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Egyptian flooding washes away Gaza tunnel business

By Nidal al-Mughrabi
GAZA | Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:18am EST

(Reuters) - Egypt's campaign to shut down smuggling tunnels running under its border into the Gaza Strip threatens to throw thousands of Palestinians out of work in the Hamas-run enclave.

The network of tunnels has been a vital lifeline for Gaza, bringing in an estimated 30 percent of all goods that reach the enclave and circumventing a blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt for more than seven years.

Weapons are also smuggled underground and at least 10,000 Palestinians are believed to work in the tunnel business.

Abu Bilal, who said he has moved cement and gravel through the tunnels for the past four years, said Egypt has flooded dozens of them in the past two weeks. Every time workers pumped water out, he said, Egyptian security forces reopened the taps.

"Many of my colleagues and I are afraid we may lose our jobs if they continue to do so," said Abu Bilal, 30.

Earning 50 shekels ($14) a day, Abu Bilal said because of flooding he has worked only two days over the past two weeks.

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A delegation of PAME visited the Gaza of Palestine

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http://www.pamehellas.gr/images/articles/2_Palestine.JPGA delegation of PAME visited the Gaza of Palestine which is blocked by Israel on Saturday June 15 and Sunday June 16, 2013 and conveyed the support and solidarity of workers in our country with the Palestinian people who struggle and suffer.
It is the first time that a Greek delegation visits the Gaza Strip after the imposition of the long-time blockade by the state of Israel.
The delegation of PAME, consisting of George Perros, George Pontikos and Babis Vortelinos, had meetings with organizations and trade unions of the Palestinian people.
On Saturday, the first day of the visit to Gaza, PAME delegation met the General Union of Palestinian Workers and other trade unions.
The trade unions of Palestine expressed to the delegation of PAME the difficult situation that the workers and the people of Gaza experience, where unemployment exceeds the 45%, with a large percentage of the youth and women being unemployed, while the 70% of the people live below the poverty line.
The delegation of PAME in the meetings with the workers of Gaza faced once again the harsh reality that the Palestinian people experience, who struggle for their survival and for the establishment of an independent and a sustainable Palestinian state.
On Sunday the delegation visited the refugee camps, thus witnessing through their own eyes the brutal consequences of an inhumane blockade which condemns thousands of Gaza residents even to starvation. The delegation also visited regions where had received air strikes that destroyed buildings and infrastructure in 2008. In the meetings and discussions with refugees it became clear that thousands of people live every day with the fear that they may receive an air attack or bombardments by the Israeli military at any time.
With the blockade imposed by Israel with the support of the USA and the E.U. the situation becomes even more tragic for the farmers and the fishermen. It is characteristic that small-scale fishermen basically can not fish, since they are permitted to fish only up to 3 miles from the shore and if they exceed this distance the coastguard of Israel intervenes.
PAME delegation conveyed to the trade unions the solidarity of the class-oriented trade union movement and of the working class of Greece. The delegation denounced the attempt of incrimination of the movement of resistance and its activity in the name of terrorism and it stressed that the real terrorist against the peoples is the imperialism. It also denounced the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
The delegation of PAME stressed once again the support of the class-oriented trade union movement of our country to the struggle of the people of Palestine for the establishment of an independent, sustainable and sovereign state, in the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. It underlined that every people should have the right to decide by its own for its government and its future.
It demanded:


The ending of the settlement and withdrawal of all the settlers.
Demolition of the unacceptable separating wall in the East Jerusalem and all the Palestinian refugees to return to their homes.
The ending of every blockade of the Palestinians in West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The immediate release of all the Palestinians and of the political prisoners who are kept in Israeli jails.

PAME denounced the attitude of the ITUC (whose vice-president is Israeli) to the Palestinian problem. The ITUC serves the imperialist plans for the New Middle East.
It extended the international solidarity of the WFTU. The workers of Gaza know the WFTU activity and as they said it is the real friend of the workers of Palestine and it struggles for their rights.
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In rare case, Palestinians reclaim bit of settlement land

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A Palestinian youth holds a national flag next to a water tank in the former Israeli settlement of Homesh.(Photo: Mohammed Ballas, AP)

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Palestinian farmers reclaimed lands they had lost decades earlier in rare legal victory
In the 1970s, Israel had seized several hundred acres from residents of the West Bank village of Burka

Farmers returned to their land for the first time today

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BURKA, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian farmers on Thursday reclaimed lands they had lost decades earlier to an Israeli settlement, celebrating a rare legal victory their lawyer said illustrates that Israel's settlement enterprise is reversible.

In the 1970s, Israel had seized several hundred acres from residents of the West Bank village of Burka to build the Israeli settlement of Homesh. The settlement, along with three others in the West Bank, was razed in 2005, in connection with Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip at the time.

However, Palestinians were not allowed to return to their lands after the 2005 demolition of Homesh because the military did not rescind the land seizure order and prevented access to the area, said attorney Michael Sfard.

After more than two years of court petitions, the military agreed several months ago to rescind the seizure order and last week lifted access restrictions, said Sfard of the Israeli rights group Yesh Din.

The military confirmed it had acted in line with the petitions.

On Thursday, farmers returned to their land for the first time. "I feel as if I was dead and now I am alive again," said Fathallah Hajjeh, 64. "I never felt such joy. We are rooted to this land."

About 500 acres of land were reclaimed, said Emad Saif of the Burka local council.

The return of the land shows that "the settlement project is reversible," said Sfard.

Since capturing the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem in 1967, Israel built and expanded dozens of settlements that are now home to more than half a million Israelis.

Palestinians hope to establish a state in those territories, but say settlement expansion makes it increasingly difficult to draw borders between Israel and a future Palestine.

Israeli-Palestinian negotiations on the terms of a Palestinian state resumed in late July, but gaps remain wide and expectations are low on both sides that a deal can be reached.

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Tens of thousands rally in Gaza to mark PFLP 46th anniversary

By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine marked the 46th anniversary of its founding with a mass rally in al-Katiba courtyard in Gaza City, with tens of thousands of participants, including leaders, cadres and members of the Front, women’s, student and youth organizations, with the participation of representatives of the national and Islamic forces.

Large images of the General Secretaries of the Front – the founder, George Habash (Al-Hakim), Abu Ali Mustafa, and imprisoned General Secretary Ahmad Sa’adat – adorned the banner at the front of the stage, as well as the image of national martyrs and leaders Yasser Arafat, Fathi Shikaki and Sheikh Ahmad Yassin.

Banners were draped on the walls, calling for Palestinian national unity, and resistance, and saluting the Front’s history over 46 years. Performers played national Palestinian and PFLP songs and danced dabkeh, traditional Palestinian dance.

pflp46-23Comrades Hani Thawabteh and Shireen Abu Oun chaired the rally, at which Comrade Jamil Majdalawi delivered the keynote address. He saluted the martyrs, the prisoners, and the masses of Palestinians at home and in exile, particularly those in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria facing continued repression and new displacement, and to our people in the Naqab who are confronting the Prawer plan, the new Zionist scheme to displace Palestinians.

Majdalawi said that over the years, the harvest of the Palestinian national movement has not reached the great sacrifices or the goals of our people, and all of our forms of resistance have been weaker than they should be and can be, which only exacerbates the imbalance of power in favor of the Zionist enemy.

He described internal Palestinian division and lack of national unity as devastating to the Palestinian movement. In addition, the Palestinian Authority’s return to the dangerous and futile negotiations with the Zionist enemy in open rejection of Palestinian national consensus is particularly damaging.

Instead of negotiations, what is needed is resistance in all forms and the implementation of our people’s rights to return, self-determination and national liberation, Majdalawi said.

He saluted the ongoing steadfastness of the Palestinian people, which will be what secures the victory of our people over the criminal enemy. He particularly saluted the steadfastness of our people in Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine, in all of its forms to confront the enemy and its continuous plans. Support for the struggle of our people is growing inside and outside Palestine; hundreds of international activists confront soldiers and illegal settlers beside the steadfast Palestinian people and various levels of political, cultural and economic struggle are taking place around the world.

Majdalawi highlighted the ongoing siege on Gaza which is denying access to the most basic necessities including food, medicine, building materials and fuel, causing an electricity crisis in the sector, and transforming the area into a massive prison due to the ongoing, prolonged and repeated closure of the Rafah crossing, the only exit for the Palestinians of Gaza to the outside world. This comes in addition to mass unemployment and the drinking water crisis, attacks on fishers at sea, and the retreat in services by the UNRWA, when refugees are over two-thirds of the population in Gaza.

Majdalawi said that there is a decline in the grip of the United States over international affairs, and this weakening of the leader of imperialism and injustice in the world will necessarily mean an increased weakness in the enemy camp that supports and sustains the Zionist aggression on our people, emphasizing that the US is still the primary economic and military power in the world and that there are long years of struggle to come by the people and exploited classes of the world to defeat imperialism and achieve justice and equality.

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From Middle east Monitor

"Israel has opened the Wadi Sofa Dam east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, flooding dozens of houses and leaving hundreds of people homeless. The head of the Gaza government's Information Office, Ihab Al-Ghusain, told Arabic Sky News that the local civil defence teams have been working to evacuate the flooded homes.

Rafah City Mayor Issa Nashar confirmed the incident on Sunday, saying, "Israel has indeed opened the dam which led to drowning the neighbouring areas with accumulated rain water up to 1 metre deep."

This incident came after an unprecedented storm, called Alexa by meteorologists, hit the Middle East causing a humanitarian disaster in the region's most vulnerable areas. In the Gaza Strip, at least one person is reported to have died as a result of the freak weather conditions and nearly 5,000 are taking shelter in community facilities while their homes are uninhabitable.

According to Israel's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, the rainfall led to a lot of excess water which couldn't drain away, so "the Israeli authorities resorted to discharging the excess water into the Gaza Strip."

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[GazaArk] Free the Holy Land Sea: Support Palestinian fishermen in Gaza


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Free the Holy Land Sea: Support Palestinian fishermen in Gaza


Gaza's Ark, along with our Freedom Flotilla Coalition partners representing civil society solidarity organizations and individuals in many countries of the world, supports the call from the Palestinian fishermen in Gaza, including the General Union of Fishermen (http://palsolidarity.org/2013/12/under-israeli-fire-gaza-fishermen-plan-protest-tent-to-free-the-holy-land-sea/) and other groups, seeking international recognition and guarantees that:



1. Palestinian vessels from Gaza have the right to safely access their coastal waters in an area up to and including 20 nautical miles from the coast of Gaza, for fishing and other peaceful purposes, as specified in the Jericho accords (part of the Oslo Agreement).



2. Full access to their coastal waters is vital to the ability of the Palestinian fishing fleet to earn a dignified living and help provide food for the population of Gaza, which is a significant part of the Palestinian economy. The ability of Palestinians to sustain their own economy is a necessary step for any further progress towards peace.



Without full freedom of movement, including the freedom to fish, there can be no lasting peace. We call on our own and world governments, as well as other international institutions, to express their support for this call from Palestinian fishers in Gaza and to continue to press for a complete and lasting end to the blockade of Gaza.



PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD ON SOCIAL MEDIA



Palestinian fishermen ask for our solidarity to help them stop the siege and "Free the Holy Land Sea". From the 17th to the 19th of December, they will pitch a tent in Gaza harbour, as a mark of protest, showing legal documentation, pictures and information about Israeli attacks against Palestinian fishermen.

http://www.gazaark.org/2013/12/16/call-to-action-on-18-december-for-palestinian-fishers/



LET'S SPREAD THE NEWS

Those willing to support the Palestinian fishermen's action on media can do it from their own computer, by co-operating in the "twitter storm" that will take place on Wednesday, the 18th of December at 4:00 p.m. Gaza time (UTC+2h, that is 3:00 p.m. Central European Time, 9 am in Eastern North America, 6 am in Pacific North America, 1 am Thursday in Sydney, Australia): through co-ordinated use of social media, we'll try to draw the world's attention to the Palestinian fishermen's action, and amplify their protest.



HOW TO PARTICIPATE

From 3:00 p.m. (for Europe) on Wednesday, 18th of December and in the next hours, post on Twitter as many messages as possible with a common #hashtag that will be indicated a few hours in advance on http://endtheblockade.tumblr.com/

Pictures, links, samples of tweet and information concerning the fishermen's protest will be made available at the same address. You can also follow us also on at: http://twitter.com/arcadigaza and http://twitter.com/gazaark



THOSE WHO ARE UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE AT THAT TIME

can book an automatic Tweet forwarding at the appointed moment through‘Thunderclap‘:

https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/7535-free-the-holy-land-sea or by using a service like : https://bufferapp.com/ (http://goo.gl/625q1s) or Tweetdeck, etc.



IMPORTANT!

Please do not use the planned hashtag before the agreed day and time.
Neither re-tweets nor favourites increase trending: should you see a tweet that you like, better to copy and re-post it (RT:)
Be creative, re-combine as you prefer information and pictures that you find in the site endtheblockade.tumblr.com
always attaching the reference hashtag.
Try to post at least 2 or 3 different messages in the first hour, from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. CET, to enhance the trend effect.
Involve friends or contacts you follow, by tweeting to @NameAccount or through DM.


OTHER WAYS TO PARTICIPATE BESIDES TWITTER

can also contribute to the campaign from now through facebook, blog or other social media by

posting a link to the site http://endtheblockade.tumblr.com/
where the Palestinian fishermen's announcements can be found,
beside other news about the protest and the infos given here.
posting a link and inviting friends to the facebook event
https://www.facebook.com/events/536680159760985/
sharing the page of solidarity with palestinian fishermen on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/palestinianfishermen
forwarding this message by email to other people that may be interested


Thank you for your co-operation!



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AMP denounces Syrian regime; demands an end to siege on Yarmouk refugee camp


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(CHICAGO 01/15/2014) – At least 43 Palestinian have starved to death in the past three months in Yarmouk refugee camp outside Damascus because the Syrian regime placed it under a total siege in July 2013. The delivery of humanitarian assistance, including food and medical supplies, has been prohibited since then, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.

Women are dying while giving birth, and children are suffering from diseases related to severe malnutrition, according to Chris Gunness, UNRWA spokesman.

”Residents, including infants and children, are subsisting for long periods on diets of stale vegetables, herbs, powdered tomato paste, animal feed and cooking spices dissolved in water,” Gunness said in a statement.

The American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) condemns the Syrian regime in the harshest possible terms for the starvation and suffering of the Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk, and for using Palestinians as pawns as conditions of the war it is waging on its own people. Furthermore, AMP condemns the regime for its attempts to drive a divisive wedge between Palestinians, oppressing some while collaborating with others in attempts to set up a deleterious “good Palestinian vs. bad Palestinian” dichotomy.

“Exploiting the historical support for some Palestinian factions to facilitate the siege is deplorable and will only further fragment the Palestinian body politic and sow the seeds of distrust and animosity between the Syrian and Palestinian people, which will only serve Israel and its dictator allies in the Arab world,” said Dr. Hatem Bazian, AMP chairman and UC Berkeley professor. ”We call on all Palestinian factions in Syria to put their trust in the Syrian people and not the regime. We call on you not to allow the financial or political support for the just cause of Palestine, which historically had been extended by the Syrian government, to be monetized into accepting its atrocity against the Syrian people.”

The siege must end now and AMP demands the Syrian regime and others complicit in the siege allow the United Nations and its subsequent agencies access to Yarmouk’s refugees in order to assess their level of need. AMP also demands the delivery of humanitarian aid and medical supplies immediately.

“The Syrian regime is still responsible under the Geneva Accords to protect the Palestinian refugees and violating their rights or using them as pawns in the conduct of war constitutes a major breach of international law and is a war crime,” said Dr. Bazian, an expert in international law.

While AMP urgently calls for help for the Palestinian refugees in Yarmouk, the education and advocacy organization has not forgotten the hundreds of thousands of other victims of the two-year-long strife.

“AMP clearly affirms that it stands with the Syrian people and their legitimate aspirations for freedom and democracy,” said Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid, expert political analyst and AMP national board member. “At the same time, the situation in Yarmouk defies comprehension and is an example of the grossest of human rights violations. The siege must end now.”

At one time Yarmouk, a suburb just south of Damascus city, was home to more than 160,000 Palestine refugees. In December 2012 and in the months since, armed conflict has caused at least 140,000 Palestine refugees to flee their homes in Yarmouk, as armed opposition groups established a presence in the area, with government forces controlling the periphery. Between December 2012 and June 2013, civilians still received UNRWA assistance at the Zahera entrance to Yarmouk. However, from mid-July 2013, Palestine refugees have been trapped in the area, with little or no access or freedom of movement.

AMP asserts is imperative that all sides in the Syrian conflict refrain from taking their fight to the Palestinian camps as Palestinians are refugees and therefore are a protected people, entitled to protection and a quality of life.

Read UNRWA's latest update regarding its attempt to deliver humanitarian aid on Jan. 13, 2014.


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PFLP: 12 years on since the arrest of Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades

By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Jan 15 statement from the leadership of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). You can read Fight Back!’s interview with PFLP General Secretary Ahmad Sa’adat here http://www.fightbacknews.org/2003-3-summer/pflp.htm

To the struggling masses of our people…

On January 15, 2002, the Palestinian Authority security apparatus committed the crime of arresting Comrade General Secretary Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Majdi Rimawi, Hamdi Quran and Basil al-Asmar, in compliance with the requirements of security coordination. This did not stop the attacks on the resistance, the escalation of settlements and the building of the segregation wall.

The Authority’s crime was completed by the enemy’s attack and abduction of the comrades from Jericho prison, when all agreements were disregarded in U.S. and British collusion with the attack, which exposed the inability of the Authority to protect even its prisons, while our comrades were taken to spend long years in isolation – for which the occupation is not solely responsible.

We honour these heroic comrades – at their forefront, Comrade leader Ahmad Sa’adat, and affirm today that he was unanimously re-elected with full confidence in his leadership as General Secretary by the Central Committee and the Seventh National Conference of the Front. This is a well-deserved trust that he has earned, demonstrating steadfastness, clarity and unwavering commitment to struggle, principled and ready for struggle, with a broad political vision and carrying a high level of national respect. He and his imprisoned comrades, and all of the prisoners of our people together are at the forefront of the struggle, insisting on Palestinian national goals and rights in their totality on the ground, without prejudice, compromise, negligence, or barter.

To the masses of our resisting people…

The courage shown by the people of Qusra village and its area are a brilliant example of the struggling steadfastness of our people and their willingness to continue in all circumstances to confront and resist the enemy and their settlers. As we call on all to be inspired and learn from the steadfastness of our farmers and our prisoners, we are fully aligned with the alternative they present to relying on the futile negotiations. It is clear that the goal of the negotiations is the liquidation of the national liberation cause of our people, enhancing the status of the Zionist entity in the Arab world, and opening the doors to the official Arab regimes to normalize relations with it.

Today, we confront the ongoing lessons of Oslo and all subsequent agreements and negotiations, while the Palestinian Authority continues to drive the PLO into relying upon this absurd and devastating process, attempting to close the door on a popular option while yielding to U.S. and Arab reactionary pressure.

To our people and our nation…

This date shares an appropriate coincidence with the shuttle diplomacy tours of the Secretary of State of the U.S. imperialists, between Palestine and the Arab countries, in order to liquidate our national cause and replace it with the issue of exchanges of land and population, drawing borders, and in support of the Israeli demand for recognition of the enemy state as the “state of the Jewish people.” This is an attempt to liquidate the Palestinian right of return and to whet the appetite for ethnic cleansing against the rights of our people in the areas of Palestine occupied in 1948.

All of this comes with total disregard of international legitimacy and United Nations resolutions on Palestine, and of the United Nations as a reference, to implement the U.S./Zionist vision.

What is happening now requires popular confrontation of any party who seeks to negotiate a temporary or permanent solution that detracts from fundamental Palestinian national rights. This moment requires of all national and social forces among the Palestinian people to mobilize to thwart this new scheme, to protect the resistance option, and return the Palestinian issue to the UN as a reference, with its resolutions to be implemented – not negotiated.

Our cause is in danger from this heated American pursuit to enforce upon us the terms of the enemy. It seeks to take advantage of the state of demobilization and national division, and the resulting confusion about events in the Arab world. It is clear that the leadership of the Authority is unable to confront, and its options have been reduced to negotiations, negotiations, and then more negotiations.

It is urgent to move past the era of division and return to the clear Palestinian national constants, build our movement and abandon once and for all the illusions that have proved thorny and dangerous. It is our people’s right to know what is going on in the corridors and back-rooms of negotiations, and it is their right to decide and judge on the basis of that reality.

To the masses of our great people…

On this occasion, we re-confirm our emphatic commitment to our pledge to the heroic comrades and all of the martyrs and prisoners. We renew our rejection of security coordination and we demand to put an end to the continuing illusions of negotiations amidst a frenzy of settlements and settler violence. We call for an end to the devastating division and the rebuilding of the Palestine Liberation Organization on the basis of a principled political strategy and a national democratic movement to restore the political unity of our people in the homeland, diaspora and exile, to rise and march again in the national liberation struggle.

Salutes and tributes to our comrade General Secretary and his comrades
Glory to the martyrs, freedom for the prisoners
Unite to confront Kerry’s plan for the liquidation of our national cause

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – Political Bureau
January 15, 2014

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Eight Years After the Attack on Jericho Prison: Free Ahmad Sa'adat and All Palestinian Prisoners





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On March 14-15, 2006, eight years ago, Israeli military forces surrounded the Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho, where Palestinian national leader Ahmad Sa’adat was imprisoned with his comrades, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Majdi Rimawi, Basil al-Asmar and Hamdi Qur’an, attacking and destroying the prison itself while abducting the Palestinian prisoners of freedom held inside. While in Jericho, Sa’adat and his comrades – and fellow prisoner Fouad Shubaki – were held under United States and British guard, who left Jericho prison in advance, knowing that it would soon come under heavy attack from Israeli weaponry (often itself US-manufactured, funded and supplied.)

Sa’adat and his comrades were kidnapped as the Israeli army laid siege for twelve hours, attacking the Palestinian Authority prison ith bulldozers and tanks, killing two Palestinians and injuring twenty-three more. Eight years on, as Sa’adat and his comrades number among 5200 Palestinian political prisoners behind bars of the occupation, it is more urgent than ever that people act and demand their freedom, and the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners. We particularly note the crisis of sick prisoners facing death behind prison walls.

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Today, Ahmad Sa’adat called for escalating the campaign, focusing specifically on the sick prisoners suffering medical neglect and abuse in the dungeons of the occupation, urging international exposure of the crimes of the occupation in order to “save the lives of the prisoners held for slow death in the Ramle prison clinic.”

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This anniversary demands, once more, that it is long past time to bring the Palestinian Authority’s shameful, dangerous, threatening policy of security cooperation with the Zionist state to an end. This policy is responsible for the imprisonment of Sa’adat and his comrades in a Palestinian Authority prison to begin with; it plays a significant role in continued suppression of resistance. Its echoes are felt in the ongoing arrest raids and assassinations targeting Palestinian activists. Sa’adat and his comrades were not abducted from their home but from a PA jail which had held them – contrary to Palestinian law and Palestinian court orders – for over four years.

Furthermore, the case of Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades highlights the central complicity and responsibility of the U.S. and British states, and their historical and present-day imperial and colonial interests in Palestine, in the imprisonment of Palestinian leaders and fighters and the colonization of Palestine by the Zionist movement. United States and British guards’ presence was justified as “protection,” when in fact they left in a coordinated fashion immediately prior to the attack of occupation forces, leaving an open area for their assault. This collusion must be exposed once more, particularly when Palestinian Authority officials seek to accept imperial “NATO forces” on Palestinian land suppressing resistance.

Meanwhile, on the political level, the US not only funds and provide the weaponry that attacks, abducts and assassinates Palestinians, but provides the critical political foundation for the so-called “negotiations” process that threatens the core of the Palestinian cause, the right of return of Palestinian refugees, and seek to impose a defeatist solution upon the Palestinian people to serve the interests of US imperialism.

And it should not be forgotten that some of the earliest pages of Palestinian prisoners’ poetry were written in British jails as they were imprisoned en masse as they fought the colonialism of the British and the Zionist movement in the 1920s and 1930s, and that Palestinians were detained without charge and their homes demolished by British military orders as a British lord sought to grant the land of Palestine to the settler colonial Zionist movement.

Yet, despite these forces arrayed against the Palestinian liberation movement and resistance, eight years after the abduction of Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades, the resilience and steadfastness of Palestinian prisoners remains legendary. They are an international symbol of political steadfastness in the face of colonialism. Their names echo in salute to comrades in the struggle for liberation around the world: Nelson Mandela, Bobby Sands, Victor Jara.

And the call for the freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat is also a call for the liberation of all prisoners of racism, imperialism and settler colonialism: from Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, and Oscar Lopez Rivera, to Zara Alvarez, Ricardo Palmera, the Cuban Five, and every prisoner of freedom held for seeking the liberation of their people. It must also be a call for the freedom of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all Palestinian political prisoners held in international jails; Abdallah has been victimized for over 28 years in French prison on trumped-up charges and remains imprisoned today because of the power of US imperialism to undercut even French court rulings.

The valiant struggle of Palestinian prisoners achieved the end of isolation of Sa’adat and fellow Palestinian leaders after over three years in a mass hunger strike. Their daily confrontation with the occupation behind bars must remind all of us internationally of our duties to seek justice, freedom and liberation for these thousands of Palestinians and for the self-determination, return, and liberation of the entire land and people of Palestine itself.

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1. Picket, protest or call the Israeli embassy or consulate in your location (http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/abouttheministry/pages/web%20sites%20of%20israeli%20missions%20abroad.asp x) and demand the immediate freedom of Ahmad Sa’adat, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Majdi Rimawi, Basil al-Asmar, Hamdi Qur’an, and all Palestinian political prisoners.

2. Distribute the free downloadable Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat materials (http://freeahmadsaadat.org/resources/) in your community at local events.

3. Write to the International Committee of the Red Cross and other human rights organizations to exercise their responsibilities and act swiftly to demand that prisoners’ rights are recognized. Email the ICRC, whose humanitarian mission includes monitoring the conditions of prisoners, at [email protected]

4. Use the form to let the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat know about your local action or email us at [email protected]

WHO IS AHMAD SA’ADAT?

Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was elected to his position in 2001 following the assassination of the previous General Secretary, Abu Ali Mustafa, on August 27, 2001 by a U.S.-made Apache missile shot from an Israeli military helicopter as he sat in his office in Ramallah. PFLP fighters retaliated by assassinating Rehavam Ze’evi, the racist extremist Israeli tourism minister and head of the Moledet party, notorious for his political platform based on the “transfer” or ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, on October 17, 2001.

Sa’adat was abducted by Palestinian Authority security forces after engaging in a meeting with PA officials under false pretenses in February 2002, and was held in the Muqata’ PA presidential building in Ramallah until April 2002, when in an agreement with Israel, the U.S. and Britain, he and four of his comrades were held in the Palestinian Authority’s Jericho prison, under U.S. and British guard.

He remained in the PA jails, without trial or charge, an imprisonment that was internationally condemned, until March 14, 2006, when the prison itself was besieged by the occupation army and he and his comrades were kidnapped. While imprisoned in the PA jail in Jericho, he was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council. Since that time, he has been held in the prisons of the occupation and continually refused to recognize the illegitimate military courts of the Israeli occupation. He was sentenced to thirty years in prison on December 25, 2008 solely for his political activity, including membership in a prohibited organization, holding a post in a prohibited organization, and incitement.

Born in 1953, Sa’adat is the child of refugees expelled from their home in the village of Deir Tarif, near Ramleh, in the 1948 Nakba by attacking Zionist forces and is himself a refugee denied his right to return along with six million others in Palestine, in the refugee camps in the Arab world and in exile and diaspora internationally. A math teacher by training, he is married to Abla Sa’adat, herself a noted activist, and is the father of four children. He has been involved in the Palestinian national movement since 1967, when he became active in the student movement. Prior to his abduction from Jericho in 2006, he had been held at various times as a political prisoner in Israeli jails, for a total of ten years.

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This is a campaign of human rights activists and concerned people from around the world, coming together to address the travesty of justice taking place, and calling for justice and freedom for Ahmad Sa'adat and all Palestinian political prisoners. We are asking you now to join us in building international solidarity for the freedom of Ahmad Sa'adat and his fellow Palestinian prisoners. Ahmad Sa'adat is a prisoner of conscience, subject to the illegitimate military courts of an illegal military occupation.

Hundreds of organizations and activists around the world have signed on to the campaign's calls for freedom for Ahmad Sa'adat and his fellow Palestinian prisoners here. Learn more about the campaign and its supporters at our website.




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Palestinian women seek tougher laws to combat honor killings
'Honor' murders doubled in 2013 to 26.


A Gaza teen stabbed to death by her brother while she prayed in her room has become the latest addition to a grim statistic: Palestinian women killed by relatives, often for allegedly shaming the family.
Twenty-six women were slain by relatives in the West Bank and Gaza in 2013, twice as many as the year before, according to official figures. The rise stems from mounting economic difficulties in the Palestinian territories, compounded by ongoing leniency for those killing in the name of "family honor" and social acceptance of violence against women, women's rights activists said Wednesday.
They urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to repeal sections of a penal code that allows for short sentences of at most a few years for the perpetrators. Abbas suspended one article of the code in 2011, but others remain on the books, said Hanan Ashrawi, a senior PLO official and former legislator.
Ashrawi said she repeatedly has urged Abbas to adopt legal reforms, especially of articles that discriminate against women, but so far to no avail. She said she last met with Abbas in November, but that he referred the matter again to his legal adviser.
She said that male politicians often brush aside women's concerns, with the argument that more important issues are at stake, such as ending Israeli occupation and establishing a Palestinian state.
Ashrawi said archaic laws harming women also undercut Palestinian aspirations. "We are fighting for freedom and human dignity," she said. "How can you deprive women of all these things?"
Abbas aides, including his adviser on legal affairs, did not return requests for comment.

Full article: http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.576737

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Update on Anti-Boycott Bill in IL State Legislature


Action Update

Dear Chris, I'm back from Springfield and excited to share this update with you! It was the calls and witness slips from people like you that made this happen! --Lynn

Update on Anti-Boycott Bill in Illinois State Legislature

We are delighted to report that State Senate Bill 3017 was not called for debate or a vote during the Judiciary Committee hearing on Wed., March 19th. It now appears, although there is no certainty on this, that the bill will not be moved forward during this legislative session. If the March 28th deadline for moving a bill is not met, it means this unconstitutional assault on academic freedom and free speech will have effectively been defeated.

We have come this far because people and organizations throughout Illinois took action. Our hundreds of phone calls and email messages, the petitions, and the direct discussions with members of the State Legislature all had an impact and made a difference! We had a sense we were on strong footing when we saw that 95 organizations and individuals had submitted to the Judiciary Committee "witness slips" through Wednesday indicating that they opposed this legislation, even though they could not appear at the committee hearing in person. Only 3 people submitted witness slips in support of the bill.

The issue is not quite settled though. A State Senate resolution introduced by the same Senator Silverstein, SJR 59, is still pending. It has much the same purpose of undermining academic boycotts of Israel, minus the punitive measure of defunding public universities. The Resolution has still not been assigned to a Senate Committee, so we will keep you updated on its status, and on what you can do to oppose it.

Thank you for making your voice heard! Look out for our continued updates on any related developments.

The Illinois Coalition to Protect Academic Freedom and Free Speech was formed in response to anti-boycott legislation introduced in the Illinois State Senate. The Coalition includes the Center for Constitutional Rights, CAIR-Chicago, Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago, Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, American Studies Association, Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine, Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago, Arab-Jewish Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, Committee Against Political Repression, Friends of Sabeel: North America, United States Palestinian Community Network, American Friends Service Committee- Chicago, Just Foreign Policy, Defending Dissent Foundation, American Muslims for Palestine, UIC Graduate Employees Organization, IFT-AFT Local 6297, and other individuals.

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USPCN Stands with Students for Justice in Palestine and #UMDivest

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Today marks the sixth consecutive day of the sit-in led by the University of Michigan’s (U of M’s) Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), which is the campus organization affiliated with National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) stands by both SAFE’s demand for U of M to divest from the occupation, and its five “calls for accountability” to student government and university administration.

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On March 19, 2014, over 200 students at the U of M gathered to watch as SAFE presented a bill calling for divestment from companies that are complicit in Israeli human rights abuses. The resolution asks the university to divest its shares from Caterpillar, General Electric, Heidelberg Cement, United Technologies, “and all other companies that explicitly profit from and facilitate the Israeli occupation and siege of Palestinian land.” However, before it could even be presented, the student government voted to indefinitely postpone discussion of the bill. Students began to protest, continuously chanting “divest” until the student government meeting was forced to adjourn. The students have since occupied the Central Student Government Chambers, with between 70-100 students returning each morning to re-occupy the chambers until 2:00 AM, when the building closes.

USPCN stands with SAFE and all other student allies currently participating in the sit-in, and urges the student government and university administration to heed SAFE’s five demands for accountability. The student government’s decision to postpone discussion of the bill is a blatant act of disregard towards the interests of the student body, as evidenced by the continued occupation of the Central Student Government Chambers, and the outpouring of student support for the bill. We insist that the student government at the University of Michigan give a fair hearing to the bill at tonight’s meeting and put it to a vote, as it should have last week. Watch the hearing live tonight, March 25, at 7:30 PM EST, and also participate live on twitter by following and using #UMDivest.

In addition, we declare our unequivocal support for the bill itself. The call for divestment from Israel and its ongoing violence, racism, and occupation in Palestine is a call for all of us to take a stand on one of the foremost human rights struggles of our time. As a network that represents and advocates for displaced Palestinians across the United States, we support those who struggle alongside us in the fight for Palestinian self-determination, including SJP at Northeastern University in Boston and SJP at Loyola University in Chicago, and continue to stand against policy-makers who attempt to criminalize our people and our movement. The call for divestment is a part of the global call to participate in Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), which was issued by Palestinian Civil Society in 2005. To engage in divestment is to honor the call of our people living directly under Israel’s brutal occupation.

We urge the University of Michigan and its student government to listen to their constituents, and to honor the demands of the students, who have steadfastly occupied the chambers for nearly a week. Neglecting to do so would not only be a failure to stand on the side of justice and human rights, but also a failure to meet the needs and interests of the students they purport to represent.

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Statement from University of Michigan Students on Divestment Resolution and Sit-In

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The following statement was released by Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE), the student organization at the University of Michigan affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine National, who led the #UMDivest campaign.

March 27, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Greetings from Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) at the University of Michigan * Ann Arbor!

This past week has been nothing short of inspirational. Hundreds of Palestinian students, SAFE activists and allies from dozens of student organizations persevered through a week*long sit-*in, which transformed the Central Student Government (CSG) chambers into the “Edward Said Lounge.” The sit-*in action in the Michigan Union captivated the University’s attention and reminded campus of the time when a coalition of students of color took over the Michigan Union secret society tower space in 2000.

While the CSG’s vote against Assembly Resolution AR 3*050 was lopsided against our resolution, the result was no surprise. Many CSG members actually campaigned on anti*divestment platforms. However, for the last week, the entire campus has been talking about Palestine and divestment from corporations involved in human rights violations. Students forged new relationships and strengthened old ones with communities of color and progressive student organizations. The Michigan Daily’s resounding endorsement of our resolution confirms Tuesday night’s moral victory and ratifies the strength of our arguments.

Make no mistake. While our resolution did not pass, we galvanized student support across campus while exposing the hollow, hurtful, and erroneous nature of self*-identifying Zionist discourse on a massive stage. More than 23,000 viewers witnessed the dramatic proceedings via an online live stream and video recording. That was the ultimate victory.

In the end, we generated what amounted to a campus-*wide, week-*long referendum on divestment and its role in realizing Palestinian self-*determination. The all*-night meetings with administrators and sit*-in action were exhausting. We were stretched to our emotional and physical limits, but we never wavered. Individual students continue to stand strong in the face of baseless smears leveled against them by those who insist that Palestinians do not deserve self*-determination and human rights.

The current CSG, which is more concerned with personal ambition than ethical investment, should know that we will not rest until we realize justice. This is a victory for the protracted struggle at the University of Michigan to contribute to the liberation of a people living under a regime that continues to violate their basic human rights. We extend our deepest gratitude to our supporters and allies from all corners of the University, and from campuses and organizations across the United States.

Until Palestine is free,

Students Allied for Freedom and Equality
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This Tax Day, Israel Owes You a Refund


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Tuesday, April 1, 2014


Take Action to Protest $3.1 Billion in Weapons for Israel


Dear Chris,

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On March 19, the Israeli military shot and killed 14-year-old Yusef a-Shawamreh, a Palestinian youth from a village near Hebron who crossed an existing breach in an Israeli fence to pick wild food plants on his family’s land.

B’Tselem, the Israeli human rights organization, criticized Israel’s “armed ambush at a point in the barrier known to be crossed by youths, who pose no danger whatsoever to anyone, for the purpose of harvesting plants.”

But instead of ending U.S. military aid, as required under U.S. law, to Israeli military units such as the Armored Corp’s 77th Battalion, which killed Yusef, it’s sadly business as usual: the Obama administration earmarked another $3.1 billion for weapons to Israel in the FY2015 budget request it sent last month to Congress.

Yusef’s killing by Israel is part of a much broader pattern of Israeli human rights violations against Palestinians. As Amnesty International documented in its February report Trigger-happy: Israel’s use of excessive force in the West Bank, Israel misuses these U.S.-supplied weapons to employ “unnecessary, arbitrary and brutal force against Palestinians,” leading it to conclude that the United States should “suspend all transfers of munitions, weapons and other equipment to Israel.”

Here’s what you can do today and in the run-up to Tax Day, April 15, to protest our tax dollars making us complicit in Israel’s human rights abuses of Palestinians and to help implement Amnesty International’s recommendation:

Sign this petition to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees urging them to hold Israel accountable for misusing U.S. weapons in violation of U.S. laws to commit human rights abuses against Palestinians. Help us get 5,000 signatures by Tax Day and we’ll hand deliver your signature to these Members of Congress who will be voting soon on military aid to Israel.

“Offset” the taxes you pay in military aid to Israel. The average individual tax filer gives Israel $21 in weapons each year.* Make a tax-deductible contribution to the US Campaign to “offset” this contribution and help us continue our educational work to challenge the moral and financial costs of arming Israel.

Join a protest or organize one in your city on Tax Day. The Popular Committees of Palestine are calling on people in the United States to organize protests in opposition to U.S. military aid to Israel on Tax Day, April 15. Find an event near you and get more details here.

Educate yourself and others about U.S. military aid to Israel. Download resources to distribute on Tax Day. Find out how much money your community provides in weapons to Israel on our website aidtoisrael.org and learn more about the corporations profiteering from U.S. military aid to Israel on our website weaponstoisrael.org. And be sure to read our policy paper on this issue.

Thank you for taking action!

Sincerely,

Josh Ruebner
National Advocacy Director Mike Coogan
Legislative Coordinator

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Tell Bill Gates: Divest from Israel's Torture of Palestinians!


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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Urge Gates Foundation to Divest from Security Company G4S

Dear Chris,

Palestinian human rights groups released an open letter (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aotPzJfHM%2BEkhxN2yGOkePyuAK3Gu9j7) today calling on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the biggest charitable foundation in the world, to end its investment in G4S, a British private security company that helps Israel run prisons where Palestinian political prisoners are detained.

Each year, the Israeli army arrests thousands of Palestinians in an attempt to suppress any opposition to its continued occupation and apartheid policies. They are arrested under Israeli military orders that prohibit basic civil, cultural, and political rights such as the attendance of demonstrations, membership of political organizations, and the writing of slogans on the Apartheid Wall. According to Addameer: Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, more than 5,000 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons, including 183 children and 175 held under administrative detention, a form of detention without trial that Israel uses to hold Palestinians indefinitely on secret information. Since 1967, 73 Palestinian detainees have died as a result of torture while under Israeli interrogation, the most recent of which was Arafat Jaradat, who was tortured to death in a G4S-secured interrogation center in February 2013.

With Palestinian Prisoners' Day approaching on April 17, Addameer and the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) are calling on people of conscience worldwide to take action in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners.

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Post these #StopG4S (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NRRQRT8181Y5hhC9sT%2Fw6LwtWzM1DKyz) graphics on your Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social networks. Click here (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ITPnrl9dZjbgPUzvmrvHTfyuAK3Gu9j7) to share the image below with your Facebook friends.

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Tell the Gates Foundation to divest via Twitter and Facebook. Tweet @gatesfoundation (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RlcTkHN7COaYFnv58ZtxPfyuAK3Gu9j7) and use #StopG4S. Post a message on their Facebook page (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5P1g%2Ftt%2BI5XorPwyuQu93vyuAK3Gu9j7).

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The Gates Foundation owns shares in G4S worth more than $170 million. The foundation claims it is “guided by the belief that every life has equal value” and that it uses its investments to fund projects that “help all people lead healthy, productive lives”. But through its holdings in G4S, it is legitimizing and profiting from Israel’s use of torture and mass incarceration.

A recent legal study (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MX6lRJR0ieNyNuGOc0m28fyuAK3Gu9j7) found that G4S has “failed to demonstrate a genuine commitment to comply with international law in good faith” and urges investors to contemplate “unparalleled risk to their investment in a business activity whose profit model is conflict-dependent and potentially illegal.”

Outside of Israel, G4S is notorious for operating private prisons and providing deportation services worldwide (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WbBo255pW%2BUBrCkLhEnU%2BPyuAK3Gu9j7). In the U.S., G4S operates privatized juvenile detention facilities and works alongside Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection to detain and deport people across the U.S./Mexico border.

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2. Watch (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4qSEwDBpnw2XSfl%2Bf1KjvfyuAK3Gu9j7) and share G4S: Securing War Crimes.


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"700 settlement units were announced in Jerusalem, and poof - that was sort of the moment."

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Kerry's latest statement: more honest than he intended?

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Dear Chris,

It wasn’t exactly poetry, but Secretary of State John Kerry’s testimony to Congress this week might go down in history as a real turning point in the last 20 plus years of US-orchestrated negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. (1)

For the first time— and despite later efforts to backtrack— a U.S. Secretary of State admitted it was the Israelis who are derailing talks.

Kerry couldn’t have been more clear about the recent sequence of events that have driven these talks to the brink.

First Israel refused to release the last group of Palestinian prisoners they had promised to free, then they announced construction of 700 new settlement units, and only then did the Palestinians announce that they would attempt to join 15 international human rights conventions.

The US and Israel still vigorously criticized that move, which begs the question: what kind of “peace process” considers signing on to covenants promoting the rights of children, the disabled, and others a threat to peace? (2)

Of course, unilateral Israeli actions to undermine peace go back much further.

Since the Oslo Accords, the number of Jewish settlers on Palestinian land has more than doubled - to more than 650,000. (3) In fact, Benjamin Netanyahu campaigned for re-election on a promise of one million Jews living in “Judea and Samaria”. (4)

Rather than hold Israel accountable, the United States has repeatedly rewarded the Israeli government whenever it violated the law or agreements, now fueling the occupation with $3.2 billion in annual military aid.

The United States is indeed acting like a broker in these talks — representing Israel.

The losers in this peace scam? The Palestinians most of all, but also every Israeli who wants a lasting and just peace. And every US resident who wants our tax money to be used for freedom and democracy, not occupation and apartheid.

In truth, the terms Kerry and Israel set forth have nothing to do with equality – they’ll require Palestinians to sit at the back of the bus.

But they give us an idea of what will be on the table should talks, which have proven to be an effective delaying tactic while Israel builds "fact on the ground", limp along.

They include an unprecedented demand that the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a Jewish state. That’s code for condemning Israel’s 25% of citizens who aren't Jewish to second and third class status, and denying the internationally recognized rights of Palestinian refugees. (5)

And the land being negotiated for a future Palestinian “state”?

It looks more like the holes in a piece of Swiss cheese, thanks to decades of US-enabled settlement expansion. Put another way, whatever the rhetoric of a “two-state solution,” Israeli policies have already created a de-facto single state including all of Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and occupied East Jerusalem, albeit one built on the premise of separate and unequal lives for Jews and non-Jews. This is the very definition of apartheid.

So what next?

At Jewish Voice for Peace, we believe that the struggle for freedom and self-determination will end, like similar struggles in Northern Ireland and South Africa, at the negotiation table. But that will only happen when all parties can sit down together with equal power.

Israel has one of the strongest militaries in the world, the only nuclear arsenal in the Middle East, and the unconditional backing of the world's sole super power. It is the 24th wealthiest country in the world. Meanwhile, the Palestinians across the table remain stateless, impoverished, occupied, or second-class citizens inside of Israel.

But the balance of power is changing.

And the engine of that change is the unstoppable movement of nonviolent resistance by Palestinians and their allies – including Jews of conscience - around the globe. Education, lobbying, the involvement of international legal bodies, demonstrations in the streets in Israel and Palestine, have all made a difference and will continue to grow.

And where our governments have thus far failed us, more and more people everywhere have begun to stand up and use nonviolent, economic power to build pressure on Israel to do the right thing.

The successes of the Palestinian-led nonviolent movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) are growing, with billions of dollars and major multinational corporations already impacted. That pressure has already been felt at this round of talks. Even Prime Minister Netanyahu mentioned BDS 26 times in his speech to AIPAC, the largest U.S. pro-Israel lobbying organization.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is the Palestinians' Montgomery Bus Boycott.

This movement for us as Jews is a form of tochecha, the Jewish tradition of sacred rebuke, which comes from a place of love and is the religious obligation to remind one’s friends to live by their values. It is also a nonviolent and principled way to liberate our own community from the dehumanizing role of oppressor.

Can BDS really work? We think so.

Israeli government officials agree. Israeli finance minister Yair Lapid warned that even a limited EU boycott could cost the Israeli economy over $5 billion dollars a year.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni put it even more directly: “The boycott is moving and advancing uniformly and exponentially...Those who don't want to see it, will end up feeling it."

Already impacted, even Israel’s business elites are organizing to demand a negotiated agreement.

Certainly, BDS is working better than any strategy has before. It’s a movement rooted in Palestinian civil society – women’s groups, trade unions, students – and so it has no leader that can be stopped. No single funder that can be cut off.

It is fueled instead by the same love for justice, equality, and human rights that has fueled every successful justice movement the world has ever seen. Grounded in international law, it asks for an end to occupation, equality for the Palestinian citizens of Israel, and a just resoution for millions of refugees.

But why BDS to get to the negotiating table?

Martin Luther King famously wrote in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”:

“You may well ask: ‘Why direct action? Why sit-ins, marches and so forth? Isn’t negotiation a better path?’ You are quite right in calling for negotiation. Indeed, this is the very purpose of direct action. Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.”

That is precisely what we are doing.

And we ask you to continue to join us in this historic movement. So that all who live in Israel and Palestine, in whatever configuration both peoples choose, can live as equals, with the same opportunities to raise families safely, go to school, and build a future.

Whatever happens in the coming days and weeks, we have turned a corner, and there’s no going back.

Sincerely,

Cecilie Surasky
Deputy Director

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1) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/09/world/middleeast/israeli-settlement-plan-derailed-peace-talks-kerry-says.html

2) http://mondoweiss.net/2014/04/absolutely-palestine-process.html

3) http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/oxfam-oslo-20-factsheet.pdf

4) http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/israel-going-for-one-million-jews-in-the-west-bank.premium-1.508510

5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel

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[GazaArk] Gaza's Ark attacked


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At 3:45 AM Gaza time on April 29th, the night guard on board Gaza's Ark received a call to leave the boat because it was going to be attacked.

The guard left, but when nothing happened, he returned after 5 minutes. A few minutes later, a large explosion rocked the boat causing extensive damage.

The boat sank part way and is now sitting on the shallow sea floor. The guard was not injured but was taken to hospital for tests.

Mahfouz Kabariti, Gaza’s Ark Project Manager, says: “The extent and nature of the damage are currently being investigated. We will provide an update when available.”

"Gaza’s Ark and all our partners in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition are considering our next move in response to this cowardly act of terrorism, but our position remains clear: Neither this nor any other attack will stop our efforts to challenge the blockade of Gaza until it ends," adds David Heap of Gaza's Ark Steering Committee.

"Freedom Flotilla boats have been sabotaged before. This attack comes as we were almost ready to sail. You can sink a boat but you can't sink a movement," concludes Ehab Lotayef, another member of the Steering Committee.

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Northeastern Students Win!


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Student Victory! Northeastern University Reinstates Students for Justice in Palestine

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Dear Chris,

Wow. When pro-Palestine students and their allies fight back, they win. After seven weeks of protests, petitions, and news coverage, Northeastern University finally lifted the discriminatory suspension on Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and reinstated them as a student group.

Let’s send a strong message that a safe campus for SJP is a safe campus for all students:

Thank President Joseph Aoun and Dean Robert Jose for doing the right thing! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SjQDvOFBE%2FZj21twxOBVYiDSoQqseUKS)

When Jewish Voice for Peace activists in Boston first heard about SJP’s suspension, we weren’t sure how these students’ voices could counter those of powerful right-wing organizations like the Zionist Organization of America. But SJP refused to be intimidated, immediately releasing a petition and call for solidarity.

Activists like you responded to that call. On the ground, JVP-Boston organized a coalition of 30 community and student groups, who brought over 200 protesters to Northeastern’s campus. Nationally, over 100 JVP activists called and emailed President Aoun to oppose the suspension.

Now, Aoun and Jose may face a backlash from the same right-wing groups that pushed for SJP’s suspension.

Let’s act now to thank and encourage administrators to stand for justice and free speech. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=s45uyM37Is%2FwST2JXLD3diDSoQqseUKS)

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[GazaArk] Gaza's Ark organizers remain determined after attack


"Gaza's Ark organizers remain determined after attack"


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Gaza's Ark was badly damaged and partially sunk by a large explosion at about 3:45 AM Gaza time on April 29th. No-one was injured. Mustafa Abu Awad, the guard who was on duty at the time, was taken to the hospital for tests and he has now been discharged.

The Ark was in the port of Gaza being readied to put to sea in June. Whether and when the boat can be repaired is something we will not know for sure until it can be pulled out of the water for inspection.

Awad said he had been warned to leave the area by an anonymous caller. "I was [sleeping] near the boat and someone phoned me -- an unidentified caller. I answered and he told me: 'Mustafa, leave the boat right now because we are going to blow it up.'"

The Gaza's Ark project has been working for more than a year to prepare the boat to carry goods and passengers in the attempt to challenge Israel's blockade of Gaza. If successful, it would be the first time goods from Gaza have been exported by sea since 1994.

"This is a reckless and violent attack not only on a boat, but on thousands of supporters and donors worldwide," says David Heap of the Gaza's Ark Steering Committee. "We are closely following the police investigation of the attack and hope to know soon if the boat can be repaired."

"What is certain is that we remain committed to continue challenging the blockade by any peaceful means available until it is lifted permanently," adds Robert Naiman, another Steering Committee member. "Hope and justice are unsinkable."

Less than 24 hours before this attack, Gaza's Ark launched an international petition calling on the UN to act to lift the blockade. The appeal was signed by parliamentarians, Nobel Laureates, and other prominent figures from many countries, and now has more than 7,500 signatories from around the world. We strongly encourage our supporters to respond to this attack by signing, sharing and re-sharing our petition:

http://www.gazaark.org/2014/04/26/petition-to-the-un/

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Divestment movement sweeps US campuses - Israeli water company loses contract - BDS News May 2014



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Welcome to BDS News, the BDSmovement.net newsletter published by the Palestinian BDS National Committee, a broad coalition of Palestinian organisations that leads and supports the Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.


Earth Day Network Cuts Ties with SodaStream (http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/earth-day-network-cuts-ties-with-sodastream-11994)

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Settlement firm SodaStream had been a partner of the Earth Day initiative as part of its efforts to greenwash its role in Israeli apartheid but an international campaign has persuaded the Earth Day Network to cut its links with the Israeli company.


NBC TV network petitioned over series set in occupied East Jerusalem (http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=4024)

NBC is cooperating with Israeli authorities and the Keshet Media Group to produce a new action series that will be set and shot in occupied East Jerusalem, media reports suggest. A petition signed by more than 5,000 people was delivered NBC on Monday.


Bill Gates faces pressure over G4S investment (http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-deas/bill-gates-refuses-accept-responsibility-aiding-israels-prisons)

Protests in Johannesburg, London and Seattle call on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to divest from Israeli prison contractor G4S.


Israeli state water company loses Portugal deal and faces global protests (http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/mekorot-loses-portugal-deal-11985)

The Lisbon water company EPAL has announced that it has suspended its collaboration with Israeli state water company Mekorot, protested due to its role in water apartheid, following similar decisions by authorities in the Netherlands and Argentina.

