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A brochure distributed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) shows a picture of President Ahmadinejad of Iran, speaking about Zionism.  The caption says “Israel’s greatest threats,” echoing the line that Israel intends the world to believe: that Iran poses the greatest threat to Israel, and therefore to the US, because of its crazy dictatorial leader, and his talk about wiping Israel off the map. 

But on the facing page of the same brochure is a picture of a young woman holding a sign that says “End Aid to Israel.”  Still under the same heading of “Israel’s greatest threats,” AIPAC shows that this non-violent demonstrator clearly poses the greater threat to Israel, greater even than that psychotic Ahmadinejad. 

Related: Political Prisoners' Rights Activist Visits Twin Cities from Palestine | Video: Omar Barghouti: The Need to Boycott Israel More: Twitter: MinnesotaToGaza | DFL SD61 support | GazaFreedomMarch.org

This morning, tea-party prankster Robert Erickson - who last week infiltrated a right-wing "Tea Party Against Amnesty" at the Minnesota State Capitol, sparking an internet sensation - attempted to turn himself in for self-deportation at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Bloomington.  Along with seven other illegal European immigrants wearing orange jumpsuits and about 25 supporters, the pranksters chanted "Columbus go home!" and "Deport us now!" to stubborn ICE officials.

Video and editing by Twin Cities IMC w. help from Bluestem Prairie and I Don't Hate America. (6:06)

Text of "Robert Erickson's" Speech at ICE | MIRAC (More) | Unsettling Minnesota | Earlier: Anti-Racists Steal the Show at Tea Party (video) | May 11: Hearings about Postville | Apr. 26: MIRAC ICE organizing | Robert Erickson Facebook & Twitter | Youtube (8:50) (3:30) | Related Event: An Evening of Reparations Dec. 6

Thursday morning, Minneapolis grand jury resister Scott DeMuth was charged with conspiracy to commit animal enterprise terrorism in Davenport, Iowa federal court.  He is currently being held in the disciplinary block at the Muscatine County Jail after he was found to be in civil contempt of court for refusing to cooperate with the grand jury that convened in Davenport on Tuesday.  Because the civil contempt charge was later dropped, on Friday he attended a hearing to decide on his possible release on unsecured bond; a final decision has not yet been made by the court.  

The federal government's Green Scare campaign took another depressing turn Tuesday morning as a federal district judge in Iowa ordered the detainment of Twin Cities activists Scott DeMuth and Carrie Feldman at a contempt hearing. As previously reported, DeMuth and Feldman were subpoenaed to a grand jury in Davenport, Iowa, compelling them to testify regarding a animal rights-related vandalism incident at the University of Iowa.

Feldman and Scott spoke to the local press and 30 to 40 supporters at a rally beforehand in Davenport, then refused to testify. At the contempt hearing, the judge offered both immunity, but they still refused to talk, and were taken away. The judge believes they will remain in jail until they comply or the jury ends (likely in 11 months). 

Related: Feldman Interviewed by Peter Young | New Support Info | Press Release from EWOK!, Statements from Carrie and Scott |  Video of Davenport Support Rally | TCDP: Minnesota EWOKs Jailed in Iowa (Photo credit) | Dallas, TX: Grand jury resistance action Previous Coverage: Second subpoena issued | Subpoena PDF |  Video: Feldman on Grand Juries & Luce Guillen-Givens on the Green Scare | Local Activist Subpoenaed to Grand Jury in Iowa Also: Bogus Subpoena Against US Indymedia | Feds' Search of G20 Twittering Anarchist Upheld