No time to celebrate

Deborah Agre writing from San Francisco, US, Live from Palestine, 6 June 2008 Anti-Zionist Jews disrupt the "Israel at 60" symposium inside the San Francisco Jewish Community Center. (M.) "At the JCC [Jewish Community Center] of San Francisco, during a 8 May educational symposium in honor of Israel's 60th anniversary, anti-Zionist activists staged the largest anti-Israel protest ever to take place in the building, according to a JCC official. Twenty of these protesters were escorted out by the San Francisco Police Department, which was well equipped to deal with the situation due to intense security preparations for the event." - JTA, "the Global News Service of the Jewish People" Last month the staff of the Middle East Children's Alliance, Barbara Lubin, Ziad Abbas, Josie Shields-Stromsness and I, joined a Bay Area action... [read full story]