Friends of the Earth Palestine and a range of BDS partners are organised a week against Mekorot during the last week of March.


Divestment movement continues to sweep across US campuses (http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/earth-day-network-cuts-ties-with-sodastream-11994)

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The US student movement for divestment from companies complicit with Israeli occupation continues to gather pace as students at Wesleyan University in Connecticut vote to divest the student assembly's investment funds from companies supporting Israel's military occupation in Palestine

Motions calling on universities to divest were recently passed atUniversity of California at Riverside and the University of New Mexico. Meanwhile a petition has been signed by more than 10,000 students is calling on the University of South Florida to divest, making it the largest student petition in Florida's history.


Luxembourg state pension fund joins divestment groundswell (http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/luxembourg-pension-fund-dumps-9-israeli-firms-over-settlements)

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Luxembourg’s state pension fund has excluded nine major Israeli banks and firms and one US company because of their involvement in Israeli settlements and human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories.

The move follows similar steps taken by other major financial institutions including the Dutch pensions giant PGGM and Norway’s state pension fund. New research suggests that as many as one in seven Dutch institutional investors have excluded companies involved in the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the course of the last five years.


UK student union to cancel G4S contract over role in Israeli prisons (http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-deas/uk-student-union-cancel-g4s-contract-over-role-israeli-prisons)

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The student union at the University of Kent in the southeast of England is to terminate its contract with G4S following an “outcry” over its role in human rights abuses in Palestine.

The decision follows a March vote in favour of BDS at the University of Dundee.


Starbucks may face a boycott if it partners with SodaStream (http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/starbucks-may-face-a-boycott-if-it-partners-with-sodastream-12008)

Starbucks’ reported interest in SodaStream comes at a time when civil society, the private sector and governments across the world are increasingly shunning businesses that contribute to Israel’s occupation and violations of international law.


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ADC Commemorates the 66th Anniversary of the Nakba


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ADC Commemorates the 66th Anniversary of the Nakba (1948-2014)

Washington, DC | www.adc.org | May 15th, 2014- The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee commemorates the 66th Anniversary of the Nakba. On May 15, 1948, Palestinians across the world mourn al-Nakba, the destruction of historic Palestine, the eradication of over 250 Arab villages, and the massive displacement of Palestinians by Israeli forces in the 1947- 48 Arab-Israeli war.

Al-Nakba was not a singular event; displacement continues to this day affecting thousands of Palestinians throughout the Middle East. There are approximately seven million Palestinian refugees and 450,000 internally displaced persons, representing 70% of the entire Palestinian population worldwide (9.8 million).

To learn more about the Nakba and the history of Palestinian dispossession visit the website of the Badil Resource Center (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2B%2FYUP55yyibYp0TQq13tZNyuOn3VvYm5). Click here to view a Google Map (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pkO3Vpa9oSMQNjEqiYnFQNyuOn3VvYm5) which details the Palestinian localities which were either destroyed after their capture, partially demolished, or remain standing until today. This grave injustice has been compounded by ongoing crisis's in the region, which has resulted in the further displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

Sixty three years after their initial forced displacement from their homeland, Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons still lack access to voluntary durable solutions and reparations -- which include return, restitution, and compensation -- based on international law and UN resolutions.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is mandated to provide assistance to 1948 Palestinian refugees, and on an emergency and temporary basis to1967 Palestinian refugees and to those displaced as a result of subsequent hostilities. However, UNRWA faces many difficulties in implementing its mandate due to funding shortages and armed conflicts in the region, in particular Israel's military occupation.

ADC is committed to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East. Any peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict requires the following: The dismantlement of the Israeli Wall which is being constructed through the illegal annexation of Palestinian lands; the cessation and dismantlement of settlements; an end to the collective punishment imposed on the Palestinian population as a result of Israeli occupation policies; the creation of a viable and independent Palestinian state; and the upholding of the right of return of the Palestinian refugees under international law.

ADC will continue to advocate the rights of the Palestinian people to freedom, equality and self-determination.


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Minneapolis protest marks Al Nakba, demands end to aid to Israel

Drop the charges against Rasmea Odeh

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Minneapolis, MN – More than 50 people jointed a protest in front of the Federal Building here, May 15, to mark the 66th anniversary of Al Nakba. Organized by the Twin Cites based Anti-War Committee, the demonstration called for an end of U.S. aid to Israel and for justice for Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh. Al Nakba, Arabic for "the Catastrophe,” marks the Zionist terror that accompanied the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Palestine in 1948 and the founding of Israel.

Emcee Sabry Wazwaz of the Anti-War Committee led the crowd in chanting, “Long live Palestine.” Misty Rowan, also from the Anti-War Committee stated, “So let me just say it loud and clear for everybody here today. Israel is an apartheid state. They discriminate, they abuse, they continue to take land and build illegal settlements and a separation wall - that is supposedly for their own safety but is really just another way to gobble up land.”

Tracy Molm spoke for the Committee to Stop FBI Repression. She condemned the government prosecution of the prominent Chicago Palestinian leader Rasmea Odeh on trumped up charges and urged people to come to her June 10 trial in Detroit. Around the U.S., other events marking Al Nakba also demanded justice for Rasmea Odeh.

Sarah Martin, of the Women Against Military Madness Middle East Committee, told the crowd, “It’s time for us to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and demand an end to the occupation. The Zionist project was costly and bloody. It failed. It cannot continue to occupy Palestinian land and deny Palestinians the most basic of human rights, to return and live in their own homes.”

Mariam Al Khatib of Students for Justice in Palestine spoke of the growing movement on campus in support of Palestine.

The Anti War Committee Al Nakba protest was endorsed by American Muslims for Palestine (MN), Freedom Road Socialist Organization, MN Committee to Stop FBI Repression, MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee, MN Peace Action Coalition, Socialist Action, U of M Students for a Democratic Society, U of M Students for Justice in Palestine, Veterans for Peace Chapter 27, Welfare Rights Committee and Women Against Military Madness.



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"The Palestinian people have the right to mantain commercial relations with the world as well"


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Milwaukee vigil remembers Al Nakba, calls for solidarity with Rasmea Odeh

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Milwaukee, WI - Dozens of Palestine solidarity activists gathered on the lakefront here, May 15, during rush hour to commemorate Nakba Day.

Al-Nakba or "The Catastrophe" refers to May 15, 1948, the day after Israeli "Independence Day.” In 1948, 700,000 Palestinians were expelled by Zionist troops under the pretext of establishing a Jewish state of Israel on Palestinian land. 400 Palestinian villages were depopulated and taken over or destroyed by the Israelis, laying the foundation for the continuing occupation of Palestine.

In response to continuing occupation and oppression of Palestinian people by the U.S. and Israel, activists held signs demanding "End U.S. aid to Israel," and "Drop the charges against Rasmea Odeh!"

Members of the Milwaukee Palestine Solidarity Coalition responded to the national call to action to support Rasmea Odeh, a veteran Palestinian activist. Odeh is a 66-year-old community organizer who has dedicated her life to the empowerment of Palestinians, especially Palestinian women. She is the victim of a U.S. government attack which is intended to jail or deport her for allegedly lying on a 20-year old immigration form. Her trial is set to begin on June 10 in Detroit.

As the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel grows more successful by the day, activists are facing repression from the U.S. government. Activists in Milwaukee say they will continue to win victories for the BDS movement while defending Palestinian community leaders like Rasmea Odeh from political attacks.

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Currently young Palestinians are embracing Comrade Che... Could palestien be the next socialist revolution. If so would they get squashed by the combined powers of Isreal and USA. Or will the peoples might prevail?

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Conference in Lebanon shows solidarity with Palestinian prisoners

ANSWER representative attends, gives presentation

May 22, 2014

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Conference attendees are shown a cabinet used as a form of torture by Israeli jailers

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Richard Becker and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark on al-Mayadeen TV in Lebanon

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Palestinian youth from the Burj el-Shemali refugee camp welcome conference attendees


By Richard Becker, Western Regional Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition

A major international conference was held in Lebanon on April 30 and May 1 in support of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners illegally and unjustly held in Israeli jails. The conference, sponsored by the International Arab Forum for Communication and Solidarity, was attended by 450 people from more than 30 countries. Diplomatic representatives from 14 countries joined the opening session.

The conference sessions were held on April 30 in the Commodore Hotel in Beirut. On May 1, delegates traveled to the south of the country, visiting a refugee camp, a memorial to a 1996 Israeli massacre, the border with Occupied Palestine, and an infamous former prison that Israel and its Lebanese collaborators ran during the Israeli occupation of Lebanon.

The opening session of the conference received extensive TV and other media coverage.

The focus of the conference was solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners, of whom there are more than 5,200 held in prisons inside the 1948 borders of Israel. Prisoners suffer under deplorable conditions, and are subjected to torture and other forms of systematic abuse, denial of medical care, and many forms of humiliation and mistreatment. Among the prisoners are 210 children who also suffer abuse, often with long-term traumatic effects. Every single Palestinian prisoner held represents another violation of international law, which makes it illegal for an occupying power to transfer citizens of the occupied territory inside the occupiers’ borders.

None of the Palestinian prisoners have received anything resembling a fair trial. In the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military uses the emergency laws left over from the time when Palestine was under British rule, including administrative detention. Administrative detention allows the occupiers to hold Palestinians for up to six months without charges, and can be renewed indefinitely.

The conviction rate for those who do receive a trial before a military court is over 99 percent and guilty verdicts are frequently based on secret evidence submitted by the Shin Bet, Israel’s secret police.

Sentences are typically extreme, including the longest in world. Abdullah Ghalib Al Barghouti from Ramallah is serving 67 life sentences, followed by Hassan Abdul Rahman Salama with 57 life sentences. Many others have multiple life terms.

Representatives of the major Palestinian political parties participated in the conference. The vast majority of the 450 people who attended were Palestinian and Lebanese. There were also delegates from Yemen, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Spain, France, Netherlands, Canada, Germany, Greece and other countries.

Many of the conference speakers called for the release of Marwan Barghouti, a leader of the Fatah party; Ahmad Saadat, General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; and all Palestinian prisoners. Among the speakers was Fadwa Barghouti, wife of Marwan.

From the United States, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark was a featured speaker, and the author of this article attended and spoke as a representative of the ANSWER Coalition. We both participated in an hour-long interview program for Al-Mayadeen, a major television station.

On May 1, many of the delegates traveled to the south of Lebanon. The first stop was the Burj el-Shemali refugee camp in Tyre, one of 15 Palestinian refugee camps in the country. More than 400,000 Palestinian refugees live in Lebanon, over half in impoverished camps. The delegates were welcomed by a youth drum and bagpipe group, and speeches by representatives of the camp.

Inside a dramatic memorial, delegates paid homage to the more than 100 Lebanese civilians murdered by Israeli shelling of a UN refugee center at Qana in 1996. Nearly 1,000 people had fled to the Qana center from neighboring towns and villages to escape Israeli aerial bombing. The center was then attacked by heavy Israeli artillery, leaving a gruesome scene of death and mutilation.

After a stop at the militarized border between Lebanon and Israeli-occupied Palestine, the delegation visited the infamous Al-Khaim prison and torture center. Al-Khaim operated during the 1982-2000 Israeli occupation of the country. A former prisoner described enduring 11 years of ongoing torture and abuse at the hands of his Israeli jailers and their “South Lebanon Army” collaborators.

Testifying to the fierce and prolonged struggle that finally drove the Israelis out in 2000 are hundreds of roadside posters in southern Lebanon depicting the martyrs who died liberating their country.

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May 30-31: Emergency Call to Action: Support Hunger Striking Palestinian Prisoners! End Administrative Detention!





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EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: MAY 30-31, 2014 + ACT FOR PALESTINIAN PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE! (http://samidoun.ca/2014/05/emergency-call-to-action-may-30-31-2014-act-for-palestinian-prisoners-on-hunger-strike/)

Demand an end to administrative detention!

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Download this new flyer and factsheet to use at your actions! (http://samidoun.ca/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/End-Administrative-Detention.pdf)

For the past 34 days, an increasing number of Palestinian political prisoners – beginning with 90 administrative detainees, held without charge or trial – have been on hunger strike, consuming only water and salt. There are now well over 200 striking political prisoners. One hunger striker, Daoud Hamdan, held under administrative detention for over a year, has suffered a heart attack; increasing numbers have been taken to hospital.

Their lives are on the line and face a growing threat daily. Why are they putting their bodies and lives on the line? They are demanding an end to the practice and policy of administrative detention, in which Palestinians are held without charge or trial, on secret evidence to which even their lawyers are denied access.

We need international attention to raise the profile of this hunger strike! Palestinian prisoner support and grassroots organizations are calling for a day of action on May 30 and 31 throughout Palestine and internationally in support of the prisoners. Click here to download this new leaflet from Samidoun to use at your actions!

Administrative detention as used by Israel violates international law, namely the Fourth Geneva Convention. It is used as a standard policy and practice, and administrative detention orders can be renewed repeatedly – and regularly are. People are held without charge or trial for years at a time.

The hunger strikers have faced punitive measures and serious repression: they have been denied family visits for four months after previous protests. All strikers were denied salt for the first fifteen days of the strike. Clothing, hygiene products, soap and personal belongings have been confiscated. Legal visits have been postponed, denied and obstructed.

They have repeatedly expressed their commitment to remain on strike until the policy of administrative detention ends. An increasing number of Palestinian prisoners are joining the strike – dozens more prisoners are expected to do so this week. 40 prisoners held in Ramon prison joined on Monday, May 26. All of this is taking place as over 5,200 Palestinians are unjustly held as political prisoners in Israeli prisons – including Palestinian political leaders like Ahmad Sa’adat and Marwan Barghouthi – under military orders and as Israeli home demolitions, land confiscation, settlement-building and the denial of Palestinian refugees’ right to return continues.

The strikers are facing serious and long-term damage to their health if the strike continues.

Please join this important day of action, Friday May 30 and Saturday May 31!

What You Can Do:

1. Sign the online petition demanding that Israel accept the hunger strikers’ demands and end administrative detention (http://samidoun.ca/2014/05/take-action-saadat-strikes-in-solidarity-as-administrative-detainees-near-1-month-of-hunger/#letter).

2. Protest at the Israeli consulate or embassy in your city (http://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/israel). Sit-in, bring signs, leaflets and a Palestinian flag – demand an end to administrative detention.

3. Protest a complicit corporation in your city – such as G4S, the global security company that provides surveillance and control systems (http://www.bdsmovement.net/activecamps/g4s) to the very prisons where hunger strikers are being abused.

4. Distribute information – use this new flyer (http://samidoun.ca/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/End-Administrative-Detention.pdf) – to support the prisoners and raise awareness.

5. Demand your government officials take a position and stop their complicity with Israeli violations of Palestinian rights and arbitrary and unlawful detention.

Email us at [email protected] and let us know what you are doing for May 30-31! Any action can help to make a difference. Please join in this important action!





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AMP congratulates DePaul students on divestment vote!


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Students at UC Santa Cruz passed a divestment vote earlier today. AMP congratulates the Committee for Justice in Palestine and all UC Santa Cruz students who stand for justice!

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The American Muslims for Palestine congratulates the students of DePaul SJP and DePaul Divest for their hard work, fortitude and perseverance in securing a vote in a campus-wide referendum to divest from corporations profiting from the oppression and exploitation of Palestinian people and Palestinian land.

These students overcame enormous odds, including organized subterfuge by the Zionist organization StandWithUs, which sometimes posed as individuals affiliated with the university to spread misinformation about BDS and the impact a positive vote would have on campus, according to DePaul Divest students.

While many other student governments have passed divestment on universities across the country, this is the first time divestment passed in a campus-wide referendum.

AMP congratulates DePaul students and stands in solidarity with campus activists working for Palestinian human rights across the country.

DePaul Divest's press release is below:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Hanna Alshaikh
224.999.0463
[email protected]

DEPAUL DIVEST DECLARES VICTORY IN STUDENT CAMPAIGN
Student coalition DePaul Divest declares victory in campaign calling for student support to divest from corporations that profit off of human rights abuses against Palestinians.

CHICAGO – Following two months of campaigning at DePaul University, student coalition DePaul Divest declares victory in a campaign to divest from corporations that profit off of human rights violations perpetrated against Palestinians via the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine.

While a majority of divestment campaigns have been carried out through student government resolutions, DePaul Divest opted to pose the question of divestment to the entire DePaul student body through a Student Government Association (SGA) referendum this week.

With a majority of 1575 votes in favor and 1333 against, it is clear that Palestinian human rights, the rights of minorities within Israel and ethical investment are issues that concern the DePaul student body.

This victory did not come without immense outside interference by pro-Israel lobbyist group StandWithUs, whose paid staff, frequently presenting themselves as individuals affiliated with DePaul University, canvassed the student body in a counter campaign to DePaul Divest.

“Scare tactics were used to deter the student body from voting to affirm the human rights of Palestinians, but our victory today is evidence that this was not enough to stop DePaul students from standing on the side of justice,” said campaign organizer Areej Hamdan.

In the days leading up to the student vote, members of the opposition circulated false rumors and misinformation about the DePaul Divest campaign, despite the clarity and transparency of the movement’s goals. This misinformation was addressed in a May 18 DePaulia article, “DePaul Divest speaks out: No more intimidation, no more misinformation”.

These tactics were not enough to halt the momentum of the divestment movement, whose actions this week grabbed the attention of the university community through a sit-in, flag drop and rally. The presence of the Israeli consul general on campus during the last full day of voting did not silence DePaul Divest supporters, who rallied on campus under his gaze. Harassment and intimidation tactics used by the anti-Divestment canvassers (many of whom are admittedly trained by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or work as StandWithUs employees), like taking photographs of student organizers proved incapable of impeding the success of the DePaul Divest campaign.

“We have proven that the DePaul student body is a socially conscious community, one that recognizes the humanity of the Palestinian people and how their basic human rights have been denied at the hands of the Israeli government and these corporations we target” said student organizer Hamdan.

While the passage of this referendum is not binding on the administration, the SGA is prohibited from passing resolutions in the upcoming school year that contradict the results of the referendum.

DePaul Divest organizers will now turn their attention to working with the DePaul administration in moving forward with implementing divestment from these corporations. Working with the Fair Business Practices Committee, DePaul Divest organizers will encourage the university administration to establish investment screens. This will require that the human rights record of each potential investment is investigated, making ethical investment a priority and requirement for the university’s money managers.

“It is clear that DePaul students do not wish to have their tuition dollars invested in weapons manufacturers,” said student organizer Roya Naderi. This has generated discussion on ethical investment on campus, with students in agreement that DePaul University should not be invested in war profiteers.

While campaigning at the university is now over, divestment does not end here. This is a moment in which the student body has taken a stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, long denied of their basic human rights. The passage of this divestment referendum is a step towards removing the university’s complicity in the occupation of Palestine, and is a step towards establishing a standard of ethical investment practices at DePaul University.

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DePaul Divest is a coalition of students, student organizations, staff, faculty and alumni that call on the DePaul University administration to pull its investments from corporations that profit off of the illegal occupation of Palestine and the human rights abuses these companies help perpetuate. For more information, visit dpudivests.org.

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ADC Demands Action over Forced Removal of Palestinian Futbol Fan in Houston, TX

Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | June 5, 2014 — Today the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) raised immediate concern with the BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9%2F5iBexfJYMcaOi%2F6DokfeZ14wERMQru), Texas, the Mayor of Houston, the Houston City Council and the Houston Police Department over the forced removal of Ms. Buthayna Hammad from her seat by BBVA Compass Stadium Security on June 1,solely because she was carrying the national flag of Palestine.

This disturbing incident occurred during a futbol match between Honduras and Israel. Ms. Hammad was removed from her seat and escorted to a concession area, where she was detained for over 15 minutes by BBVA Compass Stadium Security. Ms. Hammad was surrounded by security and Houston Police Officers.

When she pressed the officers as to why she was removed she was told that the flag was “a racial slur,” and it was “anti-sematic.” It is alleged that Mr. Nathan Buchanan, Security Manager at the stadium made the comment. Ms. Hammad merely brought the Palestinian flag to represent her own heritage as a proud Palestinian-American, which is by no means a crime.

In a letter sent this afternoon, ADC expressed (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TZ50w5s%2BuIls4whZ2FpsyuZ14wERMQru) that, the BBVA Compass Stadium Security and the Houston Police Department’s action was a major and inexplicable infringement on Ms. Hammad’s civil liberties. The characterization of the flag as a “racial slur” is deeply offensive to Palestinians. Mr. Buchanan's statement marginalizes millions of Palestinian who share a history and culture. The notion that the flag of Palestine is a “racial slur” is discriminatory and has no place in our society.

The actions taken by the security personnel are troubling to nationalistic futbol fans worldwide. Wearing various nationalistic flags is a common practice among futbol fans and restricting this tradition is an obstruction of freedom of speech and sports fandom in general.

ADC demands an explanation as to how the flag of Palestine is a ‘racial slur’, and demands an immediate clarification to the stadium policy from both the BBVA Stadium security and Houston Police Department. Ms. Hammad is cooperating with ADC and exploring all options available to her. The letter submitted by ADC, and copy of an article outlining the events can be found here. (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BazBbZMXp1e%2Bo5BNevxoceZ14wERMQru)

Please contact the ADC Legal Department at 202-244-2990 for more information and/or contact information regarding the above mentioned cases. Thank you again for your time and support.




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Gates Divests!!! Presbyterians Next?


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Sunday, June 8, 2013

Will You Help Make This the Biggest Month In U.S. Divestment History?


Dear Chris,

HUGE NEWS! Bloomberg News has confirmed that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation divested all $184 million of its holdings in G4S following an international, Palestinian-led campaign urging the foundation to end investments in the British private security company that helps run Israeli prisons that hold and torture Palestinian prisoners. In the U.S., G4S also operates privatized juvenile detention facilities and works with Homeland Security to detain and deport people across the U.S./Mexico border and transport immigrants to detention facilities nationwide.


G4S - Securing Injustice

On the heels of Gates' divestment, public pressure from well-known leaders, and activists' disruption of the company's annual shareholder meeting, G4S announced that it intends to pull out of Israeli prisons completely. Until it does, the campaigns targeting G4S will and must continue, but this welcome announcement shows the incredible power of divestment and international pressure.

Congratulations to everyone involved in the campaign, including the thousands of you who signed this petition and US Campaign member groups in Seattle and Washington, D.C. who delivered it to the Gates Foundation! Your voices were heard.

Now, will you be part of another huge divestment moment?

In less than a week, I will be on the ground in Detroit, Michigan where the Presbyterian Church (USA) is considering multiple resolutions in support of Palestinian human rights, including a resolution to divest from three U.S. companies involved in the Israeli occupation.


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Working around the clock, we have been organizing a massive support effort with dozens of member groups and individuals in Detroit and beyond to show Presbyterians what widespread support lies behind them as they follow their conscience and church process by supporting Palestinian rights. From coordinating volunteers to testifying before voting commissioners, and everything in between, the US Campaign will be there every step of the way.

But this is a massive effort requiring a huge amount of time and resources... Only you can make it come together.

Together with the G4S victory, this month could go down in U.S. divestment history forever. Click here to help that happen by giving $25, $50, $100, or any amount you can today.

With excitement and anticipation,

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P.S. You may remember that in 2012, Presbyterian divestment lost by just one vote, showing we are at a true turning point where every little action can make a difference. Even if you can't give, you can still sign up to help with social media, graphic design, attending the GA, and more here.

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Hundreds protested in Tel - Aviv to mark 47 Years of Occupation
"The answer right: Israel and Palestine!" Shouted hundreds of protesters, Jews and Arabs, who participated in the march, marking the 47th anniversary of the June 1967 and a call to end the occupation and establish an independent Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.

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Take Action: Call for justice for hunger-striking Palestinian political prisoners


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Hunger-striking Palestinian political prisoners near death

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(CHICAGO 06/12/2014) – The American Muslims for Palestine, a national education and advocacy organization, today expresses grave concern over Israel’s treatment -- including a pending bill that would permit force feeding -- of nearly 125 Palestinian political prisoners, who are being incarcerated indefinitely without charge or trial, a procedure known as administrative detention. This is the longest lasting mass prisoner hunger strike in Palestinian history. The prisoners began their fast on April 24. One, Ayman Itbeish, 34, passed his 100th day of hunger striking on Saturday, June 7. His health is considered to be at "high risk."

Administrative Detention
Administrative detention contravenes international law. It allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret evidence without charge or trial. It is renewable indefinitely for repeated periods of up to six months. Palestinians have been subjected to administrative detention since the beginning of the Israeli occupation and before that time, under the British Mandate. Both adults and children are subject to this unjust incarceration.

There are currently 192 Palestinians under administrative detention, eight of them members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, as of May 1, 2014, according to prisoner rights group, Addameer.

The prisoners are protesting Israel’s failure to comply with promises made in 2012 in response to a massive action when 50 percent of the political prisoner population waged a hunger strike to force changes in administrative detention, lack of exercise and access to medical treatment, and prohibition of family visits.

As punishment for the current hunger strike, Israeli prison authorities have been withholding salt, which is necessary to sustain life. A decreased sodium intake can hasten death. Administrative detention and withholding salt both are against international humanitarian law.

Force Feeding

At least 80 of the prisoners are near death, shackled to hospital beds and being threatened with forced feeding, which has been classified as torture by the World Medical Association. The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other UN agencies have condemned the practice.

On Monday, members of the Knesset passed the first reading of a bill to permit forced feeding, which has been prohibited by international law since 1975, according to published reports. The second and third readings are on a fast track and will be voted on next week.

This can only be prevented by public responses.

TAKE ACTION

AMP finds the resounding silence by the United States to be absolutely deplorable and in direct contradiction to our values of due process and the protection of human rights, which we cherish.

Please participate in:

* Day of Fasting *

* National Call-In Day *

* Social Media Campaign *

AMP calls on its supporters to fast in solidarity with the prisoners. We also call on all those who support justice to call the office of Assistant Secretary of State Anne W. Patterson, Bureau of Near East Affairs, and demand the US intervene to compel Israel to drop the force feeding bill, to end administrative detention and to release all political prisoners immediately.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Day of Fasting: Please join AMP in a day of solidarity by fasting from sunrise to sunset. Email us a picture of yourself holding a sign that says, “I am fasting in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers.”

National Call In Day: Call US Assistant Secretary of State Anne W. Patterson from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time to ask the United States to force Israel to comply with international law by dropping the force feeding bill, ending administrative detention and releasing political prisoners.

Contact info:
Call the office of Anne W. Patterson, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs at 202.647.7209.

Talking Points:
State your name and the city and state where you reside. Be polite but firm.
State Israel’s use of administrative detention is against international law and deprives Palestinians of the right of due process.

The forced feeding of hungers strikers has been prohibited by international law since 1975.

The World Medical Association has classified the forced feeding of hunger strikers as torture.

U.S. support of Israel in light of these facts hurts American interests abroad and threatens our national security.

The US should demand that Israel uphold the basic values of life, liberty and dignity
Inherent to all human beings.

The US should demand that Israel immediately end administrative detention and release all Palestinian prisoners.

Once you call, please email AMP at [email protected] with Hunger Strike in the
subject line. Please tell us when you called and what state you reside in.

Social Media Campaign: Sign our Thunderclap campaign to add your voice targeting the US State Department, US Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barak Obama, and then support the Thunderclap by joining our Twitter campaign on Tuesday, from 1-2 p.m. Eastern time.

Twitter Targets:
US Secretary of State John Kerry @JohnKerry
President Barack Obama @WhiteHouse
US Department of State @StateDept

Hashtags:
#NoForceFeeding #EndAD #PalHunger


Sample Tweets:
Hunger Striking Palestinian political prisoners near death! #NoForceFeeding #EndAD @JohnKerry @StateDept @WhiteHouse

Supporting Israel in face of prisoner human rights abuses hurts America @JohnKerry @WhiteHouse @StateDept #NoForceFeeding

Americans believe in due process. Why support Israel’s use of administrative detention? #EndAD @WhiteHouse @JohnKerry

Force feeding is torture and against international law. Tell Israel NO! #NoForceFeeding #EndAD @JohnKerry @StateDept @WhiteHouse

Israel ignores American values of due process, justice and liberty. Tell Israel to release political prisoners #EndAD @JohnKerry @WhiteHouse @StateDept


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Do your part as USPCN supports and welcomes Debate on Divestment from Israeli Occupation at 221st Presbyterian General Assembly


Do your part as USPCN joins effort for Presbyterian Divestment!


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USPCN is proud to partner with the US Campaign to End the Occupation in supporting the Israel/Palestine Mission Network efforts towards building debate for divestment from Israeli Occupation at the 221st Presbyterian General Assembly in Detroit. Home to so many Palestinian and Arab-Americans, we call on our local communities to come out in support of this immense moment.

Moreover, for those Palestinians not in Detroit, here is one crucial and time-sensitive way to make your voice in support of divestment heard.

Go to the online tumblr: http://www.postcards-from-palestine.tumblr.com/

and submit your story about why the Presbyterian Church should divest.

We are sending the testimonies on the tumblr to the 800 commissioners and delegates in the next day and during the General Assembly.
Have your voice heard, and reach these delegates as they deliberate to divest!

Below is the letter from the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church on the divestment debate at the General Assembly.



For Immediate Release
June 12, 2014

Press Contact:
Rev. Dr. Jeffrey DeYoe, IPMN
386-793-1412
[email protected]

Presbyterian Church (USA) to Debate Selective Divestment from Israeli Occupation Again at Biennial GA in Detroit

This Saturday, the 221st biennial General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will open in Detroit, Michigan. Once again, a series of resolutions related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be debated, including divestment from three US companies that profit from Israeli abuses of Palestinian human rights: Caterpillar, Hewlett-Packard, and Motorola Solutions.

Two years ago, at the 220th GA in Pittsburgh, a similar resolution was debated but never came to a vote after a replacement overture calling for “positive investment” passed by just two votes (with two abstentions) before it got to the floor.

In the two years that have passed since the last GA, Israel has continued to expand and entrench its illegal settlement enterprise on occupied Palestinian land, destroy Palestinian homes, farms, businesses, and other property, and imprison millions of Palestinians in isolated cantons surrounded by walls, checkpoints, and settlements. A nine-month intensive peace effort overseen by US Secretary of State John Kerry has failed, largely due Israeli settlement construction, as acknowledged by Secretary Kerry and other senior US officials, and even by Israel’s chief negotiator.

As Presbyterians, Christians, and conscientious citizens of the world, Israel/Palestine Mission Network members are hopeful that this time around Presbyterians will vote to endorse the recommendations of the Mission Responsibility Through Investment committee to divest from these three companies, concluding a decade-long process of investigation and corporate engagement that was unsuccessful in modifying their behavior. In doing so, Presbyterians will send a strong message that we act on our beliefs and refuse to profit from non-peaceful pursuits and from the suffering of others, and that we support Palestinians in their nonviolent struggle for freedom and justice.

We are encouraged by the decision taken by the United Methodist Church pension fund just this week to divest all of its shares in British security firm G4S due to its involvement in supporting Israel’s occupation, and by the Gates Foundation’s recent decision to do the same following criticism of G4S’s dealings with the Israeli prison system.

We urge our Presbyterian brothers and sisters to follow their consciences and vote in favor of divestment, following in a long and honorable Presbyterian tradition of divesting from human rights abuses and non-peaceful pursuits in apartheid South Africa, Sudan, and elsewhere.

Established by action of the 2004 General Assembly, the Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA) encourages congregations and presbytery mission committees, task groups and other entities, toward specific mission goals that will create currents of wider and deeper involvement with Israel/Palestine.

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Tuesday: National Day of Action for Palestinian hunger strikers


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Hunger-striking Palestinian political prisoners near death


Take action and urge State Department to intervene

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(CHICAGO 06/16/2014) – Several Palestinian political prisoners, who have been on a hunger strike since April 24, 2014, have been placed in intensive care units due to their deteriorating health, according to published reports. Several have lowered heart rates while others are suffering from internal bleeding.

The American Muslims for Palestine, a national education and advocacy organization, has expressed grave concern over Israel’s treatment -- including a pending bill that would permit force feeding -- of nearly 125 Palestinian political prisoners, who are being incarcerated indefinitely without charge or trial, a procedure known as administrative detention. This is the longest lasting mass prisoner hunger strike in Palestinian history. The prisoners began their fast on April 24. One, Ayman Itbeish, 34, passed his 100th day of hunger striking on Saturday, June 7. His health is considered to be at "high risk."

Administrative Detention

Administrative detention contravenes international law. It allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret evidence without charge or trial. It is renewable indefinitely for repeated periods of up to six months. Palestinians have been subjected to administrative detention since the beginning of the Israeli occupation and before that time, under the British Mandate. Both adults and children are subject to this unjust incarceration.

There are currently 192 Palestinians under administrative detention, eight of them members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, as of May 1, 2014, according to prisoner rights group, Addameer.

The prisoners are protesting Israel’s failure to comply with promises made in 2012 in response to a massive action when 50 percent of the political prisoner population waged a hunger strike to force changes in administrative detention, lack of exercise and access to medical treatment, and prohibition of family visits.

As punishment for the current hunger strike, Israeli prison authorities have been withholding salt, which is necessary to sustain life. A decreased sodium intake can hasten death. Administrative detention and withholding salt both are against international humanitarian law.

Force Feeding


At least 80 of the prisoners are near death, shackled to hospital beds and being threatened with forced feeding, which has been classified as torture by the World Medical Association. The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and other UN agencies have condemned the practice.

Last week, members of the Knesset passed the first reading of a bill to permit forced feeding, which has been prohibited by international law since 1975, according to published reports. The second and third readings are on a fast track and are currently being debated.

This can only be prevented by public responses.

TAKE ACTION


AMP finds the resounding silence by the United States to be absolutely deplorable and in direct contradiction to our values of due process and the protection of human rights, which we cherish.

Please participate in:

* Day of Fasting *

* National Call-In Day *

* Social Media Campaign *

AMP calls on its supporters to fast in solidarity with the prisoners. We also call on all those who support justice to call the office of US State Department Deputy Director of Palestine/Israel affairs Chris Hegadorn and Assistant Secretary of State Anne W. Patterson, Bureau of Near East Affairs, and and demand the US intervene to compel Israel to drop the force feeding bill, to end administrative detention and to release all political prisoners immediately.

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Day of Fasting: Please join AMP in a day of solidarity by fasting from sunrise to sunset. Email us a picture of yourself holding a sign that says, “I am fasting in solidarity with Palestinian hunger strikers.”

National Call In Day: Call US Assistant Secretary of State Anne W. Patterson from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time to ask the United States to force Israel to comply with international law by dropping the force feeding bill, ending administrative detention and releasing political prisoners.

Contact info:

Deputy Director of Palestine/Israel affairs - Chris Hegadorn 202.647.3672.

Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs - Anne W. Patterson 202.647.7209.

Talking Points:

State your name and the city and state where you reside. Be polite but firm.
State Israel’s use of administrative detention is against international law and deprives Palestinians of the right of due process.

- The forced feeding of hungers strikers has been prohibited by international law since 1975.

- The World Medical Association has classified the forced feeding of hunger strikers as torture.

- U.S. support of Israel in light of these facts hurts American interests abroad and threatens our national security.

- The US should demand that Israel uphold the basic values of life, liberty and dignity
Inherent to all human beings.

- The US should demand that Israel immediately end administrative detention and release all Palestinian prisoners.


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A U.N. School Is No Refuge as the War Worsens in Gaza
Ilene Prusher / Jerusalem @ileneprusher July 30, 2014
PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-GAZA
Palestinian civilians wounded during Israeli shelling of a U.N. school wait at the Kamal Odwan Hospital in northern Gaza Strip on July 30, 2014
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A strike on a U.N. school being used as a refuge in Gaza leaves 15 people dead, and puts more international pressure on Israel

MORE
U.N. Official Breaks Down in Tears Talking About Gaza School Shelling
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How Hamas Wields Gaza’s Casualties as Propaganda
Seventeen times, officials from the U.N. called their contacts in the Israeli army to give them the exact GPS coordinates of a U.N. school in the Jabalya Refugee Camp. “There was fighting very close by and the staff there was very alarmed,” Christopher Gunness, the spokesman of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which works with Palestinian refugees, tells TIME. “We told them what the precise coordinates were.”



However it happened, the devastating attack of the U.N. school seems such an egregious example of killing innocent civilians that it could be a turning point in the three-week-old war between Israel and Hamas that senior U.S., European and Middle Eastern officials have so far failed to halt. Strong condemnations have come in from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called the strike “unjustifiable,” as well as from the White House. It is the second time over the past several days that a U.N. school has been hit, and the sixth such incident since the war began.

The refugees at Jabalya “are people who were told to leave their homes by the IDF,” Gunness says. As a result, there are 200,000 Gazans around the Strip living in 85 shelters, leaving UNRWA and other aid agencies struggling to provide for their most basic needs. That includes water, which is trucked in because most of the tap water in Gaza is undrinkable even during peacetime. “We can’t offer safe sanctuary. We ask people to respect the inviolability of our offices.” Earlier in the day, Gunness tweeted: “UNRWA condemns in the strongest possible terms this serious violation of international law by Israeli forces.”

http://time.com/3060488/a-united-nations-school-is-no-refuge-as-the-war-worsens-in-gaza/

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[LaborTech] Facebook targets Gaza-run accounts: Activists


http://www.aa.com.tr/en/news/366942--facebook-targets-gaza-run-accounts

Facebook targets Gaza-run accounts: Activists

31 July 2014 15:59 (Last updated 31 July 2014 16:00)

Palestinian figures accuse the social networking service of removing their accounts without justfication to influence coverage amid an Israeli offensive.


GAZA CITY


A group of Palestinian politicians and academics in the Gaza Strip accused the administration of online social networking service Facebook of deliberately suspending their accounts to silence the Palestinian account of events amid Israel's ongoing offensive in the Gaza Strip.

"What the Facebook administration is doing by removing pages belonging to Palestinians without prior notice is hostile and strange," Adnan Abu Amer, a professor in Gaza's Ummah University, told Anadolu Agency on Thursday.

Abu Amer said Facebook closed his page twice within the past week. "The only explanation for these acts is a willingness to help Israel impose its version of events by barring Palestinians' accounts," Adnan said.

"Nothing I ever wrote on my page could be considered instigative," Abu Adnan said. "I post analytical commentary on the ongoing events, which does not violate Facebook's rules in any way," he asserted.

A day earlier, Moussa Abu Marzouq, a leading member of Hamas movement in Gaza, said on a newly set-up Facebook page that his previous account, which has over 20,000 followers, has also been abruptly suspended by Facebook.

"I am angered at this strange policy of barring and removing Facebook accounts which violates the right to freedom of expression," Abu Marzouq said.

Other Hamas members and activists in the embattled Gaza Strip have recently voiced similar complaints.

"Palestinian pages on Facebook have helped expose Israel's crimes in Gaza by merely posting facts and footage which demonstrate the monstrosity of Israeli attacks on civilians," Abu Amer said.

Social media, including Facebook, has become a battleground of accounts between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, political analyst Nazeer Magali argued.

"Israel wants its version of events to be the only one reaching the outside world," Magali said. "The Israeli lobby is pressuring media outlets in the U.S. to adopt Israel's viewpoint and disregard the Palestinian one," he asserted.

"Facebook pages run by Palestinians from the Gaza Strip are under attack because they were able to draw solidarity with Gaza's plight from people all over the world by exposing Israel's brutality against women and children," Magali continued.

The Facebook administration has yet to respond to a request for comment by Anadolu Agency.

Israel has launched a wide-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip since July 7, with the stated aim of ending rocket fire from Gaza.

Over 1370 Palestinians – mostly civilians – have been killed and over 7000 injured thus far, according to Palestinian health officials.

Israel, for its part, has confirmed the death of 56 soldiers - most of which declared dead amid ground battles with Palestinian fighters - and three civilians.

By Ola Attalah


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USPCN Action Alert: Prof. Steven Salaita Fired for Public Activism on Palestine and #GazaUnderAttack

Palestinian American professor Dr. Steven Salaita has been fired for his activism on Palestine. Take action!

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TAKE ACTION: Demand that UIUC Reinstate Dr. Steven Salaita NOW!

USPCN demands the immediate reinstatement of Palestinian American professor Dr. Steven Salaita, and calls on all its members, and people of conscience across the country and world, to again resist the violations of academic freedom that have become commonplace in the U.S. The University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) must hear from every single one of us, and must know that our brother Dr. Salaita has an entire community that supports him. UIUC's firing of Dr. Salaita translates into support for Israel's racism, occupation, and reaction, especially now, while Israel is on another murderous rampage against our people.

SIGN THIS PETITION: http://www.change.org/petitions/phyllis-m-wise-we-demand-corrective-action-on-the-scandalous-firing-of-palestinian-american-professor-dr-steven-salaita

TAKE MORE ACTION: Professor Steven Salaita has been FIRED by the University of Illinois (don't let them call it just "declining to hire" - Steven had a signed contract and had relied on it to quit his prior faculty post, obtain housing and childcare, etc) because of his tweets and public activism about the Israeli assault on Gaza and Palestine.

This is an outrage and a direct threat to academic freedom and the freedom of all who advocate for justice in #Palestine. Take action today: Protest the firing of Steven Salaita by calling or sending an email to the office of Chancellor Wise (217) 333-8819 [email protected] .

Please also copy Robert Warrior, chair of the Department of American Indian Studies (which has supported Salaita's hiring) and the Department itself on your letter: Robert Warrior, [email protected] - American Indian Studies, [email protected] The department must know that Professor Salaita has support!

Demand that Salaita's contract be immediately reinstated and that the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign end its violations of academic freedom.Salaita's academic and teaching record are unassailed - this matter is entirely about his public activism and refusal to back down or legitimize racism and Zionism.

Read more here:
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/08/06/u-illinois-apparently-revokes-job-offer-controversial-scholar
http://twitter.com/stevesalaita/
http://coreyrobin.com/2014/08/06/another-professor-punished-for-anti-israel-views/
http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/university-illinois-fires-professor-steven-salaita-after-gaza-massacre-tweets
Some of Steven Salaita's articles and books:
Steven Salaita at Salon
Steven Salaita at Electronic Intifada
Steven Salaita at Al Jazeera America
Israel's Dead Soul (an excellent book - highly recommended. This is an important time to buy Steven's work)
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PALESTINE GENERAL FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS - GAZA STRIP

July 31, 2014

Dear brothers and sisters in the labor movement, and all people who are working hard to build a better future for themselves and for their families in the United States of America, and those who believe in peace and justice.

As we write this message from Gaza, our families are facing a genocidal war waged by Israel. The State of Israel is using the most advanced killing machines made and exported from the United States of America. They are killing Palestinian children and eliminating entire families. They are denying the population of Gaza their right to live in peace and dignity.

The Gaza Strip is small space, about 250 square miles, and is home to approximately 1.8 million people. Before the current massacre, the people of Gaza were already living in very difficult conditions. Israel imposed a siege and blockade, and has been controlling the air, sea, and land of Gaza for more than seven years. This blockade has also included control and closure of border crossings, and the restriction of movement, including of sick patients and students.

The trade market, import and export, has been restricted. As a result, we have witnessed and experienced the destruction of agriculture and the ongoing annihilation of workers, farmers and fishermen. The extreme levels of poverty and unemployment have been rising. The people of Gaza have seen a decline in their health and well-being, including the lack of educational services and severe shortages in access to healthy food. In addition, Israel controls the drinking water and electricity, and as result, Gaza has had outages of water and electricity for up to 12 hours a day. As many scholars, journalists and human rights activist have noted, "Gaza is the world's biggest prison."

Under the pretext of the killing of three settlers in the West Bank, with no of evidence pointing to any Palestinian group, Israel with its racist right-wing government, started its current offensive war, which has resulted in more than 1,600 Palestinians killed and more than 6,700 others injured, mostly serious and severe. Many of those killed were civilians, and more than one quarter of them were children and women.

In addition, more than 2,000 houses have been completely destroyed and nearly 3,000 houses have been partially destroyed -- with more than half of them uninhabitable. This war has displaced more than 400,000 citizens from their homes. In addition, 95 mosques have been totally demolished, and 10 hospitals have been directly targeted, with one hospital totally destroyed.

Israel is targeting municipal workers, civil defense vehicles and ambulances -- with more than six paramedics killed. During this war, we have experienced the attacks on more than 50 headquarters of the police and security services, 95 schools and educational facilities, and 7 media offices; many journalists and photographers have been killed. Also, 40 commercial fishing boats have been destroyed. Experts in the Interior Ministry estimate more than 15,000 tons of explosives have been dropped on the Gaza Strip. Economists estimate the Gaza Strip losses, as a result of the aggression, at more than US$3 billion thus far.

Dear friends, it's your turn NOW to take an historic stand and take on the responsibility to stand by truth and justice and urge immediate action through the following:

1 - Pressure your government to stop the unjust aggression on our people and to stop spending money for weapons for occupation that kill us and kill our children.

2 - Work on a local and national level to urge your elected officials to stop dealing with the institutions that profit from the occupation and death of Palestinians.

3 - Educate and build awareness among the labor movements of the U.S. and urge them to condemn the Israeli aggression and to boycott Israel through various means, i.e., cultural, educational and commercial exchange with the occupation, while exposing the crimes of the occupation and its practices.

4 - Reach out and urge the international community through the United Nations to work by all means to enable the Palestinian people to attain and exercise their right to self-determination, through the embodiment of the Palestinian State, which is recognized by the General Assembly with an overwhelming majority, and to use the means of international law, including punitive means, to end the occupation of the Palestinian State, and to hold Israel accountable.

5 - Call upon the United Nations to provide protection for the Palestinians in the Occupied territories, and to provide safeguards to prevent a repeat of aggression upon the Palestinian territories, particularly the Gaza Strip.

6 - Urge the United Nations to enforce the Geneva Conventions, and to ensure that Israel -- as a member State that is a signatory of these agreements, including the human rights agreements -- complies fully with these international conventions.

7 - Call on signatory States to the Geneva Conventions to fulfill their obligation to work to ensure the application, and to implements its jurisdiction to hold war criminals accountable, regardless of the nationality of the perpetrator and place of commission, to pave the way for rendering Israeli war criminals accountable, and end the impunity they have enjoyed for decades.

8 - Urge governments around the world and humanitarian organizations to declare the Gaza Strip a disaster area that is in need of major reconstruction and humanitarian aid for urgent relief to the displaced and affected people.

Finally, we are all confident and hope that you will stand with us to influence and put pressure on your government and the Israeli government alike, to stop the criminal aggression on our people. Your actions may help to save thousands of innocent children, women, youth and elders -- as well as their dreams of living in security and peace.

SIGNED/ WITH UNION SEAL

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From the Independent (5th of August, 2014):

Israel-Gaza conflict: Right-wing Israeli politician calls for Gazans to be ’concentrated in camps’ – and then all resistance ‘exterminated’

A senior Israeli politician has called for the “conquest of the entire Gaza Strip” and the deportation of Palestinians to make way for Jewish settlers. Moshe Feiglin, the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and a member of the governing Likud party, outlined his plans in an open letter to Benjamin Netanyahu published on Facebook.


Writing last week after the reported abduction of an Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin, he called on the Prime Minister to vastly increase the aggression of Operation Protective Edge, which has already killed more than 1,800 Palestinians and destroyed thousands of homes.

Demanding the end to the two-state solution, Mr Feiglin called for the “annihilation” of Hamas and its supporters and the creation of camps where civilians from Gaza will be “concentrated” until they can be deported to other countries.

He wrote: “What is required now is that we internalise the fact that the Oslo [accord] is finished, that this is our country – our country exclusively, including Gaza.

“There are no two states, and there are no two peoples. There is only one state for one people.”

His vision for the Gaza Strip is to rebuild it into a “true Israeli tourist site” like Jaffa, described by Mr Feiglin as a “flourishing Israeli city with a minimum number of hostile civilians”.


The city was intended by the UN to be in Palestine after partition in the 1940s because of its high Arab population.

But in April 1948, Jaffa was ethnically cleansed by a Zionist militia, Irgun, and rapidly occupied by Jewish immigrants despite opposition from the UN.

Mr Feiglin, known as a hardliner within his own party, said realising the failure of the peace process would allow a “strategic review…of appropriate necessary war ethics”.

He defined “extremist Arab Islam in all its varieties, from Iran to Gaza” as the enemy but said Hamas must first be destroyed.

The politician wrote: “The IDF [Israeli army] shall designate certain open areas on the Sinai border, adjacent to the sea, in which the civilian population will be concentrated, far from the built-up areas that are used for launches and tunnelling.

“In these areas, tent encampments will be established, until relevant emigration destinations are determined.”

Mr Feiglin said refugees should be given “generous economic support packages” to emigrate abroad.

Those who “insist” on staying and prove they have no Hamas affiliation would be “required to publicly sign a declaration of loyalty to Israel, and receive a blue ID card similar to that of the Arabs of East Jerusalem”.

More & Images: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israelgaza-conflict-rightwing-israeli-politician-calls-for-gazans-to-be-concentrated-in-camps--and-then-all-resistance-exterminated-9649103.html

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ADC Appalled by Joan Rivers' Latest Statement

Washington, DC | www.adc.org | August 16, 2014 - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is appalled by Joan Rivers’ latest attempt at deflecting blame and avoiding an apology for her racist comments against Palestinians.

In her most recent statement, Ms. Rivers blamed the media for catching her off-guard in their questions on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, claiming that this caused her to say “Palestinians” where she intended to say “Hamas.”

This claim is not only offensive for its attempt to excuse her racist comments, but also is completely fabricated as she made comments that Palestinians “have low IQs” and subsequently appeared on Israel Channel 10 News to further make the anti-Semitic comment that all Palestinians should receive nose jobs. When asked specifically about Palestinian civilian casualties, she stated that they all “deserve to be dead.”

Clearly, Ms. Rivers fully intended on making the racist comments against the Palestinian people as a whole, and this weak attempt at giving a round-about response in the absence of an apology is even more offensive to the American people, and, frankly, an insult to the Arab-American community.

Ms. Rivers also ends the statement by trying to distract from the issue at hand by imploring people to turn their attention to “what’s happening in Ferguson, MO.” Not only is this an embarrassing effort to take away from her racist remarks rather than address and apologize for them, but also a complete disgrace to and making light of the further racial tensions taking place in Missouri. The fact that Ms. Rivers uses one racial issue to deflect from another is ironic at best.

We continue to demand that NBC/E!, AMC, and QVC take necessary disciplinary action against Ms. Rivers for her racist comments and her demeaning handling of the situation.

We renew our call upon our members to continue contacting Ms. Rivers’ employers to voice their complaints. Call QVC directly at 1-800-345-1515 to voice your disapproval of Ms. Rivers' comments. Members may also tweet @NBC, @AMC_TV, and @QVC with the hashtag #DropJoan.

There is no place for hate speech on our American networks, no matter the minority group, and ADC will continue working for justice and equality in this regard.



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It's times like these that make me realize that Nazi Germany and The Great Leap Forward were basically just the establishment of nationwide circle-jerks.

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Victory for the resistance in Gaza, as the struggle for a free Palestine continues

By staff

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Aug. 29 statement from the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)

It is with much love and pained happiness that the members and supporters of the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) watch the daughters and sons of Palestine celebrate on the streets of Gaza. We wish our children and families there a future full of hope, freedom, and achievement, and congratulate them and the entirety of the Palestinian and Arab peoples on this historic victory.

For 51 days, our people withstood Zionist Israel’s bombing and killing campaign. Although we mourn a total of 2,143 sacred martyrs, the vast majority civilians, including close to 500 children, Israel clearly lost this battle on both military and political levels. One of the strongest armies in the world could not accomplish its goal of disarming and defeating the unified Palestinian resistance in Gaza. All the Palestinian resistance groups participated together in the defense of our land, and proved, like in 2006 in Southern Lebanon, that Israel’s military is not invincible. Understanding this, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon signed the ceasefire agreement with the Palestinians without even allowing a cabinet vote.

Israel also lost on the battleground represented by the court of public opinion. Millions of people across the world rallied in condemnation of Israel and in support of Palestinian rights, the largest in South Africa and the UK. Numerous Latin American governments, led by the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, exerted diplomatic pressure by recalling ambassadors from Israel, suspending trade agreement negotiations, declaring Israel a terrorist state, and in the case of Ecuador, cancelling a state visit to the pariah country.

