first signatories of the open letter and appeal for 2 activists for Palestinian justice

[mary <humdrum2 at libero.it>]

Dear Friends, 
Some of you have already received this appeal, on some occasions even
more than once! Some of you have signed it, posted it, circulated it. We
appreciate your interest, commitment, kindness and solidarity
enormously!! 
After one day, we now have the list of first signatories, and the open
letter will continue to gather signatures from all who agree to its
content and it will be posted in an updated version (always on
Peacepalestine) but also on the Tlaxcala Gallery. 

If anyone would like to sign it as a first signatory, you may
still do that. We ask you to distribute it or publish it as you deem
fitting. A version in Arabic is available on Peacepalestine, Arab News,
Haitham's Sabbah Blog, in Italian on Kelebek. Tlaxcala will have versions
in Spanish and French uploaded as well. The many comments will be
published within the week, as they themselves are an interesting
document. 

Your help is much appreciated. We need unity and not division, but we
need honesty as well!!! Smear campaigns have got to end, so that we are
freed to concentrate on concrete actions for Palestinians. We can't keep
wasting time. 
mary 

http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/2008/02/petition-for-two-activists-that-you.html

Petition: for two activists... that you know well

To all the friends of the freedom of speech and opponents of
racism: (Names Updated regularly) COMMENTS WILL BE PUBLISHED THIS
WEEK!!

We are a group of Palestinians and other activists for the
Palestinian cause of various nationalities and affiliations, and believe
that unity and persistence is important to confront the injustice our
people had suffered in the past and still at present, probably in the
unforeseeable future by Zionist and colonialist powers.

Zionism has damaged us from the first day when they started implementing
their colonialist project to colonize all of Palestine, and when the
opportunity comes, extend it beyond the borders of historic Palestine,
damaging other Arabs. From the first day, they had been resorting to
physical, psychological, moral and propaganda terror against all sorts of
resistance whether it is in armed self-defense, and even against the
power of the word by Palestinians and their supporters. They had been
resorting to personal and communal targeted assassination, terrorizing
Palestinians and their supporters all round the world in order to shut up
all sorts of resistance. They try to break us apart, because they know
our unity is dangerous to their colonialist and racist plans. They had
been trying to control and shut the free and honest media, and political
activism by financial bribery and blackmailing when running for any sort
of political offices at all levels, especially against those who call for
the liberation of Palestine and the Right of Return of Palestinians to
their homes and land and want them to live under a democratic, sovereign
and free state under the rule of law. 

Among those free fighters against Zionism are two non-Arab supporters of
the Palestinian cause, two outstanding personalities who are also great
fighters for the implementation of freedom and liberty to all the
subjugated peoples of the world, Gilad Atzmon, the ex-Zionist
London-based musician and writer, and Mary Rizzo, the Italy-based blogger
of Peacepalestine

http://peacepalestine.blogspot.com/. They have been attacked by
Zionists for a long time, but they are also being attacked by certain
other people who are in the movement for Palestine. 

Almost no day goes past when Tony Greenstein is not waging a war against
Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo, and we believe his actions have overstepped
all limits. We have watched as he tries to smear them as racists, and we
are saddened that his attempts increase as our own situation becomes more
and more dramatic. These useless and pointless defamation campaigns are
intolerable, as he circulates falsity against these activists. His
attempts to do this only hurt our cause and waste our energy, not the
least, they distract from the important issues, and go against the very
idea of unity that we value. 

We, Palestinians and activists for Palestine, express our solidarity with
Gilad Atzmon and Mary Rizzo, who when they realized the tragedies
Palestinians and other Arabs suffered, especially ethnically cleansed
from their ancestral homeland, at the hands racist colonialist Zionism
decided to fight for the rightful Palestinian cause. Atzmon willingly
liberated himself from this inhuman and destructive project, by choosing
the road of self-imposed exile and public exposure of what the Zionist
project is all about. Tony Greenstein created among his usual lies that
some Palestinians attack and defame the two dedicated supporters of the
Palestinian cause, Atzmon and Rizzo. We declare that he does not speak
for us or in our names when he attacks these and other activists.

We also take the opportunity to condemn the strangling siege that is
being imposed over the Gaza Strip in particular and the West Bank and the
rest of the Palestinian Arab people in general to complete their ethnic
cleansing from their historic homeland. We urge all peace loving
supporters of the freedom of thought, against all racism and Zionism and
dedicated to the just Palestinian Arab cause as well as Iraq and all
occupied Arab lands, to sign the petition calling for an end to the
defamation campaign and a focus on the issues that are important to our
people. Add you name, location and organization or group you are part of
if you wish. Send it to
palestinesomoud at yahoo.fr. A
list will be made public.

