{"id":3405,"date":"2008-07-28T18:17:43","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2008-07-28T18:17:43","modified_gmt":"2008-07-28T23:17:43","slug":"what-palestine-is-to-me-an-interview-with-fatima-hassan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3405","title":{"rendered":"What Palestine is to me: An interview with Fatima Hassan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Pambazuka News, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambazuka.org\/en\/category\/features\/49608\">23 July 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fatima Hassan, is a prominent South African human rights lawyer who was part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrightsdelegation.org\/\">South African Human Rights Delegation<\/a> that in early July visited the Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The delegation undertook the mission in order to: &#8220;support those, Palestinian and Israeli, working daily, by non-violent means, to bring an end to the post-1967 Israeli occupation, to end all human rights abuses and breaches of international law, and to move towards peaceful relations and a just settlement&#8230;to express solidarity with those who are living in oppressive, restrictive and dangerous circumstances; and to to draw attention to the injustice of the occupation and its devastating consequences.&#8221; Mukoma Wa Ngugi interviewed Fatima Hassan on the solidarity visit and the implications of the Palestinian struggle for Africans.<\/p>\n<p>PAMBAZUKA NEWS: Well, let&#8217;s get straight to it: A Independent Newspaper article quotes you as saying &#8220;The issue of separate roads, [different registration] of cars driven by different nationalities, the indignity of producing a permit any time a soldier asks for it, and of waiting in long queues in the boiling sun at checkpoints just to enter your own city, I think is worse than what we experienced during apartheid.&#8221; But the same article goes on to say that &#8220;Ms Hassan herself said she thought the apartheid comparison was a potential &#8220;red herring.&#8221; Can you speak more about this?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pambazuka.org\/en\/category\/features\/49608\">Read the interview<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Pambazuka News, 23 July 2008 Fatima Hassan, is a prominent South African human rights lawyer who was part of a South African Human Rights Delegation that in early July visited the Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3405\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-SV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3408,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/3408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}