How to react to Israel’s treatment of Gaza activists?

The aid flotilla’s action has been successful in that it has forced the global community to sit up and take notice, writes Il Manifesto:

“The minister himself has drawn attention to Israel’s detention practices, while the other institutions, in the face of international criticism, are dismissing this as the somewhat crazy act of an individual. … Israel has silenced the voices of the Palestinian and international press. It has demonised every report by independent NGOs and the United Nations. In the case of the flotilla, Israel reached the gates of Europe to abduct people who sought not so much to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip – an impossible undertaking – as to break the silence that facilitates that very blockade.”