Reply #17: Palestinian factions denounce murder of Italian activist [View All]

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Islamic Jihad also denounced the "grotesque crime." The movement said the perpetrators served the Israeli occupation which was inciting against the solidarity movement with the Palestinian cause.

The Palestinian People's Party said Arrigoni's murder was "a moral and national crime," and called for the perpetrators to be severely punished.


The Popular Resistance Committees condemned the murder as "a cowardly act."

Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi expressed his deep sorrow at the "shocking criminal act" which he said only served the interests of the enemies of the Palestinian people.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=378918

Salafi leader: Islam prohibits murder

Salafi leader Iyad Ash-Shami said Friday that Salafi groups were not involved in the murder of an Italian activist in the Gaza Strip.

The killing of Vittorio Arrigoni "had nothing to do with Islam," he said, adding that Salafi groups and scholars all agreed that the killing of any man was prohibited.

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The kidnappers identified themselves in the video as belonging to a previously unknown group called The Brigade of the Gallant Companion of the Prophet Mohammed bin Muslima.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=378949

Mourners march for slain Italian activist

Dozens of young Palestinians and peace activists participated Friday in a symbolic funeral for murdered Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni.

The funeral started from at Jundi square to a wake where mourners gathered to pay their last respects. Participants held Palestinian and Italian flags in addition to Arrigoni’s photos.

They condemned the crime against him and chanted slogans like “death to terrorism” and “by soul and blood we sacrifice ourselves for you, Victor”.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=379058

oh and your claim that "1. Most volunteers are not "treated quite royally" - in fact, incidents of sexual harassment (and worse) are de rigueur for female volunteers."

BTW de rigueur means prescribed or required by fashion, etiquette, or custom, so that's your claim , interesting indeed

I noticed you did not provide a link for your claim so I did it for you there was this and a rather lurid installment of the MESS report from Haaretz but this article is based on the same claims

Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the “peace camp”: female “peace” activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the phenomenon has gotten worse lately and that many foreign women end up as wives of local Arabs against their will, but cannot escape their new homes.

Roni Aloni Sedovnik, a feminist activist, penned an article in News1 – an independent website run by respected investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak – under the heading “The Left's Betrayal of Female Peace Activists Who were Sexually Assaulted.”

“A nauseous atrocity has been going on for a long time behind the scenes at the leftists' demonstration at Bil'in, Naalin and Sheikh Jarrah ,” she writes. “A dark secret that threatens to smash the basic ideological values upon which the demand to end the occupation of the Territories rests.”

It turns out, she explains, that when female peace activists from Israel and abroad come out to Judea and Samaria and demonstrate against the Israeli “occupation,” they are assaulted sexually by the Arab men whom they have come to help. These are not isolated incidents, Aloni-Sedovnik stresses. Rather, this is an “ongoing and widespread” phenomenon that includes verbal and physical abuse. She accuses the 'peace' camp of purposely covering up the trend so as not to offend “the Palestinians and their heritage, which sees women as sexual objects.”

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139738