Audio on Hiding Gaza, Hiding Israel: The Jailing of Cynthia McKinney (and 20 Others)

Former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire, and 19 other activists were freed by Israel after a week in detention. Their boat The Spirit of Humanity, carrying humanitarian aid for Gazans, was intercepted and boarded by Israel naval forces. The Free Gaza Movement reported that, despite the release,

Many passengers did not get all of their belongings back, many computers were stolen, some that were returned had their hard drives completely erased. Many of the pieces of camera equipment were not given back as well, and, of course, none of the tapes of the boarding, roughing up or incarceration of the 21 people who have been returned.

Thanks to Mondoweiss for posting the news and this video, from the Council on American-Islamic Relations:

The story of the nine Muslim passengers taken off the AirTran flight from Washington to Orlando sparked a memory of earlier misunderstandings prompted by post-9/11 fear and cultural differences. I recall this one in particular because of the distinctiveness in US Southern life of Shoney’s, the home of the “Big Boy” burger (and, of course, “Big Boy”, the six-foot statue standing outside the entrance in red-and-white dungarees, burger proudly held aloft in his right hand):

‘Bring it down’ was about a car, students’ lawyer says

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