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<h1><b>San Francisco protestors call Olmert 'war criminal'
</b></h1><font size=3><b>Pro-Palestinian demonstrators disrupt former
prime minister's speech, week after similar incident in Chicago. Woman
identified as a Jews shouts at him, 'No more genocide in my name'
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</a>Published: 10.23.09, 10:11 / <br><br>
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- Former prime minister under attack – again. Pro-Palestinian protestors
disrupted
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3283691,00.html">Ehud
Olmert's</a> speech in a San Francisco hotel on Thursday night, exactly
one week after the former Israeli premier was
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3791236,00.html">
verbally attacked</a> at the University of Chicago over
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3777382,00.html">
alleged war crimes</a> committed by the Jewish state during the Gaza war.
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"You are a war criminal and a murderer," one of the protestors
shouted at Olmert during the speech before being removed from the
auditorium by security officers. <br><br>
Another protestor shouted, "You are a war criminal. San Francisco
should be ashamed to have a war criminal here." <br><br>
A young woman, identified by the person who documented the incident as a
Jew, stood up and shouted, "No more genocide in my name."
Another woman waved her hands, which were painted red. <br><br>
The people who documented the protest did it secretly using a cellular
phone, as cameras were not allowed into the lecture, and posted the clip
on YouTube. <br><br>
As opposed to the disturbance at the Chicago speech, this time the guards
appeared to have acted more firmly against the protestors. One of the
demonstrators was even removed from the auditorium by policemen grabbing
his arms and legs and carrying him out. <br><br>
During the speech, one of the protestors screamed at Olmert, "A
hospital has been destroyed," referring to the Israel Air Forces'
air strikes in Gaza during
<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-7022,00.html">Operation
Cast Lead</a>. <br><br>
The former prime minister appeared calm throughout the disturbances, and
didn't stop speaking despite the commotion. <br><br>
The clip's creators who documented the incident said they were proud to
have managed to shut down Olmert's message through the protest inside and
outside the auditorium. "We shall protest every speech until the war
criminal is indicted," they wrote at the end of the clip. <br>
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San Francisco calls Olmert war criminal<br>
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:38:54 GMT<br>
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</font><font size=1>Security guards forcibly remove a protestor after
interrupting Ehud Olmert's, lecture about the challenges of the Middle
East and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process during a World Affairs
Council event at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.<br><br>
</font><font size=3>More than 200 people representing a coalition of
Palestinian and Muslim groups along with other pro-Palestinian protestors
have disrupted Ehud Olmert's speech in a San Francisco hotel over
Israel's crimes during the Gaza war. <br><br>
"You are a war criminal and a murderer," one of the protestors
shouted at Olmert during the Thursday night speech before being removed
from the auditorium by security officers. Another protestor shouted,
"You are a war criminal. San Francisco should be ashamed to have a
war criminal here.” <br><br>
A young woman stood up and shouted, "No more genocide in my
name." Another woman waved her hands, which were painted red.
<br><br>
During the speech, one of the protestors screamed at Olmert, "A
hospital has been destroyed," referring to the strikes by the Israel
Air Forces on Gaza during the war on the coastal strip. <br><br>
Approximately 30 activists disrupted a lecture given in Chicago by former
Israeli prime minister on October 15, which was hosted by the University
of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. While Olmert's speech was
disrupted inside the lecture hall, approximately 150 activists protested
outside the hall in the freezing rain. <br><br>
Protesters inside the hall read off the names of Palestinian children
killed during Israel's assault on Gaza last winter. They shouted that it
was unacceptable that the war crimes suspect be invited to speak at a
Chicago university when his army destroyed a university in Gaza in
January. <br><br>
Olmert had given a speech at the University of Kentucky a week earlier
that also drew dozens of protesters. <br><br>
More than 1,500 Palestinians were killed during Israel's three week-long
land, sea and air assault, <i>Operation Cast Lead </i>, in the
impoverished coastal sliver. The offensive also inflicted $ 1.6 billion
in damages on the Gazan economy. <br><br>
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Ex-Israeli prime minister heckled on San Francisco
visit</b></h1><font size=3>By Brooke Donald<br><br>
Associated Press<br>
Posted: 10/23/2009 07:44:03 AM PDT<br>
Updated: 10/23/2009 07:44:04 AM PDT<br>
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</a>SAN FRANCISCO Protesters heckled former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert during a speech in San Francisco Thursday, denouncing him as a war
criminal and demanding his arrest. <br><br>
As soon as Olmert took the stage at the Westin St. Francis Hotel and
following a warning by the discussion's moderator that no disturbances
would be tolerated a woman and man rose from their seats and shouted:
"war criminal," "mass murderer." <br><br>
Minutes after they were pushed out by police, another person stood up and
yelled, "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" <br><br>
All in all, more than 20 people interrupted Olmert's 90-minute
appearance, during which he answered questions on Middle East peace,
Iran, the Lebanon War in 2006 and last winter's Gaza offensive, which was
the point of attack for the protesters. <br><br>
A United Nations report has accused Israel and Palestinian militants of
committing war crimes during the three-week operation aimed at halting
years of Palestinian rocket fire. Each side has rejected the allegations.
<br><br>
Some 1,400 Palestinians, including civilians, were killed, according to
human rights organizations and the Palestinian government. Thirteen
Israelis, including four civilians, also died. <br><br>
Olmert, who was prime minister during the offensive, was unfazed by the
jeers, even saying that one of the protesters likely traveled from
Chicago, where Olmert was greeted similarly last week. <br><br>
"He was unsuccessful there," <br><br>
Olmert said as the man was dragged away by police. "Let him shout.
Who cares." <br><br>
After another interruption, Olmert said he was "impressed by the
amount of energy that some of them have," but added, "they know
nothing about the facts." <br><br>
Olmert rejected the report, calling it distorted, because, he said, it
failed to address the background of the war. <br><br>
"To come to Israel ignoring the fact that for 8 years Israel was
attacked almost on a daily basis by rockets and missiles, and to talk
only about the reaction of Israel is unfair, is unjust, is unacceptable,
is intolerable and Israel will not cooperate with it," he said.
<br><br>
The protesters inside were part of a bigger demonstration that took place
outside the hotel in downtown San Francisco. <br><br>
On one side of the street, people carried placards with the names of
children who they said were killed during the Gaza war and signs that
said "Let Gaza Live" and "Israel X-prime minister Ehud
Olmert mass murderer." <br><br>
Jim Harris, of Berkeley, said Olmert should be "held
accountable" for his actions. <br><br>
"He should be facing the Hague," he said. <br><br>
On the other side of the street, less than a dozen counter-protesters
carried Israeli flags. <br><br>
Marshall Schwartz, a board member of "San Francisco Voice for
Israel," said his group was there to show their support of Israel.
<br><br>
"There certainly was no plan except to protect the people of Gaza as
much as possible while achieving the goal of stopping relentless rocket
fire," he said of the offensive. <br><br>
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