The ceasefire agreement reportedly includes opening all crossings to Gaza, allowing reconstruction of damaged infrastructure, allowing the entry of materials needed for reconstruction, and permitting fishing for a distance of 6 to 12 nautical miles from shore. In a month, Palestinians will repeat their demands to reopen Gaza’s airport and seaport. But our people recognize that the victory in Gaza was a victory of resistance, and not of negotiations. We remember clearly that Israel previously entered into dozens of agreements that it had violated, so we have no illusion that this time will be different.

That is why we continue to call for an unconditional end of the Israeli siege on Gaza, as well as an end to occupation and colonization of Palestinian land. And why we demand that Israel, the U.S., and the war profiteers are held accountable for the destruction and devastation. Congressional and Obama Administration support and protection of Israel is unacceptable, and our responsibility as residents of the U.S. is to demand that this government initiate an arms embargo on Israel, and immediately end all aid to Israel as well. Corporations that sell the weapons of mass destruction used by Israel to drop bombs, fire missiles, and kill our people cannot be allowed to do business as usual, so we call for continued protests and targeting of Boeing and others.

We must also continue to make Israel pay, by redoubling our efforts on Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaigns, which are legitimately taking a toll on the criminal state, as evidenced by the incredible Block the Boat organizing in California two weeks ago, and the countless other victories this year alone—Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Chicago universities Loyola and DePaul, and University of Michigan; Presbyterian Church; SodaStream; and more.

In addition, we demand that the Palestinian Authority immediately sign the Rome Statute and become members of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which will allow investigations of Israeli war crimes on behalf of our people in Gaza.

This victory made clear that Israel is living on borrowed time. It is no longer possible to discuss only the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Most Palestinians have been challenging the racist, settler-colonialist nature of Zionist Israel for years, and now the rest of the world is recognizing it. Fascist, anti-Arab legislators and parties are core members of Netanyahu’s coalition government, and settler thugs are terrorizing Palestinians regularly. The concept of Israel as a state exclusively for people who share the religion of Judaism is the problem. Zionism is the problem. People can no longer justify the right of an apartheid state to exist, just like we could not justify South Africa’s before the fall of apartheid there.

Another lesson learned is that the reactionary Arab regimes are truly enemies of the Palestinian and Arab peoples. From the role Egypt played in the siege to the clear siding of the Gulf and other Arab monarchs with Israel, there is no question that the U.S.’ imperial plans for the region was also struck a strong blow by the Palestinian resistance.

Finally, this victory was driven by the steadfast will of our people in Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem, 1948 Palestine, and the rest of the world. Palestinians and Arabs led the forces of resistance by any and all means, including the mass Arab and Muslim mobilizations in this country, the largest ever in support of our people’s rights. USPCN participated in and led coalitional efforts in many of the cities where we have chapters or members—New York, Detroit, the Bay Area, Chicago, St. Louis, Youngstown, Los Angeles, and Washington DC. And the solidarity expressed with other oppressed communities here was significant as well, with the parallel made between the Ferguson uprising and the Gaza resistance being an essential political connection that must endure.

We salute the strong and brave people of Gaza and all of Palestine. We together mourn our martyrs and together celebrate this victory, and pledge to continue organizing and resisting until Liberation and Return!

United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) – August 29, 2014

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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Israel to take over West Bank land

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29008045


Israel claims West Bank land for possible settlement use, draws U.S. rebuke

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/31/us-palestinians-israel-settlement-idUSKBN0GV0D020140831


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http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

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[GazaArk] Court orders Israel to return the Estelle

Français - Español - Italiano - Português - Deutsch - Dansk - Svenska - Norsk - ελληνικά - العربية - עברית :
http://www.gazaark.org/translation/

Former Canadian MP and retired United Church minister Jim Manly represented Gaza's Ark on board the Estelle (which also carried an anchor for Gaza's Ark) as it sailed to Gaza in October 2012 to challenge the Israeli blockade (see: http://www.gazaark.org/2012/10/26/statement-by-jim-manly-on-estelles-seizure-and-israeli-detention-upon-his-arrival-in-vancouver/).
Here is the latest development concerning the Estelle which has been held by Israel for nearly 2 years now.


Ship to Gaza Sweden won in court:
Israel must return S/V Estelle


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On August 31, an Israeli court issued a verdict in the case by Ship to Gaza Sweden against the Israeli government, regarding the rights to S/V Estelle. The verdict is all in favour of Ship to Gaza’s complaint. It was when Ship to Gaza started the case with a demand to have the Estelle back, that the Israeli state replied with a demand to instead have the ship confiscated. However, the court rejected this, and instead confirmed the organisation’s rights. In addition, the state of Israel will pay the legal expenses.

The S/V Estelle was used in the Freedom Flotilla Coalition action to break the siege of Gaza in 2012. She then sailed 5000 nautical miles from the Baltic Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean, before she was hi-jacked by Israeli forces, some 30 nautical miles outside the coast of Gaza. Since then, the ship as well as its cargo has been kept by the Israeli state. Ship to Gaza’s firm position has been that this is against international as well as Israeli law. Dror Feiler, spokesperson of Ship to Gaza Sweden says: “We are repeating our demand that the ship and its cargo should be returned to us immediately, and that the Israeli state should pay compensation for any damage that may have occurred while the ship has been seized.”



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Minnesota marks Sabra and Shatila massacre, demands end to U.S. aid to Israel

By staff

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Minneapolis, MN - Over 100 people protested against U.S. military aid to Israel over the bridge connecting the Walker Sculpture Garden and Loring Park here, Sept. 13. The protesters were visible to many lanes of traffic as major streets and highways converged below them. After chanting for almost an hour protesters marched to Loring Park for a concluding rally.

Meredith Aby-Keirstead, from the Minnesota Anti-War Committee, opened the rally, stating, “Today we mark the anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre 32 years ago in Lebanon. This week in 1982, 3500 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians were slaughtered or disappeared from two Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon during the Lebanese civil war. The Sabra and Shatila massacre is an important anniversary to the Palestinian people – it marks the cruelty of the Israeli military forces, shows the lack of safety Palestinians have even after they have become refugees in foreign lands, and connects them again to the central demand of the right to return.”

Aby-Keirstead concluded, “We are here today to demand that the U.S. end its support for Israel’s repeated attacks on Palestine. We are here to demand an end to U.S. military aid which is used to kill Palestinians – including children. We have a large task in front of us. The Anti-War Committee urges our supporters to call Minnesota’s senators – especially Senator Franken who is seeking re-election – and demand that he stop standing with Israel against the Palestinians and to stop sponsoring and voting for aid to Israel.”

The protest had a significant contingent from the Minnesota chapter of Jewish Voices for Peace. Jeremy Levinger represented the group from the stage and declared to be proud to be Jewish and to support a free Palestine.

Jessica Sundin spoke from the Committee to Stop FBI Repression to talk about the defense of Palestinian activist Rasmea Odeh. Sundin has been helping to lead the effort nationally to support Odeh and asked the audience to join her in Detroit for Odeh’s upcoming trial in November.

The protest ended with a powerful theater skit by members of the Anti-War Committee, which compared the reality of the occupation of Palestine through one child’s experiences with the way in which the corporate media distorts the same events.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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Take Action: Hands Off Palestinian Civil Society!

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The arrest and persecution of Palestinian human rights defenders and civil society leaders and organizations has been a persistent practice of the Israeli military occupation – a practice which is continuing and escalating today. At 5:00 am on September 15, Eteraf Rimawi (http://samidoun.ca/2014/09/palestinian-civil-society-leader-eteraf-rimawi-seized-by-occupation-forces/), Executive Director of Bisan Center for Research and Development, was taken from his home by Israeli soldiers. He has been detained five times before, most frequently in administrative detention, without charge or trial. Bisan Center for Research and Development is a critical social research organization, doing groundbreaking work around donor aid and domination in Palestine, industrial zones and economic exploitation and oppression, and the situation of Palestinian refugee youth.

Take action to demand freedom for Rimawi and an end to the attacks on Palestinian civil society! (http://samidoun.ca/2014/09/take-action-hands-off-palestinian-civil-society/#action)

In a statement, Bisan Center noted that the detention of its executive director is “an attempt from the occupation’s authorities to injure or stop the work of the civil society organizations in Palestine that serve the actual needs of people.”

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In addition, human rights defenders like Palestinian lawyer Shireen Issawi (http://samidoun.ca/2014/09/complaints-submitted-to-the-united-nations-concerning-the-israeli-detention-of-two-female-palestinian-human-rights-defenders-ms-shireen-issawi-and-ms-bushra-al-taweel/), whose work to defend Palestinian political prisoners and speak publicly in defense of her imprisoned family members such as former long-term hunger striker Samer Issawi, have been held for months without trial. Bushra al-Tawil (http://samidoun.ca/2014/09/complaints-submitted-to-the-united-nations-concerning-the-israeli-detention-of-two-female-palestinian-human-rights-defenders-ms-shireen-issawi-and-ms-bushra-al-taweel/), 21, a journalist and prisoners’ rights advocate, has been imprisoned and held on secret evidence.

Human rights defenders like Dr. Yousef Abdulhaq (http://samidoun.ca/2014/09/action-alert-take-action-for-the-immediate-release-of-dr-yousef-abdul-haq/), 73, co-founder of the Tanweer Center, are being held in administrative detention without charge or trial; hundreds of Palestinians have been administratively detained in just the past few months.

Attacks on human rights defenders violate international human rights law. These arrests directed at Palestinian civil society reveal an agenda to undermine Palestinian civil society organizations that serve the needs of the Palestinian people, and suppress those who work for Palestinian human rights.

Take action to demand the immediate release of Eteraf Rimawi, Shireen Issawi, Bushra al-Tawil, Yousef Abdulhaq and all Palestinian human rights defenders held in Israeli prisons, and an end to the ongoing attacks on Palestinian civil society leaders and organizations.

TAKE ACTION!

1. Click here to send a letter to occupation officials and demand the freedom of these human rights defenders and an end to the attacks on Palestinian civil society. (http://samidoun.ca/2014/09/take-action-hands-off-palestinian-civil-society/#form) It is critical to ensure the occupation is aware of international support for Palestinian civil society under attack!

2. Protest at the Israeli consulate or embassy. Bring posters and flyers to your next community protest in solidarity with Palestine (http://samidoun.ca/2014/07/take-action-protests-around-the-world-respond-to-assault-on-palestine/) about Palestinian political prisoners. Hold a community event or discussion, or include these cases in your next event about Palestine and social justice.

3. Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. Don’t buy Israeli goods, and campaign to end investments in corporations that profit from the occupation. Learn more at bdsmovement.net.


Hands Off Palestinian Civil Society!

Palestinian human rights defenders have been repeatedly attacked and imprisoned by the Israeli military occupation. Bisan Center Executive Director Eteraf Rimawi was arrested September 15, while human rights defenders like Shireen Issawi and Bushra al-Tawil, among countless others, remain imprisoned, often without charge or trial. Send a message - hands off Palestinian civil society!

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Students for Justice in Palestine confront Michael Oren

Interview with Farah Khan

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By Fernando Figueroa

Fight Back! caught up with University of Florida Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organizer Farah Khan after a militant demo against Michael Oren former U.S. Ambassador to Israel.

Fight Back!: Can you briefly describe the event in Gainesville, Florida on Sept. 16?

Farah Khan: The school event itself was titled “A Conversation with Ambassador Michael Oren and Italian-Palestinian journalist Rula Jebreal.” Michael Oren and Rula Jebreal shared the stage, with Jebreal asking Oren questions. Audience members could also submit questions if they were submitted a few days in advance. It was hosted by ACCENT Speakers Bureau and the UF’s[University of Florida] Jewish Student Union. Students for Justice in Palestine was originally asked to co-sponsor the event, but we declined for political reasons. Instead, we held a demo against Oren.

Fight Back!: Why were you protesting Michael Oren, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel?

Khan: SJP found it necessary to protest Oren and his presence on our campus because he has been intimately and proudly tied to war crimes carried out against Palestinians and Arabs. We refuse to allow a war criminal to walk freely and unopposed on our campus when an entire population remains under occupation. Although Oren’s days in the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] are over, he now basically serves as a mouthpiece for the Israeli apartheid state, going on speaking tours and talking at events like this one to promote the occupation. We need to protest events like this so that our school knows that we are not a platform for war criminals. SJP members stood outside all the entrances to the event, with our supporters holding signs and chanting pro-Palestine and anti-apartheid slogans. Even though it was very cold and raining, our supporters remained strong and we held one of the most militant, successful demos SJP at UF has ever put on. There were over 30 cops trying to shut us down, but we stood strong in the face of the enemy, just like inspiring women like Rasmea Odeh stand strong against political repression. We were also happy to see our friends from Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) participate.

ACCENT tried to frame it as a balanced event, since Rula Jebreal, a Palestinian, was the one asking him questions. However, there is nothing balanced about this. The asymmetrical power dynamics are not addressed, and by having these two people share a stage the occupation and colonization of Palestinian land is normalized. The oppression that Palestinians face should not be viewed as normal. Rula Jebreal accepting to speak with Oren totally undermines all of the on-ground work that SJP and other activists are doing. These types of 'dialogue' centered events do not actually provide a voice for oppressed people, they are merely a more sophisticated means of further silencing the marginalized. SJP at the University of Florida is working towards a one state solution and campaigning hard for Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions (BDS): we are tabling every day, hosting teach-ins, workshops, speak-outs and protests. We are already delivering information to our student body. If students want access to an alternative viewpoint, it is right in front of their faces. We don’t need these types of events shutting us down.

Fight Back!: What can other student activists learn from this action? In other words, how did you organize such a powerful event?

Khan: We made sure to make a Facebook event for the counter-action well in advance. We also kept the event private to keep it from being discovered and foiled by any right-wing or Zionist organizations. Leadership talking to people individually helps a lot in getting everyone pumped up for a great action. We had a work meeting the night before to get all the materials ready for our demo. We came prepared for whatever weather Florida would throw at us, and held our ground. We also issued a press release the night before and had an op-ed prepared, ready to be submitted immediately after the action.

Fight Back!: You've been working to defend Rasmea Odeh, the Palestinian woman facing government repression in Detroit. Tell us about the recent repression SJP faced.

Khan: SJP has faced repression at almost every level from the University of Florida. Last December, Student Government tried to pass an anti-boycott resolution that was a direct attack on SJP. This was an ugly preemptive strike against us, but we organized against it and made sure it wasn’t passed. This semester, we are working on getting our university to divest. We tried to get a referendum on the ballot for student government signatures, and even though we came prepared with more signatures than was necessary, we were shot down on technicalities. There are literally dozens of cases where Student Government has been lenient with other organizations, but because of the nature of SJP we were turned away before even making it to the ballot. Our political message is opposed to the Zionist views of Student Government, which is a training ground for the future politicians of the 1%.

Fight Back!: What's next on the agenda for SJP and SDS?

Khan: Just because we won’t be on the ballot this fall, doesn’t mean that our campaign ends. That’s only the beginning. If anything, that experience completely reaffirmed what we already knew: our school administration isn’t on our side. Rula Jebreal urged us after the event to work within the system, to try to have a conversation and go vote at the ballot box. What she didn’t mention was that the 'democratic' process here is actually far from democratic. How can we vote when issues we care about aren’t even allowed on the ballot? We have no intention of begging the Jewish Student Union or Hillel, actively Zionist organizations that fund the occupation, to talk to us. We know that to get what we want, we have to demand it and struggle for it. We have a series of workshops coming up to help build for our BDS campaign, coupled with actions that will be demanding Bernie Machen renounce his anti-boycott statements from spring and support a resolution for divestment. We know BDS at UF is going to be an uphill battle, but we’re prepared.

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Tampa Palestine solidarity protest delays unloading of Israeli ship

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By Gage Lacharite

Tampa, FL - 70 Palestine solidarity activists filed into the intersection of Maritime and 20th Street here to protest the docking of the ZIM Alabama, a container ship carrying Israeli goods. The Tampa Port Authority was woken early in the morning of Sept. 21 by protesters opposing the importation of Israeli goods. Israeli companies super-exploit Palestinian labor, paying very low wages.

Protesters were hoping to catch the attention of dockworkers arriving for work. Some members of the International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1402 waved and honked in support.

"It was really great to see dockworkers showing interest and support for our cause. There was a real sense of solidarity from the workers themselves,” said Caroline England, a member of Tampa Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).

After gathering at the intersection, protesters marched to the port itself. Upon approaching the security checkpoint at the port, police surrounded the protesters, attempting to cut them off from both the port and incoming workers. Police threatened to arrest a Palestinian American woman. However fellow protesters were able to get the police to back off. The rally continued until 8:00 a.m., when it was announced that International Longshoremen’s Association workers would not be entering the port until 1:00 p.m. due to an unspecified delay. Protesters retreated in order to rest and organize reinforcements for later.

The protesters gathered again at noon with a larger crowd than the morning. They conducted another march on the port, slowing traffic that was attempting to enter. Police stood by as protesters entered the port and protested the docking of the ZIM Alabama from Israel.

The action is part of the Block the Boat movement to place economic pressure on Israel to stop killing and oppressing Palestinians. There is a growing movement of students participating in the Boycott, Divest And Sanction (BDS) campaign.

Sam Beutler of Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of South Florida said, "Every little action on our part counts. The BDS movement was integral to the destruction of the South African Apartheid regime and can play a similar role in dealing with Israeli apartheid today - whether it be not buying Sabra hummus, HP computers, or attempting to stop a boat containing Israeli goods from docking. Each action moves towards the ending of the Israeli occupation of Palestine."

This is the second protest of the ZIM Alabama in Tamp; there was another Aug. 30. Another Block the Boat rally is being organized to oppose the return of the ZIM Alabama.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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PALESTINE URGENT: Please Endorse the Appeal Urging the Total, Immediate and Unconditional of the Lifting of the Blockade of Gaza --


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LETTER FROM COLIA L. CLARK AND ALAN BENJAMIN



September 30, 2014



Dear Sisters and Brothers,



We write this letter to request that you please endorse the Appeal issued by the general secretaries of the General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA) and the Algerian Workers Party (PT) calling for the TOTAL, IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL LIFTING OF THE BLOCKADE of Gaza and for an END TO ALL THE WAR MEASURES against Gaza. We also ask you to obtain the endorsement of your union or community organization in support of the Appeal.



[See UGTA-PT Appeal and endorsement coupon below.]



The Coordinating Committee of the International Liaison Committee of Workers and Peoples (ILC) will be meeting October 10-12 in Algiers, hosted by the Algerian PT, one of the two co-sponsors of this campaign. Our goal is to gather 100 endorsers of labor and community activists – and/or labor and community organizations -- in the United States in advance of this meeting.



Indeed, although the bombing has stopped, the blockade essentially remains in place: The Palestinian fishermen have again been fired upon from Israeli ships; at the same time, the heavily destroyed homes, schools, and hospitals cannot be repaired because the current blockade is not allowing heavy materials to enter Gaza on the grounds these could be used to make weapons.



A dispatch from Gaza from the Agence France-Presse (September 20) describes the current plight of the people of Gaza:



"Savagely bombarded for days and days by the Israeli army, the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, crammed with 1.8 million Palestinians trapped between Egypt, the State of Israel and the Mediterranean, is, in addition, subjected by Israel to a strict blockade since 2006.



"Only 100 families have been relocated in mobile homes in preparation for the winter. They were lucky, because 65,000 Palestinians are still sheltered in 14 UN schools across Gaza, pending a re-housing solution.



"Approximately 20,000 homes were completely destroyed by the war, 40,000 other houses were partially destroyed, according to the UN. If the conditions for entry of construction materials into Gaza do not change, in other words, if the blockade is not immediately and completely lifted, it will take at least 10 years to rebuild Gaza, warns Adnan Abu Hasna, the spokesperson of the UNRWA in Gaza."



In light of this very grave situation, the movement to lift the blockade is growing.



We just received yesterday a posting from Just Foreign Policy announcing that Rep. Danny Davis from Chicago has just become the third Member of Congress to issue a public statement calling for an end to the blockade of Gaza, joining Reps. Keith Ellison and Barbara Lee. Representative Davis’s statement was short and to the point: “There is an urgent need to lift the blockade and to restore the free movement of people and goods to and from Gaza through Israel, Egypt and the Sea.”



Nurit Peled-Elhanan, a human rights activist in Israel, and daughter of a general of the Israeli Army, spoke about the continued siege of Gaza upon receiving the prestigious Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament on September 11, 2014. She stated, in part:



“Let’s remember that Gaza has suffered 52 continuous ‘September 11ths’ this summer at the hands of the Israeli State, which is responsible for this Holocaust against the Palestinian people. . . . And let’s not forget that the siege of Gaza has not been lifted, and that Israel has already violated the cease-fire agreement by setting fire to fishing boats and killing a 5-year-old girl and three boys in the West Bank.



“At the same time, the colonization of Palestine is being expanded at an unprecedented rate, while children 5, 6, and 7 years of age are abducted by soldiers every day, and every night they are held and questioned cruelly without seeing their parents or a lawyer. At the moment, there are about 200 children in Israeli jails. They are treated as criminals by the racist and criminal regime that has carried out the longest occupation of our time. . . .”



Endorsing and promoting widely the call by the Algerian UGTA and the PT for the total, immediate and unconditional lifting of the Gaza is, therefore, an urgent task. It is a first step on the path of peace and freedom.



We thank you, in advance, for your endorsement and your support,



Colia L. Clark

Co-Convener, U.S. Hands Off Algeria Committee

New York, New York



Alan Benjamin

Member, ILC Coordinating Committee

San Francisco, California



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APPEAL



WORKERS PARTY OF ALGERIA (PT)

GENERAL UNION OF ALGERIAN WORKERS (UGTA)



Algiers, September 14, 2014



To Workers, to Labor Activists,

To Defenders of Democratic Rights



Unconditional, Total and Immediate Lifting of the Blockade of Gaza!

Immediate End to All War Measures Against Gaza!



The peoples and workers of the entire world have been horrified by the killing and mass destruction inflicted by Israel and its army on Gaza and the whole of the Palestinian people, unleashing a deluge of fire that lasted 51 days. The macabre tally: 2,150 dead, around 12,000 seriously injured; 20,000 homes destroyed, throwing 25 percent of Gaza’s inhabitants onto the street; and all basic infrastructure destroyed (schools, hospitals, factories, roads, universities, etc.), resulting in the destruction of 200,000 jobs.



The peoples and workers of the whole world do not agree that the majority of western governments, beginning with the Obama administration, should arm and support Israel, which is guilty of genuine genocide.



The workers and peoples do not agree that several governments, especially a certain number of Arab regimes in the Middle East, should serve as accomplices in this crime against humanity.



Do the Palestinian people have the right to live? Because what the Palestinian people are demanding is what the peoples of the whole world are demanding: land, peace, freedom and re-establishing their unity as a nation.



On every continent, notably in Europe, in the United States, in Latin America, in the Maghreb, in the Middle East, in Japan, Pakistan, South Africa and elsewhere, powerful demonstrations bringing together tens of thousands -- sometimes hundreds of thousands -- of workers and youth have demanded an end to the killing, an end to the bombing, and the lifting of the blockade that has been strangling Gaza since 2006.



And while Israeli Jews were also demonstrating in their thousands in Tel Aviv to condemn the war on Gaza, hundreds and hundreds of Jewish survivors of the Nazi genocide and their descendants in Europe and the United States declared:



“As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. . . .



“Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and water. We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing genocide of Palestinian people. . . .



“Never again must mean NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE!”



They are right. And the international mobilization has helped the Palestinian people, through their resistance, to force Israel to take a step back, including a partial lifting of the blockade and ending the bombing.



But the Israeli aggression against the battered Palestinian people is continuing through mass arrests, assassinations, incursions by the Israeli army, the continuation of the blockade and the confiscation of Palestinian land in order to extend the Jewish settlements, while starving and ghettoizing the Palestinian populations even further. This is occurring at a time when the inhabitants of Gaza, which is completely devastated, find themselves in total destitution, deprived of a roof over their heads, of food, water and electricity -- in short, they are facing death.



The General Union of Algerian Workers (UGTA) and the Workers Party (PT), which in Algeria are organizing the labor and popular mobilization in defense of Gaza, solemnly appeal to all the organizations of the international labor movement, from north to south and from east to west, to all activists, to all defenders of democratic rights, to all defenders of peace and fraternity between peoples:


– Let us together demand the satisfaction of the vital aspirations of the Palestinian people,


– Let us support the unanimous aspiration of the Palestinian people: “We do not want to die a slow death.”


There can be no peace without the unconditional, total and immediate lifting of the blockade, without the rebuilding of the factories, infrastructure and homes that have been destroyed, without the unconditional re-establishment of the right to fish, without the right to have ports and an airport, without the means for hospitals and schools to operate, without the right to a job, without the right of small landholders to cultivate their land, without the right to electricity and water. . . .



There can be no peace without an end to the repression, without the freeing of the detainees, who include 262 children and many women and people who are ill.



We say: It is the particular responsibility of the organizations of the labor movement throughout the world to put an end to the helping hand provided by every government in support of Israel, its army, and its murderous frenzy.



On this basis, we call for every necessary initiative to be taken to put an end to this murderous frenzy.



signed/



Louisa Hanoune

General Secretary,

Workers Party, PT



Abdelmadjid Sidi Saïd

General Secretary, UGTA

Vice-President of the Organization of African Trade Union Unity

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Attacks on Al Aqsa compound proof Israel not interested in peace

(CHICAGO 10/13/2014) – The American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) is outraged that Israeli forces today fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinians inside Al Aqsa mosque, disrupting the holy site’s sanctity and safety. The Palestinians were taking refuge from aggressive Israeli settlers, who, with increasing frequency, have been harassing Palestinian worshipers at Islam’s holiest site in Palestine and third holiest place overall.

After dawn prayer today, extreme right settler groups, protected by Israeli soldiers and police, entered the Al Aqsa mosque compound for the second time in less than one week. At the same time, most Palestinian men under 50 and nearly all women were banned from offering prayers in the mosque, in contravention of international law.

Israeli attacks against Al Aqsa are not new. For instance, in 1967, immediately after the end of the Six Day War, “the Israeli army chief rabbi, General Shlomo Goren, tried to convince a commander of the conquering forces, Uzi Narkis, to blow up the mosque ‘once and for all,’” according to published historical accounts.

What’s changed is the frequency of settler incursions into the Muslim holy site, coupled with discussions in the Israeli Knesset about dividing Al Aqsa in the manner of the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron, which apportioned two-thirds of the mosque for Jews, prohibiting the area to Palestinians. The Jerusalem Municipality also is discussing plans to turn the courtyard area between the Dome of the Rock mosque and Al Aqsa into a public park. Israeli authorities already have given the extremist settler group Elad the right to create an oversized ‘visitor center’ that will abut the mosque compound, further cutting off Palestinians from their historical religious site. UNESCO is so concerned about recent ‘Judaization’ developments in Jerusalem it dispatched a fact-finding committee to study the issue in April.

All these actions come at a time when Israeli settlers have forcibly moved into Palestinian homes and the creation of new settlements in East Jerusalem are planned.

“Israel has no intention whatsoever of allowing Palestinians sovereignty over anything, even their religious sites,” said AMP Chairman Dr. Hatem Bazian. “While these attacks on Palestinians at Aqsa are reprehensible, they are only symptomatic of the larger problem here, the Zionist colonial desire for all of Palestine and Israel’s desire to annex all of Jerusalem, thereby negating any hope for peace.”

AMP calls upon President Barak Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry to unequivocally call upon Israel to immediately cease all hostilities at Al Aqsa mosque compound and to respect Palestinians – both Muslims and Christians – the right to worship in peace and security.


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ACTION ALERT: Don't let Israel get away with murder!


ACTION ALERT

AMP urges supporters to demand justice
for American teen Orwah Hammad, killed by IOF

(CHICAGO 10/29/2014) – The American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), a national education and advocacy organization, is urging its supporters and all those who stand for justice, to call the US State Department and demand an independent investigation into the Israeli Occupation Force’s cold-blooded shooting of American teenager Orwah Hammad on Friday.

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Orwah, 14, was born in New Orleans, where his father still resides, according to media reports. He was shot in the head as he protested increased settler incursions and incitement in East Jerusalem and the Al Aqsa mosque compound.

The US State Department issued a routine condolence statement, saying it was “closely engaged with local authorities,” who are, in effect, investigating themselves.

This is in marked contrast to a statement it issued on Oct. 22 regarding a three-month-old American girl, who died when a car driven by a Palestinian youth hit a group of pedestrians. We will never know the circumstances surrounding this accident: Depriving him of all due process, Occupation Forces shot and killed the driver, Abed a-Rahman a-Shaludi as he exited his car.

The State Department did not demand due process – a right for all Americans – nor did it wait for any investigation before branding a-Shaludi a ‘terrorist,” and “condemned in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attack in Jerusalem.”

“The disparity in the State Department’s treatment of these two situations is unconscionable,” said AMP Chairman Dr. Hatem Bazian. “While the loss of innocent lives is tragic, we must demand the United States – which has a deplorable record of upholding US citizens’ rights when it comes to Israel – hold Israel accountable for what amounts the murder of Orwah Hammad.”

TAKE ACTION
The Israeli Occupation Forces have killed or severely injured several Americans during its decades-long occupation of Palestine, including Rachel Corrie, Furkan Dogan, 34 members of the USS Liberty and Tristan Anderson. The State Department’s willingness to allow the IOF to investigate itself is unacceptable. Nearly “94 percent of criminal investigations launched by the IDF against soldiers ... are closed without any indictments,” according to Israeli human rights NGO Yesh Din.

We must stand up and demand justice for Orwah! Call the State Department or Email your Congresspeople!

* Call Secretary of State John Kerry at 202.647.5291, then press ‘1’.
* Call the office of Anne W. Patterson, Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs at 202.647.7209.
* Send an email (http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsalsa3.salsalabs.com%2Fdia%2Ftr ack.jsp%3Fv%3D2%26c%3DotpMGDJ4BXc6WKnHwHZ22JAIFBOr 4ycB&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGzLJMPa2xJpGGHCzStpMMZvQGEtg) to your elected officials. Don't know who they are? Just submit your zip code on the form and they will be provided for you!

TALKING POINTS


* The United States has a responsibility for its citizens in other countries.
* The State Department must demand an independent investigation into the shooting death of Orwah Hammad and hold the shooter accountable for killing an American citizen.
* US unconditional support of Israel, in the face of its repeated violations of international law and human rights abuses, hurts our standing throughout the world and harms our national security.


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Take Action: Free the imprisoned Abu Jamal family! Stop collective punishment and attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem



Take action - demand the immediate release of the Abu Jamal family and end the collective punishment in Jerusalem!
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Israeli occupation forces have launched a campaign of collective punishment and mass arrests against the neighborhood of Jabal al-Mukabbir in Jerusalem, arresting the family members of Palestinian fighters, cousins Ghassan and Oday Abu Jamal, who were killed by occupation police forces after they engaged in an armed operation in Jerusalem that killed four Israelis. This attack followed multiple attacks on Palestinians by settlers in the Jerusalem area, including the killing and hanging of Palestinian bus driver Yousef Al-Ramouni on Monday, allegedly at the hands of Israeli settlers.

Ghassan and Oday Abu Jamal were shot dead on the scene by occupation military forces, who then immediately blockaded their entire neighborhood and targeted their families for arrest. Addameer reports (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=8b33713a02&e=8c8351ae0f) that the father, mother and wife of Ghassan Abu Jamal; the mother, uncle and brother of Oday Abu Jamal; and other relatives Furat Abu Jamal, Munther Abu Jamal, Muawiyeh Abu Jamal and Jamal Abu Jamal. Take action to call for the freedom of the Abu Jamal family members and an end to collective punishment. (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=c2349105ae&e=8c8351ae0f)

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Ghassan and Oday Abu Jamal

“Moreover, at least 17 Palestinians suffered tear gas inhalation and five were injured by rubber-coated steel bullets during clashes following the arrests. Israeli forces sealed the entrance to the Jabal al-Mukabbir neighborhood with cement blocks,” reported Al-Akhbar (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=57da8b71c8&e=8c8351ae0f).

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Munther Abu Jamal, after being beaten by occupation forces. Photo by Addameer.

Munther Abu Jamal, as documented in these photos by Addameer, was brutally beaten by occupation forces before he, along with his relatives, were taken to the infamous Moskobiyeh detention center for interrogation. Another member of the Abu Jamal family, Jamal Abu Jamal, was re-arrested by occupation forces on November 6, 10 months after his release; his family home was violently raided by undercover occupation forces dressed to appear as Palestinians who sprayed the home with tear gas after beating him. He served 19 years in occupation prisons of a term of 22 years and was released in the third installment (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=b6d894fd3b&e=8c8351ae0f) of long-time prisoners at the end of December 2013.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network condemns the mass arrests and collective punishment of the Abu Jamal family, and the Israeli policy of assassinations, targeting of families, and home demolitions aimed at all Palestinians who resist the ongoing Israeli assaults on Jerusalem and its Palestinian people. These home demolitions and arrests target entire extended families, imposing yet more siege, impoverishment and oppression on the colonized indigenous Palestinian people, while the Israeli state officially works to extend its colonization ever more into Jerusalem and throughout Palestine, erasing the Palestinian character of the city and of the land.

It must also be noted that the Jerusalem area, called Har Nof, where Ghassan and Oday Abu Jamal engaged in their armed attack, was built by the Israeli settler state over the destroyed Palestinian village of Deir Yassin, the site of the infamous Deir Yassin Massacre that not only left hundreds of Palestinians dead at the hands of Zionist forces in 1948, but that was meant to serve as an example of ethnic cleansing to force the indigenous Palestinian people from their homes and lands. Samidoun notes that the issues of settlement, mass imprisonment, ethnic cleansing, and cultural and social genocide, in Jerusalem and all of Palestine, date back to the Nakba and the Zionist colonization of Palestine; one of the most heavily targeted areas in the recent attacks and mass arrest raids on Jerusalem has been Shuafat refugee camp, whose residents have been struggling to return home since 1948.

Take Action!

The Abu Jamal family is under arrest, held in an interrogation center notorious for torture and abuse. In just the past weeks, we have witnessed multiple home demolitions of the homes of entire Palestinian families following resistance actions or armed operations undertaken by any individual Palestinian, particularly in Jerusalem.

The attack on Jabal al-Mukkabir is not separate from the ongoing mass arrests, settler raids and home demolitions targeting Jerusalem, or the Israeli plans to extend colonial settlement building or divide Al-Aqsa Mosque. Take action to demand the release of the Abu Jamal family, an end to the home demolitions policy, and to defend Jerusalem and Palestine:

1. Send a letter demanding the release of the Abu Jamal family members, including the wives and parents of Ghassan and Oday Abu Jamal. Demand an end to the policy of home demolitions (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=4072e50683&e=8c8351ae0f) against Palestinian families. The targeting of Palestinian homes and families is unacceptable, collective punishment, and part and parcel of the Israeli policy of ethnic cleansing. Addameer is working to free the Abu Jamal family members – international pressure can help to support their ongoing work on the ground.

2. Join an action or start an action in your city to defend Jerusalem. Protests are taking place in cities around the world for Jerusalem and Palestine – many on November 29, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people. Protests also took place yesterday to honor Yousef al-Ramouni, the lynched Palestinian bus driver, and demand justice. Join a protest at an Israeli consulate or embassy (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=1f683a6bcf&e=8c8351ae0f), or hold an educational event.

3. Join the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions. Isolate Israel for its mass political imprisonment of Palestinians. Boycott products like HP and SodaStream, and demand an end to security contracts with G4S, which operates in Israeli prisons. Learn more at bdsmovement.net.


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Take Action: 3 Palestinian community leaders expelled from Jerusalem


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Daoud al-Ghoul, Majd Darwish, and Saleh Dirbas, three young Palestinian Jerusalemites, have been deported by the Israeli occupation from their home city of Jerusalem for five months, beginning on 30 November 2014 and ending 30 April 2015. Ghoul, 31, Darwish, 24, and Dirbas, 23, are all former political prisoners, and face imprisonment if any of them violate the order against visiting the city of their birth and their homes. No reason has been given for this arbitrary and unjust order.

The three young men are prominent social activists and community workers. Al-Ghoul, the coordinator of youth programs for the Health Work Committees in Jerusalem and of the Kanaan Network of Palestinian civil society organizations, recently presented at the European Parliament (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=cd68d08d8c&e=8c8351ae0f) in Brussels on 17 November (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=35d8c5f376&e=8c8351ae0f) on the increasingly repressive situation in occupied Jerusalem. He also spoke before an audience at Intal (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=1f4fa7e7fc&e=8c8351ae0f) in Brussels on 18 November on the crisis in Jerusalem. Take action to call on the European Union to pressure Israel to cancel this order and to end the EU-Israel Association Agreement. (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=bc1fb6fd22&e=8c8351ae0f)

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=e39ff327e1&e=8c8351ae0f) noted that this action “is part of the collective political, ethnic and spatial cleansing policy being implemented against the Palestinian citizens of Jerusalem, and a link in the chain of racist decisions, laws and procedures, particularly the policy of home demolitions and large-scale administrative detention against Jerusalemites, and the adoption of deportation orders that violate the Fourth Geneva Convention and multiple international agreements and its obligations under the United Nations charter.”

The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits individual or collective transfer of persons under occupation from one area of occupied territory to another. This forced expulsion comes following the stripping of Jerusalem ID’s (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=2de9bf09a5&e=8c8351ae0f) of elected Palestinian Legislative Council members Mohammad Abu Tir, Ahmad Atoun, Mohammed Totah and Khaled Abu Arafah; as well as the stripping of the Jerusalem (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=56cd12838f&e=8c8351ae0f)residency of Nadia Abu Jamal, the widow of Ghassan Abu Jamal. This comes also shortly following the statement of occupation prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it plans to seek powers (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=04c280b820&e=8c8351ae0f) to strip Palestinians who hold Israeli citizenship and Palestinians with Jerusalem ID of their citizenship and residency rights if they or their relatives participate in resistance to the occupation.

It is clearly part of the ongoing Nakba directed against the Palestinian people from 1947 until today, and the systematic expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians at the hands of the occupying power. In particular, Palestinians in Jerusalem are being targeted for ethnic cleansing, expulsion and removal through home demolitions, settler violence and invasions, stripping of residency rights, mass arrests and imprisonment, and land confiscation in a clear bid to erase and negate the Palestinian character of the city and its place as the capital of the Palestinian people.

The expulsion of Daoud al-Ghoul, Majd Darwish, and Saleh Dirbas must be stopped! Take action to defend the rights of these three young community leaders, and the rights of Palestinians in Jerusalem:

TAKE ACTION

1. Citoyens Solidaires in Belgium has launched a petition in French to EU officials, demanding they take action to pressure Israel to cancel the expulsion order. Click here to sign on:https://www.change.org/p/federica-mogherini-faites-pression-sur-isra%C3%ABl-afin-que-soit-lev%C3%A9-l-ordre-d-expulsion-de-trois-palestiniens-de-j%C3%A9rusalem

2. Demand an end to the EU-Israel Association Agreement. Join over 300 civil society organizations and trade unions to demand “No Association with Occupation!”: http://freepalestine.eu/

3. Send our letter to EU officials (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=10e7b162d1&e=8c8351ae0f) and call upon them to take action to ensure the revocation of the deportation order and impose sanctions on Israel, including the cancellation of the EU-Israel Association Agreement.



Statement: From Ferguson to New York to Palestine, Solidarity with the Resistance to Racist Oppression (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=dacc92b22e&e=8c8351ae0f)

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Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the resistance led by the Black movement that has taken the streets of every major city and town in the United States in defense of Black lives and in resistance to state-sponsored police killing, targeting and profiling of Black people and of other oppressed communities. These protests, led by strong and militant Black youth and their comrades, have occupied highways, roads and bridges, disrupted “business as usual,” and are true sparks of Intifada against a racist system of exploitation and oppression.

“I can’t breathe.” “Hands up, don’t shoot.” “Black Lives Matter.” The slogans, in their clarity, are an assertion of existence and resistance in the face of a racist system that has been built for centuries on the devaluing, dismissal and suppression of Black rights, existence and struggle. Abdel-Alim Da’na, 12 more, ordered to administrative detention without charge or trial (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=62903eed7e&e=8c8351ae0f"Read more at the link.[/url]



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Abdel-Alim Da’na, Palestinian political leader and professor, has joined his son in administrative detention, held without charge or trial on secret evidence. Da’na was among 13 prisoners issued administrative detention orders in the first week of December and one of 6 from Hebron. Click here to take action to demand Da’na’s release.. (http://samidoun.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e2d855b0ac49d0a7885b3330b&id=290f1bf871&e=8c8351ae0f)

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“Prisoners of Injustice,” released today, is a new report that summarizes the findings and experiences of the May 2014 National Lawyers Guild delegation to Palestine examining the conditions and situation of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.

The report reviews the experiences and findings of the delegation, who observed Israeli military trials and met with human rights organizations, families of Palestinian prisoners, and former prisoners, among others. Click here to read or download the full report.

Palestinian Prisoner News:
February 26-March 2, Beirut: International Symposium Against Isolation
Palestinian journalist and former prisoner Ahmad al-Rai arrested in Qalqilya
Palestinian prisoners’ resistance escalates as occupation increases use of solitary confinement
Re-arrested Jerusalemite prisoners reject deportation from Jerusalem, insist on their release
Palestinian human rights defender Shtaiwi sentenced to 9.5 months, 10,000 shekel fine for protests
21 Palestinians arrested on Thursday by occupation forces
Urgent Action Alert: Demand that Sheriff Release Rasmea from Solitary Confinement
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Chicago anti-war activists condemn weapon sales to Israel

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Antiwar Committee – Chicago.

No Weapons Sales to Israel!
Stop Boeing from Selling Smart Bombs to the IDF!

In November 2014, Boeing was awarded an $83 million contract by the Israel Air Force for providing 3000 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs). JDAMs are kits that convert unguided bombs into “smart” guided weapons. Just months earlier, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, killing over 2000 Palestinians, including 513 children. By producing these JDAMs and other weapons for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Boeing is fortifying Israel’s actions and contributing to the occupation of Palestine. Therefore, we charge that Boeing has the blood of thousands of Palestinians on its hands.

Furthermore, Boeing’s Defense, Space, and Security department, which made the deal with Israel, is located in St. Louis, MO, about 15 miles away from Ferguson, MO. When Ferguson community members were under siege by police terror in the wake of the murder of 18 year-old Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson, the people in Gaza expressed solidarity and support. Boeing’s new deal violates this special bond and puts money towards war that could be going toward education and eliminating the school to prison pipeline that disproportionately impacts Black and other oppressed nationality youth.

We condemn Boeing’s business dealings with the IDF, from selling weapons to collaborating with Israeli armament companies. There is a growing movement calling for an arms embargo on Israel, echoing the call from civil society organizations in Palestine. We are adding our voices and demanding the US government implement a military embargo on Israel and force Boeing to sever its ties.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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Gaza Eyewitness - next Labor Beat on CAN TV 19, cable - begins Jan 29



Gaza Eyewitness

Chicago - CAN TV Channel 19
Thursday, Jan. 29, 9:30 pm
Friday, Jan. 30, 4:30 pm
Thursday, Feb. 5, 9:30 pm
Friday, Feb. 6, 4:30 pm

Labor Beat brings you two videos from our friends in London (Reel News) that deal with the bombings by the State of Israel of innocent civilian populations in Gaza, beginning in the summer of 2014.

The first is Gaza Eyewitness Report. In it award-winning journalist Max Blumenthal gives a shocking eyewitness report of the results of Operation Protective Edge.

The second video is Gaza: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Occupied. Here is London Palestine Action, occupying the British government department responsible for awarding contracts to arms sellers.

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The Israeli military decided to bomb this cemetery in Gaza. Photo: Reel News

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of a British government office. The missile says "Funded by UK". Photo: Reel News

Produced by Labor Beat. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community Partner, and member of the Evanston Community Media Center. Labor Beat is a non-profit 501(c)(3) member of IBEW 1220. Views are those of the producer Labor Beat. For info: [email protected], www.laborbeat.org. 312-226-3330. For other Labor Beat videos, visit YouTube and search "Labor Beat".

Labor Beat's facebook page:
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ACTION ALERT: Defend Free Speech & Divestment at Univ. of Toledo!


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Sign & Share PETITION: Support Open Debate & #UTDivest!


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Dear Chris,

What a month it’s been! Just this past week, the student governments of two of the country’s most prestigious universities -- Stanford and Northwestern -- voted to divest from companies involved in the Israeli occupation and abuses of Palestinian human rights. Two weeks ago, the University of California (UC) Student Association became the first multi-campus student association to endorse divestment in a landmark, landslide victory. Just 10 days prior, UC Davis became the seventh UC campus government (out of ten) to vote in favor of divestment. Last December, UAW 2865, the UC student workers union, became the first major U.S. labor union to endorse divestment, while more than half the voting membership pledged to support the academic boycott of Israel. And on, and on...


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But at the University of Toledo (UT) in Ohio, students were barred from attending a meeting to debate divestment, and at the meeting, the student government was barred from voting on it! WILL YOU SIGN THIS PETITION TO SUPPORT THE RIGHT TO DEBATE AND VOTE ON DIVESTMENT AT UT? (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kVUvPW9QVUYKQuooVuq6gnAiFK1e8whR)

Here’s what happened: On the same night that Stanford celebrated a hard-earned victory last Tuesday, students at UT presented their divestment resolution to the Student Government for debate and vote. But the student body was not allowed to attend, and the Student Government allowed only Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Hillel representatives to speak -- effectively redefining a pluralistic issue along religious lines. Testifiers for and against divestment were forced to sit in separate rooms and prevented from hearing one another’s arguments. This was done in the name of preventing violence, painting divestment and the predominantly Muslim and Arab UT bases behind it as somehow violent. In fact, divestment opponents even cited the recent Chapel Hill shootings of three Muslim students as an example of why divestment should be rejected! Amidst the emotional, but peaceful debate, the UT student government’s Judicial Council suddenly convened a meeting of its own and ruled the resolution "unconstitutional" on grounds that it was "discriminatory" and "one-sided," so no vote could even be taken. The Jewish Federation of Toledo boasted about "working diligently with Hillel and the University administration to defeat the motion."

Chris, students at #UTDivest need your support! Please sign and share this petition calling for transparency, democracy, and the right to vote on divestment! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vcTH8%2FM0iNRxwJL2Dkv73HAiFK1e8whR)


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We are truly reaching a turning point, with more than two dozen campus boycott and divestment victories nationwide and seemingly more campaigns launching with every passing week!

As the incredible power and momentum of these student-led campaigns gets stronger, so will the desperation and nasty tactics of those wishing to defend Israel's aggression. We must all be ready to rally to support these brave students when the time comes, and now is one of those times.

Please sign and share this petition defending divestment and UT Students for Justice in Palestine today! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=m4yVRCKqSxt4izW2t%2Fycv3AiFK1e8whR)

Congratulations to the many incredible SJP chapters -- and their critical allies -- across the country, whose leadership have brought the campus-based movement to the extraordinary place it is today.


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P.S. To keep up with the UT campaign and future action opportunities, make sure to follow #UTDivest on Facebook and @UTSJP on Twitter!


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3. Follow #UTDivest on Facebook. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=86Fe6cJs%2BbPM79cMdzZB9HAiFK1e8whR)

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From #SkipTheSpeech to #ShutDownAIPAC


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Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Join Us for Protests of AIPAC, Netanyahu Speech Starting Sat.

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Kristin Szremski of AMP delivers letters of thanks from more than 100 constituents to civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis, who is skipping the speech. Check out all the pics here (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Zqmr3eifd8AIyV%2FudJtE%2BOv%2BI0F9tnSB).

Yesterday the US Campaign—along with American Muslims for Palestine, Code Pink and Jewish Voice for Peace—flooded Members of Congress with thousands of letters and petition signatures from constituents like you calling on them to #SkipTheSpeech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

We visited the offices of 75 Members of Congress who are either skipping the speech to thank them or who are thinking about skipping to encourage them to do so. In office after office, staff told us of the huge constituent backlash to Netanyahu’s speech that you’ve helped generate and how important those phone calls and letters are in helping them make the difficult political call to #SkipTheSpeech.

Check out all of the action on this Tumblr and spread the word.

If you haven’t yet, there’s still time for you to make an impact by calling and writing this week.

Netanyahu’s speech to Congress is taking place during the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the leading pro-Israel lobby supporting Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and more sanctions against Iran.

Beginning this Saturday, we’re cosponsoring with member group Code Pink and several other organizations a multi-day gathering, #ShutDownAIPAC.

From Saturday, February 28 through Tuesday, March 3, join us in Washington, DC for a series of teach-ins, trainings, protests, and a grassroots lobby day to counter AIPAC’s agenda and protest Netanyahu’s speech.

For a full list of events and to RSVP for them on Facebook, click here.

We know that most of you won’t be able to join us in person for #ShutDownAIPAC. Stay tuned for an alert early next week with more action that you can take to join us from wherever you are.

Thanks as always for taking action!

Sincerely,





Mike Coogan
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P.S. This work is only possible because of generous support from people like you. Please chip in $5, $10, or $25 to ensure we can continue to do this critical work.



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2. Check out our new #SkipTheSpeech Tumblr (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TQg1cEIJ9H%2B8tSgSlkNsGuv%2BI0F9tnSB).

3. Get more resources on our #SkipTheSpeech web section (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wPVg5UIbgS3qua7rjhJBx%2Bv%2BI0F9tnSB).





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Protesting Netanyahu in D.C. — We Need Your Support

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Benjamin Netanyahu's speech before both Houses of Congress on March 3 is a complete outrage – and opposition is growing all across the country.

Will you join us in D.C. for the demonstration that starts at 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, March 3 at the Capitol Building (Upper Senate Park)? Bring a sign or banner, and take a stand.

If you can't come to join the protest, can you make an urgently needed tax-deductible donation to support this effort? (https://answercoalition.nationbuilder.com/donate?e=0b985d77c43aafbccb0924a6df89b2b9&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_02_27_2015&n=2)

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Netanyahu, the butcher of Gaza and a man who is under criminal investigation in Israel for personal corruption connected to his lavish lifestyle, is coming to Congress in an explicit effort to sabotage a peace agreement between the United States and Iran.

Even the Obama White House labeled Netanyahu's speech "destructive."

Netanyahu's Tea Party buddies are gloating about his and their maneuver to make Netanyahu appear in Congress as a great visionary leader, but recent polls show that 63 percent of the American people think that Netanyahu should cancel this speech.

Netanyahu has presided over many massacres of Palestinians, the latest in Gaza last summer that killed more than 2,100 women, men and children, wounded more than 10,000, and left hundreds of thousands homeless. The massive theft of and settlement on Palestinian land in the West Bank continues every day. Much of this death, destruction and dispossession is paid for by U.S. Aid, billions of which flow to Israel every year.

U.S. public opinion is undergoing a sea change about Israel. People are increasingly fed up with the idea that the United States should ratify and fund every aggression carried out by Israel. People are standing up and rejecting the Israeli propaganda mantra that criticizing Netanyahu or the Israeli war machine is an expression of anti-Semitism.

Help us keep up the momentum!

You can support the March 3 action by:

1. Join us on Tuesday, March 3 at 8:00 p.m. at Upper Senate Park on the north side of the Capitol Building

2. Click here (https://answercoalition.nationbuilder.com/donate?e=0b985d77c43aafbccb0924a6df89b2b9&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_02_27_2015&n=3) to make a generous, tax-deductible donation to support the organizing

3. Endorsing the protest – email in your endorsement to [email protected]

Helping to spread the word online and through social media – share this letter on Facebook and on Twitter, and join and share the Facebook event (http://www.answercoalition.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fevents%2F1375 812622725682&utm_campaign=news_02_27_2015&n=6&e=0b985d77c43aafbccb0924a6df89b2b9&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_medium=email)

Free Palestine,

Brian Becker
National Coordinator
ANSWER Coalition

P.S. The March 3 demonstration protesting Netanyahu's speech before Congress will follow three days of important actions in support of Palestinian rights coinciding with the annual meeting of AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee), including a rally outside the Washington Convention Center on Sunday, March 1 from 12-3pm to which people are traveling from many cities. The actions are being sponsored by a broad coalition spearheaded by CODEPINK and are being supported by the ANSWER Coalition. A detailed schedule can be found here (http://www.answercoalition.org/shut_down_aipac?utm_campaign=netanyahu_demo&utm_campaign=netanyahu_demo&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_source=answercoalition&e=0b985d77c43aafbccb0924a6df89b2b9&utm_source=answercoalition&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_02_27_2015&n=7#schedule).

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No Hipster Apartheid!