Initial Signatories: other names will be added and comments that have
been sent will be compiled and published. 
Adib S. Kawar, Nazareth, Palestine - Beirut, Lebanon
Walid Halabi, France-Italy
Arab Abdel-Hadi PMWATCH, Ansar Al-Quds. LEBANONVIEW, Free Palestine and
others
Malak Abdel-Hadi, Palestinian living in Dubai
Shahira Mehrez, Egyptian living in Cairo, Egypt
Paola Pisi, Italy, URUKNET
Ismail Zayid, Canada
Nizar Issa, London, UK
Nadia Hasan, Chile
Dr Sadek Pharaon MD, Syria
Oren Ben Dor, UK
Manuel Talens, Spain
Dima Hamdan, London, UK
Iqbal Tamimi, Exiled Journalist Network – UK, A Palestinian journalist
and poet
Samir Daoud - Akka Palestine - residence: Beirut – Lebanon
Nadia Daoud - Akka Palestine - Residence: Beirut – Lebanon
Hala Kawar – Nazareth, Palestine - Residence - Beirut – Lebanon
Wajih Freij – Jerusalem, Palestine - Residence: Beirut – Lebanon
Lamia Kawar – Nazareth, Palestine - Residence - Beirut - Lebanon
Ibrahim Kawar – Nazareth, Palestine - Residence - Beirut - Lebanon
Fausto Giudice, Secretary, France, Zapatist Alliance for Social
Liberation
Ginette Hess Skandrani, France, Chairwoman, Zapatist Alliance for Social
Liberation
Wael AlSaad, Düsseldorf-Germany. PYN Coordinator-Germany Palestinian
Community Düsseldorf Board
Dr Hajo G. Meyer, Heiloo, the Netherlands, survivor of Auschwitz
The Radical Press, Canada
Mauro Manno, Italy
Manuela Vittorelli, Italy
Diego Traversa, Italy
Vicente Romano, Spain
Carlos Sanchis, Spain
Nancy Harb Almendras, United States, Germany
Zuhair Nafa, Palestine
Raja Chemayel, The Hague, Netherlands
Theodore D. Turner, Brooklyn, New York
Kristoffer Larsson, Sweden
Ellen Rohlfs, Germany, German-Palestinian Society and Gush Shalom
Hergen Matussik, Germany
Benedetta Scardovi-Mounier, USA/Italy
Cristina Santos, London, UK
Rocío Anguiano, Spain
Sigge Andersson, pre-med student, Sweden
Guenter Schenk, France/Germany, Aktionsbündnis für einen gerechten
Frieden in Palästina
LanceThruster, LA, CA, USA
Mary Sparrowdancer, Tallahassee, FL
Birgit Jödahl, Sweden
Miguel Martinéz, Florence, Italy 
Susanne Scheidt, Al-Awda Italia
Jean-Marie Flémal, writer and translator, WPB (Workers' Party of
Belgium), Charleroi, Belgium.
Edna Spennato, South Africa-Brazil, Earth Heal Geoharmonic Research
Project
Abdullah Husain, Palestine by birth, KSA, India by life accident
Wendy Campbell, California, USA, MarWen Media
Peter Brooke, UK,
www.peterbrooke.org.uk
Daniel McGowan, Geneva, NY, Exec. Director, Deir Yassin Remembered
Debbie Brown, Hacienda Heights, California USA
Kenneth Rasmusson, Sweden
Redress Information & Analysis, London, UK
Schuyler Ebbets, USA, The People's Voice.org 
Ragnar B. Johannessen, Norway, The People's Voice.org
Annie Selden Annab, Annie's Letters Blog
Jim Leven, UK, PSC member
Javier Fernández Retenaga, Spain
Shaukat Khawja, Toronto, Canada Profession: Engineer
Volker M., Canada
Lina Abu Baker, London, UK 
Brenda Heard, UK, Friends of Lebanon,

http://www.friendsoflebanon.org/
Letizia Tessicini, Orte, Italy
Simon R-Levin, Manchester, UK 
Paloma Valverde, Spain,member of CEOSI
Sarah Stevens, UK
Ralph Pinner, UK
Inge Soder, Germany
Sarah Gillespie, London, UK
Raja Ibrahim, Pistoia, Italy, ASSOCIAZIONE AMICIZIA ITALO - PALESTINESE
Adriano Mencarelli, Roma - Italy 
Diego Ianiro - Caserta, Italy, of Khalas Napoli -
khalasnews.splinder.com
Francesca Longhi- Bergamo, Italia 
Antonio Corraine - Aosta, Italy
Stuart Cary Welch - N/A
Haitham Sabbah, Tulkarm, Palestine/Dubai, blogger of
Sabbah's
Blog
Latuff, Rio De Janiero, Brazil, Cartoonist
Nureddin Sabir, London, UK, Editor of Redress Information &
Analysis
Steve Amsel, Jerusalem-Al Quds, blogger of
Desert
Peace
Lasse Wilhelmson, Sweden
Richard Jones, Swansea, Wales
Einar Schlereth, Sweden, Journalist
Karaiskos Kostas, Komotini, Greece, ANTIFONITIS director
Adeline Rec, N/A
Àlex Tarradellas, Catalonia
Nuria Álvarez, Spain 
Guillermo F. Parodi, Paraguay, Universitary Professor
Dennis Zackrisson, Uppsala, Sweden
Mark Roland, Eugene Oregon, USA 
Robert Wagner, Italy
Graham Derrick, West Yorkshire, UK
Gabriele Rèpaci, Milano, university student
Emmanuel St John, London, UK
Sami Joseph, UK 
Ernesto Paramo, Mexico/UK 
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, Glasgow, Scotland, blogger of
The Fanonite
Jeffrey Blankfort, California, USA
David Baldinger, USA, Cartoonist,
blogger 
Olivia Zémor, Paris, France, cofounder CAPJPO (Coordination des Appels
pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient) 
Ana Cleja, France 
John W. Blalock, N/A
Maryam Husain and Children, Displaced Palestinian/KSA/Italy/India
currently 
Emanuela Borrelli, Italy 
Rachel Bridgeland, UK 
Maria Ingrosso, Lecce, Italy 
Riccardo Di Vito, Roma, Italia - Campo Antimperialista 
Camilla Rahm, Gothenburg, Sweden

this Petition is also on:

Redress, Uruknet here
and here,

Arab News, Friends of Lebanon
Tlaxcala,

Kelebek,
The
People's Voice

Sabbah's Blog

Desert Peace