anything about davy jones and why the leaders of san francisco refused to investigate the death of joseph volos, a dead game man who died in 1990. >> the next speaker? >> we need a moment put this up. >> do you need assistance? >> i do not think so. >> the next speaker? yes.

>> good afternoon. today, may 15, 2012 as the 64th anniversary since the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of palestinians from their homes and their homeland, carried out with operational planning drawn out and in compliance with orders issued from the highest echelons of the zionist leadership. frequently represented as crimes committed by individuals, the attacks that depopulated palestine were part of a military strategy or from the leaders of the emerging state of israel. the state of israel, that three of you supervisors visited as guests of the j.c. arce.

this is not a personal trip. this is a political visit. the supervisors visited israel and as elected officials of san francisco. the state of israel represents an apartheid regime, that orchestrates a deliberate ethnic cleansing of the palestinian people. as our elected representatives and the people in positions of power, we are here to tell you that this is not acceptable. we ask you hold the conference with justice and the palestine should not be made an exception. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i was raised in the outer mission. like many who are the heart of san francisco, my father owned a

store for 20 years, serving students at balboa high school. like hundreds of other palestinians and arabs, he is a cab driver in the city. my father was born in palestine in 1950. his family of 12 shared the this, and this is where the tel aviv airport is now standing. many of you have entered israel through this. i cannot go back. imagine, the early zionists were making plans to make him homeless. he lived there until july 1948 before he was forced into exile with the establishment of the state of israel. can you continue? today marks the 64th year of that tragic event.

fleeing what was supposed to be temporary. their homes and lands were fenced off. they ask that they occupy native lands. they ripped away from their cultural legacies to be in a two-tier system, much like those in palestine are living as second-class citizens. many know what this is like to leave their families and homeland, because they're often trained by the united states. they have been paved by better treatment. the migrant workers have to endure this. >> good afternoon, board of

supervisors. i am a professor at ucsf. i am a member of the acc. since the 1990's i have been visiting the gaza strip, a dozen times, and i am telling you the process of ethnic cleansing continues. let me tell you what is happening with the supervisors. 1.6 million palestinians living in the largest open-air prison on the planet right now. it takes 200 loads of food per day to keep them at a subsistence level above poverty, and israel lets in less than 100 trucks of food and medicine. in december, the government of israel had a massive campaign

where there were brutally murdered with u.s. weaponry. 20,000 buildings were destroyed to the state. palestinians are unable to build homes that were destroyed. i call on the supervisors, especially those who support israel, to define the moral compass. the board of supervisors is intent on creating equity and freedom of expression, and at the same time you have a brutal apartheid regime. yes, i am looking at you, supervisor weiner. the entire board did not go to israel. if the entire board of supervisors to go, i would address all of them.

the board of supervisors with their moral compass, people in gaza are starving as we speak. the palestinian children are shrinking because of what they're being subjected to. >> the next speaker. >> can i have this slide show? i am the san francisco resident, here to talk about -- here to talk about the israeli land confiscation. the zionist movement has used various methods to confiscate the land in palestine for jewish-only use. first, the purchase and the eviction, the primary method was to have the jewish national fund purchased land from absentee landlords and the victim the non-jewish in evidence. they prohibit the people who are not jewish to go through the land.

the zionist militia uses violence massacres and threats of violence to cleanse large areas of land of the palestinian inhabitants. in the time just after 1948, some of those displaced were kept from returning to their homes. this was invoked to seize ownership and transfer the land to the jewish national fund. they owned 90% of the land captured for the new state of israel. military orders -- the emergency orders were part of an area with the security zone. this is part of the access to the land. this is to transfer the

ownership of the land. this highlights the apartheid nature of israel. and they make a stand against the apartheid in south africa. he must end their relations with them, and -- >> the next speaker? >> can you please continue to slide show. i am here to commemorate may 15, 1948, which in palestinian history, is the catastrophe. i would like to bring the attention of the -- the israeli government as a way to move the palestinian government from their homeland.

