isn’t this just awesome? the brutality and humiliation associated with being strip searched as a young girl in front of family members, in front of an israeli soldier standing over you with a machine gun…being felt up by israeli officials…being taken alone. if americans knew initiated this investigation

New Jersey stand-up comedian Maysoon Zayid describes being strip-searched at Ben Gurion Airport when she was “seven, eight, nine years old” on family trips to visit her parents’ original home in Palestine. On her most recent trip in July 2006, Maysoon, an American citizen, had her sanitary pad taken by officials in Ben Gurion Airport. When the search was completed, she says, the Israeli official in charge, Inbal Sharon, then refused to return her pad or allow her to get another.

Zayid, who has cerebral palsy and was sitting in a wheelchair, was then forced to bleed publicly for hours while she waited for her flight.

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i was just doing research on israeli apartheid and human rights abuses and came across an interesting point about the year 1948. 1948 is the official establishment of apartheid in south africa; 1948 is also the establishment of the state of israel, al nakba, etc.; 1948 is also the year the united nations published the universal declaration of human rights. interesting, eh? when john dugard, south african law professor who is the un’s special rapporteur on human rights in the palestinian territories officially stated that ‘israel’s laws and practices in the opt [occupied palestinian territories] certainly resemble aspects of apartheid.’ dugard’s report ‘represents some of the most forceful criticism yet of israel’s 40-year occupation.’ and oh yea, john dugard will be here next week! malangbaba draws some good connections between israeli and south african apartheid highlighting narratives from south african liberation fighters.

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