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End the Occupation
Thursday, February 26, 2015
SIGN PETITION @SXSW: Keep It Creative, Not Criminal!

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Dear Chris,


No Hipster Apartheid

Did you hear that renowned festival South by Southwest (SXSW) -- an international mecca for artists, innovators, and hipsters -- is planning to host (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gcTh8a%2Bw7uRW9dICmizfHzG6m4%2BTlsnJ) a series of "Israel-centric" tech events sponsored by the Government of Israel billing it as a "Land of Creation," "Startup Nation," and "Small Country, Big Ideas"? Events like these are part of the "Brand Israel" propaganda campaign designed to market Israel as a technologically modern and culturally sophisticated nation in order to improve its image abroad and counter worldwide outrage over its massacres and apartheid policies targeting the Palestinian people.

Will you join artists and member groups in Austin, Texas appealing to festival organizers to refuse to help whitewash Israel's war crimes? Click here to add your name to the petition, Keep SXSW Creative, Not Criminal: No Hipster Apartheid!


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Click spoof above & sign petition.

As Israeli Foreign Ministy's deputy director general for cultural affairs explained in 2009, "[Israeli exhibits are sent overseas to] show Israel's prettier face, so we are not thought of purely in the context of war." Ido Aharoni, Head of "Brand Israel" and Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs 2007-2010 explained the intention to "[reposition] Israel away from an image of a country in a state of war and conflict to a brand which represents positive values and ideals like 'building the future,' 'vibrant diversity' and 'entrepreneurial zeal.'" The Reut Institute, an influential Israeli think tank, has stressed that Brand Israel should focus particularly on progressive "hubs" in the West, making cities like Austin the perfect setting.

"Israel: Land of Creation"... Or Land of Apartheid? "Small Country, Big Ideas?"... More like Big Propaganda!

SXSW has nurtured creativity and revolutionary thinking for decades.Chris, please sign today to make sure it does not lend its platform to Israel's propaganda efforts.

Thanks for signing!


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P.S. After signing, please click to share the petition on Facebook and Twitter too!


Chris, take these actions:

1. SIGN PETITION @SXSW: No Hipster Apartheid! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KZ29fKTshrbV%2FMscMF%2Fr8zG6m4%2BTlsnJ)

2. Share the petition on Twitter (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lj9ki0dhRwf3Ep9s18LNkjG6m4%2BTlsnJ) and Facebook (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NDPJkCvkXKab95W%2BoUCkqzG6m4%2BTlsnJ).

3. Visit the campaign website for more info. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FQs9V1H6iT7egQUal7u7izG6m4%2BTlsnJ)







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Victory at UT! Will You Stand Up for Northeastern Too?


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Saturday, March 7, 2015

Sign & Share PETITION supporting NU's right to vote on divestment!


Dear Chris,

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U. of Toledo SJP delivered 5K signatures to their student government, which subsequently voted 21:4 to divest! Click to sign (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mFsGdp36yHp4UjuiGf2CAgmhOHZmBIsj) a similar petition to Northeastern U.


Big news! After more than 5,000 of you signed a petition last month calling on the University of Toledo (UT) to respect free speech and transparency and allow for a vote on divestment, the student government voted on Monday to allow the vote, and on Tuesday they voted 21:4 in favor of divestment! Your voices made a difference for UT Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which delivered the 122-page petition.

Chris, will you make a difference on the next divestment "battleground" campus by signing this petition to Northeastern? (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=O0oN9YC%2Bv1FZNyWLwlSSvgmhOHZmBIsj)

While divestment finally got a fair hearing at UT, repression of SJPs and the extraordinary divestment campaigns they are leading (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2r11q%2FqjGPcUKsQZ8GKH%2FwmhOHZmBIsj) nationwide is only increasing. Last month, the Student Government Association (SGA) cabinet of Northeastern University sent a memo (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1F7ldL402PsucsMbWPqzEWdnYcNEpYlg) to the campus SJP refusing to allow a student referendum on divestment. The SGA cabinet members later deferred the decision and will allow the whole SGA senate to make the final decision -- on whether to allow a divestment vote or not -- on March 16.

Stand up for students' right to vote on divestment! Click here to sign a petition to Northeastern SGA! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=syKWTn1IynfHN8AEDCBybwmhOHZmBIsj)


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Northeastern students protest bureaucratic repression last Monday. Click to sign (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W8LacpcmE6xsWHu2mw6j8QmhOHZmBIsj) a petition in support.


In an Orwellian twist, the SGA memo claimed that a divestment campaign would create a "hostile, threatening, intimidating, humiliating, or otherwise abusive environment" for Northeastern students, constituting discrimination and harassment and thus violating the university's policy on Equal Opportunity! The memo cited examples of emotional distress experienced by Israel-aligned students when the issue of Palestinian rights comes up. Member group Jewish Voice for Peace Boston sent this powerful letter (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KwOGhdbYx997R8tmzuT77gmhOHZmBIsj) of support for SJP to the SGA president, stating: "The examples that you cite blur the distinction between Judaism and political support for Israel. Furthermore, you confuse 'bullying' with the discomfort experienced by people with privilege who are confronted with the reality of oppression."

Click here to write to Northeastern SGA President Noah Carville and others, protesting student repression and standing up for divestment! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PJZDZQcFETYbK8PRfiYOWwmhOHZmBIsj)

Demonization and repression of SJPs has reached new levels since release of a grotesque campaign (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fexSlskh%2BpNJjucs64IdUgmhOHZmBIsj) by the infamously Islamophobic David Horowitz Freedom Center [sic] urging "mock hangings" and "mock stonings," and plastering campuses nationwide with libelous posters calling SJPs "#JewHaters."


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There has never been a more critical moment to stand up for student rights. Last year, many of you stood up for Northeastern SJP (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5sECXY%2Fk5hyWx26OgmWQY2dnYcNEpYlg) when it was suspended and sanctioned by the administration. Eventually, the university responded to mounting pressure and lifted the suspension, but bureaucratic obstacles for the SJP have remained in place and now SJP needs your help again.

Your voice counted for the University of Toledo. Click here to make your voice count for Northeastern today! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=84ciSC2b09AL8BIyj12zfAmhOHZmBIsj)


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P.S. Ohio State University students are also looking for support for their #OSUDivest campaign. Organizations can endorse via this link (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6kZrEg4Hily77SxBncrKFAmhOHZmBIsj) and you can also follow them on Facebook (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CgUer6MNE7vHAPccB%2FSSRwmhOHZmBIsj) and Twitter (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wGbp0%2BamY%2FLti71VTkNlggmhOHZmBIsj).




Chris, take these actions:

1. SIGN PETITION: Let Northeastern vote on divestment! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1FjqtX3i%2FSbCOa8jcwAKmAmhOHZmBIsj)

2. Share petition on Facebook (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Lomomd7YTcnVfDiy6eZgewmhOHZmBIsj) and Twitter (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rhnxsYbBiVybdB73eto4EAmhOHZmBIsj).

3. Endorse #OSUDivest too! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0%2F9NWRD5jw495VUuQtvekmdnYcNEpYlg)







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ACTION ALERT: OSU Divestment Resolution Under Attack!


Dear Chris,

We just got word from students in the Ohio State University divestment campaign (OSU Divest) that the Undergraduate Student Government's judicial panel has disqualified the group's petition, refusing to include divestment on the ballot for vote this week with other campus issues. This comes after OSU Divest collected more than 3,000 signatures from OSU students -- an incredible feat. The disqualification is a blatant attack on these and other students' right to vote on divestment, like we've seen at the University of Toledo (UT), Northeastern University, and other campuses recently.

Thank you for signing petitions in support of UT Divest and Northeastern students. Now the students of OSU need you too! Please take a moment to learn what happened and sign this petition in support of OSU Divest and their right to vote on divestment!

[https://www.change.org/p/the-osu-undergraduate-student-government-let-students-vote-on-divestment]

Thanks so much!

Anna Baltzer
National Organizer

P.S. You can keep appraised of the situation by following OSU Divest on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/OSUDivest] and Twitter [https://twitter.com/OSUDivest]


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Israel: Fortress Racism

Reuven Kaminer

Israel sinks deeper and deeper into an abyss of strident chauvinism and endemic racism. Among its Jewish population there is an almost complete consensus that since Israel lives in a dangerous neighborhood it must be always ready on the draw. This consensus is frayed at its edges when social and economic issues are addressed but holds up when security policy is on the table. The war on Gaza last summer was hardly mentioned during the election campaign but it was just plain naïve to believe that the right could be unseated by concentrating on bread and butter issues while leaving the uneven “security” playing field to Benjamin Netanyahu.

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On the surface, Israel has many attributes of a normal liberal democracy. But when push comes to shove the predominant instinct is that of a military region under siege. The clash between the reactionary and liberal Zionists may seem like a typical election battle. But down deep Israel society is similar in essence to one big military base or a giant aircraft carrier. You can criticize the level of management or efficiency but you cannot convince people to change course or that they can live in peace with their neighbors because they have been successfully conditioned to see them as their mortal enemy. The situation is even more dangerous when the Israeli hawks are enthused by the growing strength and influence of their virtual partners in Washington. The masses of citizens in Israel are frightened by the Arabs and will follow the forces that seem to promise them continued military superiority over their neighbors. In short, the attempt to beat Netanyahu foundered on the conception that people would vote their social and class interests. His rivals were mainly supportive or silent regarding the big policy questions on peace or war. The inevitable consequences of Israeli militarism remained hidden from view. Netanyahu's path can only lead to greater conflicts and more dangerous developments. This is the reason that there is room for a fighting left in this country which combines its social program with a clear renunciation of Israel's aggressive role in the region. It will not be easy but there is no short-cut.

That fighting left will find consolation in the relative success of the united list of Arab parties which fought off an attempt to oust Israel's Arab citizens from the electoral process and even boosted their representation. There are more opportunities for expanding the joint action in all sections of society and organizing the underprivileged. But it is clear that the Netanyahu government will do everything to sabotage the unity of the list and block its potential in the Jewish sector.

Obama’s Turn

Tensions with the U.S. are on the rise. However, we have seen U.S. President Barack Obama waffle on so many issues. He may not be a “paper tiger” but he seems totally unable to initiate and implement an alternative path.

The forces challenging Obama are dangerous. More has to be studied and analyzed regarding this phenomenon that I would call the new right wing of imperialism. Bibi is an important partner in this project. He is far from a simple servant and is linked with the forces actively involved in the subversion of the U.S. administration. It started as a tea party but it looks more and more like a tidal wave of reaction. What are exactly the causes for the split and are we seeing the development of long range alternative lines in action?

Liberal Traditions and Reactionary Reality

One of the far-reaching results of current Israeli politics is a deepening of the estrangement that many Jews in the Diaspora feel toward this Israel. There will always be a hard core of sympathizers loyal to Israel. But a huge section of Jewry in the world will be simply unable to maintain a positive relation with a society based on racism pure and simple. There will be a need to dis-associate from Israel and its immoral message. There are signs that a serious rethink is going on among Jews outside of Israel who need to do some reassessment of their own regarding relations with the racist fortress Israel. It would be great if those young people outside of Israel who are fighting so valiantly for peace become the nucleus of a movement for the regeneration of progressive Jewish life in communities based on the values of equality and social justice for all. •

Reuven Kaminer is a writer, political analyst and a veteran activist in the Israeli peace movement and the left.

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As we commemorate Six Day War, support AMP’s Ramadan Israeli Occupation Date boycott

This Ramadan,
Make a Date with Justice

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Boycott These Brands

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More Information,
Materials

For more information or free downloads for your own date boycott campaign, go to www.ampalestine.org/justicedates. If you'd like postcards or brochures to distribute, contact ([email protected]) us!

On Saturday, June 6,

Palestinians and their supporters will mark 48 years since the 1967 Six Day War, when Israeli forces occupied the remaining 22 percent of historic Palestine left over from the 1948 Nakba.

During this military assault, which was surpassed in brutality only by Israel’s attack on Gaza in the summer or 2014, Zionist forces displaced another 350,000 Palestinians from their homes. Many refugees from 1948 were made refugees again.

Forty-eight years since the Six Day way of 1967; and 67 years since the 1948 Nakba.


How long must Palestinians wait for their inalienable human rights and their individual rights to return to their homeland?

How long until the international community exercises its political will to force Israel to comply with international law?

How long until the United States ends the double standard in its foreign policy and ends unconditional support for Israeli policies that contravene international law and deprive Palestinians of their basic human rights?


The international community is losing patience with Israel’s occupation.

At a high-level conference on Palestinian refugees at the United Nations this week, convened by the UN Relief and Works Agency and attended by AMP, representatives from dozens of member countries called for an end to the occupation and a political solution to the Middle East “conflict.”

“It’s clear the vast majority of members of the international community do not support Israeli policies that contravene international law,” said Osama Abuirshaid, AMP national policy director, who spoke during the comments section at the UN conference. “What we need, though, is the political will to back up this sentiment as well as a shift in American foreign policy that currently allows Israel to act with impunity.”

As proof of Europe’s impatience at Israeli impunity, many countries are turning to the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement (BDS) as a means to pressure Israel to comply with international law. In fact in April, foreign ministers from 16 European countries signed onto a letter demanding the EU require full labeling of Israeli goods produced in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, which will make boycott and also enacting punitive measures easier.

“BDS is a tool to force Israel to comply with international law in the absence of political, financial and diplomatic pressure to do so,” Abuirshaid said. “Eventually, as BDS grows we will start to see a political shift, much like we did in South Africa as a result of the anti-apartheid boycott movement.”

This year, the commemoration of the Six Day War falls shortly before the start of Ramadan. AMP is encouraging everyone to support justice for Palestine by participating in its fourth annual Ramadan Israeli Occupation Date boycott by refusing to purchase any dates marketed by Hadiklaim and Mehadrin, or the brands Jordan River, Jordan River Bio-Tops or King Solomon.

Last year, AMP’s boycott reached 1.6 million people on social media and 20,000 postcards with the boycottable brands were distributed across the nation. AMP, with your help, hopes to surpass those numbers. Get more information on the boycott at www.ampalestine.org/justicedates or email [email protected]


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[GazaArk] Palestinians set to export from Gaza via Freedom Flotilla III


Exhibition of Gaza's Ark products from all of Palestine, for export by Freedom Flotilla: Gaza City June 6-8.

Français - Español - Italiano - Português - Deutsch - Dansk - Svenska - Norsk - ελληνικά - العربية - עברית : http://www.gazaark.org/translation/

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Dear supporters,

When Gaza's Ark was destroyed during last year’s attack (http://www.gazaark.org/2014/07/14/gazas-ark-deliberately-targeted-by-israel/) on Gaza by Israel, we all lost a boat intended to break the blockade “from the inside out". But our goal of helping to build a sovereign Palestinian economy based on freedom of movement has not changed. Palestinian products from both Gaza and the West Bank were to be exported not only as a symbolic stimulus to the Palestinian economy but to show the world the industrious work of craftspeople and farmers who continue to struggle against the overwhelming odds of occupation, economic strangulation and war.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (https://freedomflotilla.org/) is now on its way to once again challenge the blockade of Gaza. The remaining goods that were to be exported by Gaza’s Ark are now to form part of the export cargo of the Freedom Flotilla when it reaches Gaza. To showcase these goods and highlight exactly what Israel was trying to stop by destroying Gaza’s Ark, Palestinian producers organizations are participating in an exhibition of export goods at the Red Crescent Hall (near Al Azhar University) in Gaza City, from June 6th to 8th, 11am to 6pm.

Sameera Qarmout, from one of the producers’ organizations at the exhibit (http://www.gazaark.org/products/#PADHP), says: "Before it was attacked, we had the hope that our embroideries would be exported aboard Gaza's Ark. The coming Freedom Flotilla III has given us a light of new hope that our products will still be made available to world markets." The exhibit includes goods from Palestinian producers in Gaza (http://www.gazaark.org/products/) as well as goods from West Bank producers that reached Gaza in spite of the Israeli Occupier’s restrictions: embroidery, wood carvings and olive oil.

Watch this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4p7IrkKby0) to both see some of the products that Israel barred from export and to hear first hand from Palestinians about what these goods mean to them. One of the West Bank artisans whose products are at the exhibition in Gaza stated: “My dream is to go to Gaza... we can go all over the world but we can’t go to Gaza – which says a lot about the situation”. This exhibition not only shows the world the tragedy of the ongoing separation of the Palestinian people imposed by Israeli policies in the occupied territories – in direct contravention of the Oslo accords – but also fosters connection between producers in the West Bank, Gaza and their customers around the world.

Organizations and individuals in Australia, North America and Europe purchased over $24 000 USD worth of Palestinian export goods (http://www.gazaark.org/2014/10/09/support-for-gaza-exports-product-payments-ongoing-solidarity/) via Gaza’s Ark, and new orders are still being placed, showing the confidence people have in the need for a Palestinian economy. Peter Downey (Chair, Bethlehem B&NES Links Ltd., Bath, England) adds: “We have bought goods from West Bank artisans as samples for a potential distributor of their products in the UK and Europe. This new sea route will be far less expensive than the courier system to which we are subject currently. It is vital for the economic development of the Palestinian State that there are trade routes by which they can export their goods."

The Israeli military did not just target Gaza’s Ark. It targeted the hope that Palestinians have for an economy based on their right to export their products from their own port, independently of the occupying power. As the Freedom Flotilla III as it sets its sights on economic freedom and social justice for the 1.8 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, follow our progress at https://freedomflotilla.org/ and https://shiptogaza.se/en, and on Twitter: @CanadaBoatGaza @GazaFFlotilla @ShiptoGazaSE and @GazaArk

For more information about this event, please contact product exhibit coordinator for Gaza’s Ark, Awni Farhat at [email protected] (+972599838447, English, العربية). Regarding the role of Gaza’s Ark in the Freedom Flotilla III, contact David Heap [email protected] (+15198593579, English, français, espagnol).
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1417964708527164/

In solidarity,

David Heap
on behalf of
Gaza’s Ark Steering Committee

Gaza's Ark: Building Hope
A member of the International Freedom Flotilla Coalition
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TAKE ACTION: Israelis commandeer Freedom Flotilla 3 to Gaza



Please urge others to take this action

ANOTHER ISRAELI WAR CRIME IN PROGRESS

WE CANNOT LET ISRAEL GET AWAY WITH THIS AGAIN! We MUST CALL and write all we can. Please do this. This is International waters and Greece had their government employees THOROUGHLY check the boats -- even underwater. NO MORE EXCUSES AND LIES FROM THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT! Anna Rogers

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Date: Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 8:36 PM
ACTION ALERT: Freedom Flotilla 3 attacked by Israel

The Marianne, flagship of the Freedom Flotilla 3, was about 105 nautical miles from Gaza, sailing there to break the siege, when it was attacked by the Israeli Occupation Forces a few hours ago. The boat, with all its passengers, has been taken.

Please make phone calls to pressure our government to demand that Israel release the boat and crew at once.

We are calling on your support for the passengers on board the Marianne who have just been kidnapped by Israel.

US State Department, Public Communications Department +1 202-647-6575

White House: Comments: +1 202-456-1111, Switchboard: +1 202-456-1414

The Congressional switchboard is 202-224-3121 - ask for your Representative

If in California, call:
Barbara Boxer 202 224-3553
Dianne Feinstein 202 224 3841
SF Israeli Consulate 415 844 7500 fax; 415 844 7555

In Marin, please contact Jared Huffman.
His numbers are:

San Rafael office: 415 258 9657
Washington DC: 202 225 5161.


Thank you for your immediate action. Col Ann Wright from USA is on board the Marianne.

Jane Jewell

Support Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) & Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) Campaigns!
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USPCN salutes United Church of Christ’s vote to divest

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USPCN salutes United Church of Christ’s vote to divest

Another important victory for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) was won on June 30th, at the United Church of Christ (UCC) General Synod convention in Cleveland, Ohio. Seventy-six percent of UCC delegates voted for divestment from Israeli occupation, and also to boycott Israeli settlement products, to continue pressuring Congress to end U.S. unconditional military aid to Israel, and to study Kairos Palestine and its call in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

USPCN was there in Cleveland, with leading Detroit chapter member George Khoury working closely with the UCC Palestine Israel Network, Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA), the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and many other institutions.

We are proud to have been a part of another historic moment in the Palestine support movement in this country, having experienced the incredible Presbyterian victory last year as well.

Congratulations and gratitude again to the United Church of Christ, and especially the UCC Palestine Israel Network, for standing on the side of peace and justice.

Another step forward in the struggle for Liberation and Return!

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July 1st, 2015

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#51daysinGaza protest marks start of Israel’s 2014 war - and determined resistance of the Palestinian people

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By Meredith Aby-Keirstead

Minneapolis, MN - On July 8, about a 150 Palestinians and their supporters rallied in Loring Park and marched through the Uptown neighborhood here to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel’s 51-day bombing campaign against Gaza. The demonstration was organized by the Minnesota Anti-War Committee (AWC).

“It’s important we make waves in the streets so that people know what we stand for and so our cause cannot be ignored,” said Karmel Sabri, who joined the AWC after coming to protests against last summer’s bombing of Gaza.

From July 8 to August 26, 2014, Israel committed many atrocities, including killing 2310 Palestinians (519 children), bombing seven United Nations shelters, permanently displacing over 108,000 people through the systematic targeted bombings of multi-family homes, and deliberately damaging Gaza's only power plant.

Top Israeli officials circulated explicit incitements to genocide during the war against Gaza, and have continued to do so. The U.S. is directly complicit in these war crimes, providing more than $3 billion in foreign aid to Israel every year. The protesters urged an end to that support.

The protest began with a theater skit starring 10-year old Adel Sabri, who played the part of Omar, a boy who lives with his family in Gaza. As Omar spoke of uprooted olive trees, a brother arrested for throwing rocks, the bombing of Gaza, and the tireless resistance of the Palestinian people, U.S. reporters got the story wrong again and again. Adel said, “The play made me cry because I thought that could have happened to me.”

Sarah Martin of Committee Against FBI Repression spoke about the case of Rasmea Odeh, and urged all to make plans to travel to Cincinnati for Odeh’s appeal in September. “She is our hero, and she has come under attack only because she is a Palestinian who has dedicated her life to the liberation of Palestine.”

Also speaking before the march were Craig Wood, of Veterans for Peace Chapter 27 and Hussein Khatib of American Muslims for Palestine, Minnesota (AMP). AMP-MN helped to lead all of last summer’s demonstrations against the siege of Gaza.

After the speakers, rush hour traffic was stalled as marchers took to the major thoroughfare, Hennepin Avenue. Sabry Wazwaz of the AWC took to the bullhorn for a mile and a half, leading the crowd in chants of, “Free free Palestine!” and “Netanyahu you will learn, by the millions we’ll return!”

At the end, marchers gathered for closing remarks by Mel Reeves. He struck a hopeful cord, reminding folks of the victories of African Americans against slavery and South Africans against apartheid. While the struggle for Palestine may look dire, he said, “We will win.” The crowd joined in, “We will win! We will win!”

The AWC called on supporters to hold Minnesota senators accountable for supporting Israel throughout last summer’s war on Gaza. The Anti-War Committee held protests at both senators’ offices, including civil disobedience at Franken’s campaign headquarters.

The protest also launched the AWC’s social media campaign #51DaysinGaza. Follow and share @AntiwarMN posts that aim to educate and mobilize action through the end of August.

Endorsers of protest included Women Against Military Madness, Students for Justice in Palestine, Veterans for Peace Chapter 27 Minneapolis, MN Peace Action Coalition, Welfare Rights Committee, MN Immigrant Rights Action Committee, U.S. Palestinian Community Network-MN Chapter, MN Break the Bonds Campaign, and American Muslims for Palestine-MN.



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ACTION ALERT: Susiya could be destroyed any minute

Friday, July 17, 2015
Susiya could be gone by Monday. Act Now.

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Dear Chris,


Today is Eid, marking the end of Ramadan, which should be a day of celebration for Muslims worldwide. But the villagers of Susiya, a Palestinian village in the South Hebron Hills, were informed that their small village will be demolished for the second time, at the end of Ramadan.

Two years ago, I visited Susiya and was moved to tears by the kindness and steadfastness of the villagers who welcomed us and broke bread with us, families that have been on that land for generations in spite of ongoing attacks by the Israeli army and settlers.

Chris, there is literally no time to waste. Susiya could be gone by Monday. Please take a moment to act now to show your solidarity with Susiya and help prevent its destruction. There are several things you can do:

1. Sign this letter to Secretary of State John Kerry (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6IsZOopndb4XK3CRYLHi8Lp3gESY9L5I) organized by member group Jewish Voice for Peace, asking him to intervene.


2. Take Action on Social Media!


Share these #SaveSusiya memes (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=a5v7TlXd%2BHuKLDX%2B06y3ILp3gESY9L5I)

Add your support to the Thunderclap and take part in the #SaveSusiya Twitterstorm Sunday, July 19 at 5pm ET (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pEjPHduW%2BD74hGAjd520%2BBmOd4NKmSsq)

"Like" Susiya Forever (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ruydvT9Ld3onwIXgFN3T0rp3gESY9L5I) on Facebook

3. The Rebuilding Alliance is mapping support for Susiya. Add your voice here! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1t%2FOpuMaZrCERyf8eJqdoxmOd4NKmSsq)

4. California Representative Anna Eshoo and 8 other members of Congress sent a powerful letter (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=08lIZ0lRMmALvbM3BtW%2BnhmOd4NKmSsq) to Kerry, and the State Department urged Israeli authorities not to demolish. Thank the signatories (listed below), and you can still ask your representative to contact the State Department and Israeli embassy. Find contact information for your representative here (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lv%2BIBvue7j6KZETaT96Mg7p3gESY9L5I).

Thank you for taking action during this critical time.

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Anna Baltzer
National Organizer



P.S. Was your representative one of these signatories to the Eshoo letter? Thank them now!

California 18 (Silicon Valley) - Rep. Anna Eshoo
California 24 (Santa Barbara) - Rep. Lois Capps
Illinois 1 (Chicago) - Rep. Bobby Rush
Indiana 7 (Indianapolis) - Rep. Andre Carson
Maine 1 (Portland) - Rep. Pingree
Massachusetts 2 (Western Mass) - Rep. McGovern
Michigan 13 (Detroit) - Rep. Conyers
Minnesota 5 (Twin Cities) - Rep. Keith Ellison
Washington 7 (Seattle) - Rep. McDermott

Chris, take these actions:

1. Sign JVP's letter to Secretary John Kerry.

2. Take action on Twitter and share #SaveSusiya memes.

3. Add your voice to the Rebuilding Alliance Crisis Mapping.

4. Contact your own representative.







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Baby killed by racist Israeli settlers is relative of USPCN leader


Baby killed by racist Israeli settlers is relative of USPCN leader

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Baby killed by racist Israeli settlers is relative of USPCN leader

Ali Saad Dawabsha, the 18-month-old baby boy burned alive when Israeli settlers tossed flammable liquids and Molotov cocktails inside his and another home in the village of Douma (near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank), was buried yesterday while his mother Reham, father Saad, and four-year-old brother Ahmad are still in critical condition in an Israeli hospital that treats fire victims. They all have third-degree burns covering most of their bodies.

The baby and his family are relatives and neighbors of Milwaukee-based USPCN National Coordinating Committee member, Haitham Salawdeh, who was devastated by the news. “I have never felt as much anger as I am experiencing right now,” he said after family members called him to report on the killing. “We hold the Israeli government responsible for this vicious, racist murder, because it has allowed illegal settler-colonialists all across Palestine terrorize our people for decades.”

USPCN condemns this brutality, as well as the disgusting hypocrisy of Israeli and even Palestinian politicians. The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, tweeted, “I am shocked by the murder of Ali Dawabshe. This is a reprehensible and horrific act of terrorism in every respect.” But he is responsible for assembling the most rabid right-wing coalition government in Israel’s history, even appointing as Minister of “Justice” Ayelet Shaked, who last year posted on Facebook that Palestinian mothers should be killed for giving birth to “little snakes.” A day after that post, Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir was beaten and burned alive by Israeli settlers.

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas says that the Israeli government is “fully responsible for the brutal assassination” of the baby, and threatens to file a complaint with the International Criminal Court, but continues to allow “security coordination (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=c8db82411f&e=266d74dd41)” between the PA and Israel—to suppress Palestinian resistance.

The UN reports that there have been at least 120 attacks by Israeli settlers since the beginning of 2015, and a recent report by an Israeli human rights organization, Yesh Din, stated that over 92.6% of Palestinian complaints to the Israeli police go without charges being filed. The word “revenge” in Hebrew was graffitied along with the Star of David on a wall of one of the homes that was firebombed when Baby Ali was killed, clearly a “price tag” attack—vandalism or arson by Israeli settlers as retribution for actions taken by the Israeli government against settlements, or for acts of resistance by Palestinians.

Israeli settlers commit crimes with impunity, and the Israeli government does the same, as evidenced by the #51DaysInGaza attack last year that killed 2,143 Palestinians. But the issue is not with individual racist settlers, individual racist lawmakers, or individual racist soldiers. The issue is a culture of violence against Palestinians that is a direct result of Zionism and the white supremacist belief that European Jewish colonizers have the right to the land of historical Palestine.

They don’t have that right. The only inalienable rights in Palestine are return and self-determination, and the right to live free of occupation and colonization. Just like the continued racist police and white supremacist attacks on Black people in this country are galvanizing a new civil rights movement that is challenging everything that the United States represents, the whole world is beginning to recognize that Israel represents nothing but murder, exploitation, land theft, and devastation.

Israel is living on borrowed time. Its existence as a racist, apartheid state is almost over. And when Palestine is liberated, we will sing the name of Baby Ali, another of our beautiful martyrs.

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August 1st, 2015
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USPCN joins Samidoun, calls for Solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners


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TAKE ACTION: Stand in support of Palestinian political prisoners


As of Sunday, August 9, there were 180 Palestinian prisoners on an open hunger strike in Israeli jails, with hundreds more set to begin striking today.

WE JUST RECEIVED WORD THAT TODAY'S NEW STRIKE WAS SUSPENDED, because one of the demands was met, but many of the prisoners are still on strike, and the movement is still asking us for action!

The wave of strikes was originally initiated after Israeli special forces attacked Palestinian prisoners in Nafha prison on July 29, injuring 30 prisoners in a violent nighttime raid. Groups of prisoners were isolated and transferred from Nafha that night, while Palestinian prisoners launched a campaign of resistance.

120 prisoners in Nafha launched the hunger strike campaign on Thursday, August 6, demanding an end to isolation and solitary confinement, the return of transferred prisoners, an end to the denial of family visits, canteen (prison commissary) access, and an end to the raids on prisoners. On August 9th, several dozen more prisoners in Ramon and Eshel prisons joined the strike.

While we wait for further directives, this is what you can do now!

1. One of the prisoners still striking, Muhammad Allan, 31, a Palestinian lawyer held without charge or trial in administrative detention, has been without food for over 55 days, is in a severe medical emergency situation, and is being threatened with force-feeding (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=5f4df20957&e=266d74dd41) by the Israeli military--under a new law that has been condemned by UN representatives, the Israeli Medical Association, and human rights advocates. Click here to take action on Muhammad Allan’s case! (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=b280b09f12&e=266d74dd41)

2. Sign on to this statement in support of the prisoners’ demands (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=aa4d50b071&e=266d74dd41). Organizational and individual endorsements are welcome – and organizational endorsements particularly critical – in support of the prisoners’ demands and their actions.

3. Send a solidarity statement. The support of people around the world helps to inform people about the struggle of Palestinian prisoners. It is a morale booster and helps to build political solidarity. Please send your solidarity statements to [email protected] They will be published and sent directly to the prisoners.

4. Hold a solidarity one-day hunger strike in your area. Gather in a tent or central area, bring materials about Palestinian prisoners and hold a one-day solidarity strike to raise awareness and provide support for the struggle of the prisoners and the Palestinian cause. Please email [email protected] to inform them of your action – Samidoun will publicize and share news with the prisoners.

5. Protest at the Israeli consulate or embassy in your area. Bring posters and flyers about administrative detention and Palestinian hunger strikers and hold a protest, or join a protest with this important information. Hold a community event or discussion, or include this issue in your next event about Palestine and social justice. Please email [email protected] to inform them of your action – they will publicize and share news with the prisoners.

6. Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. Don’t buy Israeli goods, and campaign to end investments in corporations that profit from the occupation, including Coca-Cola, the company USPCN is targeting as its contribution to BDS (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=81c4caedb5&e=266d74dd41).

G4S, a global security corporation, is heavily involved in providing services to Israeli prisons that jail Palestinian political prisoners – there is a global call to boycott it (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=61f0560e97&e=266d74dd41). Palestinian political prisoners have issued a specific call urging action on G4S. (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=2f5d8f34a9&e=266d74dd41) Learn more about BDS at bdsmovement.net.

7. In addition, long-time Palestinian activist Amer Jubran – who was persecuted for his organizing, and eventually deported from the U.S. – is now facing 10 years in prison in Jordan after a conviction on dubious evidence in an unfair trial with no due process. We are calling for action on Amer's case as well! (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=d9d45d7255&e=266d74dd41)

USPCN expresses its strongest support for our prisoners on hunger strike, for all of the over 5,700 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails, and for those in Jordanian, Palestinian Authority, and other prisons as well. They are daily on the front lines of the Palestinian struggle for justice, return, and liberation, and their political strength and unity are compass points that inspire all of us in the Diaspora, and all our friends in the solidarity movement.

We fully and unconditionally support the Nafha prisoners' demands, and urge immediate action by Palestinians, Arabs, and all people of conscience across the world!
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Why isn't the SEC enforcing U.S. law for Israel bonds?

Monday, August 17, 2015
Sign petition demanding full disclosure for Israel bonds!


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Dear Chris,


Did you know that more than 75 U.S. states and municipalities are invested in Israel bonds, which are used to fund illegal settlement construction in violation of U.S. and international law? More than $1 billion in Israel bonds were sold in the U.S. last year alone!

The Development Corporation of Israel (DCI), the American corporation which sells these bonds to states, municipalities, individuals, and organizations, is required by U.S. federal law to report all "material facts" about such securities to buyers -- i.e. all facts that could enable an average investor to make an informed investment decision. But rather than disclosing that Israel bonds are used to fund illegal settlement expansion and apartheid policies, DCI misleads investors by benignly characterizing securities' sales as used for "general purposes of the state."

SIGN THIS PETITION urging the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to enforce U.S. law by demanding that DCI fully disclose how Israel bonds are used to violate Palestinian rights! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zNFdgztZ%2BlBzRE9qHoYsF48b72w8GfFm)

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Member organization Minnesota Break the Bonds (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vp5yq8jerw%2BP7puvTuYJvY8b72w8GfFm) has led a ground-breaking campaign calling on their state to divest from Israel bonds. They know that many states and other entities might not invest in these bonds if the full implications and risks of such investments were public. It's the SEC's job to ensure such disclosure, and we need your help to make sure they do it!

Please sign this petition to the SEC today! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=O6CX0WSdFSaBi7fSO3LlVo8b72w8GfFm)

Sincerely,





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Legislative Coordinator

P.S. Please take a moment to click on these links to share the petition on Facebook and Twitter too!




Chris, take these actions:

1. Sign petition to the SEC! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dt5MiFKYZRqx6VJ3GIwDn48b72w8GfFm)

2. Click to instantly post the petition on Facebook (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YfBixF2HNUzGgunyheReWI8b72w8GfFm), Twitter (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0aA3ZD9NjX3FaehIo2CxpI8b72w8GfFm)

3. Join us in Atlanta (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jX7s05fJHlGto2JoaSfrHY8b72w8GfFm) Sept 25-27 for our National Conference!







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Palestinian boycott activists salute the 1,000+ Black activists, scholars and artists for endorsing BDS for Palestinian rights

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“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” – Rev Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Occupied Palestine, August 25, 2015 — Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) activists have today welcomed the statement (http://www.ebony.com/news-views/1000-black-activists-artists-and-scholars-demand-justice-for-palestine-403#axzz3jCGknK1O) issued by more than 1,000 African American activists, artists and scholars in solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people for freedom, justice and equality and in support of BDS.

The statement unequivocally calls for BDS and places an emphasis on the right of Palestinian refugees to “return to their homeland in present-day Israel” as “the most important aspect of justice for Palestinians.”

Mahmoud Nawajaa, the general coordinator of the Palestinian BDS National Committee, the broad Palestinian civil society coalition that leads the BDS movement, welcomed the declaration by saying, “The statement’s support for BDS against Israel’s regime of occupation, settler colonialism and apartheid is particularly inspiring as it translates principled positions into morally-consistent actions that are capable of righting injustices.”

“The US civil rights movement has always been a key inspiration for us in the BDS movement. We are deeply moved by this powerful proclamation that evokes the spirit of that heroic civil rights struggle and the inspirational Black Lives Matter movement and epitomises speaking truth to power,” Nawajaa added.

Omar Barghouti, co-founder of the BDS movement, reacted to the statement, “This deeply moving and noble declaration by our Black brothers and sisters in the US and elsewhere is not just a genuine expression of effective, altruistic international solidarity. It is a poignant testament to the organic links that connect the Palestinian struggle for self-determination with the struggle of the oppressed around the world, including ongoing struggles for racial and economic justice by black people in the US and across the world.”

Barghouti added, “Despite the obvious differences, there are compelling similarities between the forms of oppression that both Palestinians and African-Americans live under. Dehumanization, dispossession, racial injustice and discrimination, state violence, criminalization of entire communities and impunity are all key characteristics are of the oppression faced by black Americans and Palestinians.”

The leading Black activists, scholars and artists’ call for boycotts and divestment against the private security company G4S is especially noteworthy. “G4S harms thousands of Palestinian political prisoners illegally held in Israel (http://www.palestinecampaign.org/campaign/prisoners/) and hundreds of Black and brown youth held in its privatized juvenile prisons (http://www.djj.state.fl.us/programs-facilities/residential-facilities) in the US,” their statement said. It profits from “incarceration and deportation from the US and Palestine, to the UK (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/22/g4s-convictions-deaths-employees-racial-overtones), South Africa (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/13/south-african-prisoners-sue-g4s-over-torture-claims), and Australia (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/23/manus-security-firm-g4s-responsible-for-february-violence-says-law-centre),” the statement added, rejecting notions of “security” that “make any of our groups unsafe” and insisting that “no one is free until all of us are.”

In 2012, the BNC was one of several Palestinian human rights and civil society organisations that launched a large international BDS campaign against G4S (http://www.bdsmovement.net/2012/prisoners-day-g4s-call-8887), the British-Danish private security company that is deeply involved (http://www.bdsmovement.net/files/2012/10/WhoProfits-PrivateSecurity-G4S.pdf) in Israel’s violations of prisoners’ rights and international law.

The boycott campaign has cost G4S many contracts (http://www.bdsmovement.net/g4s-timeline) around the world, including in the US (http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/major-campaign-success-against-g4s-in-the-us-12869), Ireland (http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/g4s-loses-out-on-irish-government-contract-12748), Norway (https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-deas/second-norwegian-university-drops-g4s-over-support-israeli-apartheid), South Africa (http://www.bdsmovement.net/2013/cosatu-condemns-g4s-role-palestine-statement-south-african-prison-privatization-11362), among others.

Under this intense pressure from the BDS movement, G4S has announced that it will not renew (http://www.bdsmovement.net/2014/bds-pressure-forces-g4s-distance-itself-prison-system-12166) its contract with the Israeli Prison Service when it lapses in 2017. However, G4S has not yet made any written confirmation of this decision or ended any of its contracts supporting Israeli settlements, prisons, checkpoints and military bases, so Palestinian organisations are calling for the G4S campaign to continue.

BNC secretariat member Rafeef Ziadah said, “The BDS movement joins hands with the 1,000 Black activists that have issued this statement and with communities across the world in calling for the intensification of campaigns against G4S. Let us resist the role the company plays in human rights violations across the world, from Florida to Jerusalem and everywhere in between.”

“The current surge of mass Black activism for justice rekindles the whole world’s hope for a more peaceful, just and dignified world,” Ziadah added.



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Protest slams Senator Klobuchar support for Israeli terror

Die-in demands ‘No U.S. aid for Israel’ on anniversary of Gaza War

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By Linden Gawboy

Minneapolis, MN – More than 50 demonstrators rallied in front of the office of Senator Klobuchar (D-MN), August 26, to mark the end of the 2014 Israeli/U.S. war on Gaza. Cars driving up and down Washington Avenue honked in support.

Sophia Hansen-Day of the Anti-War Committee told the crowd, “Last summer over 2200 Palestinians, 513 of whom were children, were massacred by the Israeli military in a horrific 51-day war. In terms of explosive force, the Israeli military used the equivalent of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in the course of its war on Gaza. International law experts agree Israel is guilty of nothing short of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and, incitement to genocide.”

“U.S. military aid to the tune of at least $3 billion every year, unfaltering diplomatic support, media propaganda - the U.S. government directly supports Zionist terror, sustains the occupation and enables massacres such as the one we witnessed last summer. Today, we stand in front of Senator Klobuchar’s office to demand the U.S. government ends all military, political and economic support for the apartheid state of Israel,” Hansen-Day continued.

After the rally at Klobuchar’s office, protesters marched through the streets, blocking rush-hour traffic and chanting. Upon arriving at May Day Plaza, Sarah Martin of Women Against Military Madness spoke and urged protesters to come to Cincinnati, Oct. 14, to support Palestinian American leader Rasmea Odeh.

On May Day plaza, there was a heart-wrenching die-in. A member of the Anti-War Committee read an account written by a woman from Gaza who lost 18 people in one attack. She read out the relatives’ names and ages. After each name, the crowd chanted “Presente!” Protesters representing the family members fell to the pavement as each name was called. White sheets splattered with red paint to represent blood were draped over the people on the ground. After all 18 names were read, the crowd chanted, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” and the die-in participants sprang up, joining in the resistance chant.

The protest was initiated by the Anti-War Committee and endorsed by American Muslims for Palestine, Jewish Voices for Peace - Twin Cities, Minnesota Peace Action Coalition, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAc), Students for a Democratic Society at UMN, Students for Justice in Palestine - U of MN, Welfare Rights Committee, Veterans for Peace, U.S. Palestinian Communities Network - MN Chapter, and Women Against Military Madness (WAMM).

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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MAJOR BDS WIN! Veolia sells all remaining ties to the occupation!



Friday, August 28, 2015
Victory shows unprecedented power of BDS movement


Dear Chris,

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It is with great pleasure that I share with you some exciting news we just received from Palestine: Veolia -- the flagship global boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) movement campaign -- has withdrawn completely from the Israeli market!


Click on each link to share the good news on Facebook (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SPZGu8D6eIS6P0QbAM1hNOmdWv%2BiDdHn) and Twitter (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=haWjI%2FihXcaKur4iIcRKGOmdWv%2BiDdHn)!

The French multinational was targeted by BDS because of its complicity with the Israeli occupation in four ways: (1) operating Israeli settler bus lines on segregated roads in the occupied West Bank, (2) operating a landfill dumping Israeli and settler trash on Palestinian land, (3) providing wastewater services to illegal Israeli settlements, and (4) investment in the Jerusalem Light Rail (JLR), which connects the settlements with 1948 Israel, further entrenching Israel's colonization of the West Bank.

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Veolia lost more than $20 billion in contracts following BDS campaigns worldwide, and began by selling off its Israeli bus services in September 2013. Then, this past April, Veolia sold off its settlement landfill and wastewater contracts. And as of this week, Veolia had sold off its final JLR shares in the occupation, making this one of the most extraordinary global BDS victories to date, showing the unprecedented power of this movement!

Even in the movement challenging South African apartheid, many corporate targets like Shell never entirely withdrew from South Africa. Far beyond symbolic victories, the Palestinian-led BDS movement is forcing major multinational corporations to change their behavior. Just a few weeks after BDS turned 10, this victory illustrates the extraordinary heights of economic influence that BDS has achieved in its first decade. These corporate changes send a clear message to Israel, the U.S. government, and corporations that participation of Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people is costly and unsustainable. And they send the message to activists worldwide that together we can affect real change, and now is a critical moment to redouble our effort.

Nowhere is the growing power of BDS clearer than in the latest top-down attempts by legislators to stifle it, including through a recent Congressional hearing on BDS that featured no Palestinians or BDS supporters! If you haven't yet, make sure to sign this important petition calling on Congress to hold a pro-BDS hearing! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rFrJq5EeZL7bBG3RLKFXTumdWv%2BiDdHn)


Veolia action in Los Angeles

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The US Campaign has been proud to support member groups in Yolo County, Sonoma County, and Los Angeles, California; Baltimore; Boston; and beyond on municipal BDS campaigns to dump city contracts with Veolia. In St. Louis, a broad-based coalition of Palestine advocates, environmental justice activists, water workers, Organization for Black Struggle, and others waged a historic campaign to stop a proposed city water contract, forcing Veolia to withdraw its bid -- a watershed, precedent-setting win. The United Church of Christ, Quaker Friends Fiduciary Corporation, and retirement fund TIAA-CREF Social Choice Fund also divested from Veolia. These many successful U.S. campaigns have shown the multinational that no matter where it sought business, it would be held accountable.


Environmentalists joined with Palestine activists and others to Dump Veolia

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Of course, Veolia, the largest water privatizer in the world, must still be held accountable for its egregious environmental and labor rights violations, mismanagement, corruption, and other disastrous practicesfor which it is infamous. And Veolia owes a great debt to the Palestinian communities it has harmed in its violations of human rights and international law, and must pay reparations.

Nonetheless, let's take a moment to celebrate this incredible achievement, and get back to the important work of supporting our allies and BDS campaigns for freedom, justice, and equality. I hope you'll join me at our conference in Atlanta next month to high five about Veolia dumping the occupation, and more importantly, talk about who will be next...


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P.S. We are working to ensure that other companies, like prison and occupation profiteer G4S, join Veolia in divesting from the occupation once and for all. Will you give $25, $50, or more today to be a part of augmenting efforts to achieve more BDS victories?



Chris, take these actions:


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2. Share the Veolia news on Facebook (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=o6MEKKlDRPaqbQJAY7g1yOmdWv%2BiDdHn) and Twitter (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1IJEScXd9bk8MKcPh1JN3umdWv%2BiDdHn)!

3. Join us (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=blQxVtvvpEZ9wtPHL3tcMumdWv%2BiDdHn) at Atlanta September 25-27 Conference: Advancing a Mass Movement for Palestine.

4. Invest in future BDS wins. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qOw2Ak%2BgUTAH8JtSWnS1Rtt3dCBX7wOB)


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Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President, Says He’s No Longer Bound by Oslo Accords
By RICK GLADSTONE and JODI RUDORENSEPT. 30, 2015

UNITED NATIONS — Demonstrating a new level of tension with Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority declared on Wednesday that his people were no longer bound by mutual agreements with Israel, including the Oslo Peace Accords, which created the foundation for the Middle East peace process.

In his annual General Assembly speech, Mr. Abbas accused Israel of having systematically violated these pacts, which date back two decades and outline security, economic and other arrangements in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel during and after the 1967 war.

The agreements formed the basis for governing much of daily life in the occupied West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority is based.

Continue reading the main story
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Mourners at the funeral on Tuesday for Diyaa Talahmeh, 21, a Palestinian man who died in an explosion near the West Bank city of Hebron. The Israeli military described Mr. Talahmeh's death as an accident, saying it appeared that he had been trying to throw an explosive device that detonated prematurely.2 Are Killed in West Bank as Jewish and Muslim Holidays ApproachSEPT. 22, 2015
Mr. Abbas said that there was no reason that the Palestinians should remain faithful to these accords as long as the Israelis were not. Therefore, he said, “we cannot continue to be bound by these signed agreements with Israel and Israel must assume fully all its responsibility as an occupying power.”

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The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Mr. Abbas’s speech was “deceitful,” issuing a brief statement that did not address the Palestinian leader’s main announcement. Dore Gold, the director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, said in an interview that “Israel does uphold its agreements.”

Mr. Abbas delivered the speech — punctuated later by the ceremonial raising of the Palestinian flag at the United Nations for the first time — against a backdrop of growing frustration among many Palestinians over the paralysis in peace negotiations with Israel.

Compounded by new strife over contested religious sites in Jerusalem and other festering issues, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the most protracted dispute vexing the United Nations since the organization’s founding 70 years ago.

full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/world/middleeast/mahmoud-abbas-palestinian-authority-un-speech.html

[blake 3:17]

Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority President, Says He’s No Longer Bound by Oslo Accords
By RICK GLADSTONE and JODI RUDORENSEPT. 30, 2015

UNITED NATIONS — Demonstrating a new level of tension with Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority declared on Wednesday that his people were no longer bound by mutual agreements with Israel, including the Oslo Peace Accords, which created the foundation for the Middle East peace process.

In his annual General Assembly speech, Mr. Abbas accused Israel of having systematically violated these pacts, which date back two decades and outline security, economic and other arrangements in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel during and after the 1967 war.

The agreements formed the basis for governing much of daily life in the occupied West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority is based.

Continue reading the main story
RELATED COVERAGE

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will speak before the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday.Netanyahu Will Address U.N., but Focus May Be Healing Rift With U.S.SEPT. 30, 2015
Mourners at the funeral on Tuesday for Diyaa Talahmeh, 21, a Palestinian man who died in an explosion near the West Bank city of Hebron. The Israeli military described Mr. Talahmeh's death as an accident, saying it appeared that he had been trying to throw an explosive device that detonated prematurely.2 Are Killed in West Bank as Jewish and Muslim Holidays ApproachSEPT. 22, 2015
Mr. Abbas said that there was no reason that the Palestinians should remain faithful to these accords as long as the Israelis were not. Therefore, he said, “we cannot continue to be bound by these signed agreements with Israel and Israel must assume fully all its responsibility as an occupying power.”

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The office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said Mr. Abbas’s speech was “deceitful,” issuing a brief statement that did not address the Palestinian leader’s main announcement. Dore Gold, the director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, said in an interview that “Israel does uphold its agreements.”

Mr. Abbas delivered the speech — punctuated later by the ceremonial raising of the Palestinian flag at the United Nations for the first time — against a backdrop of growing frustration among many Palestinians over the paralysis in peace negotiations with Israel.

Compounded by new strife over contested religious sites in Jerusalem and other festering issues, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the most protracted dispute vexing the United Nations since the organization’s founding 70 years ago.

full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/world/middleeast/mahmoud-abbas-palestinian-authority-un-speech.html

[Abdullah Tshabal]

Here's a couple of "news". Pardon if some of them are a bit "dated" now...

1. Leila Khaled took a state visit to South Africa in mid-January to many of its major cities as an invitation by the BDS movement, supported by many similiar activists groups, advicacy groups and the Communist Party.

News Sources: News24, IOL News, Cii Broadcasting, Media Review Network

2. Blade Nzimande (the current head of the SACP) was denied access into Palestine by the Israelis while he intended to visit the Occupied Territories in late April - And the 27th is one of the days he meant to stay there which ironically is "Freedom Day" when Apartheid rule in South Africa collapsed. He also was labeled as an "enemy of Israel". This is also one of the few acts that the Israeli government which the Zionists in South Africa oppose.

News Sources: Media Review Network, IOL

3. The leaders of Hamas took a state visit to South Africa in mid-October to directly speak with the ANC Tripartite ruling party. While in Johannesburg, the Hamas and ANC (plus the SACP and COSATU) signed a letter of intent - more or less a treaty and few days later visited Cape Town for a rally, plus the Parliament is located there. Hamas also seeks to establish an office in South Africa. This also means that South Africa is going to be more directly involved in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Obviously Israel considers it an "act of war" and unsurprisingly, there is already massive opposition to the signing by the right-wing and various Zionist groups in the nation.

News Sources: Media Review Network, IOL, Mail & Guardian, PressTV

#3 is the most recent though the most significant to the issue at hand.

[ckaihatsu]

Help get Hatem Abudayyeh's Father out of Israeli Detention


CODEPINK


Chris --
Khairy Abudayyeh, a 75 year-old Chicago community elder and U.S. citizen, has been detained for the past 20 hours by the Israeli authorities at Ben Gurion airport in Al-Lydd, Palestine.

He was detained trying to return to his childhood home in El Jib in the occupied West Bank. He also has chronic illnesses, including diabetes and high blood pressure, and is a recent cancer survivor.

We are asking all our friends to call the emergency US consulate number in Jerusalem at 01197226227230 and the US embassy at 01197235197551, as well as email [email protected] demand that these representatives of ours pressure the Israelis to release and allow him to get to his home in the West Bank!

