In the early hours of the morning on 16 February, US citizen Zaher Ibrahim, his wife and two of his children were asleep in their home in the occupied West Bank. They woke to loud banging and shouting outside. When Ibrahim opened the door, he found around 25 to 30 Israeli police officers outside.
They came in, handcuffed and blindfolded his 16-year-old son Mohammed, and took him to Moscovia detention centre in Jerusalem. After a few weeks, in mid-March, he was taken to Megiddo prison, and is now at the notorious Ofer prison, where he was moved to in mid-August. Mohammad was in Palestine on holiday when he was detained. Ibrahim takes his children back regularly, sometimes twice a year, so that they can maintain a connection with their culture and ancestral lands.
Ibrahim said that the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, came to visit him at his home in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli settlers killed Mohammed’s cousin Sayfollah Musallet in July. “He [Mike] came and sat for an hour. And you know, we got a lot of words that he’s gonna do what he can do. Nothing was done," Ibrahim told Middle East Eye from Silwad, near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
He’s the wrong kind of American. The ‘America First’
mantamantra only applies to straight, white, protestant Christian conservative Americans. Anyone outside of that narrow window is the enemy to those pushing this dogma.What’s marine life got to do with this?
This shit wouldn’t happen in America, land of freedom! Right?
Israel kidnaps American children while Israeli pedos in America walk free.
Never have I seen a country with less dignity than America right now.
Even working under the veeeery generous assumption that he DID do what Israeli police are claiming—throwing rocks— 6 months in jail in horrible conditions and no definitive end date in sight is absolutely ridiculous.
This is part of the Israel First policy, isn’t it?
Fuck Israel, genocidal scum!
American interests first. That’s a dog whistle for monied interests. Billionaires.
