“Jornadas por Palestina. Memorial Naji Al Ali”

“Days for Palestine. Memorial Naji Al Ali “
Posted in Censorship and Freedom , Calls by paginatransversal on June 7, 2015PALESTINE CONFERENCE MEMORIAAL Naji Al ALI EZZEDDINE S AVELLO SERRADJOn Saturday July 6 held in the premises of the Al-Andalus Library in the city of Cordoba, the “Conference for Palestine. Memorial Naji Al Ali “. The event, organized by the International Organization Against Impunity, HOKOK, was structured around the memory of the famous Palestinian cartoonist killed in London in 1987, Naji Al Ali, and had as main axes, besides denouncing the brutal occupation Palestine by the Zionist entity called Israel, the claim of freedom of expression and the free exercise of the right to information, both severely hampered by the Zionist occupation forces and their pressure groups throughout the world.The relevance and the need to hold events like this were demonstrated even before its conclusion, by the repressive totalitarian attitude, censor and certain associations that exclusivity arrogate to address the Palestinian issue in Spain and, accompanied by the usual spokesmen ideological persecution from his journalistic tribunes, have highlighted the need to persevere in the defense of pluralism and freedom of expression and against the attacks of totalitarianism and ideological persecution, wherever they come from, whether from the international Zionism, since the allegedly democratic penal code, or from sectarian organizations and democratic proceed doubtful that, relying on the label “Red Solidaria”, intended to hijack the free and plural voice of the Palestinian people.PALESTINE CONFERENCE HOKOKHowever, impunity, the nerve in victimization lies and hysteria that characterizes totalitarian, are these Zionist or “solidarity” disguise, usually little or nothing can against the will of those who are free enough to avoid being drag hate and yes to compromise. Thus, those attending the ceremony in Córdoba could see first hand the terrible situation facing the Palestinian people and the difficulties to do their work in the occupied territories journalists – at least the truth, not mere intoxicants they are the voice of his master.Chérifa Serrajd, teacher and social educator opened the conference with presentations dedicated to gloss different figure and work of Palestinian cartoonist Naji Al Ali, and focused on the censorship of the media about the unprecedented situation that exists in Gaza, and the situation of the Palestinian people following the recent acts of genocide perpetrated by the Zionist occupation forces, especially the 2014 attacks that left about 2,500 dead and 11,000 wounded, and destroyed much of Gaza, whose reconstruction work have not yet begun.Then Adnan Ezzeddine, lawyer and secretary general of HOKOK, denounced the impunity of the Zionist state called Israel and its strategy of applying the politics of fear and accusation of “anti-Semitism” in both the media and through the courts, as well terror through military force, all under cover governments and institutions worldwide. Similarly he denounced the bigots who had called for a boycott of the act on charges absurd as “racism”, “anti-Semitism”, etc. and those who would rather sit at a round table to exchange positions. He then proceeded to describe a brief overview of the current situation in the Middle East, and accused the US and the Zionist entity called Israel of being behind the terror the self-proclaimed “Islamic State”, already used since the war in Afghanistan to achieve the objectives Geopolitical and economic aspects of their sponsors.PALESTINE CONFERENCE MEMORIAAL Naji al SANCHEZ RAFAEL ALI AVELLOMeanwhile, veteran journalist Rafael Sanchez Avello, professional TVE, editor, information coordinator and editor, specializing in science journalism and in the Sahara conflict, he focused his speech on the right to free expression, to ensure human rights and the need for a committed journalism (see journalists as “fetters of our consciousness” that only active solidarity will silence some day). Then he drew the raw data recorded in 2014 with regard to the exercise of journalism (128 journalists killed, 16 in the attack on Gaza, 13 in Syria, 12 in Pakistan, 10 in Iraq, 60 etc .; killed so far in 2015, etc.) and reported the situation of conflict correspondents before protected under the cover of the media that were sent, and now mostly professionals independent (freelance) underpaid. In this sense also denounced installed in society regarding the exercise of journalism, which they attribute to journalists dishonesty or truth or misrepresenting it, prejudices and recalled what he heard from the mouth of the well-known journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski: “I no journalists but mediaworkers “, so we should not blame the true professionals, but the media themselves and their owners. Avello Sanchez recalled that without free press there is no democracy and that the fundamental mission of the journalist is to give voice to the voiceless and to make visible the invisible.Then he spoke the young Palestinian Mohammed Matter, who came from Germany, where he lives and studies, to tell their personal experience in daily life of Gazans, especially during the criminal attack on Gaza in 2014 by the army of Zionist occupation. He denounced the obstacles to the free movement of Gazans locked in “the biggest prison in the world” and the complicity of the Egyptian authorities in collusion with Zionist and US in relation to the closure of the borders and passage of supplies and people (when not closed, the border can only spend a maximum of 50 people a day for a list of more than 42,000 people who want to leave Gaza for some reason or other). Emphasized the heroism of Gazans to defend their meager assets against Zionist aggression (flocking, for example, a private house after receiving the call in the same occupation forces threatening to bomb it), and individual community of struggle and resistance of the Palestinian people by example and, more specifically Gazan, in an area without water, without light, and controlled by the Zionists to the number of calories consumed daily by every Palestinian. Matter he expressed doubts about a possible peace between Jews and Palestinians because, on the one hand, “the Jews do not want peace” and on the other, the Palestinian people can not embrace the Jewish people as it is literally “amputated” by bombing and Zionist aggression. He also denounced the Palestinian Authority for its collusion with the Zionists even though they consider the Palestinians as “terrorists”. To achieve any kind of peace, Matter stressed the need to do justice first and urged the audience and citizens in Europe and around the world to increase their support to Palestine and the Palestinian people, making this visible support through mobilizations the street, and by boycotting products of the Zionist entity called Israel.PALESTINE CONFERENCE MEMORIAAL Naji Al ALI M MATTERWith this call to commitment and denounces the Zionist outrage, extended to other abuses, ridiculous in comparison but also fruit of the hatred of freedom, plurality and coexistence, the “Conference for Palestine were closed. Memorial Naji Al Ali “, in the city of Cordoba.