nearly 800,000 palestinians were uprooted across the world. 532 settle its -- settlements -- they began demolishing the homes of palestinian refugees to prevent the return. more than 125,000 homes were destroyed. israel destroyed thousands of homes throughout the west bank, as well as the refugee camps in jericho and the gaza strip. 18,000 homes have been destroyed in occupied palestinian territory, with 12,000 outstanding orders in galilee, to date. they use this as a means to harass and demoralize and confiscate palestinian land. the process of demolishing homes and the basic infrastructure continues to shatter ended. the living conditions of the

entire palestinian communities. on march 6, 2012, a village had its residential structures destroyed for the 38 time by israeli bulldozer. they have been clearing land to make way for a forest. the residents now live in a cemetery. i want to spread news on what is happening in palestine. thank you. >> the next speaker? >> mancow have the slide show? i am the professor at san francisco university. anyone who watches the news knows that this is the 77th day of a hunger strike. we were joined by 2500 other --

this is a cool practice of coal -- holding prisoners, for six months without charges. with the british colonialism, this has been condemned by the human-rights community. moving to the territories -- this is prohibited, this is at the time mindful of the location to another. notwithstanding the recent deal, that may end the hunger strike, israel continues to compass -- to torture, physically and psychologically -- every palestinian family has been touched by incarceration.

they ask about the conditions in the jails of the palestinian prisoners. this would have been natural, for the prisoner population in the u.s. and california. and for the crimes against humanity. will they no longer continue the oppression of the palestinian people? and will they heed the call of martin luther king. and there is the complicity, were silence equals death. >> the next speaker? >> i am entering my fourth year, studying international relations. i will talk about the apartheid

wall. this is part of a strategy that separates palestinians from other palestinians. this is a heinous symbol. the forced population transfer. there is the humiliation of an entire people and cold-blooded murder. it makes the apartheid possible, so the legal settlements can be built. the nonviolent activists are killed by israel. and the israeli navy on the fourth side, treating a blockade to prevent basic human rights. some are demolished to make room for the wall. this is enclosed encircled by the wall.

this -- delays work and this delays the checkpoints every day. this is illegal under the own supreme court of israel, which calls for this to be rerouted but it continues to expand. it makes peace negotiations impossible. it will exit 2% of the west bank and is three times longer than the berlin wall. our money pays for this. we support the israeli apartheid regime. they are advancing human rights, -- >> the next speaker? >> the board of supervisors, i

was born and raised in san francisco. this is the 64th anniversary of the palestinians being forced out of their homelands. in previous years you have other struggles, they have dealt with. you have issues relating to human rights. you have south africa and civil rights. there were people arguing for reasons for slavery. they are trying not to allow gays and lesbians have equal rights. we're here to present ourselves. i am asking for them to be recognized.

the right of returns, my parents were forced out of palestine. we were not allowed to return to our homelands. this goes against the nine state resolutions. this is to protect the society. in the united states, we recognize israel as a country almost immediately. and this allows for palestinians to be forced out of their homeland. they have a lot of -- this is for anyone in the united states. with the right to have land. what i am here to let you know about, when you look back to other people's struggles, you

have to look into this as well. >> can we also played the side show? i have been in city hall of lot lately, working around the san francisco civil rights ordinance. i want to talk about hypocrisy that is going on. i have a lot of faith in the san francisco government. as we recognize small business month, i want to know that my grandmother is turning 90 next month. they have the same -- to have a small business since 1967. i consider myself an activist, in making this better.

