Dogs

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-- From Ferris State University's Museum of Racist Memorabilia: What Was Jim Crow?

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-- From Ferris State University's Museum of Racist Memorabilia: What Was Jim Crow?

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-- "No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs"; from Indymedia.ie

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As Israeli troops make their final preparations for next week's immense Gaza withdrawal, they are expecting the greatest resistance to come from the remote Sanur settlement in the West Bank. Hundreds of supporters are joining the town's residents, ready to take part in what they believe to be a holy war...

...Sanur is also home to radical idealogues who see the town's settlement as their birthright. The settlement is in the Dotan Valley, where the bible states that Joseph was sold into slavery thousands of years ago.

The settlers have transformed an old mosque into a synagogue, with an antagonistic sign posted outside that reads in Hebrew: "No dogs. No Arabs."

-- Sanur settlers vow to fight to the bitter end; CTV, 13 Aug 2005.

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Four Arabs are standing glued to the wall with their hands and feet apart. Dado is shouting at them and Yosi, the driver, is holding their IDs and is laughing. Dado is cursing the Arabs and kicking them. His face is red. What an idiot, why did he wake me up? I hate him. He is always looking for trouble. I'm trying to get out of the jeep to keep security while he checks, but he lets them go, apart from one young Arab. I am trying to go back to sleep, but Dado's shouts prevent me. I look through the car's window. The Arab is on his fours and barking like a dog. Dado shouts at him: "You are a bad dog! Why did you piss on the carpet?" Yosi is laughing his head off.

Silly people, just maltreating him. In the end I will also get involved, but it is because of them.

-- Checkpoint Syndrome (link is to PDF file); by IDF Staff Sgt Liran Ron Furer. (Pg 12).

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Loud shouting by the MP women and paratrooper is heard from afar, the usual `Get back, no one gets through!` and the protest yells of the Palestinians crushed against each other in the waiting lines. The special side line is open and women with children quickly pass to the other side of the CP to wait for their men stuck in the lines. A loudspeaker shrills once in a while, totally unintelligible...

...A particularly shrill, rough MP woman shrieks at someone: `Don`t you look happy. This is not the place for that. Wanna go to the pen?` Later she instructs a young man to kneel next to the checking post: `Sit, like that. Like a dog!` And he kneels.

People find shelter from the scathing sun under the shed that used to host the lines waiting of ID checks. Some of them hold newborns. The woman soldier shouts: `Everybody clear out of there! This is no waiting station. Get the hell out of here!` Throughout the vigil waiting lines were halted: either the securing soldier would disappear, or the women soldiers insist on some principle or other, or soldiers too busy educating the pedestrians. An Israeli ID holder from East Jerusalem asking the soldier to speak to him politely is pushed and hit and thrown into the concrete cell that now also stinks heavily of urine. His wife and two little children await him anxiously.

We alert the commander to the fact that one of the lines has stopped moving for 15 minutes already. 20 minutes go by until checking finally resumes.

16:20. The young man who was ordered to `sit like a dog` is still kneeling in front of the MP woman`s checking post. We have no access to him.

-- Report on activity at the IDF's Huwwara checkpoint on 6 Aug 2006; from Machsom Watch Weekly Digest: Reports from Checkpoints, 6.8.06--12.8.06.

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(Reuters)

Three Israeli occupation soldiers forced a Palestinian man to strip naked at gunpoint and walk like a dog in a West Bank city under curfew, Palestinian witnesses said on Monday.

A Reuters photographer snapped Yasser Sharaf, 25, standing naked in a cold, muddy street in Nablus on Sunday as two men were handing him clothes to put on and two Israeli armoured vehicles were pulling away from the scene.

Sharaf declined to comment on Monday about the incident.

Israeli military sources denied that Sharaf was forced to strip, saying checks with soldiers involved determined that he had been ordered only to raise his shirt to show whether he was carrying explosives. "When he saw members of the media in the area, he decided to undress completely," a military source told Reuters.

Witnesses including two Palestinian firemen said occupation soldiers stopped Sharaf after spotting him walking in a street in violation of curfew and, "pointing their rifles at him, ordered him to start stripping."

"Yasser told them he had nothing to hide but they continued shouting and readied their rifles to shoot," fireman Samir Al Lifdawi told Reuters by telephone from Nablus.

"They forced Yasser to take off all his clothes including his underwear...They ordered him to walk like a dog and then he burst into tears," Lifdawi said.

He said he watched the incident unfold from a fire station a few metres away. A colleague, Sultan Al Minawi, provided the same account.

"He kept crying and was in a very stressful situation... `Many residents, including women, watched him and he was very embarrassed',” Minawi said.

-- Israelis force Palestinian to strip naked — witnesses; Jordan Times, 26 Nov 2002.

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I'm not a Palestinian prisoner, I cannot really convey the daily sufferings of Palestinian prisoners. What I felt during my interviews is that the Palestinian prisoner is hostage to another man. It was so difficult to hear. One of the Palestinians, and I cannot give his name, he told me the interrogator ordered me to act like a dog, to walk on all fours, to bark like a dog. This is very difficult to hear from someone in tears informing you of the story.

-- Majid Badein, of Israel's Public Committee against Torture; testimony to the Goldstone hearings into the war on the Gaza Strip, 6-7 July 2009.

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Animals. Animals. Like the Discovery Channel.
All of Ramallah is a jungle. There are monkeys, dogs, gorillas.
The problem is, the animals are locked. They can’t come out.
We’re humans. They’re animals. They aren’t human. We are.
That's the difference between...

Comments by a soldier at an IDF checkpoint, filmed by the Israeli film maker Yoav Shamir, and included in his 2004 documentary, "Checkpoint". The entire movie can be viewed here, with the relevant scene beginning at 50:49.