(Berkeley Voice) Martin Snapp- The mangled wreckage of a bus destroyed by a suicide bomber in Israel is coming to Berkeley, and local pro-Palestinian groups are crying foul. Yet Susanne DeWitt, chairwoman of Israeli Action Committee of the East Bay, explains: "This bus is about terrorism, period. People need to see what terrorism really looks like." The bomber attacked the bus, Jerusalem No. 19, last Jan. 29, killing 11 people and injuring 50. "We're going to park it across from Berkeley City Hall in Martin Luther King Park. A bombed-out bus has powerful meaning for those of us who lived through the civil rights movement and remember the Freedom Rider buses that were bombed by the Ku Klux Klan," said DeWitt, a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp.
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