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I, like many diplomats, enjoy browsing for books at Educational Bookshop, ... I know its owners, the Muna family, to be peace-loving proud Palestinian Jerusalemites."
German Ambassador Steffen Seibert wrote on social media platform X Shocked by Israeli forces' raid on East Jerusalem's Educational Bookshop — an intellectual lighthouse and family-run gem resisting Palestinian erasure under apartheid,
Internationals in Jerusalem: please show up, stand with the Muna family, and protect this vital hub,
The attempt to crush the Palestinian people includes the harassment and arrest of intellectuals,
the group said in a statement They took every book that had the Palestinian flag on it,
one of the men’s brothers told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz They did throw some books on the ground but the Arabic (language) store is where the material damage was,
store owner Iyad Muna told CNN The suspects who allegedly sold the books were taken into custody by police detectives,
the police spokesperson’s unit said The time is long past for Britain and the international community to reassess its backing for Israel, and to condition any future support on the active and immediate dismantling of structures of oppressive control,
The world has seen the nature of regimes that arrest and imprison booksellers before,
said Matthew Teller, who with Muna co-edited the book Daybreak in Gaza, which came out last October The arrests were made in East Jerusalem, in territory Israel has annexed and considers to be within its so-called democratic borders ... By making these arrests Israel is telling on itself. Only an ideology as thin as paper is threatened by words on the page,
