Flotilla Passengers Are Today's Freedom Riders
Submitted on July 9, 2011
Wednesday 6 July 2011 - Truthout
[The Gaza Flotilla] action is provocative, just as were those of the freedom riders in the 1960's, designed to show the world that the law is not being enforced - in the present case, international law, which gives Israel neither the right to police Gazan waters nor to prevent that territory - at present arguably the world's largest prison - from exporting its produce and importing essential supplies.
