EXCLUSIVE: Ali Abunimah Remains in Detention in Zurich ... Because Immigration Officers Do Not Work Until Monday

I spoke to journalists and activists, including a Palestinian who lost 46 members of his family in Israel’s genocide, who had dinner with Ali the night before his brutal arrest.

WATCH PODCAST: Ali Abunimah was supposed to give two teach-ins this weekend in Zurich. Due to what can only be described as incompetence by Swiss authorities, not only was he let into the country despite there being a travel ban against his entry, he was then brutally arrested one day after an article was published by NZZ smearing him. He is still being held in administrative detention due to the fact that immigration officers responsible for deportations not working over the weekends.

Melissa Müller, Franziska Schaffner and Ibrahim, who is from Gaza and spent the last 8 years in Switzerland and who is mourning Israel’s killing of 46 members of his family, told me how in this so-called “neutral” country design lobby is growing so powerful that there is no longer any free speech to report fax and truth relating to Israel’s occupation and genocide.

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(Apologies for the not so perfect subtitles and editing, but it’s late where I am and I wanted to get the facts and truth out there, before all the misinformation spreads).