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This bag was arrested trying to sneak into the National Gallery, London. Must be a terrorist!!

A small pathetic incident this past week -- and 'pathetic' is the right word for the #genocide #complicity permeating our lives. This was nothing like the #police raid on Electronic Intifada (#Palestine's #weapon of #Mass #Instruction) and oh orders of magnitude less and less than what's being done to people in Palestine and #Lebanon now...

I went with a friend over from the US to visit the National Gallery. When we went through bag check, quite extraordinarily the bag security personnel (doubtless under orders) told me I could not carry a bag with a 'Free Palestine' badge. Unbelieving I stood there and started to raise my voice on such willingness by a national institution to side with genocide! I continued to yell, bewildered. So were the bag check guys, wondering what to do with me. They were indicating 'just cover it up' which was appalling enough. Because of my friend, I slipped in.

But the whole of my bag was crying
PALESTINE WILL BE FREE
anyway (beautiful design by Peckham Keffiyeh, Green and Black Cross)!