Share this action alert with your friends by inviting them to this Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1685189308383405/

Justice for all,
Pat Hunt and CODEPINK Chicago

Donate Now

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Khairy Abudayyeh returning to the U.S., but State Dept. has to answer for Israeli impunity

Khairy Abudayyeh on his way back to U.S.

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Khairy Abudayyeh returning to the U.S., but State Department has to answer for Israeli impunity!

Thank you all for your immediate attention to the plight of Khairy Izzat Abudayyeh, a 75-year-old Chicago community elder, U.S. citizen, and father of USPCN co-founder Hatem Abudayyeh, who had been detained for over 24 hours by the Israeli authorities at Ben Gurion airport in Al-Lydd, Palestine. He is on a flight back to the U.S., and should be safely amongst his family very soon!

Friends, colleagues, and conscientious supporters of Palestinian rights made targeted inquiries to DC legislators and hundreds of calls to the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv and the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem. These, no doubt, helped pressure the respective embassy and consulate staffers to inquire about Abudayyeh, and even helped his children speak to him for a few minutes.

But why did Israel send him back to the U.S.? Why does Israel get to treat Palestinians the way it treated him? Abudayyeh is only one of many U.S. citizens of Palestinian descent who are or have been discriminated against by Israeli authorities over the years. Of course Israel acts with impunity against Palestinians regardless of passport, but it is incredible that it treats U.S. citizens this way, and even more incredible that the U.S. State Department DOES NOTHING ABOUT IT!

Abudayyeh was just trying to return for a visit to his childhood home--which he had recently remodeled--in El Jib in the occupied West Bank. He was detained despite the fact that he has chronic illnesses, including diabetes and high blood pressure, and is a recent cancer survivor.

Other U.S. citizen Palestinians like Sandra Tamari, Nour Joudah, the family of Orwa Hammad, and of course the child Tariq Abu Khdeir, who was beaten almost to death by Israeli police, have similar and sometimes much worse stories (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=7ca138f016&e=266d74dd41).

And we're not even able to report these stories to the State Department, because the link on the website was broken (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=48dc3e99d1&e=266d74dd41) for years and still doesn't appear to be functioning properly.

Our friends at the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), and Right to Enter, respectively and together, have done a lot of work on this issue, so we should also continue to press the U.S. State Department to End Israeli's Impunity.

TAKE ACTION NOW!

Email this letter below to: [email protected] & [email protected]

Also copy and paste it into the DC office contact form (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=4bf1e8e075&e=266d74dd41).

"Dear U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry:

In the wake of the detention of Khairy Izzat Abudayyeh, and the denial of his entry into Palestine--one in a long line of egregious examples of Israeli discrimination against U.S. citizens--I strongly urge you to hold Israel accountable for a racist policy that has continued unabated for decades.

As a first step, and even though you have rejected this recommendation in the past, it is critical for the State Department to begin tracking and reporting incidents of discrimination and denial of entry to ensure Israel's compliance with the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between the U.S. and Israel, and also to determine Israel's eligibility for the United States Visa Waiver Program.

Lawmakers, civil society organizations, and numerous Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim institutions have long called on the State Department to begin tracking and responding to Israel's interrogation, detention, and denial of entry to U.S. citizens, and I encourage you to heed that call.

The State Department must go beyond issuing condemnations of Israel's policies, and take concrete action to address this decades-long pattern.

We have seen the most vicious racism personified in Israel's apartheid policies, continued occupation of Palestinian land, siege on Gaza, and recent military support of its settlers' attacks on West Bank and Jerusalem Palestinians. Israel's crimes extend to its treatment of U.S. citizens as well.

The status quo is unacceptable and I sincerely hope the State Department will ensure that all U.S. passport holders are treated equally, regardless of their national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, or political beliefs.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[City, State]"

Please also bcc [email protected] so we can keep track of the letters sent.

Thank you all for helping to force Israel to release our elder Khairy Izzat Abudayyeh, and your continued support for the Palestinian rights of Return, Self-Determination, and Independence.

USPCN
December 11th, 2015



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CT AFL-CIO Adopts Resolution in Support of Justice and Peace for Palestinians


The Labor Fightback Network (LFN) is pleased to reference below the resolution adopted by the Connecticut AFL-CIO on the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Despite different opinions that may exist concerning aspects of this conflict, the LFN believes that this resolution marks an important step forward for the labor movement

The LFN applauds the Connecticut AFL-CIO for being the first state labor federation to pass a resolution explicitly asking labor to support BDS (boycott, divestment, and sanctions) of Israel. We urge that our readers publicize, support, and promote this resolution. Especially now, when so many politicians and candidates are trying to drum up fear of Muslims and immigrants, it takes courage to stand up to the pro-Israel lobby, which has often squelched efforts within U.S. labor to express solidarity with Palestinians by falsely claiming that such efforts are anti-Jewish, rather than against the Israeli government for its apartheid-like policies.

And we must not forget Israel's record of atrocities against the Palestinians, including the unconscionable murders and destruction in Gaza.

The LFN agrees with the Connecticut AFL-CIO that US labor should "oppose anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and all acts of racism, human rights violations, and the exploitation of workers."


Click here: CT AFL-CIO Adopts Resolution in Support of BDS and Justice and Peace for the Palestinian People | Portside (http://portside.org/2015-11-03/ct-afl-cio-adopts-resolution-support-bds-and-justice-and-peace-palestinian-people)

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973-975-9704 or email [email protected] or write Labor Fightback Network, P.O. Box 187, Flanders, NJ 07836 or visit our website at laborfightback.org. Facebook link : https://www.facebook.com/laborfightback

Donations to help fund the Labor Fightback Network based on its program of solidarity and labor-community unity are necessary for our work to continue and will be much appreciated. Please make checks payable to Labor Fightback Network and mail to the above P.O. Box or you can make a contribution online. Thanks!

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Chris, this is big. The lines have crossed.



Sunday, May 8, 2016
We've Reached a Milestone

Dear Chris,

This is very exciting! We are witnessing a benchmark moment in the fight for freedom, justice, and equality for Palestinians. For years, we have worked to cultivate a shift in the way people talk about and relate to Palestinians; educating and empowering Americans to push for a better US policy. Many of us who have been engaged in this work for years can tell that things are changing and today we have reached a moment that is highly reflective of that change.

This week, the Pew Research Center released a new study of US attitudes including views on Israel/Palestine. For the first time ever, a subsection of Americans, "Liberal Democrats," sympathize more with Palestinians than Israel. Take a look at this chart below -- the lines have crossed. This is what progress looks like.

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A decade ago in 2006, Daniel Pipes, an avowed supporter of Israel's oppressive policies and central cog in the Islamophobia industry, wrote on his blog about a similar poll showing very different results, noting that it was "heartening" that "liberal democrats support Israel by a nearly 2-to-1 ratio." Well, guess what, things have changed. These new numbers will surely be disheartening to Daniel Pipes and that my friend is a great thing.

There is still quite a battle ahead of us. While the shift is clearly evident among this subsection of the American political spectrum for the first time, it has not yet hit the mainstream. That is why we must redouble our efforts at this inspiring moment to make sure this progress continues. The US Campaign is actively engaged in campaigns to advocate for Palestinian rights in progressive circles and beyond, growing our base of support out from one end of the spectrum and into the mainstream. We can not do this without your support.

Some will look at these numbers and say that yes, while there has been a shift among Liberal Democrats, the rest of America is still very supportive of Israel. This is true and this is our challenge. But it is also true that on various issues where we have witnessed transformational change in public opinion over the past 15 years, whether it is on the issues of marriage equality, legalization, or US-Cuba relations, progressives were the first subsections where majorities supported change before the mainstream caught on.

As Israel's brutal policies continue to deny Palestinians even the most basic rights, more and more Americans are getting fed up with our government's unconditional support for Israel.

Friend, support for Palestinian rights will mainstream. It is not a question of if, it is merely a question of when. You can accelerate this process today by helping us grow the movement, our organization, and our resources. Together, we can make the next set of lines cross.

Onward,


Yousef Munayyer
Executive Director







Chris,
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[Gaza] Women's Boats to Gaza have been named


Women's Boats to Gaza have been named

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for immediate release

This month, in celebration of Mother’s Day, we concluded our worldwide call to name the boats that will sail to Gaza in mid September. Amal-Hope and Zaytouna-Oliva will sail to Gaza in mid September. Both women’s names represent many languages.

Amal symbolizes the hope that we will bring to the shores of Gaza and Zaytouna symbolizes the mighty olive, the tree of life in Palestinian agriculture. In addition, Oliva was the name of the civil protection boat that Italian activist-journalist Vittorio Arrigoni sailed in solidarity with Palestinian fishing boats in Gaza before he was murdered in 2011.

We also honour Mother’s Day’s origins in the 1800’s with women speaking out against war. We intend to carry this spirit forward with our mission. We have been deeply encouraged by the interest in this important project, which will not only highlight the role of women in the struggle, but will also bring attention to what is happening to each and every person living in Gaza. We are constantly encouraged by the resilient spirit of our sisters and brothers in Gaza and we will continue to bring their stories forward as we campaign to lift the brutal and illegal siege of Gaza.

We received over 160 excellent and thoughtful name suggestions, and have now made the difficult decision to select two names for the boats that will sail to Gaza. Each submission is appreciated and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition looks forward to ongoing support as we prepare to sail in mid September.

Amal-Hope and Zaytouna-Oliva will sail with the purpose and determination behind these women’s names.

For more information please contact spokesperson Wendy Goldsmith at: [email protected] or (+1) 519 281 3978.

You can support the Women's Boat to Gaza by donating online:
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Those who can benefit from a U.S. tax receipt can contribute online at
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USPCN Commemorates Al-Nakba & Launches Political Prisoners Campaign

#StopAD: Statement on 68 years of Al-Nakba
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Today marks the 68th year of the Palestinian Nakba (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=98ace63d4a&e=266d74dd41), or “Catastrophe,” and we join fellow Palestinians and Arabs, along with our allies all over the world, to commemorate the ethnic cleansing of over 450 Palestinian villages by zionist settler gangs, the killing of almost 15,000 people, including the 250 massacred at Deir Yassin, and the displacement of more than 750,000 Palestinians forced to flee their homes and become refugees.

On May 14th,1948, European Jewish settlers declared the illegal, white settler-colonial state of Israel on 78% of historic Palestine, while owning less than 6% of the land. Ever since, Palestinians have maintained the Right to Return to our homes and lands in the entirety of historic Palestine, as enshrined in international law. The Palestinian nation is indivisible, whether in the diaspora in the United States or Europe, in the refugee camps of Lebanon, Jordan, or Syria, or within historic Palestine; and all Palestinians have the right to resist the continued, illegal, colonial occupation of our lands.

Today, USPCN also announces the launch of our national Political Prisoners Campaign. Thousands of Palestinians – including children – are currently in Israeli jails as political prisoners.

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Regardless of the charges brought against them by occupying Israeli military courts, we stand in defense of all Palestinian prisoners. Those held by Israel are all prisoners of conscience and national heroes, and we reject the criminalization of our resistance. To defend and advocate for them is to support the sacred right of the Palestinians to National Liberation and Independence.

We mark the launch of this campaign with the first Palestinian Prisoners Weekly Review (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=fde1326b83&e=266d74dd41), a news digest shared via email, social media, and our website, with important developments and news in the realm of Palestinian political prisoner defense. This first installment includes important primary documentation from Addameer (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=75773c9e84&e=266d74dd41), Defense for Children Palestine (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=9826683d23&e=266d74dd41), and other institutions and news sources.

We aim to stay connected and informed. We also aim to TAKE ACTION.

Alongside the weekly review, today we launch our Petition to Stop Administrative Detention-#StopAD (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=006ea6d96a&e=266d74dd41).

Connect with us. Remain engaged in action by following our website, Twitter, and Facebook, and tweeting with the hashtag #StopAD.

Don’t miss the opportunity for immediate action by registering to attend (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=5e35aaf8ea&e=266d74dd41) Rasmea Odeh’s next status hearing June 13th in Detroit. The next phase of the Rasmea defense campaign will be determined there, and it is imperative that we have a strong showing of support for our beloved community icon and survivor of brutal Israeli torture and detention.

Another year since Al-Nakba and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine calls on us all to recommit and continue fighting to see a Free Palestine in our lifetimes.

Until Liberation and Return,

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[Gaza] Women's Boat to Gaza presented at European Parliament


Women's Boat to Gaza presented at European Parliament
Brussels (Belgium), May 31. (français ci-dessous*)

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The Women’s Boat to Gaza, Freedom Flotilla logoa campaign of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition conducted its meetings over the past weekend to discuss and further plans to set sail towards Gaza in mid-September with all women delegates and crew. In doing so we raise the issue of the ongoing illegal blockade of Gaza. Shabnam Mayet, Human Rights Advocate from South Africa says, “The Israeli occupation consistently both violates International Law and disregards UN Resolutions with impunity.”

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Confirmed delegates who will be on the Flotilla include: Nobel Laureate (1976) and peace activist from Northern Ireland, Mairead Maguire and Green Party New Zealand Member of Parliament Marama Davidson. Further delegates will be announced in the coming weeks.

One of the important goals of our mission is to highlight the devastating effects of the brutal blockade on the Palestinian people living in Gaza. We will emphasize in particular the struggle of women, and their many roles within the resistance. Women in Gaza often fill the role of caring for and sustaining life, and are actively involved in community development and nation building. It is important to make their voices heard, even more so during periods of extreme injustice.

We also acknowledge May 31, world day of solidarity with Gaza, the anniversary of the massacre on the Mavi Marmara in 2010, when 10 non-violent activists were murdered by the Israeli Navy, an illegal act in international waters that continues to go unpunished. However, that brutal attack is little compared to the daily violence inflicted on Gaza with while the world remains silent.

A United Nations report states that Gaza will be uninhabitable by 2020. Homes, schools and hospitals have been destroyed. 97% of water is not drinkable and electricity is reduced to a few hours per day. “Our project, supported by many women’s groups in Gaza and by civil society around the world, seeks to bring a message of solidarity and hope. In order to change this horrifying prediction the siege must be immediately lifted” says Ellen Huttu Hansson, spokesperson for Ship to Gaza Sweden.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition has asked for the support of members of the European Parliament for the Women’s Boat to Gaza and will seek assurances from all governments that they will protect and not obstruct its peaceful mission of solidarity to the besieged Palestinian people of Gaza.

For more information, contact [email protected] or +1 519-281-3978 You can support the Women's Boat to Gaza by donating online:
http://canadaboatgaza.org/donate/

Those who can benefit from a U.S. tax receipt can contribute online at https://womensboatgaza-nonviolenceinternational.nationbuilder.com/contribute

To find and support other campaigns that are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, please see: freedomflotilla.org/about

Other ways to get involved:
Follow us at www.canadaboatgaza.org and freedomflotilla.org
www.facebook.com/FreedomFlotillaCoalition/ and www.facebook.com/CanadaBoatGaza/
Twitter @GazaFFlotilla @CanadaBoatGaza

Thank you for your support. Together we can end the blockade of Gaza!

In Solidarity
the Canadian Boat to Gaza team

(*français)
Le Bateau des femmes pour Gaza au Parlement européen
Bruxelles (Belgique), le 31 mai 2016

Depuis la fin de semaine dernière, les préparatifs concernant le Bateau des femmes pour Gaza, une nouvelle campagne de la Coalition Flottille de la Liberté, ont beaucoup progressé avec l’objectif d’un départ vers Gaza à la mi-septembre. Les membres de l’équipage de même que les passagères seront exclusivement des femmes. Leur objectif ? Sensibiliser l’opinion publique mondiale à l’illégalité du blocus auquel ce territoire est soumis. Militante des droits de la personne en Afrique du Sud, Shabnam Mayet rappelle que « l’occupation israélienne, de façon systématique, viole impunément à la fois le droit international et les résolutions de l’ONU»

Parmi les déléguées qui ont confirmé leur participation à la flottille, Mairead Maguire, militante pacifiste nord‑irlandaise et lauréate du prix Nobel de la paix en 1976 ainsi que Marama Davidson, députée du Parti Vert de Nouvelle‑Zélande seront à bord. Les noms d’autres déléguées seront dévoilés dans les prochaines semaines.

Un des objectifs principaux de notre mission est de rendre visible aux yeux du monde entier les effets dévastateurs et la violence du blocus imposé aux Palestiniennes et Palestiniens de Gaza. Nous allons mettre l’accent de façon plus spécifique sur la lutte des femmes et leurs multiples rôles au sein de la résistance. Les femmes de Gaza sont les gardiennes de la vie quotidienne au cœur de leur territoire assiégé et agressé; elles sont impliquées dans la protection et le développement de leurs communautés; elles jouent un rôle déterminant dans la lutte pour le droit à l’existence et à l’autodétermination de leur nation. La voix de ces femmes doit être entendue, surtout en périodes d’extrême injustice comme celles vécues à Gaza depuis l’occupation et l’imposition du blocus

À l’occasion de la journée internationale de solidarité avec Gaza le 31 mai, nous tenons également à rappeler la mémoire des victimes du massacre du Mavi Marmara, perpétré en 2010 alors que dix militants pacifiques avaient été tués par la marine israélienne, un acte illégal commis dans les eaux internationales et qui demeure encore impuni à ce jour. Toutefois, rappelons que cette agression brutale ne peut être comparée à la violence quotidienne infligée à Gaza, devant le silence le plus complet de la communauté internationale.

Un rapport des Nations Unies déclare que la bande de Gaza sera inhabitable d’ici 2020. Maisons, écoles, hôpitaux, tout a été détruit. 97 % de l’eau est non potable et l’électricité n’est disponible que quelques heures par jour. Porte‑parole de l’équipe suédoise du Bateau des femmes pour Gaza, Ellen Huttu Hansson déclare que « fort du soutien de nombre d’organisations de femmes à Gaza et de groupes de la société civile de par le monde, notre projet a pour but de transmettre un message de solidarité et d’espoir. Si nous voulons contredire les terribles conclusions de ce rapport, le siège doit être levé immédiatement. »

La Coalition de la Flottille de la Liberté a demandé aux membres du Parlement européen de soutenir le Bateau des femmes pour Gaza. La Coalition a également demandé aux gouvernements de protéger cette initiative et de ne pas entraver le cours de sa mission de solidarité à destination des Palestiniennes et Palestiniens assiégés vivant à Gaza.


Pour tout renseignement, communiuquer avec nous au +1 519-859-3579 ou par courriel [email protected]


Pour appuyer financièrement cette campagne: http://canadaboatgaza.org/donate/
Pour nous suivre, rendez‑vous sur :
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www.womensboattogaza.org (en anglais).
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Solidairement,
L’équipe du Bateau pour Gaza


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Clampdown worsens in Israel following Tel Aviv shooting

By Jean Shaoul
17 June 2016

Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s government and the racist Zionist parties grouped around him are seeking to exploit anger and anxiety of Israelis in the face of the Palestinian attack in downtown Tel Aviv last week. They demand ever more oppressive measures against the Palestinians, and intensified state repression within Israel.

The two attackers, 22-year-old Mohammad Makhamrah and his cousin, 21-year-old Mohammad Ahmad Makhamrah, ordered drinks in the café in the upscale Sarone Market and then shot and killed four Israelis and injured six others.

Among the victims was 58-year-old sociologist Michael Feige at Ben Gurion University who had written and lectured extensively about Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the effects of war and terrorism on the Israeli psyche. His book, Settling in the Hearts: Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territories, won the Shapiro Prize for Best Book from the Association of Israel Studies in 2010. In his recent study of Rabin assassin Yigal Amir, he noted that “a large percentage of political murderers in Israel have come from the ethnic margins of Gush Emunim and of the ideological settler community.”

The security forces shot the attackers, hospitalising one of them, before arresting them. The two men appeared to have been acting alone. No Palestinian group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Far-right Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered a sweeping crackdown, sending military reinforcements to the West Bank, cancelling entry permits for more than 80,000 Palestinians planning to visit Israel or East Jerusalem, and ordering the suspension of the return of slain Palestinian bodies to their families. He is seeking to speed up the demolition of homes of alleged terrorists. He imposed a lockdown on Yatta, a town near Hebron where the assailants live, house-to-house searches and the demolition of their family homes. Security forces even detained around 100 Yatta school students as they tried to leave the town to take their final exams.

Parliament signed off new counterterrorism legislation giving security services greater powers to detain and prosecute people in Israel, not the West Bank, making it possible for “passive members” of groups classified as terrorist organisations to be indicted. It allows for the defence minister to confiscate property believed to belong to outlawed groups without seeking judicial approval.

The government’s fascistic supporters rejoiced that Tel Aviv, noted for its more secular and liberal attitude, had been the subject of an attack—the first lethal attack in Israel since March when an American citizen was killed in Jaffa. Since then the number and severity of attacks on Israelis has declined sharply. Nonetheless, the repression of the Palestinians by Israel’s security forces has continued unabated alongside almost daily incidents of settler violence against the Palestinians, their lives, homes, farms and vehicles that go unpunished.

The Israeli state is seeking to create the conditions for a full-scale conflict with the Palestinians that could go as far as another war on the West Bank and Gaza.

On Tuesday, Al Jazeera reported that Israel's national water company has cut crucial water supplies to large areas of the West Bank, leaving tens of thousands without access to safe drinking water during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Ayman Rabi, executive director of the Palestinian Hydrology Group, told the news service that “in some areas people had not received water for more than 40 days.”

Yesterday, the Israeli journal Yedioth Ahronoth revealed a plan to build a “concrete wall tens of meters deep underground and above ground to counter the threat of Hamas attack tunnels.” It will stretch along the 60 miles of the southern border around the Gaza Strip, the third defence system of its kind Israel has built along the border. It cited a senior defence official stating baldly that “a confrontation with Hamas is inevitable, it must be the last one.”

Pent-up frustration among Palestinians exploded last summer over attempts by religious and nationalist bigots to change the status of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound to allow Jews to pray there, leading to a number of lone attacks on Israelis, 32 of them fatal, to which the Israeli security forces responded with extreme brutality. They have killed at least 207 Palestinians, injured thousands more, arrested thousands of people, included children, imposed lockdowns, and demolished the family homes of the alleged assailants, particularly in the Hebron area.

Arab parties have warned against the impact of such escalating repression. The head of the Joint Arab list bloc Ayman Odeh said, “My heart goes out to the families. An attack against innocent people is always reprehensible, there can be no justification for shooting civilians in the street.” But, he added, the far-right coalition government had contributed to a “deepening of hatred and violence.”

Arab list legislators Ahmed Tibi and Osama Saadi said, “We reject attacks on civilians in every way. Such an act does not advance Palestinian rights.” But they added that the “collective punishment” of Palestinians for the Tel Aviv attackers would not solve the problem: “Only ending the occupation will bring peace.”

Political disquiet is echoed more broadly. Tel Aviv’s Labour Mayor Ron Huldai, whose track record of shutting down the 2011 social protests over housing and taking measures to prevent further protests shows he is no liberal, blamed the Tel Aviv attack on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. He told Israeli army radio, “We might be the only country in the world where another nation is under occupation without civil rights. ... You can’t hold people in a situation of occupation and hope they’ll reach the conclusion everything is alright.”

He called for a resumption of peace talks and said, “There has been an occupation for 49 years, which I was part of and I know the reality, and I know leaders need courage to not just talk. We have to show our neighbours that we have true intentions to return to a reality of a smaller Jewish state with a clear Jewish majority.”

More telling than Huldai’s musings over how to defend Israel’s identity as a Jewish state, the father of Ido Ben Ari, one of the four victims, accused the government of exacerbating the situation. Speaking at his son’s funeral, he said, “Last night, after the attack, the prime minister and two of his ministers arrived and yet another security cabinet issued decrees—not to return corpses, to put up barriers, to destroy houses and to make lives harder.

“These solutions create suffering, hatred, despair and [lead] to more people joining the circle of terror,” he said. “What’s needed is a solution rather than saying all the time that there’s nobody to make peace with.”

While successive governments have fostered bigotry, anti-Palestinian sentiment, chauvinism and xenophobia, such attitudes are by no means universal in Israel, which is a deeply divided country in every way. In the 2015 general election, the Labour-dominated Zionist Unity coalition, Meretz and the Joint List—all of which seek some sort of accommodation with the Palestinians—gained more than 50 percent of Tel Aviv’s votes in contrast to Jerusalem, where they took just 15 percent of the vote.

It was noticeable that Tel Aviv’s police arrested the two assailants, rather than executing them on the spot as has happened in almost all the previous lone attacks on Israelis. On an earlier occasion, when a dozen plain-clothed police beat up a Palestinian Israeli near a Tel Aviv supermarket where he worked because he refused to show his identity card, his mainly Jewish co-workers defended their colleague against the police.

Even in the midst of the daily escalation of official reaction, the seeds of an opposed development are emerging—the forging of a unified struggle of Jewish and Arab workers on the basis of a socialist and internationalist programme.

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[Gaza] Invitation to journalists: sail on WBG & Turkey-Israel agreement


Invitation to Journalists:
Sail aboard the Women's Boat to Gaza

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Also, below is the Freedom Flotilla Coalition release (June 27, 2016) re. the Turkey-Israel agreement*

Dear journalists:

The women's Boat to Gaza (WBG) is a Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) initiative that will sail this September to challenge the Israeli blockade of Gaza. For more info about WBG please visit:
https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/faq and see our latest press statement (https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/news/womens-boat-to-gaza-presented-at-the-european-parliament), released after our meeting with and receiving support from many Members of European Parliament in Brussels last month.

The Women's Boat to Gaza is an all-women mission where the boats will have only women on board: the crew, activists and prominent people sailing in support of the Palestinians of Gaza, as well as the journalists covering the voyage.

On board there will be a Nobel Laureate, Members of Parliament from different countries, Members of European Parliament, other eminent women and activists from over a dozen countries. This is an opportunity to share the stories and wisdom of Palestinian women in Gaza and the women of the world who support them. We aim not only to break the physical barriers of the blockade, but also to break the media silence and help the voices of Palestinian women in Gaza be heard.

We are inviting interested women journalists (visual, audio, written) from various media organizations worldwide to join the mission. If you are interested please send your CV to [email protected], specifying what support you can count on from your media organization, if any. If you have any questions or would like more information, please do not hesitate to contact us at the same address.

Please note that space is limited so you are urged to contact us without delay if you are interested. Deadline to receive applications is July 10, 2016.

WBG Steering Committee


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* The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) will sail
until the Israeli blockade of Gaza is permanently and fully lifted

In September, Cigdem Topcuoglu, whose husband was killed by Israel aboard the Mavi Marmara in 2010, will be sailing with women from all over the world on the Freedom Flotilla Coalition's latest mission, the Women's Boat to Gaza (WBG). Ms. Topcuoglu's action symbolizes FFC's position regarding the Israeli blockade of Gaza. It must be fully and unconditionally lifted.

The Gaza Strip is the largest open air prison in the world. More than 1.8M persons have been living under an inhuman an illegal Israeli blockade since 2007. The blockade is killing Gaza. Five UN special rapporteurs found that the blockade of Gaza is illegal collective punishment.

MK Haneen Zoabi, who participated in the 2010 on board the Mavi Marmara, said that the reconciliation agreement between the two countries is a clear "admission of murder" by Israel. Ms. Zoabi called for more flotillas in order to remove "the criminal siege on Gaza".

Laura Arau, an organizer with the FFC and herself a Mavi Marmara passenger said, "Keep in mind that the FFC is not affiliated with any government or political party," and made a call to civil society: "Nothing can justify the suffering of the families of the activists who were murdered on board the Mavi Marmara in 2010 nor the daily violations of the human rights in Palestine. We, people of the world, must take action when our governments remain silent and are complicit in war crimes."

Huseyin Oruc of IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation and also an organizer with the FFC said "All the participants, all the families, all the members of Mavi Marmara are saying we are not looking for apologies, we are not looking for compensation.Our main purpose for going to Gaza was to end the blockade. If the agreement does not have this, it is unacceptable."

In mid September the Women's Boat to Gaza will sail with the same goal which is to break the illegal and inhumane blockade of Gaza. The Freedom Flotilla will continue until the port of Gaza is open, and Palestinians of Gaza have the ability to fish, to import and export freely, and to lead a normal life without daily fear and suffering. Norwegian participant Gerd von der Lippe asserts that "the Freedom Flotilla will continue to sail until the illegal and inhumane blockade of Gaza is permanently lifted."

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Poetic Injustice


Dear Chris,

Dareen Tatour is a Palestinian poet and citizen of Israel who was arrested nine months ago in the middle of the night. Her crime? Writing a poem and posting it on Youtube.

The outrageousness of Tatour’s imprisonment is matched only by how tragically routine her arrest is. Tatour is one of over 400 Palestinians1 arrested by Israel since last fall for political statements on social media. Palestinian cultural workers, both citizens of Israel and residents of the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, are under attack for speaking the truth of their lives.

We cannot allow this business-as-usual repression to go on. That’s why we partnered with Adalah-NY to launch a solidarity campaign for Tatour. Yesterday, we released an open letter signed by 150 luminaries of the arts and literary worlds.

Sign now to join with renowned poets, translators, writers, artists and literary figures in demanding Israeli authorities free Dareen today! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5tbKVbwZMnBbuo%2Bh5bly28wUGs7FejrX)

Susan Abulhawa, Carl Dennis, Dave Eggers, Carolyn Forché, Jorie Graham, Naomi Klein, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Naomi Shihab Nye, Claudia Rankine, Edwidge Danticat, Natasha Trethewey, Ayelet Waldman, Alice Walker and Jacqueline Woodson - these award winning poets and writers have already signed on.

They’re some of the most respected and renowned individuals in the arts and literary worlds: including Tony, Grammy, and Obie winners, nine Pulitzer Prize winners, National Book Award recipients and United States poet laureates, Guggenheim Fellowship recipients, an NAACP Image Award winner, Lambda Literary Award winners, and scores of recipients of the highest U.S. writing, poetry, translation, and PEN/Open Book Awards, National Book Critics Circle Awards, Kenyon Review Award, Pushcart Awards, LA Times Book Awards, and MLA Prizes.

These renowned poets and writers know that poetry is not a crime. Join them now in demanding freedom for Dareen.

Israel’s ever-increasing attacks on cultural workers make it clear: Israel would rather imprison a Palestinian poet for a poem that is critical of governmental policies than change those policies. Israel would rather silence Palestinian cultural workers than heed their calls for freedom, justice, and equality. Poetry is only dangerous when what you are protecting is injustice.

Dareen says it best when she writes to supporters:

My message to all of you, without exception, is the message of a loving woman, striving for peace and safety, and hoping that justice and equality will be shared by all human beings everywhere. A woman whose life has been condensed to a pen, a paper and an image… I dreamed one day about the existence of people like you, people looking for dreams amid all the nightmares that live around us and between us. Yes, I thank you, and I put all the hopes of humanity in your hands — those hopes that you see, hear, and feel.

Lifting our voices for Dareen Tatour is also lifting our voices for all Palestinians, and toward a future where--as Dareen says--justice and equality are for everyone. Join us today.

Toward that future,

Stefanie


Stefanie Fox
Deputy Director
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You Won't Believe What Got the Loudest Boos at DNC's Platform Meeting



Friday, July 15, 2016
We’re Headed to the RNC and DNC Today for These Palestine Events

Dear Chris,

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US Campaign supporters and Cornel West at the DNC platform committee meeting.

Last weekend in Orlando, something amazing happened.

Our supporters blanketed the Democratic National Convention (DNC) platform committee meeting, distributing our “Progressive for Palestine” and “I Support Palestinian Human Rights” buttons to delegates, many of whom were eager to show their support on national TV. [1]

Even though the committee, by a narrow margin, outrageously voted down amendments calling for an end to Israeli occupation and illegal settlements, and for rebuilding Gaza, you’ve got to check out this inspiring three-minute video of Maya Berry, from the Arab American Institute, and Dr. Cornel West, who got a standing ovation from delegates and the public for declaring “Palestinians ought to be free!”

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And CNN acknowledged that the failure of these pro-Palestine amendments to pass “led to the loudest boos of the day.” [2]

The message was clear: publicly declaring support for Palestinian human rights is no longer taboo at even the highest levels of political discourse.

That’s why we’re excited to head to Cleveland today for the Republican National Convention (RNC) and to Philadelphia next week for the DNC, where we’ll be creating an even larger, more visible presence (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XsAeV6Shg2OE5CzrT%2B3BmsAofODBN6nY) for Palestinian rights with member groups American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), American Muslims for Palestine, Code Pink, Jewish Voice for Peace, and our friends at the Arab American Institute.

Check out all of the many Palestine-related events and protests at the RNC and DNC (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WuqyU4DAdXuR4h2V3j2MaS3LzsU6huez) that we’re organizing and supporting.

We’re especially excited to let you know about a path-breaking round table we’re hosting in Philadelphia with AFSC on Monday, July 25, featuring Rep. Keith Ellison, Linda Sarsour, and Dr. Jim Zogby, entitled “Progressive for Palestine: Is the US Ready to Rethink Policy on Israel?”



RSVP to attend the event in person (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fcphOQOk8nc%2F71E9Nn36rS3LzsU6huez), or watch live-stream (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=iw2Okcc95j%2BLj%2FUngiKuTy3LzsU6huez) anywhere.

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We’ve printed thousands of these signs, buttons, stickers, and t-shirts (shown below) to create a large and visible presence for Palestinian rights at the RNC and DNC.

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Thank you for your support and for helping us to send a loud and clear message at the RNC and DNC: Palestinian rights can no longer be ignored.

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Josh Ruebner
Policy Director

PS: By the way, the Democratic Party wasn’t alone in debating its stance on Israel and the Palestinians in its platform. The RNC platform committee earlier this week reportedly scrubbed its former support for a two-state resolution. [3]

[1] Watch the entire debate on the Palestine amendments at the DNC platform committee meeting on C-SPAN.
[2] Eric Bradner, “Clinton supporters reject Israel settlements proposal,” CNN, July 9, 2016
[3] Nathan Guttman, “In Major Shift, GOP Rejects Two-State Solution, Says Israel Not ‘Occupier’,” The Forward, July 10, 2016


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1. Watch (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6ILnjAZKuniS2g5g9In0Wi3LzsU6huez) Cornel West's historic standing ovation.

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[Gaza] Women's Boat to Gaza buys 1st boat & sets departure


Amal-Hope to sail from Barcelona on September 14


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The Women's Boat to Gaza, a project of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, has acquired its first boat. Amal-Hope will set sail from Barcelona on September 14, carrying women who plan to challenge the illegal blockade of Gaza.

In Barcelona, members of the community who support our mission will welcome the Amal-Hope. In 1998, Barcelona was 'twinned' with Gaza, with the goal of fostering international support. In 2005, the Barcelona Peace Park was inaugurated in Gaza but destroyed by the Israeli military in 2009. The park was rebuilt in 2010. As her name suggests, Amal-Hope will send a message of hope that the Peace Park and the whole of Gaza must never be bombed again.

Schedule of Events in Barcelona:
Monday 12 September - Music and festival at the port
Tuesday 13 September - Non-violent resistance workshops, local speakers and a tour of the boats
Wednesday 14 September - Local ceremony and departure

The Women's Boat to Gaza, with prominent women on board including Mairead Macguire, Naomi Wallace, Marama Davidson and Gerd von der Lippe, will visit ports in the Western Mediterranean before reaching the shores of Gaza on 1 October.

Women’s Boat to Gaza initiative:
The Women’s Boat to Gaza is a Freedom Flotilla Coalition initiative. By launching a women’s flotilla, women from all over the world aim to highlight the undeniable contributions and indomitable spirit of Palestinian women who have been central within the Palestinian struggle in Gaza, the West Bank, inside the Green Line and in the diaspora.

Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for the past decade, during which time Israel has also launched countless attacks against the besieged population, turning their life into a nightmare and a continuous struggle. Through Freedom Flotillas and other maritime missions, we have brought international attention to their suffering and their resistance.

The Women’s Boat to Gaza seeks not only to challenge the Israeli blockade, but to also show solidarity and bring a message of hope to the Palestinian people. With the support of women, men, non-governmental organizations, civil society groups and from women’s collectives and events around the world, we will make this happen.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition is composed of civil society organizations and initiatives from many countries. We have been challenging the illegal and inhumane Israeli blockade of Gaza for years and are committed to continue the struggle until the blockade is unconditionally lifted and the Palestinian people everywhere regain their full rights.

For more information please contact spokesperson Wendy Goldsmith at: [email protected] or (+1) 519 281 3978.

You can support the Women's Boat to Gaza by donating online:
http://canadaboatgaza.org/donate/

Those who can benefit from a U.S. tax receipt can contribute online at
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To find and support other campaigns that are part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, please see: https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/donations

Other ways to get involved:
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Thank you for your support. Together we can end the blockade of Gaza!

In Solidarity
the Canadian Boat to Gaza team

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Two More Cities Drop G4S!


Saturday, July 23, 2016
As BDS turns 11, we must redouble our efforts

Dear Chris,

This month marks 11 years since the Palestinian civil society call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) as tools to end worldwide complicity with Israel’s regime of colonization and apartheid, and to support freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

One year ago, for BDS’s 10th birthday, the US Campaign released a stunning list of U.S. BDS victories to date, totaling just over 100 at the time, a tremendous milestone: www.endtheoccupation.org/usbdsvictories

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But Chris, that was 2015. Today, the list, which we have kept up to date, includes more than 150 BDS victories in the United States alone. Not only is the movement for Palestinian rights and the success of BDS growing, but it is growing exponentially.

This, in spite of the growing repression against BDS activists and the draconian, unconstitutional anti-BDS legislation (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8cqjfM0LS9MUPTDo6dnEBgaz6CHq9Xcn) being pursued at the local, state, and federal levels precisely because this grassroots movement for justice has become so strong and effective. The Palestinian BDS National Committee even released list of eleven signs (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8AdRmJ0KQtynaygr8ZEpnwaz6CHq9Xcn) that BDS continues to grow despite Israel’s war of repression.

Among them are the tremendous achievements of the international campaign targeting G4S, which profits from grotesque state oppression in prisons from the U.S. to Palestine and beyond, as illustrated in the newly-released www.G4Sfacts.org website.

Just this week, member group Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA) celebrated two more cities dropping G4S! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=N0fcqHoA7wxW6uJ6o5RrBAaz6CHq9Xcn)

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In Berkeley, California, Enlace -- an alliance of low-wage worker centers, unions, and community organizations -- and the Afrikan Black Coalition (ABC) at the University of California and California State University systems, brought a resolution to divest from private prisons to Berkeley’s Peace and Justice Commission. Following FOSNA’s encouragement, the coalition and commissioners included G4S in the resolution, which was passed unanimously (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sPY%2BPbpLR8gfBe2boG0m0Qaz6CHq9Xcn) by the Berkeley City Council Tuesday night. Said Peace and Justice Commission member Cathy Orozco, “With this resolution, the City of Berkeley is standing up for our community members. Black and brown peoples, immigrants, Palestinians, and other oppressed peoples deserve city governments that stand up for their rights and fight against corporations that profit from their suffering.”

Congratulations to our friends at Enlace, ABC, and FOSNA, and to the City of Berkeley for this tremendous achievement!

FOSNA also announced that earlier this month, the city of Denver, Colorado chose not renew a $2.5 million municipal contract with G4S, following testimony by Palestinian rights activists about the company’s notorious oppressive practices.

While G4S announced plans in March to sell its Israeli subsidiary (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HpIJGDmVALTLGs3ecudwpgaz6CHq9Xcn) and shut down youth detention operations in the U.S. and the UK, we know G4S will only follow through if we keep the pressure on and ensure that the company ends all aspects of its oppressive practices.

That’s why there’s never been a more important time to wage effective campaigns to hold G4S accountable. You can find resources, action alerts, and more on our G4S campaigns page here (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vWoJlMAWMrKvfLHjLP4x6Aaz6CHq9Xcn).

Also, don’t miss our National Organizers Conference (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5QCz%2FxJMPGDPTaHcFkyNOQaz6CHq9Xcn) October 14-17 in Arlington, Virginia where activists will be sharing lessons learned from waging campaigns against companies like G4S.

From the list of victories to the lengths to which our opposition will go to stop us, we know our work is having a significant effect. But we can only build the power to match this moment with people like you by our side. With a contribution today (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vUbf9cvbooExJ9ALvGhrlgaz6CHq9Xcn), help play a critical role in this important work.

Onward,

Anna Baltzer
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Director of Organizing & Advocacy

Chris, take these actions:

1. Happy Birthday BDS! View U.S. victories list (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9eaRq4CwYY31%2BqPIyKxhubW2%2Bpaje2O%2F).

2. Learn more about G4S's worldwide oppression (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ny%2FsZ1wQ5RC2FUMJGf8uhQaz6CHq9Xcn).

3. Register for our 2016 National Conference (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nGRrXqw98HytSsZGkS7Wfgaz6CHq9Xcn) October 14-17 in Arlington, VA!


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Palestinians Form First-Ever Left-Wing Coalition

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Berkeley Suspends ‘Anti-Israel’ Course Amid Jewish Outcry

Drew HimmelsteinSeptember 14, 2016wikicommons

SAN FRANCISCO (J. Weekly via JTA) — The University of California, Berkeley, has suspended a student-led course, “Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis,” following an outcry from Jewish community leaders who called it biased, anti-Zionist and in violation of the university’s academic standards.

The university made the decision Tuesday after determining that the student facilitator, Paul Hadweh, “did not comply with policies and procedures that govern the normal academic review and approval of proposed courses for the DeCal program” for student-led courses, said Dan Mogulof, the school’s assistant vice chancellor.

A day earlier, Berkeley Hillel and its international umbrella group had called on the university’s president, Janet Napolitano, and administrators to condemn the one-credit course in a strongly worded statement.

“Any perusal of the syllabus will show that this is a one-sided course which puts forth a political agenda,” Hillel International President and CEO Eric Fingerhut and Berkeley Hillel Executive Director Rabbi Adam Naftalin-Kelman said in the statement. “It does not tell the truth. It ignores history. It ignores facts, such as the inconvenient one that Jews have inhabited Israel for 3,000 years. This course seems to be a matter of political indoctrination in the classroom and is a violation of the newly adopted principles by the U.C. regents on intolerance.”

The course was to be offered as part of the university’s DeCal program in which students propose and teach one-credit courses under the supervision of a faculty sponsor. Other DeCal classes offered this academic year include “Cal Pokeman Academy,” “Art Anatomy” and “Science in Oakland Elementary Schools.”

The course syllabus said it would cover the history of Palestine from the 1880s to the present and “explore the connection between Zionism and settler colonialism.” Students were to be required to attend an event “relating to Palestine” during the semester and make a final presentation proposing a “decolonial alternative” to the region’s problems not restricted to the two-state solution.

Forty-three Jewish and educational organizations signed a letter by the Santa Cruz-based Amcha Initiative, a nonprofit that monitors anti-Semitism in higher education, addressed to UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks expressing deep concern about the course.

“A review of the syllabus … reveals that the course’s objectives, reading materials and guest speakers are politically motivated, meet our government’s criteria for anti-Semitism and are intended to indoctrinate students to hate the Jewish State and take action to eliminate it,” the letter said.


The letter called the faculty sponsor, Hatem Bazian, “a well-known anti-Zionist activist who is also the chairman of American Muslims for Palestine.”

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[Gaza] Zaytouna-Oliva left Barcelona


Zaytouna-Oliva left Barcelona, followed in Spanish waters





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September 16, 2016

Due to technical problems, the Women’s Boat to Gaza* (WBG) Amal-Hope returned to Barcelona and is now docked at a mooring in the Barcelona area. Its sister ship Zaytouna-Oliva was temporarily delayed by the port authorities, although it did possess all necessary documentation.

While Amal-Hope is getting assessed for needed repairs, Zaytouna-Oliva has now finally left Barcelona.

With regards to the Amal, WBG crew member, Madeleine Habib from Tasmania, Australia, explained that “safety is paramount. As eager as we are to visit our sisters in Gaza, we also want to make sure that we aren’t taking unnecessary risks in our voyage.” Habib, a seasoned skipper, has traveled extensively across the Mediterranean in Medecins San Frontières rescue missions to help refugees.

WBG participant Yudit Ilany from Israel expressed the collective resolve of the women passengers. “We are certainly disappointed our French friends in Ajaccio may not have a chance to see Amal-Hope, but we trust that they will understand our priority of ensuring we sail to Gaza.” Wendy Goldsmith, a WBG organizer from Canada, agrees. “The Palestinian people are well-known for their steadfastness which they call sumud. Like them, we must continue with patience and perseverance towards our ultimate destination.”

Once an assessment of the Amal-Hope’s technical problems is complete WBG leadership will assess the prospects of continuing the journey directly to the final European port of call, Messina, Italy.

Claude Léostic, Freedom Flotilla representative in France, notes that while “our friends in Ajaccio will miss having a proper visit with Amal and Zaytouna, they look forward to a visit from one of the boats headed for Gaza.”

UPDATE: at last news, the Zaytouna-Oliva is still in Spanish territorial waters and is being shadowed by Coast Guard vessels. We remain in touch and hope that they will be able to proceed on their voyage towards Ajaccio as planned.

For more information:
Ellen Huttu Hansson: +46 722 883 213 [email protected]
Other media contacts: https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/media-room

* The Women’s Boat to Gaza is an initiative of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition composed of civil society organizations and campaigns from more than a dozen countries. For more information, visit www.womensboattogaza.org.


In Canada please contact:
Sandra Ruch: [email protected] +1-416-716-4010
Irene Macinnes: [email protected] +1-778-870-2448


Donate:
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Thirty-Four Years Later, Sabra and Shatila Remembered

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

Thirty-Four Years Later, Sabra and Shatila Remembered

Washington, DC | www.adc.org | September 17, 2016 — This weekend marks the 34th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most brutal massacres in modern history. Beginning at approximately 6:00 P.M. on September 16, 1982, shortly after Israeli troops seized control of West Beirut, the right-wing Lebanese Phalange forces operating under the direction of Israeli forces massacred over one thousand defenseless men, women and children in the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps. The widespread massacre was carried out methodically over the course of two days until 8:00 A.M. on September 18.

During the massacre, IDF forces were in full control of the area in which the Sabra and Shatila camps are located. They allowed Phalange militants into the camps, prevented refugees from fleeing for their lives, and lit the night sky with a continuous series of flares as the killing raged for almost 3 days. The massacre received swift and severe UN condemnation as just a few months later the UN General Assembly voted unanimously (with 12 abstentions) to pass a Resolution that the Sabra and Shatila massacre constituted an act of genocide. Moreover, the Israeli government’s own inquiry into the affair, the Kahan Commission, found that Israeli military personal were well aware of the ongoing massacre and stood by idly as it continued. Senior Israeli officials who were found responsible for the massacre continued to hold high governmental and political posts in Israel until recent years.

Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Defense Minister at the time and the man who orchestrated the Israeli occupation of Lebanon leading up to the massacre, was forced to resign. Israel’s own Commission concluded that he was personally responsible for the harrowing and inhumane tragedy. That being said, Sharon would eventually go on to become Israel’s Prime Minister in 2001. Additionally, General Amos Yaron, commander of the Israeli occupying forces in the Lebanese capital of Beirut during the massacre, became a Director-General of the Israeli Defense Ministry. The ability for Sharon and Yaron to hold the highest offices in Israel, even after their very own government essentially found them guilty of war crimes, is indicative of the continuing brutality of the IDF.

Thirty-four years later, Sabra and Shatila remains one of the most symbolic events in the history of the Palestinian people and their plight. The Sabra and Shatila Massacre demonstrates the tragedy of the Palestinian refugees, who have been dispossessed from their homeland for over 67 years. This tragedy is an example of the need for a just settlement of the refugee issue based on the Right of Return, which is enshrined for all refugees in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Fourth Geneva Convention.

The atrocities of Sabra and Shatila continue to traumatize survivors, who continue to seek justice and grieve the victims. Thirty-four years after the massacre, the painful memories of the massacre persist and questions of why those involved were not punished or brought to justice remain unanswered.

Article of Interest

Israeli Crimes against Humanity: Remembering the Sabra and Shatila Massacre (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lR1oxeIyv5b6jfov9QS0kUPOt1wNfJ4j)

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Our class on Palestine got cancelled, we need your help

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Palestine organizing in California has been a constant strength for our movement. On and off campus, California has proven to be a flashpoint for Palestine work that sets the pace for the rest of the country. For that reason, Zionist groups are focusing on California and hitting it hard this week.

A student-led class at UC Berkeley (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0Yuqz%2BSvgNK0RNKQAwowACjyFdiPsOqv) titled "Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis" has been cancelled two weeks into the course by the UC Berkeley administration, despite meeting all university standards (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=E1DGpxFBA%2B2SJS%2FMrsIabCjyFdiPsOqv). I've written a response (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=f804hu3GCNYn0Lq5kzwV1SjyFdiPsOqv) to the University's allegations of not following proper procedures. We need your help today, we need your help this morning! The university needs to hear from our community and needs to hear loud and clear that this is absolutely unacceptable.

We need to take action now!

Tell the chancellor and UC Berkeley administration not to deny students their right to academic inquiry and open debate!


Call Chancellor Dirk's office:
Jenny Hanson, Executive Assistant to the Chancellor, Office of the Chancellor,
200 California Hall # 1500, Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
Email: Chancellor Nicholas Dirks
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Phone: (510) 642-7464: Fax: (510) 643-5499
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New York activists protest the Jewish National Fund’s support for Israel

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By Michela Martinazzi

New York, NY - On Sept. 18, around 40 activists and community members gathered in front of the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue to rally against the Jewish National Fund.

On the weekend of Sept. 16-19, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) was hosting a conference to discuss its future plans, programs and partnerships to continue its agenda of stealing Palestinian land and giving it to Jewish-only settlers. The JNF has worked with impunity for decades to fund the ever-growing state of Israel. It is a fund raising, non-profit charity whose whole purpose and goal is the forced removal of Palestinians from their land. In their mission statement it explicitly states that any land they acquire cannot be rented, leased, sold or worked by non-Jews. Every year, the JNF raises $60 million in the U.S. for its cause.

Protesters were barred off on the other side of the street, while Zionist counter-protesters jeered and danced with an Israeli flag, unhindered by the police, in front of the hotel’s entrance. However, the pro-Palestine protesters were loud and militant with their Palestine flags and signs that read “Stealing land is not charity.” Chants ranged from, “There is only one solution! Intifada! Revolution!” and “Resistance is justified when people are occupied!”

The protest turned into a march and went around the block. The numbers that were there protesting the JNF vastly outnumbered the meager handful of Zionist supporters.

At the end of the event, one of the organizers announced that there was going to be another protest later that week as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was going to be in the city receiving an award. This is mere days after a $38 billion dollar military aid package, the largest in U.S. history, to Israel. The protest is going to be Thursday, Sept. 22 at the Plaza Hotel at 6 p.m.

The organizers and endorsers of the anti-JNF protest were the Stop the JNF campaign, the US Palestinian Community Network, American Muslims for Palestine, the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, the National Lawyers Guild - Palestine Sub-Committee, Students for Justice in Palestine, Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, Labor for Palestine and Al-Awda NY.

Read more News and Views from the Peoples Struggle at http://www.fightbacknews.org. You can write to us at [email protected]

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Our friend Issa

Our friend Issa Amro, a nonviolent Palestinian organizer, is on trial in an Israeli kangaroo court. Will you tell John Kerry to raise Issa's persecution with the Israeli government?

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Our friend Issa Amro, a nonviolent Palestinian organizer, is on trial in an Israeli kangaroo court. Will you tell John Kerry to raise Issa's persecution with the Israeli government?

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Dear Chris,

Yesterday we spoke with Issa Amro, a Palestinian human rights activist we work with in Hebron. (You can find the video (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=USRgyLJk5v5Kv81oDAiwcnNL1mna32yq) on our Facebook page). Issa is a true friend to many of us at JVP, and he’s facing a military trial next week, having been arrested dozens of times for his work as a nonviolent activist.

It may feel like you get a lot of emails from us, but we do it for a reason. The last few months have proven to us that international outcry can make a real difference on the ground in Israel/Palestine. When we spoke up for the village of Susiya, which was facing demolition earlier this year, the pressure we brought help put a stop to those demolitions (for now). Today, we need your help to bring pressure for Issa.

Issa Amro, who has been recognized for his work as a human rights defender by the European Union and the United Nations, is facing an Israeli military “trial” on September 25. He’s being prosecuted on trumped-up and politically motivated charges, in a “court” with a conviction rate for Palestinians of over 99%.

We need to speak up -- and we need Secretary of State John Kerry to speak up for Issa.

