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IAC and Israeli Independence Day at Berkeley
By yaman | April 26, 2007
Students from the Israel Action Committee at UC Berkeley today celebrated Israeli Independence Day on Sproul Plaza today by introducing the student population to one of the State’s many innovations in the past 59 years: hip-hop music. The new Israeli genre has stirred a musical renaissance world-wide, and pop culture will certainly be indebted to Israel for generations to come.
Meanwhile, in Israel, real activists celebrated the date by asking:
“How can one celebrate independence, while the celebration depends on confining millions of Palestinians?” they asked. “How can one celebrate independence, while millions of people in Israel suffer hunger and poverty while corruption is rampant?”
Topics: Journal |
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:40 am
[...] to mind a complaint I have long held about “pro-Israel activists:” their utter lack of originality. Such lack of creativity is something that I feel is very common to those who make up the vanguard [...]