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 Wednesday August 07, 2002 17:34 by MG
 Israeli police have arrested a 25-year-old Irish citizen during a peaceful protest against the Israeli occupation near the West bank city of Nablus. Salah Afifi, an architect from Ranelagh in Dublin, was one of 30 members of the International Solidarity Movement taking part in the protest on a road built solely for the use of Jewish settlers living on Palestinian land. Mr Afifi was taken to a police station in the Jewish settlement of Ariel, according to Colm Breathnach, another Irish ISM member who is currently in Nablus. Mr Breathnach said he will probably be transferred to an Israeli prison and deported back to Ireland. Mr Afifi was one of eight people arrested during the protest at the Huwarda junction just south of Nablus. His mother is Irish and his father Palestinian, but this was the 25-year-old’s first ever visit to Palestine, where he has relatives living in Ramallah. Earlier today, the International Solidarity Movement joined a large crowd of local Palestinians who blocked the settler road in protest at the ongoing Israeli curfew of Palestinian towns and cities. Israeli soldiers and police, accompanied by settlers, arrived on the scene shortly after the protest began and some minor scuffles ensued. The Israelis then physically attacked many protestors and one US citizen is believed to have been knocked unconscious. The demonstrators eventually resorted to a sit-down protest in front of an Israeli jeep to prevent the removal of detainees and this is when Mr Afifi is believed to have been arrested. The usual Israeli policy is to deport pro-Palestinian protestors to their home countries as soon as possible. |
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Why shouldn't he be? More Irish than most of our world cup squad, to judge from the post above.
God bless you, ? (above) , you're a gobshite.
If theres any more info from Colm will someone post it here please, Is there a way for anyone to make contact with him? if so please let us know
You can probably get contact information for Com Breathnach from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, tel. 01-6770253.
As the author of this article, I fell I should clear up some matters...
Salah Afifi was born in Ireland and is an Irish citizen who holds an Irish passport. His mother is an Irish citizen and his father is an ethnic Palestinian who has been living in Ireland for longer than I have been alive...
Salah's visit to Palestine with the ISM was his first ever visit to the country, where he has relatives on his father's side...
To question his Irishness is, in my view, tantamount to racism...
PS: I have a mobile contact for Colm Breathnach, but would rather not post it here in case our pro-Israeli friends start harassing him