Click here to sign our petition to John Kerry. Tell him to raise Issa’s case with the Israeli government. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0I4sLPMPiQxHdBimC2Y%2Bl3NL1mna32yq)

Issa is being singled out for his leadership -- and the way he works with young people from Palestine and activists from around the world to shine a light on the brutality of apartheid and occupation.

He’s a pioneering organizer, and the founder of Youth Against Settlements, a grassroots organization that campaigns nonviolently against occupation and displacement. Through the simple act of filming and sharing videos, they bear witness to the routine abuse and harassment that Palestinians experience at the hands of settlers. And with bravery and defiance, they peacefully march and organize sit-ins in for their human rights in Hebron, where racist laws that try to bar them from the streets they walk down.

For this, Issa has been beaten. He’s had his wrist and nose broken. He’s been shot three times. He’s been pelted with stones, and arrested more times than he cares to remember.

And now he’s being put on trial.

Nonviolent activists like Issa deserve praise and respect, not trial and punishment. Sign our petition for Issa Amro here. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PEsXpyceZhCZb6kxfyJHmXNL1mna32yq)

Let me be abundantly clear: this trial is Israel’s latest way of trying to silence Issa, and stop nonviolent resistance in Palestine. Each time Issa has been arrested on trumped-up charges, there’s been no further action. Until now.

He’s being prosecuted specifically because of his political leadership -- for charges like staging an illegal demonstration in 2013. He wasn’t prosecuted for any of these alleged “crimes” in 2013; charges were dropped each time Issa was arrested by occupying forces. But now -- now that Issa has a real international platform to share his lived experiences of occupation -- suddenly he’s a threat. Suddenly trivial non-offences deserve the full might of Israel’s court system.

Here’s the truth, as Issa himself put it: “I spread a lot of video footage that embarrasses [the IDF].” Issa helps young people in Palestine produce video evidence of the brutal reality of Israel’s occupation, and for that he’s being prosecuted.

We need to speak up for Issa -- and all Palestinian human rights defenders. Click here to sign our petition to Secretary of State John Kerry -- he must intervene! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4JRSy6ylytUn1XFtOkb3vXNL1mna32yq)

Secretary of State John Kerry can play a powerful role to bring this pressure to bear, and if we can persuade him to speak up for Issa, it won’t go unnoticed.

Onward,

Granate


Granate Sosnoff
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[Gaza] Zaytouna-Oliva leaves Ajaccio, Corsica for Messina, Italy - its final European port before sailing to break the illegal blockade of Gaza

Zaytouna-Oliva leaves Ajaccio, Corsica for Messina, Italy - its final European port before sailing to break the illegal blockade of Gaza




For Immediate Release
20 September 2016

Ajaccio, Corsica, France: The Women’s Boat to Gaza (Zaytouna-Oliva) left the port of Ajaccio at 09:30 this morning. It is due to arrive later this week in Messina, Sicily, Italy, where it will dock for the last time, prior to sailing to challenge the illegal blockade of Gaza.

One of the participants aboard, Lisa Gay Hamilton said: “It is an honour to be here and join this extraordinary group of women. This issue is bigger than me, than any of us. As a mother, as a daughter, as a sister, I cannot help thinking of Palestinian women in Gaza, who live in an open-air prison because of the occupation. It is so painful to think of them, we have to take action to end the blockade of Gaza.” A full list of the participants on this leg is available at: https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/participants

Lucia Intruglio, spokesperson and one of the local organisers in Messina said: “We are very pleased to host the women on Zaytouna-Oliva before they embark on this historic voyage.” During their stay in Messina, all of the women will participate in non-violence training, whilst finalizing supplies and equipment for the boat.

A previous Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship, the Marianne av Göteborg from Sweden, departed from Sicily last year. It however was raided in international waters by the Israeli Occupation Forces. When asked whether the Zaytouna-Oliva will reach its destination, Intruglio replied: “Our destination remains the conscience of humanity. It is up to every one of us to help them succeed in this.”


The Women’s Boat to Gaza is an initiative of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition composed of civil society organizations and campaigns from more than a dozen countries.

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Two actions you can take for Palestine today


Direct action works: UC Berkeley reinstates class on Palestine

The American Muslims for Palestine sincerely thanks our supporters, Palestine Legal, student groups and others who took action this week after the University of California Berkeley gave into to Zionist pressure and cancelled a class on Palestine two weeks into the semester.

Thanks to you and all the others who called and emailed university officials to protest this flagrant violation of students’ First Amendment rights and academic freedom, the university reinstated the class, "Palestine: A Settler Colonial Analysis," Monday morning. In addition to the teacher, 26 other students were impacted by the disruptive censorship.

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Tell Trump to pressure supporters to stop campaigning in Israeli settlements

(WASHINGTON DC 09/21/2016) -- Donald Trump supporters belonging to the group Republicans Overseas Israel recently opened a campaign office in the Israeli settlement Karnei Shomron in the West Bank and soon will open a second office in the Gush Etzion settlement, according to several published reports. This is the first time a campaign office for any U.S. presidential candidate has been opened in the West Bank. While the Trump campaign is not behind the initiative, the group is in close contact with the residential candidate as well as the Republican National Committee, according to Reuters.

The illegality of Israeli settlements has been recognized by the international community through United Nations Security Council resolutions and General Assembly, the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the International Court of Justice. The United States has long held the position that settlements are illegal. In a statement from July 2015, State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner said, "The United States continues to view settlements as illegitimate and we strongly oppose steps to advance construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem."

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[Gaza] Zaytouna-Oliva departs for Gaza, Amal-Hope II to follow soon

Zaytouna-Oliva departs for Gaza

Amal-Hope II to follow soon


For Immediate Release
September 27, 2016

Contacts people: Lucia Intruglio / Wendy Goldsmith
Phone: +39 368 746 8528 / +39 328 718 5648
Email: [email protected] / wendy goldsmith

Messina, Italy: This morning at 9:50 am, women representing 13 countries spanning five continents began their journey on Zaytouna-Oliva to the shores of Gaza, which has been under blockade since 2007. On board are a Nobel Peace Laureate, three parliamentarians, a decorated US diplomat, journalists, an Olympic athlete, and a physician. A list of the women with their background can be found here (https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/participants-on-board-messina-to-gaza).

When asked why they are going, the women gave a variety of responses. Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate from Ireland, notes that “theysay that ‘silence is golden’, but regarding the plight of Palestinians in Gaza the silence of the world, especially concerning their little children, shows a lack of moral and ethical leadership from the international community. Why has it lasted so long?”

For two of the women, their countries’ own historical struggles for human rights played an important role in their decision to join the Women’s Boat to Gaza. Leigh-Ann Naidoo, an Olympic volleyball player from South Africa, feels that “South Africans understand the importance of international solidarity in fighting regimes that practice segregation.” Marama Davidson, a Maori Member of Parliament from New Zealand, carries with her a strong personal connection to Palestinian women in Gaza. “As an indigenous woman myself, I want to stand alongside the women of Gaza and to draw attention to the ongoing humanitarian crisis there.”

The Amal-Hope II has been making final preparations to sail and is scheduled to depart from Messina soon. Both boats are expected to arrive in Gaza in early October.

Yudit Ilany, an Israeli participant who has sailed with the Zaytouna-Oliva since Barcelona, said “The blockade of Gaza is a crime against humanity being committed in my name, and it is my duty to protest it in any way possible.”

CONTACT: Ellen Huttu Hansson Phone: +46 722 883 213 (English, Swedish)
E-mail: [email protected]

Freedom Flotilla Italy Lucia Intruglio / Palmira Mancuso
Phone: +39 368 746 8528 / +39 345 340 6333
Email: [email protected] /[email protected]

The Women’s Boat to Gaza is an initiative of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition composed of civil society organizations and campaigns from more than a dozen countries. For more information, visit www.womensboattogaza.org.

Attached photo from dockside this morning, credit: Freedom Flotilla Italy.
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[LaborTech] Evidence of Feared Israel-Led Censorship as Facebook Bans Palestinian Editors


Evidence of Feared Israel-Led Censorship as Facebook Bans Palestinian Editors

'We believe this is the result of the agreement between Israel and Facebook,' said one editor

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/09/23/evidence-feared-israel-led-censorship-facebook-bans-palestinian-editors

Friday, September 23, 2016
byCommon Dreams

Evidence of Feared Israel-Led Censorship as Facebook Bans Palestinian Editors

'We believe this is the result of the agreement between Israel and Facebook,' said one editor
by Nika Knight, staff writer

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"Many who pretend to believe in free expression won't care, because it's Palestinians, but this is a huge threat," Glenn Greenwald tweeted. (Photo: Spencer E. Holtaway/flickr/cc)

Facebook on Friday disabled the accounts of multiple editors of two of the most widely read online Palestinian publications, The Electronic Intifada reports, fulfilling what civil liberties advocates had feared when news emerged earlier this month that the popular social media site would collaborate with the Israeli government to censor users.

"There has been no given reason for closing the accounts," Quds' Ezz al-Din al-Akhras toldThe Electronic Intifada. "We believe this is the result of the agreement between Israel and Facebook. It is very strange that Facebook would take part in such an agreement, given that it is supposed to be a platform for free expression and journalism."

"The joint Facebook-Israel censorship efforts, needless to say, will be directed at Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians who oppose Israeli occupation," the journalist Glenn Greenwald predicted when the censorship partnership was first reported.

The Electronic Intifada writes that seven editors in total attempted to log on to Facebook Friday, only to discover their accounts had been shut down:

Ezz al-Din al-Akhras, a supervisor at Quds, told The Electronic Intifada that at around 2pm, three of the publication's editors found their accounts disabled.

The same thing has happened to five editors at Shehab News Agency, a news editor for that publication told The Electronic Intifada.

One banned editor shared a screenshot of the message that appeared on his screen when he attempted to log on:

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The Facebook pages for Quds and Shehab, the two targeted publications, are still functioning for now because several remaining editors still have active Facebook accounts, according to The Electronic Intifada.

Al-Akhras told the Palestinian-focused news site that he felt particularly dismayed to be the victim of censorship from Facebook, as Quds initially began as only a Facebook page: "We learned what journalism and freedom of expression are using Facebook," al-Akhras said.

Indeed, the social media site's sudden crackdown on Palestinian speech is a "huge threat," Greenwald warned Friday:


The Facebook-Israel partnership "underscores the severe dangers of having our public discourse overtaken, regulated, and controlled by a tiny number of unaccountable tech giants," Greenwald wrote earlier this month.

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The women are headed to Gaza!


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Chris —
We received an update from CODEPINK’s Ann Wright just after the Women’s Boat to Gaza left port in Messina, Sicily. While there has been some rough sailing, everyone is in high spirits, and the women are determined to make it to Gaza, however long it takes. They embarked on the final leg of their trip on Tuesday morning and are expected to reach Gaza shortly – if they aren’t intercepted by Israeli naval ships first.

This voyage will challenge Israel’s brutal naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli government has continued its deadly bombing campaign in Gaza, which – in addition to killing innocent civilians – has destroyed critical portions of Gaza’s infrastructure, creating a widespread water shortage. Now, more than ever, it is important for the international peace community to show solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, and the Women’s Boat to Gaza does exactly that. The brave women on the boat send thanks to all the amazing CODEPINK members who made generous donations to help make this trip possible. If you have not given yet, we are still collecting donations to fund this critical journey! (https://codepink.nationbuilder.com/boat_to_gaza?e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gazaboatupdate1&n=2)

We will post to our Facebook (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fcodepinkalert %2F&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gazaboatupdate1&n=3) and Twitter (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fcodepink&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gazaboatupdate1&n=4) with updates as we receive them. In the meantime, check out this update from Electronic Intifada (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Felectronicintifada.net%2Fcontent %2Fwomens-boat-gaza-ready-break-blockade%2F18081&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gazaboatupdate1&n=5) and this essay from actress LisaGay Hamilton (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsfbayview.com%2F2016%2F09%2Fwhy-i-am-on-the-womens-boat-to-gaza%2F&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gazaboatupdate1&n=6) on why it was so important to her to be on the boat.

All of our gratitude for your generous support,

Anne, Alli, Ariel, Nancy K., and the entire CODEPINK team

PS: Check out this awesome pic of kids in Gaza waiting for the Women’s Boat:

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BREAKING: Ann Wright kidnapped by Israeli navy!


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Chris –

Yesterday afternoon, we heard that the Women's Boat to Gaza was making good progress on the Mediterranean and the women on board were excited about meeting the people on the shores of Gaza who were waiting for them. Some Palestinians even spent the night at the beach to greet them.

At 9:58am EDT, flotilla organizers lost contact with the boat, Zaytouna-Oliva. The US Embassy confirmed that the boat was intercepted and Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that the Zaytouna-Oliva was boarded by members of the Israeli navy (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haaretz.com%2Fisrael-news%2F1.745909&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=161005_gazaboa1&n=3). The Israelis took control of the boat and rerouted it – under force – to the Israeli port of Ashdod. We have not had any contact with Ann Wright or the rest of the women on board, and we do not know where our friends are.

It is important to know that this happened in international waters. Not only are Israel’s actions illegal, but they set a terrifying precedent, giving a greenlight for other nations to attack civilian ships in international waters. The Zaytouna-Oliva was carrying no material aid. This was by design because Israel, as a premise for their attacks, would claim that weapons and contraband were on board. The owner of Zaytouna-Oliva is Israeli.

Ann Wright is a decorated former US diplomat and long-time CODEPINK activist. On board with her were three parliamentarians, an Olympic athlete, and Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire. They were committed to nonviolence as much as they were committed to breaking the blockade.

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Contact President Barack Obama: (202) 456-1111

Contact Secretary John Kerry: [email protected] or (202) 647-4000

Please ask Secretary Kerry and President Obama to call on the Israeli government to immediately release the women, and to launch a US investigation into the seizure of the boat. There are a number of troubling circumstances that are clearly against US and international law! And don't forget to say that the blockade on Gaza must end!

In solidarity,

Alice, Alli, Aniqa, Ariel, Chelsea, Jodie, Mariana, Martha, Max, Medea, Nancy and Sam

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Beautiful Game, Ugly Reality


Apartheid teams have no place in football -- tell FIFA to show settlements a red card!/

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There's no place for apartheid in soccer. Tell FIFA to ban teams from settlements in occupied Palestine from competing in Israel's league.


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Dear Chris,

Soccer. Football. The Beautiful Game.

It doesn’t matter what you call it -- soccer is the most popular sport in the world. In fact, it’s not just a sport. Soccer is a culture, an identity -- for many people, it’s a way of life. It brings us together across class and race. Unless you’re Palestinian, that is.

Illegal Jewish-only settlements across occupied Palestine have started soccer teams, and they’ve been invited into the Israeli league. State-of-the-art soccer fields, only open to Jews, have been built where Palestinian homes and farms used to stand.

This happens because the Israeli Football Association lets it happen. Like every other official Israeli body, they’re trying to make Israel’s illegal land grabs permanent. This time, by dressing land theft up in soccer jerseys.

FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, can force Israel’s hand -- they can force the Israeli Football Association to expel the settlement teams, and they can ban all Israeli teams from international competitions if they don't comply. But FIFA will only take a stand for human rights if we make them.

Click here to email FIFA President Gianni Infantino and the FIFA council. Tell them to follow international law, and ban settlement teams from the Israeli league. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NPjNaGHoFaNWw9RAPyLkV1osZfxIALJQ)

We have a real opportunity to make a difference. Human rights activists from around the world have been pressuring FIFA for months -- and now it’s the home stretch of their campaign. 66 members of the European Parliament have sent a letter to FIFA, and a senior FIFA official will be presenting recommendations when the FIFA council meets next week. So right now, it’s all hands on deck.

As Jews and allies, and as soccer lovers (or not!), we need to flood them with messages: it’s time to end FIFA’s complicity in Israel’s occupation. Apartheid teams have no place in sport.

Click here to sign our petition to the FIFA Council -- we’ll be delivering it next week. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2eTWfid9%2F5Q3ihryyo6u%2FFosZfxIALJQ)

By allowing settler teams to participate in Israel’s soccer league, FIFA is complicit in the brutal occupation of Palestine. But FIFA’s own rulebook is crystal clear on what should happen. Member states (of which Israel is one and Palestine is another) cannot play matches on the territory of other associations without their permission. But that’s exactly what happens every single time these settler teams meet and play: Jewish-only teams with Jewish-only fans playing on Jewish-only land. Land that’s been stolen from Palestinians.

There’s clear precedent, too: after Russian occupied Crimea in 2014, UEFA (the European Football Association) promptly ruled that teams in Crimea could not play Russia’s league. After 69 years of displacement, dispossession and occupation, the same ruling is long overdue in Palestine.

Let’s recap: International law is clear. FIFA law is clear. And the right thing to do is clear, too.

Tell FIFA to show settlement soccer clubs the red card. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aexSt2uFlLhlN1A02XzP%2BBOuprSr0ED1)

Whether you’re a diehard soccer fan, you’d rather I called it football, or you couldn’t care less about sports, this still matters. When South African sports teams were banned from international competition, it helped isolate and weaken the apartheid system. If FIFA follows its rulebook and takes a stand, it’ll send a huge message -- a message that will reverberate well beyond the sports section.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino and FIFA’s governing council have the power to send that message. We have the power to make them do it.

Please, take a minute to email FIFA and tell them to ban settlement teams from competition. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=h0MAVSAhXn1s1ra%2FPiY2zVosZfxIALJQ)

Thank you,

Stefanie


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[Gaza] Zaytouna-Oliva Women Deported. Details Emerge about the Capture

Zaytouna-Oliva Women Deported
Details Emerge about the Capture


For Immediate Release
October 6, 2016

Messina, Italy: All 13 of the women on the Women’s Boat to Gaza are currently in the process of deportation after being captured by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and detained in a prison at Ashdod. Wendy Goldsmith, a member of the land team working to secure the release of the women stated that, “the deportation was much quicker than in prior flotillas. While we had a great legal team assisting the women, we suspect that the reason for the quick release was because of all the negative media attention Israel has been receiving for its illegal interception.”

According to early reports from the women released, the Zaytouna-Oliva was surrounded by two warships along with four to five smaller naval boats. The IDF gave warning to the Zaytouna-Oliva to stop their course towards Gaza. When the warning was refused, at least 7 IDF members, both male and female, boarded the Zaytouna-Oliva and commandeered the sailboat. This happened in international waters.

In the course of their capture, the women persisted in telling the IDF that Israel’s interception of their boat was illegal and that they were being taken against their will to Israel.

The Women’s Boat to Gaza campaign asserts that while the captivity of the women on board Zaytouna-Oliva is over, the captivity of 1. 9 million Palestinians in Gaza remains. The Campaign also asserts that the term “peaceful” which has been used in some media to describe the capture is incorrect. Peace is more than merely the absence of physical violence. Oppression, occupation, denial of human rights and taking a boat filled with nonviolent women against their will are not peaceful activities. The Women’s Boat to Gaza and the Freedom Flotilla Coalition will continue to sail until Palestine is free.

The Women’s Boat to Gaza is an initiative of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition composed of civil society organizations and campaigns from more than a dozen countries. For more information, visit www.womensboattogaza.org

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Thursday, October 13, 2016


This Shopping Season, will Chicago Join the Global HP Boycott?

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Dear Chris,


Mark your calendars! Black Friday -- the U.S.'s biggest shopping day of the year -- will kick off Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Days of Action around the world targeting occupation and prison profiteer Hewlett Packard! The Global Week of Action will span Friday, November 25 - Saturday, December 3, including the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on November 29.

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During the busiest shopping period of the year, let's show Hewlett Packard companies that people of conscience worldwide are boycotting and divesting from HP to bring an end to its egregious practices (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5uNRwpivFvFTLvH%2BelP8%2F6SkcvOOfxGU). HP companies provide imaging for Israel's apartheid checkpoints and ID cards system; enable Israel's deadly blockade of the Gaza Strip; provide services to illegal Israeli settlements; and manage people for profit in prisons from Palestine to California.

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From the Los Angeles to Boston, from the United Kingdom to Malaysia, from Germany to Italy, from Jerusalem to Gaza, cities worldwide are organizing campaigns and actions to hold HP accountable, and so can you!

There are many ways your group can take part in the HP Week of Action! Here are 10...

1 Launch a campaign to get HP de-shelved from a local store.

2 If the store refuses, demonstrate and flyer outside to escalate pressure and educate shoppers about HP and Palestine. Or flyer on a busy street during shopping season. Gather local signatures for the soon-to-be-released Boycott HP petition.

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4 Go holiday carolling -- with boycott HP lyrics.

5 Hold an informational teach-in about what makes HP an important target.

6 Ask a local community institution or church to pledge to be HP-free. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Euwskl%2F%2FbJamrW8Xp7PuTqSkcvOOfxGU)

7 Get creative putting Boycott HP stickers in smart places.

8 Host a social media house party; culture-jam HP with your friends on Twitter. Or sign up here to join a social media team (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Zm2V8TyngixhP4dQJLUJKKSkcvOOfxGU) to tweet/post throughout the week!

9 Organize an action outside of one of HP's offices or tech industry gatherings.

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Stay tuned for great new resources from the International Boycott HP Network to take these actions! To start, here's the Week of Action launch video (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=htxzctwm8NK1EFJR7R0NOaSkcvOOfxGU). Don't miss the recordings of our recent webinars: Why HP is a Great Target (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jy3P1s0FFHQHfUBouavS%2BaSkcvOOfxGU) and Building Effective Boycott HP Campaigns (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OJkCOdHUTd5oRmk9RfTZ%2FKSkcvOOfxGU).

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[Gaza] International Media Coverage of the Women's Boat to Gaza

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Reposted from the Women's Boat to Gaza Website (https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/media-room/media-impacts)

Thank you to everyone that made media outlets around the world pay attention to the Women’s Boat to Gaza.

Below is a sample of the media coverage that this latest project of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition has achieved. We continue to process the enormous number of articles across the many countries represented in the campaign. Coverage is grouped in date order, under campaign stages, and then by country, as each participant returned home.

Your supportive online activities and conversations have helped and continue to help amplify Palestinian voices to break the blockade of silence surrounding the illegal Israeli blockade of the Palestinian people of Gaza.



12/10/16 – Women’s Boat to Gaza: 13 Activists Detained by Israel, Weeks After U.S. OKs $38B in Military Aid (Democracy Now Video)

6/10/16 – AJ+ Video about the Women’s Boat to Gaza

6/10/16 – Pink Floyd reunion: David Gilmour, Roger Waters to perform live in Palestine soon?



Reactions and Returning Home (by Country)

South Africa

8/10/16 – Sea of support for Gaza activist

8/10/16 – South African Olympian returns home after Gaza protest



New Zealand/Aotearoa

8/10/16 – Marama Davidson back home after Gaza protest

8/10/16 – Hobart boat captain Madeleine Habib detained during Gaza protest returns home

7/10/16 – Hobart sailor Madeleine Habib set to be deported over Gaza mission



Australia

18/10/16 – ‘It’s hard to engage military against a little ray of hope’: Gaza protesters fight back with dignity – and tea

8/10/16 – Hobart boat captain Madeleline Habib detained during Gaza protest return home

8/10/16 – Hobart protester Madeleine Habib returns from Women’s Boat to Gaza trip

7/10/16 – Tasmanian activist held by Israeli army

7/10/16 – Pink Floyd ‘reunites’ in support of pro-Palestinian sailing mission as activists expected to be deported

7/10/16 – Israelis stop boat, Australian skipper outside Gaza (Vietnamese)

6/10/16 – Israel intercepts boat seeking to break Gaza blockade



Barcelona – Departure (12-19 September)

12/9/16 – La Flota de la Llibertat prepara al Port Vell un nou viatge a Gaza / BTV

12/9/16 – Una flotilla de dones per trencar una dècada de bloqueig a Gaza / La Directa

12/9/16 – Mujeres Rumbo a Gaza desafiará el bloqueo israelí / Diagonal

13/9/16 – Las mujeres que lucharon por la liberación de Palestina / eldiario.es

13/9/16 – Ada Colau assisteix a l’acomiadament de la flota solidària ‘Dones rumb a Gaza’ / Ajuntament de Barcelona

13/9/16 – Una nova flotilla salpa avui de Barcelona amb l’objectiu de trencar el blocatge de Gaza / Vilaweb

13/9/16 – Todas somos Mujeres Rumbo a Gaza / eldiarioes

14/9/16 – La flotilla ‘Mujeres rumbo a Gaza’ zarpa de Barcelona para denunciar el bloqueo israelí / El Periódico

14/9/16 – Un grup de dones navega cap a Gaza per denunciar l’ocupació palestina / TV3

14/9/16 – Salpen de Barcelona els dos vaixells de Dones Rumb a Gaza per denunciar el bloqueig d’Israel / Lliure i millor

14/9/16 – Women’s Boat to Gaza (Radio 2SER Australia)

14/9/16 – Nova flotilla contra el blocatge de Gaza / El Triangle

14/9/16 – La Flota de la Llibertat salpa rumb a Gaza des del Port Vell / BTV

14/9/16 – La flotilla ‘Mujeres rumbo a Gaza’ zarpa de Barcelona para denunciar el bloqueo israelí / El Periódico

14/9/16 – Una flotilla de dones salpa cap a Gaza per denunciar el bloqueig israelià / Diari Ara

15/9/16 – Dues embarcacions amb una vintena de dones salpen del port de Barcelona cap Gaza / Llibertat.cat

15/9/16 – Una nova flotilla salpa cap a Gaza des de Barcelona / El Pais

15/9/16 – Uhintifada emisión especial: Las mujeres navegan ya rumbo a Gaza / Hala Bedi – UhIntifada

17/9/16 – Dones cap a Gaza: dos vaixells amb tripulació femenina salpen de Barcelona / Catalunya Ràdio – Solidaris



Ajaccio – First Stop (20-22 September)

20/9/16 – Gazatíes apoyan a la flotilla de mujeres contra bloqueo israelí / HispanTV

21/9/16 – Ships with all-women crews set sail for Gaza, hoping to break blockade



Messina – Second Stop (24 September – 1 October)

25/9/16 – Interview with Malin Bjork MEP

1/10/16 – Entrevista a Sandra Barrilaro, participante en el Zaytouna-Oliva



Messina to Gaza – The Voyage and Israeli Attack (2-8 October)

7/10/16 – Hobart Madeleine Habib set to be deported over Gaza mission

7/10/16 – Tasmanian activist held by Israeli army

7/10/16 – Zaytouna-Oliva Women to be ‘deported’ / Details Emerge about the Capture

7/10/16 – Hobart sailor Madeline Habib set to be deported over Gaza mission

7/10/16 – Hobart sailor Madeleine Habib set to be deported over Gaza mission

6/10/16 – Pink Floyd ‘reunites’ in support of pro-Palestinian sailing mission as activists expected to be deported

6/10/16 – Israel detains female pro-Palestine activist boat captained by Hobart woman

6/10/16 – Australian – captained vessel detained on rout to Gaza

6/10/16 – Womens boat to Gaza with Malaysian doctor on board stopped by israeli forces/

6/10/16 – Pink Floyd reunion David Gilmour Roger Waters perform live Palestine soon

6/10/16 – NZ Green MP on ship intercepted by Israel

6/10/16 – Australian-captained vessel detained en route to Gaza

6/10/16 – Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire: Israeli navy detention is kidnap

6/10/16 – Israelis stop boat, Australian skipper outside Gaza (Mandarin)

5/10/16 – Gaza’s women flotilla ‘challenging Israel’s blockade’

5/10/16 – Israel sends female naval cadets to stop women’s boat headed to Gaza [Correction – Male and female members of the Israeli Occupation Forces attacked, boarded and forced our boat from International Waters to Ashdod]

5/10/16 – Israel intercepts boat seeking to break Gaza blockade

5/10/16 – Israeli Military Blocks Female Flotilla From Reaching Gaza

5/10/16 – Samira Duwaifia and the Women’s Boat to Gaza mission

5/10/16 – All-women aid flotilla nears blockaded Gaza Strip

5/10/16 – Israel intercepts Women’s Boat to Gaza

5/10/16 – Anderson outraged after Women’s Boat to Gaza intercepted

5/10/16 – Crew of all-women Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza reportedly detained by Israeli forces

5/10/16 – Israel stops Women’s Boat to Gaza

5/10/16 – All-women aid ship set to reach Gaza Strip

5/10/16 – Israeli navy board and seize Gaza flotilla, redirect it to Ashdod port

5/10/16 – Israel intercepts boat seeking to break Gaza blockade

5/10/16 – Israel takes over women’s boat to Gaza

5/10/16 – ‘We don’t know where our friends are,’ says Women’s Boat to Gaza after Israel’s navy commandeers ship

5/10/16 – Activists’ plea for Norway to stop Israeli attack on flotilla

3/10/16 – Palestinians thank the Women’s Boat to Gaza Video

3/10/16 – Pelayaran 13 Wanita ke Gaza | Women’s Boat to Gaza Video (Malaysia)



In addition, you can access a range of other media reports via these hash tags that we have used during the mission:

#womentogaza

#letfflotillasail

#SOSWomenFlotilla

#welcomeLeighAnn


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"Disgraceful" Palestinian Authority arrests relative of USPCN member for posting a video


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"Disgraceful" Palestinian Authority arrests relative of USPCN member for posting a video

A few days ago, it was reported by the family of Ameer Spitan--a 27-year-old graduate of Birzeit University (with degrees in political science and journalism) and social media journalist from the occupied Palestinian village of Beit Dooku (located approximately 10 miles northwest of Jerusalem)--that he was arrested by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and sent to a detention center in Jericho. No charges have been filed, and the PA will not let his family visit or receive any information about him. Ameer is the son of a first cousin of USPCN co-founder Hatem Abudayyeh, and his only two brothers, Saed and Mohammad, are currently in Israeli jails under administrative detention.

Although we have no official explanation from the PA, the speculation is that Ameer was arrested for posting a powerful video (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=b6e8bbeeec&e=266d74dd41) on his Facebook page, which ultimately went viral and reached well over 1.5 million views. In it, Ameer interviews his 80-year-old grandmother about PA President Mahmoud Abbas' leading of an official Palestinian delegation to the September 30th funeral of Israeli politician Shimon Peres, the infamous Butcher of Qana (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=d6c653d903&e=266d74dd41) who also, along with the equally criminal Yitzhak Rabin, developed the "force, might, and beatings" policy used to brutally repress Palestinians during the first Intifada that began in 1987.

Ameer's grandmother expressed the sentiments of millions of Palestinians across the world by calling the PA and Abbas a "disgrace" for attending Peres' funeral, and especially for asking current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for permission to attend. "Why should he ask permission? Why should he even go to the funeral?" she asks in the video. "Have the Israelis ever offered condolences to our dead?" she adds, "No, they kill us and don't offer condolences."

Ameer's arrest is only one of hundreds of PA attacks on journalists and others who criticize Abbas and his government. The PA is notorious for restrictions on freedom of speech, press, and assembly (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=299b2876fd&e=266d74dd41), especially because its anti-democratic policies and "security coordination" with zionist Israel have long ago made it delegitimate and unrepresentative of the vast majority of Palestinian people. Calls for Abbas' resignation, as well as the liquidation of the PA, are made regularly.

USPCN and Samidoun (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=e4dc1301e7&e=266d74dd41) demand the immediate release of Ameer Spitan, and ask for our supporters to take the following ACTION:

Call PA Minister of the Interior Rami Hamdallah at +970 229 68989, AND email him at [email protected] (ccing [email protected]);
Email PA President Mahmoud Abbas at [email protected] (ccing [email protected]); and

Additionally for those in the U.S., call Ambassador of the PLO Delegation to the U.S. Maen Areikat at 202.974.6360, AND email him at [email protected] (ccing [email protected]).

Sample letter / talking points you can use:

To: PA Minister of the Interior Rami Hamdallah, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, and Ambassador of the PLO Delegation to the U.S. Maen Areikat

I demand the immediate release of Ameer Spitan from PA detention in Jericho, and for you to allow him to contact his family in Beit Dooku, Occupied Palestine.

Ameer is a journalist and has been arrested only because he is critical of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his policies.

I also demand that you uphold freedom of speech, press, and assembly, and stop the PA's repression against the Palestinian people it is supposed to represent.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[City, State, Country]


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Yes it's a real struggle a Palestinian just killed 2 more Jews today, but don't worry we shall overcome ;)

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Yes it's a real struggle a Palestinian just killed 2 more Jews today, but don't worry we shall overcome ;)

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'We' being who, exactly -- ?





Hello everybody my name is Mapai. I have been interested in left leaning politics for a long time. I mainly got interested by listening to Communist songs. My political views are extremely simple, I am what you would call a Labor Zionist. For those who understand allow me to explain. I agree with communist and socialist principles (Proletarian leadership, equality among the genders, state funded services etc.) However I also believe that the land of Israel ( and its occupied territories) should be governed by Jews and for Jews with minimal Christian and Muslim influence. While I currently live in America my goal is to make "aliyah" ( lit. ascent, but used to describe immigration to Israel). If you have any questions just ask. :)

http://www.revleft.com/vb/threads/196202-Hello-Comrades


Your introduction shows you to have self-contradictory politics, since one cannot subscribe to national-chauvinism, and be a socialist / communist at the same time. (Just consider that there would be no geographically circumscribed 'states' under worldwide communism.)

Proletarian interests transcend this-or-that ethnicity or historical-legacy grouping -- proletarian interests are for the *abolition* of politics-by-geography or politics-by-ethnicity.

And, in *logistical* terms how would the 'correct' 'minimal Christian and Muslim influence' be determined for a place like Israel -- ? This kind of policy issue serves to illustrate the inherent problematic of 'governance' on the basis of arbitrary identity-based groupings, as the U.S. had with Jim Crow laws in the past.

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Ben & Jerry's: Do Palestinian human rights matter?



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Ben & Jerry's: Do Palestinian human rights matter?


Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel commends Ben & Jerry's for taking the brave step of aligning the company with the Black Lives Matter movement in a statement (http://t.ymlp98.com/uemsaxaejhqwataquqakaesuw/click.php) posted October 6th 2016. But the company continues to miss opportunities to take specific actions to show that it respects the lives of Palestinian refugees and Palestinians living under occupation.

The statement continues: "We’ve come to understand that to be silent about the violence and threats to the lives and well-being of Black people is to be complicit in that violence and those threats." Meanwhile we’ve been saying to Ben & Jerry's for 4 years now - that to be silent about the occupation of Palestine, which daily humiliates and brutalizes 4 million Palestinians, is to be complicit in those crimes. And sales of Ben & Jerry's in settlements actively support the occupation.

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Many activists in the 'Black Lives Matter' movement identify their struggle with the struggle for human rights of Palestinians who are denied basic freedoms by the Israeli occupation (When I see them I see us) (http://t.ymlp98.com/uemuakaejhqwavaquqafaesuw/click.php). Ben & Jerry's statement says "we have a moral obligation to take a stand now for justice and for Black lives." And yet by failing to speak out against the occupation they have shown little interest in justice for Palestinians. The company continues to sell ice cream in illegal Jewish-only settlements and to send ice cream treats to Israeli soldiers of the occupation forces.

Ben & Jerry's statement says "All lives do matter. But all lives will not matter until Black lives matter." As the Black Lives Matter movement has made perfectly clear, all lives include oppressed Palestinians as well as oppressed people of color in the US.

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Ben & Jerry’s could take immediate constructive steps by speaking out against the occupation and by stopping sales of their ice cream in the settlements. But Palestinians' lives apparently do not matter enough.

What to do: Write an email ([email protected],[email protected] r.com,[email protected],[email protected], [email protected]) to Ben & Jerry's Global Director of Social Mission Rob Michalak, CEO Jostein Solheim, Board Chair Jeff Furman and Ben and Jerry asking them to put Ben & Jerry's on record: "We will not do business in a country that denies Palestinians their basic human rights.

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Ameer Spitan released just hours ago! Continue to advocate for Palestinian prisoners in both Israeli and Palestinian Authority jails


Ameer Spitan released!

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Ameer Spitan released just hours ago! Continue to advocate for Palestinian prisoners in both Israeli and Palestinian Authority jails

Yesterday, USPCN and Samidoun reported that Ameer Spitan was arrested by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and sent to a detention center in Jericho.

We just received word from the family that he has been released and is on his way home! Thank you all for participating in our action alert and notifying the Palestinian Authority that its repression against its own people is unacceptable and will not be ignored by Palestinians and our allies across the world. Continue to be vigilant by educating yourself (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=b799bb1a0d&e=266d74dd41) about the PA's torture and other ill treatment of Palestinians, and by keeping up (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=a38cf1146c&e=266d74dd41) with its continued violations of its people's rights.

And please continue to advocate for Palestinian and Arab political prisoners in Israeli jails. The zionist occupation forces have over 7,000 of our finest currently in prison. USPCN publishes a weekly report (most recent one here (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=951f9cc7ab&e=266d74dd41); new one due out today) on these prisoners and the movement to support and free them. We have close and official relationships with the two most important political prisoners' advocacy groups in the world, Addameer (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=fd0fe3ff57&e=266d74dd41) in Palestine and the aforementioned Samidoun (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=e146f8d50e&e=266d74dd41).

We are supporting Addameer's Stop Administrative Detention campaign (#StopAD), and have produced a petition (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=9663f28b38&e=266d74dd41) around it; and also promote the No Way to Treat a Child campaign of Defense for Children International - Palestine and American Friends Service Committee.

Thank you again for helping to free Ameer, and for your continued support!

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Free All Palestinian and Arab Political Prisoners in Israeli and PA Jails!

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This is the original alert from yesterday:

A few days ago, it was reported by the family of Ameer Spitan--a 27-year-old graduate of Birzeit University (with degrees in political science and journalism) and social media journalist from the occupied Palestinian village of Beit Dooku (located approximately 10 miles northwest of Jerusalem)--that he was arrested by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and sent to a detention center in Jericho. No charges have been filed, and the PA will not let his family visit or receive any information about him. Ameer is the son of a first cousin of USPCN co-founder Hatem Abudayyeh, and his only two brothers, Saed and Mohammad, are currently in Israeli jails under administrative detention.

Although we have no official explanation from the PA, the speculation is that Ameer was arrested for posting a powerful video on his Facebook page, which ultimately went viral and reached well over 1.5 million views. In it, Ameer interviews his 80-year-old grandmother about PA President Mahmoud Abbas' leading of an official Palestinian delegation to the September 30th funeral of Israeli politician Shimon Peres, the infamous Butcher of Qana who also, along with the equally criminal Yitzhak Rabin, developed the "force, might, and beatings" policy used to brutally repress Palestinians during the first Intifada that began in 1987.

Ameer's grandmother expressed the sentiments of millions of Palestinians across the world by calling the PA and Abbas a "disgrace" for attending Peres' funeral, and especially for asking current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for permission to attend. "Why should he ask permission? Why should he even go to the funeral?" she asks in the video. "Have the Israelis ever offered condolences to our dead?" she adds, "No, they kill us and don't offer condolences."

Ameer's arrest is only one of hundreds of PA attacks on journalists and others who criticize Abbas and his government. The PA is notorious for restrictions on freedom of speech, press, and assembly, especially because its anti-democratic policies and "security coordination" with zionist Israel have long ago made it delegitimate and unrepresentative of the vast majority of Palestinian people. Calls for Abbas' resignation, as well as the liquidation of the PA, are made regularly.

USPCN and Samidoun demand the immediate release of Ameer Spitan, and ask for our supporters to take the following ACTION:
Call PA Minister of the Interior Rami Hamdallah at +970 229 68989, AND email him at [email protected] (ccing [email protected]);
Email PA President Mahmoud Abbas at [email protected] (ccing [email protected]); and
Additionally for those in the U.S., call Ambassador of the PLO Delegation to the U.S. Maen Areikat at 202.974.6360, AND email him at [email protected] (ccing [email protected]).

Sample letter / talking points you can use:

To: PA Minister of the Interior Rami Hamdallah, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, and Ambassador of the PLO Delegation to the U.S. Maen Areikat

I demand the immediate release of Ameer Spitan from PA detention in Jericho, and for you to allow him to contact his family in Beit Dooku, Occupied Palestine.

Ameer is a journalist and has been arrested only because he is critical of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and his policies.

I also demand that you uphold freedom of speech, press, and assembly, and stop the PA's repression against the Palestinian people it is supposed to represent.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]
[City, State, Country]



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Dear Chris --

Mark your calendars! CODEPINK is joining the International Boycott HP Network and the Palestinian BDS National Committee for a November 25 - December 3 week of action against Hewlett Packard for their role in supplying technology for Israeli apartheid and occupation. During this week, including November 29 the UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, cities and people across the world will hold actions calling for the boycott of Hewlett Packard.

Watch the video for the global BDS week of action against HP (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FqWbu4Dmvbxo&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp_week&n=2)

Join the Week of Action! Contact CODEPINK’s Palestine campaigner, Ariel Gold ([email protected]) for support for your action and sign up with the Boycott National Committee (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe% 2F1FAIpQLSdgHaLPKWEM8C7S5RdzYNMGonG9Nm4A8ELMVUmObh XlstxUlg%2Fviewform&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp_week&n=3) as a participant in the week of action!

Hewlett Packard is the second largest investor in Israeli Information Technology (IT). Their biometric system is used for control and surveillance of the Palestinian population both inside Israel and in the occupied Palestinian territories. HP provides services and technology for Modi'in Illit and Ariel, two of the largest illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. HP's Basel system is installed at Israeli military checkpoints in the occupied West Bank. HP supplies computer systems for the Israeli Ministry of Defense and provides IT infrastructure for the Israeli Navy, thereby helping enforce the illegal blockade of Gaza. On top of all this, HP also contracts with US prisons and Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement (ICE), enabling deportation, mass incarceration, and solitary confinement in America.

Join CODEPINK for the Week of Action against HP. Hold a protest outside of a store that sells HP computers and printers, flyer on a busy street during the holiday shopping season, host a Boycott HP and Remodel RE/MAX social media house party, and much more. Use the hashtag #BoycottHP. Contact our Palestine campaigner Ariel Gold ([email protected]) for help with ideas and register (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2Fe% 2F1FAIpQLSdgHaLPKWEM8C7S5RdzYNMGonG9Nm4A8ELMVUmObh XlstxUlg%2Fviewform&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp_week&n=4) your participation for the HP week of action with the the BDS National Committee (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbdsmovement.net%2Fboycott-hp%2Fweek-of-action&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp_week&n=5).

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100,000 More Israeli Settlers

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Dear Chris,

100,000. That’s the additional number of people living in Israel’s illegal settlements today than at the start of President Barack Obama’s term in 2009.

Since the outset of his administration, the president has spoken out—sometimes even forcefully—against the expansion of Israeli settlements.

But these words have proven insufficient in forcing Israel to halt its colonization of Palestinian land.

Even as President Obama enters his final months in the White House, however, he still has time to take effective action against Israel’s settlements.

And the word around town here in Washington, DC is that the Obama administration is weighing its options for doing so.

So please sign our petition (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3sj5w85vme4DBGXTmrPjKx46sJ5T9YMa) to the president today and help us generate the political support needed for the Obama administration to finally take action.

And after you sign the petition, check out all the new resources we’ve put together for this campaign, including:

• An interactive graph (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QvpNXYZqoeO2cDR36aAX%2BB46sJ5T9YMa) showing the growth of Israel’s settler population in East Jerusalem and the West Bank

• A policy memorandum (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bhfrfaKR1LNmXLw3AY69zR46sJ5T9YMa) outlining recommendations for what the United States should do to make effective its opposition to Israeli settlements

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I know what the skeptics out there are thinking right now: “We’ve had eight years of feckless denunciations of Israeli settlements by the Obama administration. Why would the president finally take action now?”

Fair enough. But the political dynamics change after Election Day and we have a real opportunity to help make something happen over the next few months.

After having brokered two failed round of negotiations, President Obama’s legacy won’t be as Israeli-Palestinian peacemaker.

Instead his legacy on this issue will be defined largely by his deal, signed in September, to give Israel an additional $38 billion in weapons over ten years, further entrenching the Israeli military occupation and colonization of Palestinian land he claims to oppose.

It’s a bleak record. But he can salvage a portion of this legacy by taking action against Israeli settlements in the final months of his term.

Help us build the political support he needs to do so by taking action today (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GzAy9ZQnJ4G9%2FtONYRt8Mh46sJ5T9YMa).

Sincerely,




JOSH RUEBNER

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A Legal Analysis Report: Administrative Detention in the OPT


Check out Addameer's latest report on Administrative Detention (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=204&qid=192865), a procedure whereby a person is detained without charge or trial, by Israeli authorities. The report also provides a legal analysis of the practice as used in a systematic and widespread manner.

Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

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Demand US pressure Israel to release Ahmad Manasra, 14


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Demand US pressure Israel to release Ahmad Manasra


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(WASHINGTON DC 11/08/2016) – In a tragic miscarriage of justice, Palestinian teen Ahmad Manasra, 14, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his alleged role in a supposed attempted knife attack against an Israeli settler on Oct. 12, 2015.

After Israeli soldiers shot dead his cousin, Hassan, 15, a settler rammed Ahmad with his car. The severely wounded and bleeding child lay on the ground as other settlers kicked and beat him, yelling at him to “die,” according to a graphic video (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1Q99i7g%2FU7jH2rQKdiYVbmJgNWHhesye) of the event. Another video (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dKRHkRCz7hnvMctcU6HvamJgNWHhesye) shows Israeli interrogators berating and screaming at the child, while Ahmad hits himself in the head with cries that he couldn’t remember the incident. The behavior in the video is “a situation that may amount to torture,” according to Brad Parker (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Hyy%2BWKdjsHx5BIjduWjVV2JgNWHhesye), attorney and international advocacy officer at Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCIP).

Court authorities sentenced Ahmad as an adult. Israeli law considers the age at the time of trial – not the age at the time of the incident – in determining whether to proceed with juvenile or adult jurisdiction. Though Ahmad was 13 last October, authorities held him until he turned 14 purposely to try him as an adult and give him a longer prison sentence. Because of this case, the age of adulthood in Israeli civilian court, which applies to Palestinian children in East Jerusalem, was lowered from 14 years to 12 years, according to media reports. (Meanwhile, Israeli children are considered adults at the age of 18.) Israeli military law, which applies to Palestinians in the West Bank, already allows for the incarceration and trials of 12-year-old Palestinian children.

Ahmad’s treatment and the new law lowering the age of adulthood for Palestinian children both violate international law, which “prioritizes rehabilitation and reintegration,” Ayed Abu Eqtaish, accountability program director at DCIP, said in a statement (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=N%2FTYJaAkNTDJDxGkL5YYWmJgNWHhesye). DCIP monitors the Israeli incarceration of Palestinian children.

Ahmad’s lawyer contends there was no evidence tying the young boy to the alleged assault. “This is a racist court and a court of the occupation. It had a preconceived notion about the incident due to the media uproar and [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu's statements about it,” he told Al Jazeera English (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BuDyphfVmYUEu2TfGTDrcGJgNWHhesye). “The Israeli public opinion influenced the court decision and led to the conviction of the child Ahmed Manasra on no basis and without any explanation.”

Israel is the only country in the world that prosecutes about 700 Palestinian children in military courts every year. While Ahmad was tried in a civilian court because he lives in East Jerusalem, his interrogation, incarceration and unjust sentence are no less barbaric and must be stopped.

As of August 2016, 340 Palestinian children were being held in Israeli prisons, according to prisoner rights’ group Addameer. We cannot forget these children nor can we let Ahmad spend the next 12 years in prison.

This is No Way to Treat a Child (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Nw1JMJZSHGkfChZWgkRhXmJgNWHhesye). As a founding member (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pezJ6Dl310Xd%2B2P2dpjZBGJgNWHhesye) of the No Way to Treat a Child Campaign, AMP is asking for your help! Help us stop the Israeli detention of Palestinian children! And, please, help us seek justice for Ahmad.

TAKE ACTION

Call U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and demand he pressure Israel to release Ahmad and to end all child detention.

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TALKING POINTS
Israel is the only country in the world that routinely prosecutes children in military courts.

Jewish children, however, are subjected only to civilian courts.

Israel is an apartheid state, with two sets of laws – one for Jews and one set for ‘others,’ such as Palestinians.

Palestinians in the West Bank are subjected to military law, while civilian courts govern Jews who live illegally in settlements.

The US Arms Export Control Act prohibits a recipient country of US military aid from using American weapons or weapons purchased with US taxpayer money against a civilian population.

The US Foreign Assistance Act prohibits aid to any government that engages in a consistent pattern of human rights abuses. The Leahy Law also prohibits military aid or training to specific military units where information about human rights abuses exists.

The U.S. is near the end of its 10-year, $30-billion Memorandum of Understanding with Israel. It has renewed the MOU with a promise of $38 billion over 10 years, beginning in FY2019.

Continuing military aid to Israel despite evidence of human rights abuses and Israel’s continued violations of international law hurts American standing throughout the world and damages our credibility, particularly in the Arab and Muslim worlds.

The U.S. holds other countries to human rights standards and we should do the same with Israel.

Please pressure Israel to release Ahmad and all Palestinian child prisoners.

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Joint Report Estimates that 554 Palestinians Arrested in October 2016


Palestinian prisoners’ affairs institutions (the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission, Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights and Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association) issued the following monthly joint report, reviewing the situation of Palestinian prisoners in October 2016.

The prisoners’ affairs institutions stated that 554 Palestinians were arrested in October 2016 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including 130 children and 11 women, including one minor girl.

During this time, 216 arrests took place in Jerusalem governorate, including 91 children, a high rate marking an escalation over the past several months. The second highest number of arrests was found in al-Khalil with 60 arrests, followed by 54 arrests in Nablus, 48 arrests in Bethlehem, 30 in Jenin, 27 in Ramallah and El-Bireh, 26 in Tulkarem, 23 in Qalqilya, nine in Tubas, eight in Jericho, four in Salfit and four from the Gaza Strip.

The total number of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails remains approximately 7,000 prisoners, including 64 women prisoners, 13 of which are minor girls. There is a total of approximately 400 child prisoners, mostly in Megiddo and Ofer prisons. There are approximately 700 Palestinian prisoners held under administrative detention; 120 orders were issued in the last month, including 34 new administrative detention orders.

Israeli occupation forces continue policy of arbitrary detention in the Gaza Strip

Israeli occupation forces continued their policy of arbitrary detention against the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, in dereliction of clear legal obligations under international humanitarian law and human rights law, as Palestinians continue to be held by occupation forces without charges and proper legal procedures are not followed for arrests. Moreover, there are systematic violations of fair trial rights as laid out in international standards and instruments, including depriving Palestinian detainees of their right to access information about their own case, including the reasons for their detention, and the right to legal counsel before trial. Contact with lawyers can be prohibited by the occupation state for over 21 days. This comes in addition to denying their right to communicate with the outside world, especially for the detainee to inform a third party of their arrest and detention. In addition, the occupying power routinely uses excessive force during arrest operations, as in the exposure of Palestinian fishermen at sea too heavy gunfire with no reason and in violation of the code of conduct for law enforcement of 1979. The Israeli practices against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip amount to the crimes of torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, and causes the multiplication of human suffering.

In addition, the institutions noted that three incidents took place in October resulting in the arrest of four Palestinians, including two fishermen arrested at sea and two traders arrested at the Beit Hanoun/Erez crossing.

Battle of the Empty Stomachs

At the end of October, eight prisoners were engaged in an open hunger strike, in protest of administrative detention, isolation and the denial of family visits to Palestinian prisoners. The prisoners Majd Abu Shamla, Hasan Rubayah, Anas Shadid, Ahmad Abu Fara, Musab Manasra and Ahmad Salatna are on strike against administrative detention, while Samer Issawi and Munther Snobar are demanding that prisoners be transferred to locations near the military courts, and an end to medical neglect and the denial of family visits.

Abu Fara and Shadid began their strike on 25 September and have been moved from isolation in Ofer prison, to isolation in Ramle prison, and now to the Assaf Harofeh hospital. Abu Shamla and Rubayah have been on strike since 5 October and have been moved from isolation in the Negev desert prison to isolation in Ashkelon to isolation in Ela prison, in cells lacking the minimum standards for health and life. Their health condition is deteriorating daily and some are vomiting blood. The other strikers began their strike on 25 October.

The prisoners Jawad Jawarish, Maher Abayat, Yousef Abu Saeed, Majed Owaidat and Mohammed Khattab, who were on strike against isolation and mistreatment, ended their hunger strikes with transfer to regular prison sections.

After the release decision: Renewal of administrative detention of Shaher al-Rai

The policy of administrative detention has become one of the central punitive and collective policies used by the occupation forces against Palestinian rights, and is in fact a form of systematic psychological warfare and torture used by the occupation against the prisoners and their families.