this of autocracy exists. we have this bill in the place of the arab villages. geography books no longer exist. not only did they not exist, they are not there. in the place of -- [unintelligible] there is not one single place in this country that has not been built on the arab population. they destroyed villages and massacred the population. the supervisors who visited their as elected officials are effectively supporting the

apartheid regime. and i feel ashamed, and i want to share that with you. >> the next speaker. >> good afternoon. as all of come before me to testify that today marks the 64th anniversary of the palestinian catastrophe, i want to speak about palestinians as refugees. in 1948 when the city of israel was established, palestinians became the largest and longest lasting refugee population. they constitute 4.5 million in refugees inside the camps and surrounding arab countries, 19 in the west bank and 12 in lebanon. six in the gaza strip. these refugee camps, to live in a concrete refugee camp, if you

could replay the slide show, these are issues of 1948, they are now turned into five or six or seven story refugee camps where palestinians living in constant poverty. as a people who are waiting to return to their homeland and are denied. the rest of us are palestinians in exile, prohibited from return. we market 64 years of ethnic cleansing. the first way that they were able to get off the land was by massacres, and by rape, and threats of that and massacres, and military force as supplied by the british. i wonder for the supervisors who went to israel, if you wonder what came before 532 villages were destroyed, and to planted those trees, and to is rightfully missing from that

country, when you walked around and you were painted a completely different portrait of what is real this. there are many people waiting for a return to their homeland, and we are not there because we are in exile. >> the next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i have made comments in the past. i have heard 12 speakers talk about the rights of palestinians, and a nation of israel. i like ask who guarantees the birthright of israel and palestinians? i have a number of decreed changing names, with the name jesus christ permanently marked on top of that. on a number of occasions, just

recently, i was creating an application -- that the library, ucsf medical center. 12 apostles, myself included, have worked in san francisco to promote ideas and a vision of justice for the community in san francisco. gay men and lesbian women, and then married men and unmarried men and women. we have lost jobs, our ideas have been taken from us. we're in a serious position, asking ourselves of san francisco can survive. i went to school at uc

berkeley, and after that, contract hiv because of a marriage by marshall led to me being pointed out as an uncircumcised mail, and therefore, was made hiv- positive. as a result of that, i was unable to pass the bar exam. >> is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak. this includes -- this concludes public comment. can you please call the special order for the recommendation? >> it is time to honor the heroes of the economy, with the recognition of small business week. >> as was noted, this marks the celebration of saluting of the heroes of their economy.

it is our honor to turn over the floor to the supervisor for district 1, supervisor eric mar. supervisor mar: it is great to be here with some members to honor our small businesses. we have the richmond district, and the honorees today, are a small little restaurant on 12th avenue. tayshaun's carfe in -- cafe in the richmand district, owned by mr. lu. i would like to talk about why this is such a great restaurant. my father was born here and the city -- a huge portion of the population of san francisco comes from this area. the restaurant -- it has dishes from the province in southern

china. definitely southern chinese cuisine. half of the local san francisco cantonese population come from this area, including my father's side. it is 1125 on 12th avenue on clement street. he opwnepened it in 2006, with great reviews from the mainstream and chinese community. anyone who is from there knows the dishes are cooked in teh same -- the same way from china, with the best local ingredients. tehir besheir best dish is yelll over rice.

it is roughly -- the version of the teriaki eel over rice. another all-time favorite includes the egg over rice. serchinese sausage, proork and duck over rice. rice in clay pots. they have an outstanding cantonese cuisine, but show how diverse chinese cuisine is in our city and in china. it shows how the richmond district has a wealth of great businesses, and how clement is the new chinatown. a vital, unique place in our city. i wanted oto say, many small businesses are threatened by

driveby disability lawsuits. it is a pleasure tow ork with mr. lu. i know jane is here, who helped out, to support small businesses. with the threats -- and i would like to thank the office of small business to bring this forward. if you would like to share a few comments. >> thank you. thank you, everybody. as a small business working in san francisco, -- for all of the material -- also, our food

still stays the same. i would like to ask the supervisors, especially for the handicapped issue. and some ways that the restaurant is quite different, the update -- if you have to do that, so you can see, this is very busy. i would like to ask all the supervisors d