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Israelis violating rights, speaker says
University Daily Kansan, November 16, 1984
By BENGT LJUNG Staff Reporter
Israel has to choose between the dictatorship of oppressing two million Palestinians and democracy, Steve Ashby, national organizer of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign, said last night.
Israel denies human rights and democracy to the Palestinians in Israel and the occupied territories in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, who hold an audience of 40 at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
The Palestine Human Rights Campaign is an educational organization whose purpose is to inform the American public of human rights violations against Palestinians.
"This is hard to explain to Americans," Ashby said.
"They can't believe the people that went through the holocaust can turn around and carry out genocide against another person."
ASHIBY SAID THE movement hostile to Palestinians had grown since the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1962, led by former Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon.
three week trip in the area. He described what he said were a number of Israeli violations of U.N. Declarations on human rights, which Israel had signed, in occupied territories.
THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT has confiscated and turned over to Jewish settlers half of the land, including 80 percent of the farmland, in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the Six Day War in 1967, Ashby said.
Due process of law does not exist
Ashby saw hope in the opposition among Israelis against the war in
Ashby returned recently from a
All they want is equal rights. In 1974, they compromised even more and called for a (Palestinian) state only on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. There will not be peace until there is justice for the Palestinians. The spirit of resistance among Palestinians is incredible.
Steve Ashby, national organizer of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign
Lebanon and building new settlements on occupied territory.
"This has never happened before," Ashby said. "Israelis and Palestinians are working together against racism and fascism."
He showed photographs of what he said were some of more than 1,500 houses pulverized as re-foresting. He also kind of political activities.
in the military courts and Palestinians are imprisoned without a trial, he said.
Israel is using the Emergency Defense Laws from the pre-World War II time of the British Protectorate, which Ashby said "the Jews called horrendous when the British used it against them."
He said the Palestinians have no right to vote and it is illegal to belong to a political organization.
"EVERY FAMILY HAS a
member who is or has been in prison," Ashby said. "Even display of Palestinian culture is regarded as a threat to the state
"Painters using black, green and red (the Palestinian colors) have been thrown in prison."
Ashby witnessed collective punishment in Dheisheh, a Palestinian camp south of Bhelthem.
Seven of the nine entrances to the camp were blocked off by the Israeli army to punish the inhabitants for opposition.
Dheishen was also raided by 300 armed settlers, who "shot up the place, kicked in doors and broke the walls," Israeli army protested them. Alarm
The settlers in the occupied territories have leaders such as the Brooklyn-born rabbi Meir Kahane, who invites divine right to rid Israel of Palestinians, Ashby said.
Kahane was recently elected to the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, which Ashby said was a sign of the polarization in Israeli politics.
ASHBY SAID THE Israeli economy had an inflation rate of 1,000 percent and would collapse without the extensive U.S. aid.
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