For example, the case of the prisoner Shaher al-Rai, 46, from the city of Qalqilya. He has been detained administratively since 3 June 2015, when a detention order was issued against him for six months. His detention has been renewed repeatedly and immediately since that time. On the date of 25 October, his last detention order expired and had not been renewed. The prison administration in the Negev prison told him to prepare for release; he gathered his belonging and informed his fellow prisoners that he was being released. He left his prison section to complete release procedures, and was then informed of yet another decision to renew his administrative detention.

Said Manal al-Rai, the wife of Shaher, in an interview with the prisoners’ affairs institution, that the family received the news that his detention had been extended while they were on the way to the checkpoint near al-Khalil to receive him. She added that the news shocked his family as they had prepared to receive him after his absence of over a year in the occupation prisons and said that their son Kanaan, 5, has not stopped crying since the news was received.

Al-Rai has spent nearly 20 years away from his family due to imprisonment and being “wanted”, and Manal said that “We were married 25 years ago but have lived only five years together.” Al-Rai’s case is among dozens that have been similarly impacted by this policy.

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ADL: Disentangle from settlements advocacy to maintain credibility on anti-Semitism


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Dear Chris,

Urge the Anti-Defamation League to disentangle from advocacy for settlements to maintain the ADL's credibility on allegations of anti-Semitism.

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With the rise and election of Trump, anti-Semitism is appearing in mainstream U.S. discourse in an unprecedented way. At the same time, false and grossly exaggerated accusations of anti-Semitism remain a potent political weapon in U.S. politics. Now, more than ever, we need organizations that can serve the public as principled, credible, unbiased investigators and referees of allegations of anti-Semitism in the U.S.

The Anti-Defamation League would be ideally positioned to occupy this role, but unfortunately it currently suffers from a perceived conflict of interest. In addition to advocating against anti-Semitism, the ADL also advocates for settlements in the West Bank. The ADL's entanglement in the settlements issue diminishes the ADL's credibility on anti-Semitism in the eyes of many Americans. If the ADL accuses an American who opposes the settlements of anti-Semitism, many Americans will wonder, rightly or wrongly, if the ADL's advocacy for settlements is coloring the ADL's judgment. Thus, the ADL's settlements advocacy undermines its ability to combat anti-Semitism.

Urge the ADL to disentangle itself from advocacy for settlements to maintain its credibility on allegations of anti-Semitism by signing our petition at MoveOn (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yNrKv2TPMGqg7Zrct6vYMBr8FWZGh7%2B9).

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Stand with Issa Amro as be begins trial!


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Dear Chris --

While the Trump transition team is pledging to recognize Jerusalem (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F20 16%2Fnov%2F09%2Fisrael-donald-trump-netanyahu-jerusalem&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issa_amro_court&n=2) as Israel's capital and break with policy critical of settlements (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2 Fright-wing-israeli-leaders-push-forward-bold-new-legislation-to-preserve-jewish-settlements%2F2016%2F11%2F14%2F104def82-aa7a-11e6-8f19-21a1c65d2043_story.html&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issa_amro_court&n=3), Israel is stepping up its attacks on nonviolent human rights defenders. This Wednesday, CODEPINK’s dear friend and renowned Palestinian peace activist Issa Amro will begin trial in Israeli military court.

Sign the petition (http://www.codepink.org/stand_with_issa_amro?page=64&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issa_amro_court&n=4), join the Thunderclap (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thunderclap.it%2Fprojects%2F 50112-nonviolence-on-trial&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issa_amro_court&n=5), and participate in the Twitter storm to stand with Issa as he faces a strong possibility of being imprisoned for nonviolent activism!

Twitter storm Tues. Nov. 22 11:30am ET/ 8:30 PT to 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT Use your skills and the hashtag #IssaAmro (sample tweets below)!

Issa is a renowned human rights defender from Hebron, the most heavily occupied city in the West Bank. Issa works tirelessly to provide support and protection for his community, including building the first new piece of infrastructure in Hebron’s H2 district since the city was occupied in 1967: a kindergarten for young children who otherwise had to go through a checkpoint to get to school. Issa's activism is a threat to Israel’s system of apartheid and occupation. In order to silence him and send a message to other human rights defenders, Israel has revived 18 charges against Issa dating back to 2010 including organizing an “illegal demonstration” and "entering a closed military zone.” The Israeli military court has an over 99% conviction rate.

Sign the petition (http://www.codepink.org/stand_with_issa_amro?e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4 eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issa_amro_court&n=6) and Thunderclap (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thunderclap.it%2Fprojects%2F 50112-nonviolence-on-trial&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issa_amro_court&n=7) and join us for a Twitter storm Tues. Nov. 22 11:30am ET/ 8:30 PT to 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT. Use your skills and the hashtag #IssaAmro.

Sample tweets:


Stand with human rights defender #IssaAmro -- facing Israeli military court for nonviolent resistance.
Tell @JohnKerry to stand up for human rights defender #IssaAmro on trial for nonviolent protest of Israeli occupation today.
#IssaAmro human rights defender and founder of @YASHebron faces military trial for standing up for justice.
Tell @UNHumanRights to stand up for #IssaAmro on trial for nonviolence.
Links to share:

IMEU video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZH6xOHXxB0
Vice article: http://www.vice.com/read/issa-amro-hebron-court-case-israel-nonviolent

Issa’s dedication to protecting the rights of his people has been recognized by the international community. He was named a Human Rights Defender by the European Union, and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) named him human rights defender of the year for Palestine in 2010. Issa has also written for the Nation about the Airbnb Stolen Homes (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenation.com%2Farticle%2Fth is-airbnb-cottage-is-beautiful-and-spacious-its-also-in-an-israeli-settlement%2F&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issa_amro_court&n=10) campaign. The targeting of Issa is part of a larger campaign by Israel to suppress Palestinian and Israeli human rights defenders, including those who advocate the use of boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) to achieve Palestinian freedom. As Issa begins trial on Wednesday let's make sure he knows he is not alone!

In peace,

Alli, Ariel, Nancy K., and the entire CODEPINK team

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Bodies in Protest: The Power of Hunger Strikes


Hunger strikes have long been used in various geographical settings as means to protest oppressive conditions and demand basic rights. The long history of Palestinian prisoners in mass and individual hunger strikes, reveals the lack of trust in any judicial process and the lack of fair trial guarantees they face under the military and civil court systems of the Israeli occupation. Palestinian prisoners and detainees have resorted to hunger strikes as early as 1968 (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=212&qid=236930) as a legitimate peaceful protest to Israeli detention policies and cruel detention conditions including the use of solitary confinement, denial of family visits, inadequate medical treatment and torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

In the last few years, following the escalation of the use of administrative detention, a number of Palestinian detainees have resorted to hunger in protest of their detention without charge or trial based on “secret information”. Recent mass hunger strikes include the 2012 hunger strike, which involved an estimated 2000 prisoners and detainees (against administrative detention, isolation, and other punitive measures). The most recent mass hunger strike began in June 2016 following the administrative detention of Bilal Kayed, who had completed serving over 14 years in prison; over 100 Palestinian prisoners and detainees joined a solidarity hunger strike. Numerous individual hunger strikes have occurred throughout the years in protest of administrative detention – such as Hana’ Shalabi (2012), Khader Adnan (2014), Mohammad Al Qeeq (2015-2016), Malek Al-Qadi (2016), Mohammad Al- Balboul (2016), and Mahmoud Al-Balboul (2016).

Currently, two Palestinian prisoners, Anas Shadid and Ahmad Abu Fara, are on their 58th day of hunger strike against their imprisonment without charge or trial under Israeli administrative detention. Abu Fara, 29, and Shadid, 19, have been on hunger strike since 25 September. Both have been imprisoned without charge or trial since 1 and 2 August, respectively, and are on strike to demand their release. Meanwhile, three other Palestinians are embarking on hunger strike in protest of their prison conditions.

These hunger strikes demonstrated the ways in which the bodies of the detainees were used to challenge the dynamics of power between the occupied detainee and the occupier. In the absence of any adequate judicial process (fair trial guarantees), administrative detainees subject their own bodies to violence (not for the sake of self-harm per se but rather for making their demands public).

Administrative detainees embark on such hunger strikes as a last resort type of political protest and visibility against being reduced to what philosopher Giorgio Agamben calls “bare life” (marginalized and deprived of political significance). Hunger strikers transform their needs to demands, where the body and its relation to food is shifted from a biological need into a political choice, even if it results death. The decision to embark on hunger strike implies refusal to comply with the prison’s structured system of constrain and privation (the act not to act). This collapses the distinction between passivity and activity, visibility and invisibility, where it transforms the private act of starvation into a collective political demand. As a result, hunger strikes serve to counter the hegemony of the occupying power, where new forms of domination and emancipatory struggle emerge to challenge the existing power dynamic. Thus, through hunger strikes, the administrative detainees re-gain sovereignty over their bodies through becoming decision makers over the prison authorities.

As a result, hunger strikes are met with violent and coercive repression by Israeli Prison Service and special units, as well as medical personnel to push detainees to end their hunger strikes. There have been documented cases of raids on prison cells, placement of hunger strikers in isolation, threats of indefinite detention, banning family visitation, reduction of money spent in the canteen.

Palestinian prisoners and detainees resort to hunger strike in order to protest and have their voices heard outside an unjust legal system which administers their arbitrary detention and the repression of their voices (through administrative detention orders renewals and legislation, including the force-feeding bill). However, Israeli occupation authorities have not managed to break the will of Palestinian hunger strikers who continue to use their bodies, in the absence of any adequate judicial remedies, to practice legitimate disobedience.

Currently, there are an estimated 720 Palestinians placed under administrative detention, including women, children, and Palestinian Legislative Council members. Addameer considers administrative detention a form of psychological torture in contravention with the UN Convention Against Torture.

Join Addameer’s global campaign to #StopAD (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=213&qid=236930).

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Another resounding conference for Palestine wraps up


Thousands attend the largest gathering for Palestine in the US

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More than 3,000 people turned out for a packed weekend of educational lectures, workshops, a teachers’ seminar, entertainment and networking during the American Muslim for Palestine’s 9th annual Conference for Palestine in the U.S.: Paving the Way Toward Justice.

Tots, children and young adults enjoyed programs that focused on fun and Palestine geared just for their age groups, while college students took advantage of another vibrant Camus Activism Track. Main session programs featured renowned speakers such as filmmaker Nawras Abu Saleh; Standing Rock activist LaTanya Barlow; CAIR National Director Nihad Awad; CAIR-MI Director Dawud Walid; activist Linda Sarsour; civil rights attorney Lamis Deek; Al Jazeera's Khadija Benguenna; Josh Ruebner, policy director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights; AMP Chairman Dr. Hatem Bazian; AMP National Policy Director Dr. Osama Abuirshaid; leadership development experts Dr. Mohammed Abbasi and Dr. Manal Fakhoury; author Ibtisam Barakat; Sheikh Abdelfattah Mourou; social justice activist, the Rev. Taurean Webb; documentarian Rawan Al Damen; ISM youth director Imran Salha; OPPC imam Sheikh Kifah Mustapha; Dr. Abdallah Marouf; USCMO Secretary General Oussama Jammal; American-Israeli activist Miko Peled and so many more.

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A highlight of the weekend featured a teachers’ seminar, attended by more than 120 educators, who came to learn how to include Palestine, human rights and social justice in their study plans.

Special sessions included a lecture on Creeping Normalcy and faith washing, which explained tactics and strategies employed by Zionist organizations to co-opt Muslim organizations and create a political firewall around the topic of Israel. Dr. Hatem Bazian delivered an expert analysis of the problem by focusing on the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI) a Zionist-funded program that takes young Muslim ‘leaders’ to Israel. Dr. Abuirshaid, meanwhile, discussed the legacy of Al Aqsa mosque compound and its relevance in Muslim heritage.

An emphasis on intersectionality included discussions on Syria, Black Lives Matter and Standing Rock, ND, where the Sioux Nation, more than 100 other Indigenous Nations and their allies are protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens the water supply of the Standing Rock Reservation's waters.

From movie screenings to book signings, a thriving bazaar and an entertainment session that included professional dabka troupes and singers, AMP’s 9th annual conference did not disappoint.

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Join the Twitter Storm to Stop HP!


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Dear Chris --

On November 29, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we will be tweeting at Hewlett Packard, the company that supplies Israel with the technology it uses to uphold systems of apartheid and occupation. The Twitter Storm will take place during HP Enterprise’s Discover showcase European event in London, where 10,000 people are expected.

Join the Thunderclap (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thunderclap.it%2Fprojects%2F 49815-boycott-hewlett-packard%3Flocale%3Den&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hp_twitter2&n=1) and tweet tomorrow using the Hashtags #HPEDiscover #StopHP and #BoycottHP!

Hewlett Packard is the second largest investor in Israeli Information Technology (IT). HP supplies computer systems for the Israeli Ministry of Defense and provides IT infrastructure for the Israeli Navy, which enforces the illegal blockade of Gaza. Their biometric system is used for control and surveillance of the Palestinian population both inside Israel and in the occupied Palestinian Territories. They provide services and technology for two of the largest illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank, and their Basel ID system is installed at Israeli military checkpoints. On top of all this, HP also contracts with Immigration, Customs, and Enforcement, and the US prison industry!

Join the Twitter Storm to call out HP! Use the sample tweets below:

#HPEDiscover: HPE technology enables Israeli navy’s shelling & siege of Gaza. Stop harming Palestinians!

#HPEDiscover: Stop supplying Israel with technology that harms Palestinians! #StopHP

#HPEDiscover: Stop supporting illegal Israeli settlements! Stop harming Palestinians #StopHP

#HPEDiscover: HPE technology enables ethnic profiling & segregation of Palestinians by Israel. Stop harming Palestinians!

#HPEDiscover how HP helps Israel detain Palestinian political prisoners, including minors http://www.globalexchange.org/economicactivism/hp/why #StopHP

99 actions in 85 cities: #HPEDiscover why human rights groups are mobilizing against HP: https://bdsmovement.net/hp-woa #StopHP #BoycottHP

#HPEDiscover why human rights activists are targeting HP: https://electronicintifada.net/content/palestine-solidarity-campaigners-target-hp/18236 #StopHP #BoycottHP

#HPEDiscover how HP technology for Israeli military checkpoints limits Palestinian movement http://investigate.afsc.org/company/hewlett-packard-company #StopHP #BoycottHP
Together we can hold HP accountable for their role in Israeli apartheid and occupation!

In peace,
Alli, Ariel, Nancy K. and the entire CODEPINK team

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I don't need protecting from human rights activists


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Instead of fighting actual anti-Jewish hatred, Senators want to slander students who organize for Palestinian human rights as antisemites. We need to raise our voices -- now!


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Dear Chris,

Hate crimes against Muslims, people of color, and white Jews alike have skyrocketed in the weeks since Trump’s election.

So you might think it’s a good thing that an “Anti-Semitism Awareness Act” is being rushed to the Senate floor. But this bill’s title is wildly misleading. What it would actually do is specifically classify any criticism of Israeli policies on a college campus as officially antisemitic.

It doesn’t raise awareness about anti-semitism: it scapegoats student activists and faculty who are organizing for Palestinian human rights.

We need to call our Senators right now, and tell them we won’t accept this. They need to oppose the ASAA today. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aaGojW5jWIK1qPvOp4XpXZuDMmtljoWW)

To be clear, if this bill passes and you or I walk onto a college campus and say “The US needs to end military aid to Israel,” we will officially be antisemites in the eyes of the government.

This bill doesn’t target Steve Bannon, Trump’s racist chief strategist. Or Richard Spencer and his “hail Trump” rally. Or the people who have defaced synagogues and threatened Jews in the past month.

This bill, under the cover of fighting antisemitism, is targeting the diverse group of students, including many Muslims and Arabs, who organize for Palestinian human rights. So we have to show that Jews and allies stand against it -- click here to call the Senate. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fVOJxJKKMa3gIRUhNtCaMJuDMmtljoWW)

The bill is being put forward by Senators Bob Casey and Tim Scott, who apparently think that fighting campus activists is the best way to spend the last 61 days we have to get ready for the Trump administration.

And it’s being supported with incredible hypocrisy by supposed “leaders” of the Jewish community like the Jewish Federations of North America - who have refused to condemn real antisemitism from the Trump team but are jumping at the chance to attack Palestinian human rights activists.

Here’s their “logic”: if Jews want our real concerns about antisemitism addressed, what we should accept instead is censorship about Palestinian human rights.

I believe in fighting antisemitism and Islamophobia, and I believe in Palestinian human rights. If you do too, help make a strong show of force against this brazen attempt to silence our movement. Click here to call the Senate now. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QcQNhA6CTsALyZd%2FgxYYMpuDMmtljoWW)

Our opponents are hoping we’ll be too exhausted and too depleted from every other fight we’re taking on that we won’t notice, and won’t fight back. They’re hoping Islamophobia is already so entrenched in our society that no one will insist they lift a finger to fight it. They’re hoping we are so confused, scattered, and weak that we’ll accept the terrifying proposition that our government can protect us from hatred by prohibiting criticism of government policy.

No way. Let’s flood the Senate with calls right now. Click here to call Senate leadership now. We’ll connect you to a series of Senate offices that have the power to ensure that the legislation is not rushed through the Senate, no dialing required. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pwINIzOunrvut7Ixq0bIXJuDMmtljoWW)

Thank you for speaking up,

Rebecca


Rebecca Vilkomerson
Executive Director

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ADL: Divest from West Bank settlements

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Dear Chris,

Urge ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to divest from West Bank settlements.

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With the rise and election of Trump, anti-Semitism is appearing in mainstream U.S. discourse in an unprecedented way. At the same time, false and grossly exaggerated accusations of anti-Semitism remain a potent political weapon in U.S. politics. Now, more than ever, we need organizations that can serve the public as principled, credible, unbiased investigators and referees of allegations of anti-Semitism in the U.S.

The Anti-Defamation League would be ideally positioned to occupy this role, but unfortunately it currently suffers from a perceived conflict of interest. In addition to advocating against anti-Semitism, the ADL also advocates for the unfettered expansion and legitimation of settlements in the West Bank. The ADL's entanglement in the settlements issue diminishes the ADL's credibility on anti-Semitism in the eyes of many Americans. If the ADL accuses an American who opposes the settlements of anti-Semitism, many Americans will wonder, rightly or wrongly, if the ADL's advocacy for settlements is coloring the ADL's judgment. Thus, the ADL's settlements advocacy undermines its ability to combat anti-Semitism.

Urge ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt to divest from West Bank settlements by signing our petition at MoveOn (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QKMSBbABao9nL%2BfADlITeu8GiJuYbSKK).

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RSVP: One week to Human Rights Day celebration!


RSVP: One week to Human Rights Day celebration with MorningStar Means and Earth-Feather Sovereign!

Rachel Corrie Foundation For Peace and Justice

RSVP for:
Human Rights Day Celebration December 10th


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In one week, on Saturday 10 December 2016 from 6 to 9pm , is RCF's annual Human Rights Day celebration (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tFqg60xs8Tss-U0miSOTdzykpIETsQIGzQdR8Naxvc2jtyKyXGnbD_QJH3HonmX BO0wr_umqIuK1clkKAEpC4R47K4jNffRLGjHw-UL2T2aEd5M99BJZiEenGag_o1fQ6srJH04ZASasImq_yGbo509 t9zE-Av5VIRoFLIYZ-KkEHG6Bc7TlqsoM7-ozK2KTB03Mq3Kp-cbkRc0X2-MC033avqjNhveXPtBKKZ1Otmm3onb6KTVmxw==&c=GGBgO8DKr5wvSUFWGaTM76EtM71oWDKgtBJxP7pGGMaKpax3 WtPrSQ==&ch=fzU7TgFOHMf3tHl53y6uzicZoKHobuF6ovaOwif4MCZVKn7 dHmefmw==) with live music by Benjamin SittingBull, local businesses providing food and drinks, and our guest speakers MorningStar Means and Earth-Feather Sovereign presenting "Standing Rock, Human Rights and Women." Saturday will be an evening of food, knowledge and our Giving Tree where you can donate to RCF programs as well as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Join us!

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In other news, the largest private security company G4S announced that it will sell most of its business holdings in Israel acknowledging the "reputational damage" done to the company by its investment in Israel. This is a significant BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) victory! However, G4S remains on the BDS list because of its remaining business holdings in Israel. G4S is also involved in human rights violations internationally and in the US. Reports since September have identified a G4S presence in providing security to the North Dakota pipeline and at Standing Rock. Check out NPR's recent report: The Standing Rock Resistance Is Unprecedented (It's Also Centuries Old) (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001tFqg60xs8Tss-U0miSOTdzykpIETsQIGzQdR8Naxvc2jtyKyXGnbDw1LccY5QVt wPV9BwvkI69qkVUZ2tyWXvjEK-b57Fvn8X-uVbRtCEaxgmpbh3HV7qa6CDykXNzCehU5LTC-3yoyv6Kzt_9Vb_1RiMON_xjk9RPL_W03Q6cMra1nbonakJpnUO aabbWMGH-a_UrFfM_GIcATRjeyNeBTK0Szm6Ntx6BFt-msZCMc9NaMvzsjIOWzPV9t_w0CRPSelzIdVVmF4hrTBpP01DeS 6HK0JdwryscS8sA5fPEzWpHfW9uGgJhFDbf_X4FN_zKdybipe9 w0=&c=GGBgO8DKr5wvSUFWGaTM76EtM71oWDKgtBJxP7pGGMaKpax3 WtPrSQ==&ch=fzU7TgFOHMf3tHl53y6uzicZoKHobuF6ovaOwif4MCZVKn7 dHmefmw==).

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Big BDS Win! Take Action for More!


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Dear Chris,

Huge News! Security company and longtime boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) target G4S has sold (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Y43qc7ntvkXH%2F0u1dzln9O2Y0Sugd60i) most -- but not all -- of its business with Israel, where it was extensively involved (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EPWEJKNcmZV9Q8b5fHh40FlnZ0OdW1Sz) in Israel’s notorious prisons and provided services to Israel’s checkpoints, settlements, and apartheid wall, among other things. The tremendous news comes after years of BDS campaigning worldwide (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=A9IlXWhfJOquiUCvjca2y1lnZ0OdW1Sz) targeting G4S at every level, causing the company enormous reputational damage and costing it many millions in lost contracts.

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We celebrate this victory while committing ourselves (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=r24go%2BSXnWmNy7IZHb7zLVlnZ0OdW1Sz) to keep targeting G4S given its ongoing role in Israeli police training and settlement construction in Palestine; guarding the Dakota Access pipeline construction; aiding ICE and Homeland Security with immigrant deportations; running youth detention facilities and providing prison technology as part of the U.S. prison industrial complex; and other repression worldwide, as outlined on the intersectional g4sfacts.org website released by the US Campaign and partners earlier this year.

Two things have never been clearer: (1) BDS works, and (2) We have a lot more work to do.

Chris, please take these 3 quick actions right now to move us forward during this critical moment:

1. Last Thursday, Conne Island club in Leibzig, Germany cancelled a sold-out performance (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L0UdQQvFrVOX%2Fh7S%2BWMikFlnZ0OdW1Sz) by American hip hop artist Talib Kweli because (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CHaBSN4Va87hTHjxu%2BQGt1lnZ0OdW1Sz) Kweli has been an outspoken supporter of Palestine. In recent years, Kweli pulled out of a show in Israel in support for BDS and signed on to the #Black4Palestine statement, which spotlighted G4S as a key intersectional target. Please send Kweli some love for publicly standing with Palestine, in spite of the cost. Tweet your support to @TalibKweli (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=f7c8635XBIy6TYhBiAWzXllnZ0OdW1Sz) or post on his Facebook page (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QXrzas9%2FOrsMsBAiHnYMHFlnZ0OdW1Sz). Sample tweets:

Thank you @TalibKweli for consistently supporting Palestinian rights. You are standing on the right side of history.

Much respect @TalibKweli for supporting a free Palestine. Artists like him should be commended not silenced.

Shame on @conne_island for cancelling @TalibKweli show. Supporting a free Palestine is admirable.

2. Sign up for “From Palestine to the Pipeline” webinar (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NPh1j58NUc3QIHYg65jp%2BllnZ0OdW1Sz) to hear from indigenous activists and the Palestinian Youth Movement delegation to Standing Rock, where G4S has continued its brutal practices against indigenous-led resistance to Dakota Access pipeline construction. Connecting indigenous struggles against settler colonialism, genocide, displacement, relocation, and environmental destruction to homelands, this powerful webinar will take place this Tuesday, December 6th at 5:30pm Pacific / 8:30pm Eastern. Space is limited -- register now! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rr60dGA%2FATaUhGEQbm%2FsTFlnZ0OdW1Sz)

3. The US Campaign is honored to have played a strong role supporting the Stop G4S campaign since it began almost five years ago, from mounting pressure toward key divestment decisions by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church to supporting municipal, campus, national, and even international campaigns targeting the security giant. This major breakthrough was only possible thanks to support from people like you. Invest in more needed victories with a donation to the US Campaign’s intensive BDS work today. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zTc3FaBMaVOD%2BPKldIpFhFlnZ0OdW1Sz)

Congratulations to activists around the globe who have been a part of the Stop G4S campaign illustrating the tremendous ability of grassroots organizing to impact multinational corporations and send the strong message that profiting from apartheid is not so profitable after all. We take a moment to savor this sweet breakthrough while recommitting ourselves to continuing to hold G4S and other corporations accountable for their ongoing abuses. Who knows? HP could be the next win if we keep the pressure up!

Onward!





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Defending Israeli Apartheid ≠ Fighting Antisemitism


Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic. How many times do we have to say it?


Dear Chris,

On Friday, without a single Senator in the Senate Chamber, the Senate unanimously passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act.

Judging by the title, it seems a reasonable enough piece of legislation. And the Anti-Defamation League was one of its main boosters.

But let’s look closer with a short pop quiz about why the ADL is behind this bill:

a) To make it clear that actual neo-Nazis like the National Policy Institute, now in close proximity to power, are going to face real scrutiny and condemnation?

b) To help prevent more violence against synagogues and Jewish poeple, like the dozens of instances of hate crimes and vandalism documented since the election?

c) To protect the Israeli government from student protesters?

Probably the best way to figure out why the ADL supports it is to read what they’re saying themselves:

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Sadly, the answer is “C.”

At a time when actual violence and bigotry against Jews is on the rise, Jewish institutions like the ADL are seizing the moment to… protect Israel from student protesters. That's not acceptable.

We have to make sure Congressional reps hear from a more equality-focused perspective. Click here to send them a note urging them not to be fooled by the ASAA’s title. Enough pretending that defending Israeli policies is the same as fighting antisemitism. It’s time to get down to the actual business of protecting us all - especially Muslims and people of color - from hate. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3bIVzviC6%2BAb4EqOtgCvSMuR2W24P9Fi)

I shouldn’t be shocked, but I am. "Leading" Jewish institutions have made it clear to they care more about defending Israel’s racist policies than the real slog of fighting antisemitism. Student activists -- Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, Black, documented, white, and otherwise -- pose no threat to Jews. The only threat they pose is to the culture of silence around Israeli apartheid.

Attempts to silence human rights activists are always appalling. But in this time of crisis, when actual antisemitism is seeping from our political discourse and into our streets? That is truly disgusting.

As Jews and allies we have an outsized voice on this one. Please, click here now and help fight this Orwellian legislation in the House. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EgsFHIiCp8%2FelEuMnICSTcuR2W24P9Fi)

And here’s another example: Rep. Keith Ellison is running to become Chair of the DNC. As a 501c3, JVP takes no position on any election, but I will say this: I’ve met Rep. Ellison, and he’s a good and honorable man, utterly devoted to fighting antisemitism and all forms of racism. But he’s also dared to offer modest criticisms of Israeli policy, always condemning hatred at the same time.

For that, he’s been railroaded and smeared by far-right Islamophobic front groups. And here again, the ADL is carrying water for these hatemongers by lending their name and their weight to the attacks against him.

The ADL’s support for the “Antisemitism Awareness Act” and their attacks on Keith Ellison are both proof that their commitment to fighting hatred is an empty shirt. They’re not interested in really taking on antisemitism and islamophobia. They’re only interested in shilling for Israeli apartheid.

But their attacks get listened to, because Congress thinks they speak for the whole Jewish community. Show that they don't -- click here to email your Representative. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bzKe9pp6G80SH%2Fzy2S4NwsuR2W24P9Fi)

If “leading” Jewish organizations want to place their loyalty to shameful Israeli policies above the urgent fight against islamophobia and antisemitism, we’re going to have to step up.

Our Muslim brothers and sisters have made it quite clear that the fight against islamophobia and antisemitism go hand-in-hand. But the ADL isn’t stepping up to the plate -- they’re too busy condemning students who dare to criticise Israeli apartheid.

That leaves space for JVP. We can be the Jewish organization that takes on our fair share of that work -- the hard but vital work of fighting antisemitism and Islamophobia, wherever it exists.

Onwards,

Ari


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Boycotting Apartheid


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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1338 .... December 8, 2016
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Boycotting Apartheid:
Ontario’s 50 Year Long Attack on the Campaign for Palestinian Rights (http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1338.php)

AJ Withers

On December 1st, 2016, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario officially condemned the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign to end Israeli apartheid. Ontario Conservative MPP Gila Martow, who introduced the motion, likened the BDS campaign to the Ku Klux Klan. Both the Liberal and Conservative parties supported the motion; only five New Democrat Party Members voted against it. But, this isn't the first time that Israel's occupation of Palestine has been raised at Queen's Park. A successful campaign against the boycott of Israel won the passage of the Discriminatory Business Practices Act in the 1970s making it illegal for businesses to participate in this and many other boycotts. This law is still on Ontario's books.

In the mid-1970s, a campaign against the boycott of Israel was heavily debated in Ontario. At the time, the boycott was framed by mainstream media and Zionists as infringing on people's political expression, anti-Semitic and a threat to Canadian sovereignty. With limited effect, Arab countries have been boycotting Israel since 1948 -- the year Israel was founded. Organized by the Arab League, all member states (and thus companies within them) required contracts to contain two anti-boycott provisions. While these contract clauses varied in wording, they required a declaration that the company had no economic ties with Israel. Contracts also required that, for the life of the contract, the parties would not work to assist or help advance Israel, including through the purchase of Israeli goods. The boycott had limited impact until increased oil revenues brought new power and wealth to member countries.

If a company was known to do business with or in Israel or if it did business with a company that did business with or in Israel, it was also boycotted. This boycott meant that Israel was not only actively boycotted by Arab states, but also by businesses in countries around the world. Israel was literally going broke.

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Beyond our wildest dreams…


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Dear Chris,

The numbers are beyond anything we could have imagined:

Over 150 actions in 101 cities in 30 countries on 6 continents!

Seattle, WA
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The Boycott HP Week of Action (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=4mBbyQ%2BoAzmXaxn5JeKdLQVsRX8cSQEH) was a phenomenal success, with creative actions in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, India, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Peru, Sudan, and across the Middle East, Europe, and North America! In the U.S. alone, there were 40 actions in more than 30 cities across 16 states! It is extraordinary what we can achieve when we build together, and the victories have already begun:

Member group Friends of Sabeel-North America just announced that Santa Cruz’s Peace United Church of Christ became the first HP-free church (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Bp4dlLuERJefgjimsEk9xAVsRX8cSQEH)! FOSNA’s HP-free churches campaign (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=l5bRu6cLPJyZ1%2BU3BXg87gVsRX8cSQEH) provides a powerful model to bring denomination-based divestment wins to the congregational level. Register (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BDmZYIgeLrm4liQ0ikwZrwVsRX8cSQEH) for FOSNA’s HP-free churches how-to webinar on December 20th!

In Italy, HP was removed from the program of an Italian “Ethics and Social Responsibility in Information Technology” conference following efforts from BDS Italia (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kvu%2Bj2kj95oAue4Jfs0EEQVsRX8cSQEH).

In Derry, Northern Ireland, five councillors gave back their HP equipment in support (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qUao7P1pWje%2Fyw24rX4riAVsRX8cSQEH) of the boycott as part of the week of action.

Adelaide, Australia
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Santa Fe, NM
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The diversity of actions and tactics was stunning...

In Rome, activists dropped a banner (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=C5aE6FemDWCp43C3lxPe5QVsRX8cSQEH) near the Colosseum to kick off the week of action that saw 26 actions across Italy.

In the Gibraltar countryside of southern Spain, activists produced their own original boycott HP video (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=84vGFHduBCnsqc38m%2FH3mgVsRX8cSQEH).

In Berlin, Germany (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PJuPLCXyqlUoukMU7N%2ByyQVsRX8cSQEH) and Seattle, activists lifted up indigenous resistance from Standing Rock to Palestine. The Northwest BDS Coalition’s mic-check flash mobs (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZFBgV56aOrhnt2AgcL4EL1w%2FMgyuNLMv) offer a fantastic action model.

In Jerusalem, students revealed why they’d been placing stickers on HP equipment saying “When I grow up, I wanna be a checkpoint,” kicking off a campus boycott campaign.

In Philadelphia and Boston, students came together to learn why HP is an important BDS target while in Kuala Lumpur activists held actions at public university libraries.

In Valencia, Spain, students performed a mock checkpoint.

In Khartoum, Sudan, activists held a lively action in a park passing out boycott HP stickers and flyers.

In Osaka, Japan and Los Angeles, organizers erected mock apartheid walls.

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In Hamburg, Germany (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Qdo0CbXs%2FndXfCF2MM4whAVsRX8cSQEH), activists projected a video about HP’s crimes in a spirited protest outside a major electronics store.

In San Francisco, a stone’s throw from HP headquarters, activists projected images of HP’s oppressive activities onto buildings and performed boycott HP street theatre.

In Toledo, OH; New York City (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Nvf1WNCSroEV%2FfMuyl2fZgVsRX8cSQEH) and Ithaca, NY (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nGTMhYjyZyQN1W%2F6WbWo2gVsRX8cSQEH); Santa Fe, NM; Asheville, NC; Rome, GA; Doral, FL; Omaha, NE; Pittsburgh, PA; St. Louis, MO; up (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9wG%2BU0uK3rdJUQSSmnqXOAVsRX8cSQEH) and down (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=f4zbKKsmNPV%2FGnn%2FfUp9OAVsRX8cSQEH) the state of California; and in too many other cities to count, activists sang boycott HP carols, held signs and passed out flyers, educating shoppers and passersby.

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Around the world, activists jammed the #HPEDiscover hashtag as British activists engaged HP employees and clients at a trade show starting the same day as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people -- just one of more than 40 actions (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=id3A%2BLmVNpLdU4uIN%2FiCGQVsRX8cSQEH) in the UK alone!

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Campaign frees Bilal Kayed! USPCN joins call for protecting Human Rights Defenders


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December 9, 2016 – In marking International Human Rights Defenders (#HRD) Day, the undersigned organizations (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=a5c7b6e935&e=266d74dd41) commend the work of all human rights defenders working for justice globally, stand in solidarity with them, and highlight the case of individuals and organizations focused on Palestine. Human rights defenders advocating and working on Palestinian human rights around the world are facing intensifying threats and are increasingly targeted for their work.

Human rights defenders operating in Palestine use a variety of non-violent methods to call attention to Israeli human rights violations and to seek accountability. Each of these methods, however, is met with acts of suppression and intimidation by Israel.[i] Weekly peaceful protests throughout the West Bank are routinely met with force by the Israeli military. Hashem Khader Abu Maria, 45, coordinator of Defence for Children International – Palestine’s community mobilization unit, was shot dead by Israeli forces while peacefully participating in a weekly protest in July 2014. Human rights defenders seeking to monitor and document human rights violations, including lawyers seeking to represent their clients, have their freedom of movement and access obstructed, and are further at risk of arrest and detention because of their work.[ii] Palestinian human rights organizations providing submissions to the International Criminal Court (ICC) during its preliminary examination have faced even more extreme targeting. Palestinian organizations Al-Haq and Al-Mezan have had staff members receive death threats, and have also been the targets of a wider campaign that attempts to discredit and destabilize the organizations.[iii] These campaigns have included the hacking of emails, intimidating phone calls to staff, and efforts to alarm donors; all of which seek to distract organizations from their primary human rights work. While the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor and other authorities have recognized these threats,[iv] acts of intimidation have persisted.

Human rights defenders advocating on issues related to Palestine in the United States and Europe are also facing intensifying pressure for bringing attention to Israeli human rights violations.[v] Israel has treated the Palestinian call to engage in nonviolent boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaigns, given the absence of accountability for Israel’s violations of international law, as a “strategic threat,” and has countered it with increasingly coercive and punitive measures, both in Palestine and globally.[vi]In the United States, individuals and institutions engaged in advocacy for Palestinian rights, including BDS campaigns, have been targeted[vii] with online harassment,[viii]surveillance, threats to their physical safety,[ix]frivolous lawsuits,[x]intimidation campaigns maligning them as terrorist supporters and antisemitic,[xi] and even disciplinary and criminal investigations and sanctions for their protest activities.[xii] Legislative measures in the US aim to penalize advocacy for Palestinian rights and engagement in BDS.[xiii]

These attacks in total aim to silence and undermine any resistance to Israel’s unlawful policies and should not be viewed in isolation. They should rather be examined within the broader context of impunity in Israel itself, as well as the failure of states to hold Israel accountable for its commission of internationally recognized crimes.

Citizens and organizations have internationally and domestically recognized rights[xiv] to engage in alternative means for accountability and advocate for justice for Palestinians.[xv] Our organizations underscore the universality of human rights, including the right to “participate in peaceful activities against violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms,”[xvi] and we call upon states to protect human rights defenders working on issues related to Palestine.

Signed by:

· Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel

· Addameer

· Al-Haq

· Al Mezan Center for Human Rights

· American Friends Service Committee

· American Muslims for Palestine

· Arab American Institute

· Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights

· Bill of Rights Defense Committee & Defending Dissent Foundation

· Center for Constitutional Rights

· Defense for Children International- Palestine Section

· Interfaith Peace-Builders

· International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

· Jerusalem Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights

· International Committee of the National Lawyers Guild

· Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights

· Palestine Legal

· Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies

· Samidoun

· US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

· U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)

· World Organization Against Torture (OMCT), within the framework of the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

[i] For more information, see: Joint Oral Statement to the Human Rights Council on 29 September 2016, available at http://webtv.un.org/search/item7-general-debate-contd-29th-meeting-33rd-regular-session-human-rights-council-/5140985289001?term=item%207#full-text; PHROC Sends Letter to UN High Commissioner and Special Rapporteurs on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Al-Haq, 16 June 2016, available at http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/targets/palestinian-human-rights-organizations/1052-phroc-sends-letter-to-un-high-commissioner-and-special-rapporteurs-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-defenders; and PHROC Draws Attention to the Repression of Human Rights Defenders in Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the OPT, Al-Haq, 10 November 2016, available at http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/targets/palestinian-human-rights-organizations/1084-phroc-draws-attention-to-the-repression-of-human-rights-defenders-in-submission-to-the-un-special-rapporteur-on-the-opt

[ii] See, e.g., the case of Hasan Safadi, Addameer’s Media Coordinator, Addameer, 13 June 2016, available at http://www.addameer.org/prisoner/hasan-safadi.

[iii] Al Mezan Condemns Continued Death Threats to Staff Members and Calls on the International Community to Intervene, Al Mezan, 11 August 2016, available at http://www.mezan.org/en/post/21475/Al+Mezan+Condemns+Continued+Death+Threats+to+Staff +Members+and+Calls+on+the+International+Community+ to+Intervene; Update: Attacks Against Al-Haq Continue, 4 June 2016, available at http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/topics/human-rights-defenders/1050-update-attacks-against-al-haq-continue

[iv] Report on Preliminary Examination Activities 2016, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, para. 144, 14 November 2016, available at https://www.icc-cpi.int/iccdocs/otp/161114-otp-rep-PE_ENG.pdf

[v] France’s criminalization of BDS activism is the most extreme example of the repressive reaction to Palestine advocacy outside of Israel. See France’s criminalisation of Israel boycotts sparks free-speech debate, France 24, 21 January 2016, available at http://www.france24.com/en/20160120-france-boycott-israel-bds-law-free-speech-antisemitism.

[vi] Israel brands Palestinian-led boycott movement a ‘strategic threat’, The Guardian, 3 June 2015, available at https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/israel-brands-palestinian-boycott-strategic-threat-netanyahu

[vii] See generally, Palestine Legal and Center for Constitutional Rights, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the U.S., September 2015, available at http://palestinelegal.org/the-palestine-exception.

[viii] See, e.g., Exposed: Pro-Israel Modern Day McCarthyites Going to Extremes to Slime Human Rights Activists, Alternet, 30 September 2015, available at http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/modern-day-mccarthyists-are-going-extremes-slime-activists-fighting-israels.

[ix] See, e.g., Palestine Legal Demands Action from University of Chicago to Protect Student Activists, Palestine Legal, 19 November 2015, available at http://palestinelegal.org/news/2015/11/19/palestine-legal-demands-action-from-university-of-chicago-to-protect-palestine-advocates?rq=death%20threat; Ohio University: Student President Receives Death Threats, Palestine Legal, 10 March 2015, available athttp://palestinelegal.org/case-studies/2015/3/4/ohio-university-student-senate-president-received-death-threats-after-pro-bds-video

[x] Another frivolous lawsuit against the American Studies Association’s Boycott, Palestine Legal, 21 July 2016, available at http://palestinelegal.org/news/2016/7/21/another-frivolous-lawsuit-against-the-american-studies-associations-boycott?rq=lawsuit.

[xi] See, e.g., Rights Groups to UC Irvine, UC Berkeley and SFSU: Condemn David Horowitz Posters, Protect Students from Intimidation Campaign, Palestine Legal, 20 October 2016, available at http://palestinelegal.org/news/2016/10/11/rights-groups-to-uc-irvine-condemn-david-horowitz-posters-protect-students-from-intimidation-campaign?rq=horowitz; IUPUI must stand with Haneen and SJP, too, Palestine Legal, 8 April 2016, available at http://palestinelegal.org/news/2016/4/8/iupui-must-stand-with-haneen-and-sjp-too?rq=iupui.

[xii] Palestine Legal collection of articles regarding the Irvine 11, available at http://palestinelegal.org/search?q=Irvine%2011&f_collectionId=55357b08e4b0366c2fd525e9; CUNY: Independent Investigators Clear SJP, Palestine Legal, 31 October 2016, available at http://palestinelegal.org/case-studies/2016/10/31/city-university-of-new-york-independent-investigators-clear-sjp?rq=brooklyn; Brooklyn College Students Cleared at Controversial Disciplinary Hearing, Palestine Legal, 31 May 2016, available at http://palestinelegal.org/news/2016/5/31/brooklyn-college-students-cleared-at-controversial-discipslinary-hearing?rq=brooklyn.

[xiii] See http://righttoboycott.org/.

[xiv] In NAACP v. Claiborne, the United States Supreme Court found that boycotts to effect social, economic and political change are a protected form of speech, association, assembly and petition under the First Amendment. Foreign ministers from Holland, Ireland and Sweden have all recognized the right to engage in BDS actions. See PHROC welcomes statements by European officials to uphold the right to participate in and call for BDS measures, Al-Haq, 30 May 2016 available at http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/targets/palestinian-human-rights-organizations/1047-phroc-welcomes-statements-by-european-officials-to-uphold-the-right-to-participate-in-and-call-for-bds-measures. The EU foreign minister Federica Mogherini also stated that the right to boycott is protected under freedom of expression. See EU declares right to boycott Israel is protected free speech, Independent, 3 November 2016, available at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/eu-right-bds-boycott-israel-palestine-protected-free-speech-federica-mogherini-a7394536.html. Two hundred European legal scholars recently affirmed the right to boycott under international law. See Groundbreaking statement by 200 European Legal Scholars Upholds the Right to BDS for Palestinian Rights, Boycott National Committee, 8 December 2016, available at https://bdsmovement.net/news/groundbreaking-statement-200-european-legal-scholars-upholds-right-bds-palestinian-rights.

[xv] Where states fail to search for and prosecute individuals that have committed grave breaches of the Fourth Geneva Convention, organizations have filled this gap by providing submissions to the International Criminal Court. Where states have failed to ban the entry of settlement products into their domestic markets, consumers have sought boycott actions. Where states have given military aid to Israel without accountability, individuals and groups have campaigned to circumscribe that aid.

[xvi] Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Article 12(1), available at http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Defenders/Declaration/declaration.pdf.

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Nomination of David Friedman as US ambassador to Israel wrong for America


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Nomination of David Friedman as US ambassador to Israel wrong for America

(WASHINGTON DC, 12/21/2016) – President Elect Donald Trump’s nomination of David Friedman is not only short-sighted and potentially destabilizing, it undermines the United States’ self-proclaimed standing among its global partners as an honest broker for peace. The American Muslims for Palestine asserts Friedman's nomination puts Israel’s interests ahead of Americans’ and urges senators to refuse to confirm him.

The man who has served as Donald Trump’s bankruptcy lawyer for the last 15 years has no diplomatic experience and holds biased views on the Middle East that favor the extremist settler movement. The New York Times editorial board has said (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sKlcxXXE7ITw%2BodwzmLHtc81sApfVPsw) Friedman would be “far more likely to provoke conflict in Israel and the occupied territories, heighten regional tensions and undermine American leadership.”

We agree. Friedman is the president of American Friends of Bet El Yeshiva (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wopj6HZ2qRqrRn0AwcXj39dYX2o%2BtXu3), a pro-settlement organization that raises money (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ow1tUrM6rdLCkyn%2FnvV1yc81sApfVPsw) for Beit El, a settlement near the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Contrary to decades of U.S. policy that views settlements as illegal, illegitimate and an obstacle to peace, Friedman supports expansionist policies and Israeli annexation of the West Bank. He also has vowed to serve as ambassador (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Zy%2BpEF1RuijcoClq3hOQss81sApfVPsw) from the “U.S. embassy in Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem.”

Neither the United States nor the global community accepts the outcome of Israel’s 1967 war, which resulted in the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. Countless United Nations Security Council resolutions, including Resolution 242, recognize the occupation as illegal. U.S. policy views East Jerusalem as disputed territory, whose final status should be determined thorough negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis. International law and the global community consider Jerusalem occupied territory and see it as the future capital of a Palestinian state.

Even though Congress passed a bill in 1995 allowing for the U.S. embassy to be moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, each president since has signed a waiver every six months prohibiting the action. In fact, the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel holds this law to be unconstitutional (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=17yl8aMGmF0Mr8dmA92wds81sApfVPsw), and all presidents since Bill Clinton have viewed it as an infringement by Congress on the presidential powers of the executive branch. Moving the embassy to East Jerusalem would inflame tensions in the region, throughout the Arab and Muslim worlds and would significantly weaken the U.S.’ stance in the international arena. It would also threaten Americans national security.

Mr. Trump’s choice of Friedman is another example of his lack of political and diplomatic experience and smacks of putting Israel’s interests ahead of the interests of the people of the United States.

For these reasons, AMP asserts the nomination of Mr. Friedman is wrong for America and we call upon the Senate to reject his candidacy for the leading diplomatic position in Israel and Palestine.

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Congress: Defend #Senegal & #NewZealand UN vote against settlements


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Urge Congress and President Obama to defend Senegal's and New Zealand's votes on the UN settlement resolution.

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Bibi Netanyahu retaliated for the vote by recalling ambassadors from New Zealand and Senegal, and by ending all aid programs for Senegal (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1FtXiHD2M%2B%2FJHuZl0mYoueBz4ug0hB0v).

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Last week, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, abstained rather than vetoing a Security Council resolution criticizing Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem as obstacles to a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. It was the first time since 1979 that the UN Security Council adopted a resolution critical of Israeli settlement policy. Every attempt since then has been blocked by a US veto.

Despite the subsequent furor, Resolution 2334 is completely toothless, lacking any enforcement mechanism. If Clinton rather than Trump were preparing to assume the presidency, there is little doubt that the White House would have instructed Power to veto the resolution. The abstention is a cynical effort to posture as evenhanded under conditions where Washington remains the principal financial, military and diplomatic sponsor of Israeli aggression and oppression of the Palestinians.




Trump has selected as the next US ambassador to Israel an individual very much in sympathy with such plans for a form of “ethnic cleansing” on the West Bank. David Friedman is the real estate billionaire’s personal bankruptcy lawyer. He has no diplomatic experience, but a long record as a fundraiser for West Bank settlements. Friedman has repeatedly denounced the “two-state” solution and advocated moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, something Trump has pledged to do as president.




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To state the obvious, the Palestinian situation will become even more dire on January 20ᵗʰ. Netanyahu will be entirely unchecked.

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Secretary Kerry's speech welcome, but too little, too late and doesn't go far enough

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The American Muslims for Palestine, a national education organization, is heartened that Secretary of State John Kerry partially broke with longstanding diplomatic norms and euphemisms by exposing some of the truths about the Israeli occupation, apartheid, settlement expansion, and the extremist settler movement as illegal, inhumane and obstacles to peace. Although the Obama administration finally recognized the suffering of Palestinian refugees, it did not go far enough because Mr. Kerry did not call for Palestinians' legally guaranteed right to return to the homeland from which they were expelled, beginning in 1948.

While AMP has grave concerns about some of Mr. Kerry’s points that undermine inherent Palestinian rights, we hail the speech for shining a light on Israeli policies that violate international laws and for recognizing Palestinian rights. AMP contends the speech is too little and too late to have any meaningful impact on Palestinian liberty. AMP also asserts that Israel is no true friend to the United States and has hurt American standing throughout the world as well as our national security.

In defending the Dec. 23 U.S. abstention from the UN Security Council vote on settlements, Secretary Kerry said, “We cannot, in good conscience, do nothing and say nothing when we see the hope of peace slipping away. This is a time to stand up for what is right.”

It is unfortunate it took the Obama administration eight years to “stand up for what is right,” especially after the President’s 2009 Cairo speech that recognized the right of Palestinian self-determination. It is important to note the Obama administration has capitulated to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at every turn, especially in terms of settlement construction, which has increased dramatically during Mr. Obama’s tenure. Furthermore, while the United States has taken a tough stance against Israeli policies this month, the Obama administration also recently renewed and increased a Memorandum of Understanding with Israel to the tune of $38 billion in foreign military financing over a 10-year period beginning in 2018.

Most troubling, however, is the continued narrative that Israel is a close friend and ally of the United States, given its history of espionage and selling American secrets to hostile countries.

“An angry Mr. Netanyahu said (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Oe0YzRHD5BbSSJvXjnWaHavDnC9G9o7D), ‘friends don’t take friends to the security council,'” said Dr. Osama Abuirshaid, AMP national policy director. “We contend friends don’t conduct espionage on American soil or try to sell American military secrets or technology to hostile countries as Israel has done in the past.”

Dr. Abuirshaid was referring to Congressional Research Service reports (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Oe0YzRHD5BaX7c7xmKNOaKvDnC9G9o7D) on U.S. aid to Israel and the U.S.-Israel relationship that documents several incidents of espionage, including the case of Jonathan Pollard who was convicted of selling classified documents to Israel in one of the worst security breaches in U.S. history. Four Israelis also were charged. The reports also include several instances of Israel trying to sell American weapons and technology to China and India.

Even former CIA Director David Petraeus, who as Commander of United States Central Command, testified in 2010 before the Senate Armed Services Committee that unconditional support of Israel and its continued occupation of Palestine put American troops in harms’ way. “The conflict foments anti-American sentiment, due to a perception of U.S. favoritism for Israel. Arab anger over the Palestinian question limits the strength and depth of U.S. partnerships with governments and peoples in the [area of operation] and weakens the legitimacy of moderate regimes in the Arab world,” he testified.

In addition, Israel has broken the American Arms Export Control Act and other laws prohibiting the use of American weapons or weaponry purchased with U.S. taxpayer dollars on a civilian population, as well as international laws, in its attacks on Gaza in 2008-’09, 2012 and 2014, according to independent investigations such as the Goldstone Report (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zXvTtS%2FB83uOjPzRfCR0%2FlC%2BKqtA37xd) and other (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UR%2B9T9B60LdX%2Bivnf0CbIFC%2BKqtA37xd) reports (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xp3tdimislA2BNjP9W%2BinFC%2BKqtA37xd). Also in March 2016, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT, and 10 members of the House of Representatives asked President Obama to investigate reports that specific Israeli military units committed “gross violations of human rights,” in contravention of U.S. laws.

