes artists stupid. Take "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," the one-woman play cobbled together from the diaries, emails and miscellaneous scribblings of the 23-year-old left-wing activist who was run over by an Israeli Army bulldozer in 2003 while protesting the demolition of a Palestinian house in the Gaza Strip. Co-written and directed by Alan Rickman, one of England's best actors, "Rachel Corrie" just opened off-Broadway after a successful London run. It's an ill-crafted piece of goopy give-peace-a-chance agitprop--yet it's being performed to cheers and tears before admiring crowds of theater-savvy New Yorkers who, like Mr. Rickman himself, ought...