On October 7th, 2011, 10 days into hunger strikes across California State and Israeli occupation prisons, Palestinian, formerly incarcerated, Jewish Anti-Zionist and other activists demonstrated in Chicago, San Francisco and New York City.  Below is a video from the action in San Francisco.

From Palestine to Pelican Bay from Intl Jewish Anti-Zionist Network on Vimeo.

In February, IJAN worked with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Global Women’s Strike to present a workshop exposing the role of Israel and Zionism in promoting militarism and state-repression around the globe. On every continent and for decades, Israel has worked to arm some of the most repressive governments and militias. Meanwhile, Israel’s multi-billion dollar Homeland Security industry, developed through its repression of Palestinians, is exported all over the globe. In the US Zionist organizations have been working with the government in targeting Arabs and Muslims and undermining civil liberties in order to promote Israel’s interests.

Organizers with IJAN’s Bay Area Chapter leafleted at amovie theater in Chinatown about the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM)’s partnership with the Israeli consulate in theIsrael-China film festival.  We talked briefly with movie goers and gaveout quite a number of flyers. Besides one person who threw the flyer down andanother who tore it up, all who came to the movie took flyers. A young womancame out to speak to us and turned out to be a reporter from the New AmericaMedia; she was interested that we were Jewish and did an interview not onlyabout the event, but about Frameline and pinkwashing.