“Secretary Kerry was right to highlight the extremist settler movement, settlement expansion and the occupation as obstacles to peace,” Dr. Abuirshaid said. “But we must disabuse ourselves of this notion that Israel is a true friend. Our work to help achieve peace in the Middle East must use Israel’s violations of international law as the starting point, and not some ill-conceived perception of a friendship that doesn’t exist. Without this, the United States will never be perceived as an honest broker in the region.”

It is beyond time for words. The Obama administration needs its actions to match its rhetoric. President Obama needs to openly declare that Israel’s policies are harming the United States’ national security, standing and interests worldwide. Not only should the White House and State Department issue a public report on the ways in which Israel misuses American foreign aid against a civilian population; it must cut off all funding until Israel complies with international law and ends the occupation, lifts the siege on Gaza and allows Palestinian refugees the right to return home and to be compensated for their losses in compliance with international law and UN Resolution 194.

Get more information, videos and analysis on the implications of the U.S. abstention at the United Nations and Secretary Kerry's speech. (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jcdbuZe3VKhlUAKnEobNkVC%2BKqtA37xd)




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PALESTINE: Will UN Resolution 2334 Put a Halt to the Colonial Expansion? -- by Dominique Ferré


On December 23, 2016, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution condemning the new Israeli settlements in the so-called "Occupied Territories" -- that is, the Palestinian territories occupied by the Israeli State in 1967 (Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem).

By Dominique Ferré

(article reprinted from Issue No. 70 -- Jan. 4, 2017 -- of Tribune des Travailleurs / Workers Tribune, the weekly publication of the Democratic Independent Workers Party of France)

The United Nations resolution on the Jewish settlements in the "Occupied Territories" produced rivers of ink because the U.S. administration abstained, allowing its adoption, whereas in the past it had usually opposed any sanctions, even verbal ones, against the State of Israel.
As could be expected, many people, particularly on the "left," expressed their amazement at this UN resolution, some even insisting that its adoption is proof of the "democratic character" of the Obama administration and the United Nations.

A Fulcrum for the Palestinian People?

For all those who are unconditionally on the side of the right of the Palestinian people to their lands and nation -- and our weekly newspaper [Tribune des Travailleurs/Workers Tribune] is among them -- one question arises: Is this UN resolution a fulcrum, a point of support, for the struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination?

Let us recall that the Great Powers that supported this resolution (or abstained, allowing it to be passed) are the very ones that have transformed the Middle East into a vast mass graveyard, cutting into the flesh of nations, dismantling States, attacking all the peoples with their military interventions and wars.

What claim do these Great Powers have to speak about the right of peoples to determine their own destiny? None!

Other commentators have spoken about why, a few days before passing the baton to Donald Trump, Obama decided to abstain. Some spoke of Obama's "betrayal" of Israeli leaders.

From the point of view of the oppressed Palestinian people who, for 70 years, have been deprived of their most fundamental right to decide the fate of their historic lands, all this brouhaha is very secondary.

Eight Years of the Obama Administration

This decision by the Obama administration -- which appears to be more like a settling of accounts with his successor at the White House -- cannot erase the reality of eight years of its unflinching support to the State of Israel against the Palestinian people.

Was it not Obama himself who, this past September 14, decided to grant $38 billion in military aid to the State of Israel? This amount, according to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, represents the largest disbursement of U.S. military aid since the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. And it's common knowledge that one of the major tasks of the Israeli Army, the recipient of this aid, is the "defense of the settlements" against the Palestinian population, which is being robbed and driven from its lands.

During Obama's tenure, the Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem increased from 194,000 settlers in 2009 to 208,000 by the end of 2014. During the same period, the West Bank settlers increased from 297,000 to 386,000.

And one could make a similar observation in relation to Obama's predecessors: Republican George W. Bush, and before him Democrat Bill Clinton, etc. In fact, we could go back ... until 1948, when the State of Israel was founded -- a State whose colonial expansion is part and parcel of its very fabric [see accompanying graphic of Palestinian lost lands over the years and extended caption].

As for the loud protests by Trump against the U.S. abstention in the UN vote, this only announces that U.S. support to the State of Israel will increase even more.

The United Nations at the Origin of the Partition of Palestine

And since we are talking about the United Nations and its resolutions, it should be remembered that 70 years ago, it was precisely a UN resolution -- jointly supported by the British and American imperialist leaders, on the one hand, and the Stalinist bureaucracy, on other -- which imposed the partition of Palestine and the establishment of the State of Israel by means of the expulsion of millions of its inhabitants? [1]

This is the partition of Palestine that a large part of the Palestinian leadership ultimately recognized in the Oslo Accords (1993) -- an agreement that is detrimental to the Palestinian people and is solely in the interest of imperialism, using Zionism as its main base in the region.

John Kerry, Obama's Secretary of State, insisted in his December 28 speech on this very point: "The Two-State solution," he said, "is the only one that ensures the future of Israel as a Jewish State. ... And it is an important means to promote U.S. interests in the region.[2]

The reality is there for all to see: It is to promote imperialist interests in the region that the Palestinian people have been, and continue to be, driven from their lands, deprived of their rights, and massacred. This has been going on for 70 years. Imperialism and its Zionist auxiliaries have manipulated shamefully the tragedy of the extermination of Jews in Europe by the Nazis to justify the atrocious fate imposed on the Palestinian people.

This will not be the last resolution of the UN on the matter, putting aside the fact that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately announced that he would not implement it. All this posturing, of course, will change absolutely nothing on the ground.

Despite the deafening silence regarding the fate of the Palestinian people by forces on the so-called "left" and at the summits of the international labor movement, the Palestinian Revolution has not said its last word.

The road to the only progressive solution guaranteeing the rights of the Palestinian people (beginning with its right to return to the lands from which it was expelled, going back to 1948) cannot be obstructed forever. It is the solution of a single, Democratic and Secular Palestine on all the historic territories of Palestine, integrating the Arab and Jewish components on equal terms. It is a perspective that the PLO [3] put forward in its founding documents only later to abandon it in 1988.


Endnotes

[1] According to the UN's Refugee program, there are 4.7 Palestinian refugees dispersed the world over.

[2] The very notion of a "Two-State solution" is a misnomer since in reality there is only one State allowed to exist: the Israeli State. All that is being offered to the Palestinian people is, at best, a Bantustan such as existed in South Africa under the Apartheid regime.

[3] Palestine Liberation Organization


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An "Israeli state without colonization"? This myth is exposed by the map above provided by Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights. On July 14, 1972, the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot published an article by Yoram Bar Porath that could not have been more blunt: "It is the duty of Israeli leaders," he wrote, "to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands."

One of the founders of the Israeli State, David Ben Gurion, was equally to the point in an Address he presented to the Mapai Political Committee on June 7, 1938: "Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves," he stated. "A people which fights against the usurpation of its land will not tire so easily. . . . [P]olitically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. . . . The land, the villages, the mountains, the roads are in their hands. The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country." (quoted in Flapan, Simha, Zionism and the Palestinians, Croom Helm, 1979)

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Labour Struggles in Palestine and International Solidarity


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Labour Struggles in Palestine and International Solidarity (http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls337.php)

The global labour movement has long criticized Israel for human and trade union rights violations and abuse of Palestinian workers, while workers in Palestine are resisting oppression and building a movement we can support. Trade unions and federations of labour in Canada are heeding the call for solidarity made by 170 Palestinian organizations for a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. Let’s discuss how we can continue to build this solidarity.

Moderated by Hassan Husseini. Presentations by:

Natalie Guay, Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN)
Mary-Jo Nadeau, Faculty for Palestine (F4P)
Mike Palecek, Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW)

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Worth Reading:

https://electronicintifada.net/content/netanyahu-openly-boasts-israels-war-africans/19051 (https://electronicintifada.net/content/netanyahu-openly-boasts-israels-war-africans/19051)

In 2016, Benjamin Netanyahu held (http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Netanyahu-delays-allocating-portfolios-440654) five separate cabinet portfolios, as well as the prime minister’s post. He used the powers at his disposal to deport thousands of African refugees. Without question, the worst of these were the powers Netanyahu continues to wield as Israel’s foreign minister.
When the first wave of refugees from war-torn Darfur (https://electronicintifada.net/tags/darfur) started to arrive in Israel 10 years ago, the government argued (https://www.knesset.gov.il/mmm/data/pdf/m01790.pdf) that they couldn’t be trusted to live in the country because they were from Sudan, a country that does not have (http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.642395) diplomatic relations with Israel.
This argument has never made sense, as Darfuri refugees first fled to Israel precisely because they and their families were victims of the Sudanese regime, not supporters of it.
Paradoxically, in September, it emerged that Israel’s foreign ministry has been quietly lobbying the US (http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.740676) to forge closer ties with Sudan.
Israel reportedly favored this move because Omar al-Bashir’s government had distanced itself from Iran (https://electronicintifada.net/tags/iran).
Just two weeks after Netanyahu’s shilling for al-Bashir made news headlines, Amnesty International (https://electronicintifada.net/tags/amnesty-international) revealed (http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-1.745051) that the Sudanese leader’s long list of war crimes now also includes the use of chemical weapons in Darfur.
In the past three years, Netanyahu’s government has spent (http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.758400) $260 million to round up African refugees and bring them to desert detention centers. Israel has the gall to categorize (http://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/tozeret/.premium-1.2914750) this massive expenditure as “foreign aid.”
In late September, Netanyahu marked the Jewish new year of Rosh Hashanah with a self-congratulatory address to members of Likud, summarizing his supposed successes from the previous 12 months. Netanyahu boasted (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/218361) of his efforts to deport African refugees.
“Sixty thousand illegals entered,” he said. “Until today we have already removed 20,000, and we will remove another 20,000. We’ll remove all the illegal aliens because they are illegal, even the ones in southern Tel Aviv.”
Netanyahu has made similar boasts (https://electronicintifada.net/content/ethnic-cleansing-africans-israel/15099) in the past. But what set 2016 apart from previous years was his new willingness to not only point out his anti-African policies to Israelis in Hebrew, but also to proudly announce them in English.
Apparently confident that his efforts would be admired abroad, Netanyahu tweeted (https://twitter.com/IsraeliPM/status/715608794911412224) in March: “A strong Israel prevents the passage of masses of refugees to Europe. The world would be different if we were not here.”
In a year-end opinion piece, the editorial board of Haaretz stated (http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.759129) that Netanyahu “should be ashamed,” adding, “Israel can and must accept the 40,000 Africans living here today, along with the 6,000 children who were born here.”
For the eight years that the United States was led by a president of African descent, Netanyahu felt no need to rein in Israel’s war on Africans. Now that Donald Trump, the darling of white supremacists, has been elected to the Oval Office, we can only expect Netanyahu to ramp it up into an even higher gear.

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[Gaza] Opposing Israeli attempt to legalise theft of Zaytouna-Oliva. Israël essaie de légaliser le vol de la Zaytouna-Oliva ; nous nous y opposons.

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Opposing Israeli attempt to legalise theft of Zaytouna-Oliva

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On Monday 19 December, 2016 (13:00) Haifa District court (acting as Maritime court) at Ave. Pal Yam 15a, Haifa, there will be a protest against the ongoing illegal blockade of Gaza and to demand the return of our Freedom Flotilla boat so that we can take it to Gaza without delay.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) has been challenging the illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip for years, employing direct action, consisting of boats sailing to and from Gaza. The most recent attempt was the Women's Boat to Gaza (https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/), which ended when a sailing boat (Zaytouna-Oliva), with 13 women from different countries, sailed across the Mediterranean Sea towards Gaza. As with all of our boats in the last five years, the Israeli Occupation Forces attacked it. Zaytouna Oliva was illegally boarded in international waters (https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/news/zaytouna-oliva-women-deported-details-emerge-about-the-capture) and taken against our will to Ashdod, denying us the ability to reach our sisters and brothers in Palestine.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition is represented in this case by the Israeli law firm of Gaby Lasky, who helped free many of our Women's Boat to Gaza participants and who successfully challenged the Israeli government's illegal seizure of the Swedish Ship to Gaza sailing vessel Estelle in the Israeli Supreme Court (https://shiptogaza.se/en/Pressrelease/supreme-court-israel-release-ship-gazas-estelle).

These legal cases are part of our ongoing strategy to challenge and end the illegal and inhumane blockade of Gaza. To help cover our legal costs and contribute to our ongoing work, visit wbg.freedomflotilla.org/donations and donate to any of our Freedom Flotilla Coalition campaigns.

For more information, contact Zohar Chamberlain Regev <[email protected]> +34647077426
Or other Freedom Flotilla media contacts: wbg.freedomflotilla.org/media-room


Israël essaie de légaliser le vol de la Zaytouna-Oliva ; nous nous y opposons.

Lundi 19 décembre 2016 à 13h, devant le tribunal de district de Haifa (en tant que tribunal maritime), 15a avenue Pal Yam, une manifestation est organisée contre le blocus illégal continu de Gaza et pour exiger la restitution de notre bateau de la Flottille de la Liberté afin que nous puissions le mener sans délai à Gaza.

Cela fait des années maintenant que la Coalition de la Flottille de la Liberté veut briser le blocus illégal de la bande de Gaza, par de l’action directe, à savoir en envoyant des bateaux vers et de Gaza, Lors de la dernière tentative en septembre-octobre 2016, le Bateau des femmes pour Gaza un voilier, la Zaytouna-Oliva a pris la mer avec 13 femmes à bord, de différents pays, et traversé la Méditerranée pour se rendre à Gaza. Le 5 octobre, les forces d’occupation israéliennes ont attaqué le bateau, comme tous les autres depuis plus de cinq ans. La Zaytouna-Oliva a été abordée illégalement dans les eaux internationales (http://www.france-palestine.org/La-marine-israelienne-intercepte-le-bateau-des-femmes-naviguant-vers-Gaza) et amenée de force au port d’Ashdod, nous empêchant ainsi de nous rendre aux côtés de nos sœurs et frères en Palestine.

La Coalition de la Flottille de la Liberté est représentée cette fois-ci par le cabinet d’avocats israélien de Gaby Lasky, qui a permis la libération de plusieurs participantes du Bateau des femmes pour Gaza (https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/fr/). Ce cabinet a aussi réussi à faire opposition, devant la Cour suprême d’Israël, à la capture illégale par le gouvernement d’Israël du navire l’Estelle, de la Campagne suédoise un Bateau pour Gaza.

Ces affaires judiciaires s’inscrivent dans notre stratégie constante de nous opposer au blocus illégal et inhumain de Gaza et d’y mettre fin. Pour nous aider à couvrir les frais de justice et afin de contribuer à notre travail constant, consultez wbg.freedomflotilla.org/donations et faites un don à l’une des campagnes nationales de la Coalition de la Flottille de la Liberté.

Pour se renseigner davantage, contacter Claude Léostic, +33 672 516 490 [email protected] ou d’autres contacts de la Coalition de la Flottille de la Liberté: https://wbg.freedomflotilla.org/fr/media-room

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http://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/petition_stop_israeli_military_detention


Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world that systematically prosecutes around 700 children in military courts each year.

Three out of every four of these children endure some form of physical violence at the hands of Israeli soldiers or officers following arrest. In 97 percent of the cases, children are interrogated without legal counsel and without their parents.[1]

The U.S. government is well-aware of ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian child detainees. Since 2007, each Department of State annual human rights country report on Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory has highlighted these issues.

In 2015, 19 members of Congress signed a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, urging him to prioritize this issue in the U.S. government's bilateral relationship with Israel.[2] One year later, 20 members of Congress called for concrete action, this time in a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to appoint a Special Envoy for Palestinian Children.[3]

When it comes to children, detention must be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time. The best interests of the child must be a primary concern. In no circumstance should children be detained and prosecuted under the jurisdiction of military courts.

Until we demand Israeli authorities comply with international law, we are simply enabling abuse and perpetuating injustice against Palestinian children.



[1] DCIP, No Way to Treat a Child: Palestinian children in the Israeli military detention system (2016), www.dci-palestine.org/no_way_to_treat_a_child_palestinian_children_in_th e_israeli_military_detention_system

[2] June 2015 letter is available at http://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/letter_to_secretary_kerry_from_19_members_of_congr ess

[3] June 2016 letter is available at http://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/letter_to_obama_from_20_members_of_congress



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Corrected: Can you help BDS grow even further in 2017?


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Dear supporter of Palestinian rights,

We in the Palestinian BDS National Committee, the widest coalition of Palestinian organisations that leads and supports the BDS movement, recently took some time to take stock the BDS movement’s most important moments during 2016. You can can read our thoughts in our new blog post where we explain how despite the pain, 2016 witnessed impressive gains for BDS. (http://emails.bdsnationalcommittee.org/l/RBNbjTRUYaS08763xuTDBR4A/84Nnyhf1JHLwJNJPw16byg/PAg0XvKrInlppseiW4oRww)

There are eight really significant signs that the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality took important steps forward during 2016:

Three more multinationals, Orange, CRH and G4S were compelled under BDS pressure to end involvement in illegal Israeli projects, indicating a start of a domino effect.

Israel’s global legal war on BDS suffered fatal setbacks after the EU upheld the right to boycott Israel under freedom of speech.

Israeli Apartheid Free Zones or settlement-free zones were declared by dozens of municipal councils across Europe.

Israel’s global isolation intensified as the logic of appeasing its regime of oppression started to give way to the logic of sustained international pressure, including at the UN.

Can you help us make sure that we achieve even more during 2017? (http://emails.bdsnationalcommittee.org/l/RBNbjTRUYaS08763xuTDBR4A/VLrjsSR58925RRV3cBoVA0jQ/PAg0XvKrInlppseiW4oRww)

More mainstream churches, from the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa (UCCSA) to the United Methodist Church in the US, adopted BDS-related measures in support of Palestinian human rights.

Our BDS campaign against apartheid profiteer Hewlett Packard (HP) went viral globally. There were actions and events in more than 100 cities as part of our recent week of action.

BDS reached the Oscars and the Olympics, as the academic and cultural boycott of Israel spread even further among student unions, academics, artists and writers, especially in the global South.

International trade unions intensified support for BDS measures in solidarity with the Palestinian people and Palestinian workers.
You can read more about all of the things we achieved together during 2016 at our blog post (http://emails.bdsnationalcommittee.org/l/RBNbjTRUYaS08763xuTDBR4A/84Nnyhf1JHLwJNJPw16byg/PAg0XvKrInlppseiW4oRww).

Since we published our blog post, it has emerged (http://emails.bdsnationalcommittee.org/l/RBNbjTRUYaS08763xuTDBR4A/HFmoaWy1lRCpo6HxALR0xg/PAg0XvKrInlppseiW4oRww) that the Israeli embassy in the UK has been working to smear and undermine politicians and civil society leaders that support Palestinian rights. A main theme in the subversive efforts of Israel’s lobby, it is now confirmed, is targeting BDS and measures aimed at holding Israel accountable for its oppression of Palestinians.

Recognizing the strategic impact of the BDS movement in the struggle for Palestinian rights, Israel is pouring tens of millions of dollars into its war of propaganda, legal attacks, and defamation tactics.

We can’t compete with Israel financially. But the impressive things our movement has achieved show that we don’t have to.

In recent years, public donations have allowed us to launch a new website for the BDS movement, enlarge our small staff team, and successfully expand BDS activism in Latin America and the Arab world.

Before we bring our current fundraising appeal to a close, we wanted to make sure that everyone knows that we’re asking supporters of Palestinian rights to consider making a small donation to the Palestinian leadership of the BDS movement. Can you help us with a donation today? (http://emails.bdsnationalcommittee.org/l/RBNbjTRUYaS08763xuTDBR4A/VLrjsSR58925RRV3cBoVA0jQ/PAg0XvKrInlppseiW4oRww)

Kind regards,

Palestinian BDS National Committee

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ADC Legislative Update


American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

ADC Legislative Update

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination continued its advocacy into the New Year. Between December 2016 and January 2017, ADC met with over 35 congressional offices to address institution of a Muslim registry (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XLQUSJIL9rr0jgUwfyfO4BrpIFAwyMRw), immigrant and refugee rights, and the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act. ADC will work vigorously to educate congressional members on legislative and policy matters that impact our community.

The Anti-Semitism Awareness Act (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aW0cj9e8X%2BOfPyhK83C8nxrpIFAwyMRw) goes beyond providing definitional purposes and directs the U.S. Department of Education– Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to consider a widely discredited re-definition of anti-Semitism in assessing alleged violations of Title VI. The Act is masquerading as an awareness vehicle but the Act does not actually combat the source spikes of anti-Semitism. The Act censors First Amendment-protected student advocacy for Palestinian rights.

ADC has serious concerns with President Elect-Trump nominations of Betsy DeVos to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, Senator Jeff Sessions’ to serve as U.S. Attorney General, General John Kelly to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Rex Tillerson to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of State.

See ADC's Statements for the Record to Congress on the Nominees (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5NxHx%2FA23ZSKpFCb3rqbiRrpIFAwyMRw)

Sessions is open to the creation of a Muslim registry and/or extreme vetting. In 2009, Sessions adamantly opposed the Matthew Shephard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, demonstrating his unwillingness to enforce federal hate crimes to protect Arab American community and marginalized communities.

DeVos does not support public education, but supports institutionalizing religion in schools. In Michigan, DeVos’ “school of choice” and voucher initiatives disparately affected communities of color and inner city youth.

Kelly’s broad statements on cracking down on illegal immigration and movement of people, and support of extreme vetting are gravely disturbing. Kelly’s background in drug trafficking enforcement raises flags for use of pushing the same widely criticized tactics of profiling, use of informants and entrapment tactics at the Department of Homeland Security.

In terms of protecting the freedoms of minority communities in his various capacities with Exxon, Tillerson has failed to meet human rights standards. Tillerson has failed to repudiate any of Trump’s claims about shutting down refugee resettlement.

On January 12, 2017, Congresswoman Delbene reintroduced the No Religious Registry Act of 2017 (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3gOPGDz17hNGWxis4tRq3BrpIFAwyMRw). On January 5, 2017, Senators Bernie Sanders, Corey Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Mazie Hirono, Brian Schatz, Ed Markey, Patty Murray, Patrick Leahy, and Jeff Merkley. The Protect American Families Act will uphold religious freedom and protect all communities by prohibiting the institution of a federally-funded registry that is facially discriminatory and targets individuals based on race, national origin, religion, and/or ethnicity. Both these bills build off of ADC’s work to secure rescission of the NSEERS regulatory framework.


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Stopping David Freidman is our responsibility


We need to stop the confirmation of David Friedman as US Ambassador to Israel.


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Dear Chris,

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I spent Wednesday evening at a glitter-filled queer dance party outside Mike Pence’s rental home.

On Friday I blew the shofar while Trump was being sworn in, to express grief and pain but also as a wake up call, even a battle cry.

And then I marched with JVP leaders alongside organized labor, leaders from Standing Rock, and Black Lives Matter.

Yesterday I was glued to Facebook in awe of the millions of people taking to the streets.

And now it’s time to get to work.

We need to stop the confirmation of David Friedman as US Ambassador to Israel. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=94jaAsZSLuURDnPG%2B1Fp0WFxNFpkx9sX)

Are you ready to join me? Because JVP specifically, even uniquely, needs to take him on.

David Friedman has zero diplomatic experience - he’s actually Trump’s bankruptcy lawyer. But he shares with Jared Kushner and other members of Trump’s inner circle shockingly extreme views on Israel/Palestine.

Friedman has denied the existence of Palestinian refugees, who are recognized under international law, called liberal Jews “kapos” for taking even measured efforts to change Israeli policies, advocated annexation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and endorsed discriminatory screening of Muslim immigrants to the United States.

And he’s not just a supporter of illegal, Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank - he’s the board chair of American Friends of Beit El, one of the oldest and most violent settlements in the West Bank.

David Friedman is a passionate activist for permanent apartheid and occupation.

And his appointment would bring all of these policy disasters closer:

Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem - in fact, he’s already declared his decision to live in Jerusalem personally.

Annexing Ma’ale Adumim or even all of the West Bank. Yesterday even the NYTimes described Friedman as in “closer political step with Mr. Netanyahu’s right-wing rivals.” (yes, it is more than possible to out-flank Netanyahu to his right)

Deepening mutual aid between US and the Israeli governments on surveillance projects (think registries) and border militarization (think walls).

There isn’t a single statement of his that we’ve been able to find that shows even a modicum of respect for Palestinians or Palestinian human rights.

Chris, can you sign our open letter now calling on not only the Senate with it’s direct decision-making power, but Members of Congress, the media, and all the allies we’ll need to stop his appointment? (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9lEMt176o1bQIRrlv%2BlOZOJKcJKSAGvh)

I experienced so much power, love, kindness, and creativity this weekend - and saw infinitely more reflected in the pictures and stories of people from around the world. And the only way I can imagine to feel that way again is to win concrete change.

Stopping Friedman in defense of the basic equality of all people is the most specific thing we can do today, as JVP members. Click here and help us get going. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3u17qs8lTh2skNkMAZuOr2FxNFpkx9sX)

Onward,

Joseph


Rabbi Joseph Berman
Government Affairs Manager





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http://www.vox.com/world/2016/12/16/13980806/david-friedman-trump-israel-ambassador-pick
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/16/world/middleeast/David-Friedman-Israel-Palestinians-Trump-quotes.html?_r=0
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/18066
http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/357324/david-friedman-raised-millions-for-radical-west-bank-jewish-settlers/
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4910967,00.html
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Fordham University Doubles Down on SJP Ban!


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Dear Chris,

You and thousands of others took action earlier this month to demand that Fordham University in NYC rescind their decision to ban a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) group from forming on its campus.

Unfortunately university officials have reaffirmed the ban (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=baC%2BMS1kYiH6g9WGS1OYbW2mul4dia%2Fr), this time claiming the group “is more akin to a lobbying organization,” and that SJPs on other campuses were “disruptive.” Fordham thus continues to censor SJP in violation of free speech and academic freedom.

Thank you for already sending an email to the university in support of these student activists. Can you please now make a quick phone call (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GvTPxBy21L8RWfYIovcIP22mul4dia%2Fr) to the Office of the President Father Joseph McShane to amplify our demands and make clear those of us concerned with Palestinian rights are not going to let this issue go away?

Click here for for instructions on making the call (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8NiAv3NOHiivmNJnB8N0JW2mul4dia%2Fr) from our member group Jewish Voice for Peace.

We cannot let this decision stand because it sets a dangerous precedent for other schools to take similar actions to shut down campus organizing for Palestine. Call President McShane now! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9F7WLn8HO0be238Mb%2BjjU22mul4dia%2Fr)

Thank you for taking action.




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11,000 strong for Palestinian children


Over 10,000 people just demanded an end to Israeli military detention of Palestinian children. (http://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/petition_stop_israeli_military_detention?e=ecbc615 2b7df871c7efafc624c520a9a&utm_source=dcipalestine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petitiondeliver&n=1)


No Way to Treat a Child


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DCIP and AFSC staff joined by No Way to Treat a Child campaign
supporters stand outside the US Department of State in Washington on
January 31, 2016.

Dear Chris,

Today Defense for Children International - Palestine and American Friends Service Committee delivered a petition to the US State Department signed by over 11,000 individuals standing against ill-treatment and torture of Palestinian children.

The petition urges the Secretary of State to prioritize the human rights of Palestinian children and hold Israeli authorities accountable for widespread and systematic ill-treatment of Palestinian child detainees.

It's simple: military detention is no way to treat a child. (http://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/dcip_and_afsc_deliver_11_000_signatures_to_us_stat e_department?e=ecbc6152b7df871c7efafc624c520a9a&utm_source=dcipalestine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petitiondeliver&n=4)

Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world that systematically prosecutes around 700 children in military courts each year. Three out of every four of these children endure some form of physical violence at the hands of Israeli soldiers or officers following arrest. In 97 percent of the cases, children are interrogated without legal counsel and without their parents.

The situation for Palestinian child detainees is getting worse each day.

In October 2015, for the first time since 2011, Israeli authorities held several Palestinian children from the West Bank without charge pursuant to administrative detention orders. At least 14 Palestinian minors were placed under administrative detention during 2016. Administrative detention is a process whereby a child is detained without charge or trial, often renewable indefinitely.

During 2016, at least 25 Palestinian children detained by Israeli forces from the West Bank were held in solitary confinement for interrogation purposes. An alarming increase increase from 2015. The use of solitary confinement for interrogation purposes against minors amounts to torture under international law.

This morning, thousands of you put the new administration on notice: we are here to demand an end to Israeli military detention, ill-treatment, and torture of Palestinian children. (http://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/dcip_and_afsc_deliver_11_000_signatures_to_us_stat e_department?e=ecbc6152b7df871c7efafc624c520a9a&utm_source=dcipalestine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petitiondeliver&n=5)

When it comes to children, detention must be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time. In no circumstance should children be detained and prosecuted under the jurisdiction of military courts.

Until we demand Israeli authorities comply with international law, we are simply enabling abuse and perpetuating injustice against Palestinian children. We're ready to keep fighting.

Onwards,

Beth Miller

Defense for Children International - Palestine (http://www.dci-palestine.org/?e=ecbc6152b7df871c7efafc624c520a9a&utm_source=dcipalestine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=petitiondeliver&n=6)

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Fw: Stopping Friedman (and Netanyahu!) is our responsibility


Hi Chris -

I wanted to share a quick update on David Friedman's appointment as Ambassador to Israel.

First, good news: the Senate will be holding hearings on Friedman - a procedural win. No date yet, but we'll keep you posted.

Second, Netanyahu touches down in the US on February 15th to meet with the President.

It's our time to shine a spotlight on the mirror dangers of Trump and Netanyahu. Together with allies, and a growing interfaith network we're putting together actions across the country.

In the streets and in the media, we're going to make it known that we don't accept Netanyahu's silence on Trump's Muslim Ban, his egging on of the wall on the US/Mexico border, his encouragement to move the US Embassy, or the thousands of new settlement homes he just approved.

Friedman is the pivot point of all of this: it would be his job to maintain a US/Israeli relationship focused on accomplishing all of these destructive policy goals, and more.

So please help us build this petition against Friedman by forwarding it to 5 friends right now. 15,000 people have already signed,and while Trump might be a policy wildcard, Friedman is clear and consistent: no rights, no land, no political power, and no respect for Palestinians - let alone American Jews and allies who speak out against that platform of hate.

More soon - it's an honor to keep pushing forward with you.

Ari

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We need to stop the confirmation of David Friedman as US Ambassador to Israel.

ADD YOUR NAME (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZETBOSZnZY3Cc9XDwI%2BkUymUbQ1Wb33O)


Dear Chris,

I spent Wednesday evening at a glitter-filled queer dance party outside Mike Pence’s rental home.

On Friday I blew the shofar while Trump was being sworn in, to express grief and pain but also as a wake up call, even a battle cry.

And then I marched with JVP leaders alongside organized labor, leaders from Standing Rock, and Black Lives Matter.

Yesterday I was glued to Facebook in awe of the millions of people taking to the streets.

And now it’s time to get to work.

We need to stop the confirmation of David Friedman as US Ambassador to Israel. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HWvFCFfFRxPa%2FwZ5Wjdiud5xzkzyDETx)

Are you ready to join me? Because JVP specifically, even uniquely, needs to take him on.

David Friedman has zero diplomatic experience - he’s actually Trump’s bankruptcy lawyer. But he shares with Jared Kushner and other members of Trump’s inner circle shockingly extreme views on Israel/Palestine.

Friedman has denied the existence of Palestinian refugees, who are recognized under international law, called liberal Jews “kapos” for taking even measured efforts to change Israeli policies, advocated annexation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and endorsed discriminatory screening of Muslim immigrants to the United States.

And he’s not just a supporter of illegal, Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank - he’s the board chair of American Friends of Beit El, one of the oldest and most violent settlements in the West Bank.

David Friedman is a passionate activist for permanent apartheid and occupation.

And his appointment would bring all of these policy disasters closer:
Moving the US embassy to Jerusalem - in fact, he’s already declared his decision to live in Jerusalem personally.
Annexing Ma’ale Adumim or even all of the West Bank. Yesterday even the NYTimes described Friedman as in “closer political step with Mr. Netanyahu’s right-wing rivals.” (yes, it is more than possible to out-flank Netanyahu to his right)
Deepening mutual aid between US and the Israeli governments on surveillance projects (think registries) and border militarization (think walls).

There isn’t a single statement of his that we’ve been able to find that shows even a modicum of respect for Palestinians or Palestinian human rights.

Chris, can you sign our open letter now calling on not only the Senate with it’s direct decision-making power, but Members of Congress, the media, and all the allies we’ll need to stop his appointment? (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oCMGru74CjK%2F9nv8Sywpk95xzkzyDETx)

I experienced so much power, love, kindness, and creativity this weekend - and saw infinitely more reflected in the pictures and stories of people from around the world. And the only way I can imagine to feel that way again is to win concrete change.

Stopping Friedman in defense of the basic equality of all people is the most specific thing we can do today, as JVP members. Click here and help us get going. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PMuhuz8l0lFeFL0IdezqUd5xzkzyDETx)

Onward,

Joseph


Rabbi Joseph Berman
Government Affairs Manager


PS: at Jewish Voice for Peace we don’t honestly see anything getting easier for quite some time, but we believe wholeheartedly that things are going to get busier, and that our movement will grow. It’ll cost money to sustain that. Can you help us grow with a donation today?

Donate (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dlh8LIFM3GeOLYB60ZINKN5xzkzyDETx)


http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.741515
http://www.vox.com/world/2016/12/16/13980806/david-friedman-trump-israel-ambassador-pick
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/16/world/middleeast/David-Friedman-Israel-Palestinians-Trump-quotes.html?_r=0
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/18066
http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/357324/david-friedman-raised-millions-for-radical-west-bank-jewish-settlers/
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4910967,00.html
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Tell the FIFA president to #RedCardIsrael

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Israel allows six teams based in illegal settlements to play in its national football league
We have an opportunity to pressure FIFA, the governing body of world football, to take action against the Israeli Football Association for its support of teams based in illegal Israeli settlements.

Will you join me in writing FIFA President Gianni Infantino? (https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/3cmDuxj8Flk8926Ve64lehPg/RLkrJr5Rt892QweSj892p1gdTw/zTgJ0n5upn5rEGBtDqD6nA)

The UN, Human Rights Watch, parliamentarians, lawyers, campaigners and Palestinians have all urged FIFA to respect international law. They have asked FIFA to respect its own regulations and prevent teams based in illegal settlements from participating in its official leagues.

By failing to take action against the Israeli Football Association for including these illegal settlement-based teams, FIFA is complicit in Israel’s violation of international law, and is allowing Israel to use “the beautiful game” to whitewash its war crimes and forced displacement of Palestinians.

FIFA can and should demand that the Israeli Football Association exclude teams based in illegal settlements, and suspend the association if it refuses to comply. (https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/3cmDuxj8Flk8926Ve64lehPg/qAsglw9bAeUVlpfGIS3k763A/zTgJ0n5upn5rEGBtDqD6nA)

Tokyo Sexwale, the South African chairman of the FIFA Monitoring Committee Israel-Palestine, is about to submit a report to FIFA’s president and council about improving the conditions of Palestinian football.

This is an opportunity for us to pressure FIFA to take action. (https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/3cmDuxj8Flk8926Ve64lehPg/qAsglw9bAeUVlpfGIS3k763A/zTgJ0n5upn5rEGBtDqD6nA)

Thank you,

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DIGEST: You Did It Again for Palestine! Another anti-free speech bill has hit the dust! Thanks to your generous support, t


You Did It Again for Palestine!
Another anti-free speech bill has hit the dust!

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Kareem El-Hosseiny, right, AMP's government affairs coordinator prepares to meet with Virginia state legislators on House Bill 2261. AMP's Taher Herzallah is not pictured.

Thanks to your generous support, the American Muslims for Palestine, working in a broad coalition, vigorously fought and won against a bill in the Virginia state legislature that violated the First Amendment. The bill would have had a devastating impact on Palestine solidarity activism.

VA House Bill 2261 equated criticism of Israeli policies with anti-Semitism. The bill would have placed severe restrictions on the free speech rights of Virginia residents. It would have made advocating for Palestinian rights nearly impossible.

Last week, a large coalition of solidarity organizations, including AMP, went to Richmond, VA to meet with state legislators considering the measure. Their testimony was so compelling House Bill 2261 died in committee!

In addition to AMP, other coalition members included American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU); Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, Northern Virginia Chapter; Jewish Voice for Peace; New Dominion PAC; Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace; Richmonders for Peace in Israel and Palestine; US Campaign for Palestinian Rights; Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace; United Methodists for Kairos Response; Israel Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA); the Virginia Defender; and the Northern Virginians for Peace & Justice.

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Businessman Caldoun Abuhakel testifying before the House committee.

AMP-Minnesota continues fight against anti-BDS legislation
Members of the Minnesota chapter of American Muslims for Palestine provided testimony in the state legislature Tuesday against an anti-BDS bill (HF 400) that would prohibit state contracts with vendors that engage in discrimination against Israel, or against persons or entities that do business in Israel, when making decisions related to the operation of the vendor’s business.


AMP-MN brought Minnesota businessman Caldoun Abuhakel to provide testimoy. Abuhakel, who owns two businesses with a total of 75 employees, told the House Government Operations and Elections Policy Committee that if this bill were to become law it would not only infringe on his free speech rights but could also impact his businesses.

“It’s not fair for us – for me, in particular as a Palestinian in America who has been under occupation; and my parents and family still are – to have to sign a waiver that I cannot boycott Israel … but just the principle of freedom of speech, I don’t think on principle I could sign that waiver. Many people would lose their jobs because I’m not going to do it or I would have to get involved in legal actions against the state,” he said.

Several others testified that bill would illegally criminalize boycott, which is a constitutionally protected right of free speech. Some representatives on the committee expressed concerns over the bill and it has been referred back to the government finance committee.

AMP will continue tracking this bill. Please stay tuned for upcoming action alerts. Watch the video (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CdyRR1qqnOIm6SzWjEqvhxQUq%2BszGkvJ).


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No time to be silent! Civic engagement training to harness our power

With the current political climate, there's no time like the present to become politically engaged. Learn how government works, how a bill makes its way through Congress and what you can do to alter its course on both the local and federal levels. Join the American Muslims for Palestine at our third annual Palestine Advocacy Day and Training from April 29-May 1 in Washington DC.

This year, we are being joined by the Palestinian Youth Movement, too! Register now to secure your space in our two-day training, led by experts in government affairs. The nonrefundable $80 registration fee covers hotel and most meals. Travel stipends may be available.

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Report: The Economic Exploitation of Palestinian Prisoners


Check out Addameer's latest report titled "The Economic Exploitation of Palestinian Prisoners, (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=229&qid=302530)" which includes an overview of economic exploitation in Israeli prisons, including the trajectory of privatization of the prisons, forced labor of Palestinians and the establishment of prison canteens as a way to exploit Palestinian prisoners.

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Rand Paul: Block Private Property Thief David Friedman as Ambassador to Israel


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Dear Chris,

Urge Senators to block private property thief David Friedman from becoming ambassador to Israel.

Take Action (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=883cB9yHt0IkQX1k4S2Jh9x9885iGc4u)

An apartment building in a West Bank settlement was funded by an organization headed by David Friedman, President Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel. The building is financed by American Friends of Beit El Institutions, which Friedman chairs. American Friends of Beit El Institutions raised almost $667,000 for its Israeli counterpart, the Organization for the Sukkat Ovadia Yeshiva of Beit El. The Israeli organization funded construction projects on private Palestinian land. The projects were illegal under Israeli law. The planned apartment building is also to be built partly on private Palestinian land. [1] A recent bill passed by the Knesset which has drawn wide international condemnation seeks to retroactively legalize such theft; Israel's Attorney General has declared the bill to be unconstitutional, and many expect Israel's high court to overturn it.

Urge Senators to block private property thief David Friedman by signing our petition at MoveOn (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hBW0SCIoji%2BLSu7uiLtari%2BRnW5YwKau).

Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has demonstrated unique ability to influence the Administration's foreign policy nominations. On Feb. 7, Rand Paul declared his opposition (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=quDYQApkMU8KLXE5O4Levy%2BRnW5YwKau) to the expected nomination of neocon war criminal Elliott Abrams as No. 2 in the State Department. [2] On Feb. 10, the idea of nominating Elliott Abrams was apparently killed (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QVRUGgsIG4lOACPCqUA9xC%2BRnW5YwKau). [3] All true conservatives should oppose the government theft of private property.

Urge Rand Paul and other Senators to oppose the nomination of private property thief David Friedman to be U.S. ambassador to Israel by signing and sharing our petition (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=l50Bbu7MV7rCaFsRH37RmC%2BRnW5YwKau).

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2. http://rare.us/rare-politics/rand-paul-do-not-let-elliott-abrams-anywhere-near-the-state-department/
3. http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/10/politics/elliott-abrams-trump-state-department-tillerson/index.html

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Less than 1 month into the Trump Administration


Resist the Muslim Ban, DAPL & deportations. Fight the Wall from Palestine to Mexico. Build community.

Rachel Corrie Foundation For Peace and Justice

Resistance and Solidarity in the Era of Trump

On Friday, February 3rd, Seattle Federal judge James Robart temporarily blocked (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYmReuRpSYFBpO0bIXL9UyKU2NCYD44rWejC_ 37pbq6LvgNHpweWWcU5XoGCE-UxWz5p8R_Qi82b6qPFuvgnG-_CnL7cFD6rROD-UfSctLGC5JQ0lre93VSU0G-XuiVqvh5GTYl4v177_BMRv_wKPPGMPzRd4JWLH0Rr25cEEqrR2 fXp_VHq6rCvmkE7VhqGbvb3PBd2JDhV4JGKAECpNzy1c7edAep 21YfN8wSc2V3r4x-TxOgUPuFY8Iym9SU544A==&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==) Trump's Executive Order banning citizens of seven countries from entering the US through a ruling on the basis of damage to Washington State and its residents. Driven by xenophobia, Islamaphobia and racism, the Muslim Ban was an unprecedented denial of entry to migrants and refugees that led to more than 60,000 revoked visas in the less than two weeks since it was issued. The halt on the Executive Order is at least a brief relief for visitors from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. The U.S. has played a central role in making countries like Syria and Yemen unlivable for a vast number of the population.

While Judge Rodard's stay plays out in the court system, it is clear that popular and public presence, actions and organizing is powerful. Judge Robart's decision came one week after a large rally (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYmReuRpSYFBpCfm6nm7VHPDri0TqXaFeJH1W E8QXg7S0jHE-0vlBUbmHObAbOdOcWhJm5pE9nrEQWpx7060GWYWI7Ypu8gRw35 ukgdQYnlzng48NdIgem36_3WlFZ-SAkNA-XVctAsSs7OS7CVw3D9JyDZfv3N-IQWLSPwa1dmfnYowcSHk6mxS_I8_QEHnSu3NU6qnkdNCb7EMfT HTF-kZHHYw7YdeX9Tl8czswZpUcpFMulimSL_ryeuSisYJjSgZpgW_ xMWH0fux-kTXNWY4=&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==) against the Muslim Ban at the SEA-TAC airport along with similar demonstrations around the country that are continuing. Public protest and presence contributed to the environment in which the stay could be issued and on behalf of Washington State residents. Sustained civil disobedience over the coming months and throughout the U.S. will be key.

For those of us in the U.S. and involved in organizing our communities to achieve social justice, the slew of Executive Orders issued by Trump in the first days of his term along with absurd cabinet confirmations, an evident campaign of mass deportations and further announcements this week (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYmReuRpSYFBpDdEYCenKdgOzbqUIMlUT4vHf 1WfOG0CVn2Sbgi9zBDyPGXWR9LiiIPT-XDG8yiR2QwZsbzPDKNgKetStBEymw4lDvIlGYC4vMHCcSsLo1i KkAsGBI0ML89eUG3QjizhoQtAvfaUeTT3pJGYi_hLa3L4zZQyg GUNNh2KR_IW0CWrgb-spEIRr6Om24bSbHIwFXpxrPRrRSVsRK_GrVKH3SJI0ITgKEyKN Aeb5oYZ2p9cht_zWpnXEGUmj-YB5_yYu654C5VDYteKdrhUIho33ThtNKl5gAHahZPmjrhW7Ll_ i_QbaGqaHACloJnr2RYYXh0TIhvrMpEk=&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==) feel like the inauguration of an Orwelian world.

From the Nakba (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYmReuRpSYFBpWAmWUeUmdV4q1PFwwMZ-ihFOwwjlytowbyLT1CllnK78x0e9FXDuwfQ8wo9CUoBk435Tsk Jiyxte39JHcfFJTAqqI-iy7oDUAr1YQvuQFj0_O-v6J05xB4wfsolqgtHRooKuus6r62Qvo10qYORvwMxMJToOet_b&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==) to the Intifada (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYmReuRpSYFBpVR_m-A89X3m9AAvli8AQIB-bRktSUVuIeNNqPPkcga5cdxARj4qAb9jYNuZKZ1LWpQka3EE7S 8mN7VmUVROM2_Hnv2oImlGfQEz3Dy9c7XGzoLny0M6DVM7_dw4 gEXSSVvOkNm_U-k8ThCK2xedPZnjWbB0P-_EqYcn4VpiWXitbOWh0bzu4G6mKAvI1T0rHOCqzqckYRi_KFFC lxC2M-gHm7W-cSS8R&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==), Palestinians have a long and varied tradition of resistance, one that we can draw lessons from for the fight that is ahead in the U.S., not just in these coming months and years of Trump's term, but into the administrations to follow. We need a strong grassroots community-based civil society in order to create lasting fundamental social change in this country whether under an Obama or a Trump. In building on the momentum generated early and planning for the long run strategically, we can draw from the decades-long and inspiring history of resistance by the Palestinian people as well as the role of solidarity that Rachel Corrie exemplified.

Read Full Statement (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYmReuRpSYFBpN7wzxRcpYSd3dMmLqYE59Mnq TCyCMbuC5KZQmqcJ40r1so0hpnClqBb3MnYPXjHCy5i58grPLA 1KmbIpBNmFV818m3ekczycyOmC_I6fwTCr3Mqzy7GKAF-JeXnmDGkZ-3XTrN40Lf4uDkk4NL-ymwZeUlPSLrMhojt4Zta2BIzWfQbCmL_4FwykKjn3xGRAXxwJO 5fDKOvLVL1dMNJfqw==&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==)


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Take Action!

1. Resist the shared agenda of Bibi & Trump who will meet in Washington, February 15th. Take action and watch the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights video #BadRomance here (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYmReuRpSYFBpCjqc3dPT5Apx3JYrDPlz8ZJd s0Y9vA3BMZhpAPiaq--TntrfrLLBlQgvuMr_AVVCluC8V73SPHYwJ5hn1WOqyXyWAzNpm FKItGABssJHPUy2eG6V0sicO-lbd16DxlgXmsPM_8RKkD8=&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==).

2. #NoDAPL Week of Action (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYmReuRpSYFBphPmYZztPu2gP61WPnF1viPma KLoVMMb5fa8a3uNqlEJ2hs9VMTMVOeNGybP64MjM9C91FX6szR oQNRKWRWAQW-E6K5cemc4uhPOL3P8VVL3I9PMlEbYZ8Q==&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==) February 12-17th. There are many ways to respond to the call for global solidarity form the indigenous leadership at Standing Rock.

3. Click here (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYmReuRpSYFBpf8cNYWx3ILCFBgQZrW8f6XWw PUpz0Hw5wzDLBzQkIeVD1A8jhw_uWVQvC7SOZZ1urzeQCuiBVW CdGq1vyUKbb9SWqx_cpuy578T7sCHvjk-FYomWqb0x3HKteAedwJhhtgwCeJoXr_nlF1WHIQxpp-oCY-tFbqqp&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==) for a comprehensive #MuslimBan resource guide created by the Palestinian Youth Movement among others.

Electronic Intifada publishes report on fight against Anti-BDS and anti-Free Speech Legislation

Washington State is one of the focal points for the fight against anti-BDS and anti-free speech legislation spreading in the US since 2016. Local organizers and activists including members of the RCF community are on the frontline of confronting this nation-wide phenomenon targeting those working for social justice in Palestine, particularly students. Individuals have joined to form the Free Speech Washington (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYoQ_pf8tng_Wx8DMl2csIFmf-j6mJWKgK9jiu3uac2womziXe_iUbsOGlimcX-_tk7D_3S8yir0oLaTYhpNXLQw186EuOF_HlDAWkXaWCzONkH_z mx5uLr3JGZXJkptwGw==&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==), a group to defend the right to boycott.

In the EI piece published on Thursday, Nora Barrows-Friedman quoted Cindy Corrie: "In whatever form they take, all of these efforts are intended to stop speech on this issue and to limit our ability to utilize BDS as a response to injustices that we're seeing."

Read the article by Nora Barrows-Friedman on EI. (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYoQ_pf8tng_WMg4__ncrA3d0SmVQ22m4F63y XBrb1--h3mS7GWyQtrITsU7L-dra758JviGSQEKlx5wVVx-s0PVGDyLcQ2kl7_5sfNpucPoot6nEP_8094TjMqq6zFSrAkXBK pec1La3PNhcrbcRk2PPFKlnaPijJzx4JJB6zpn_uR77xSFvPQI A3PM6roSxh0Se8653CgYh5aiINgIKKk5jf9DSt13fqN9f4UDSq hVM&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==)

In a BDS win over the weekend, Seattle NFL star Michael Bennett issued an inspiring statement (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYmReuRpSYFBp-wGrFKNln9luVYuyb2QgriwEfLOMxjf06HAteZeU1mGIGQwXVOY mxVyXEyE6w5kpY6xTSbX11gr2uM_rgWiRK6h--WjQA5OmaYM2SGFNP_o25zQmM9Hlib6tE0GJdblwLv96CVvfpkr HIi_SC575AMD6rc_Y2dA6CijEmK9e85YLNXAFDtW_gygypc69O aNV&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==) that he will not join a propaganda trip to Israel this month. He wrote: "There is no partial commitment to justice. You are either in or you're out." Well, I'm in.

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My Name is Rachel Corrie
Community Discussion held Saturday, 11 February

Over the weekend in Olympia, WA, Harlequin Productions held the final weekend of their show (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYoQ_pf8tng_W83H_OPwAo6k1C57t2LEWJ3Mw 9aihWM-HrciOPveiP-Cc7JUcbXUAeRe_X7wZy3tqbRNldkbmrBGr3LFdxI4doMR6uzf-vXsKhSZzzxhBhFI9WXdYi3kTdqTinmAl97xvduc59LejZWwNxX wetLR8BV_SaWVGnnHIMq7ggOMmiZI=&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==): My Name is Rachel Corrie. RCF participated in culminating community discussion (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYoQ_pf8tng_WLi4nPhPnfFDehjkB6F-6uY88p-ISMIIx8pantuBkxEZXjQgGWT9BuFgwAkj8gKadqjsA6jACjwwp FE-UNcEZ5FzUsjJePmfhlJudl6GcpOPjULK8ySspyuhmSg9DRQsd6 ecXU6kdcimx4_jhp1tI7K-Q0kszgcqODKHoz_JytsI=&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==) of questions raised by the play and Rachel's story on Saturday, February 11th.

Read what local educators of the January 18th (http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001pIBfseCtQPeO13UweaPT1esnSIcHqofzkvNZbQ Ozw4HcYhkforXUYni7xwMp2dICDdm1KEi6rdD6hVdh8e7sfd5x ljnwxeWawGum2s526qOsmLqJTPaVEoCz5-RbGE3EzXb0wTcWaLe5abahZFNgXrEkAtpiOGR9RIQdWp4KWLGr _aU6DFqmBumoe5vMc9gQdkuGQaYQ_lwWSJV9lQjUCe-Y3ILCoTKk6bZZXbxoCSiN1Y5WpIXh_eJ72g75l6_YJc3b4CE26 lWJEgdt8iHuPYqFA4IdwvE9&c=95RifxGIAQtqaTQYUBYh1kk-ToIxr6XEzTiql7dpqXUrxCFm_5flYg==&ch=XAKTEzOCyMB9mfo78IX-LE03RumBvuX3m2EMeNAuF34n6oFsb97fJg==) final dress rehearsal of the show had to say:

We are reading Rachel's work this quarter, looking at how one writes well about inequality and human rights violations, and this couldn't have been more wonderful. The students had a vibrant open to their quarter as they proceed on their own journeys of advocacy.
- Local Educator

As the years go on since Rachel's passing, I think it's especially important to keep renewing and deepening our understanding of her story, the continuing struggles of the Corrie family and the special Olympia-Rafah connection.
- Local Educator

Our families got a lot out of it, and were then able to discuss further in the family setting.
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Have you joined us in calling on FIFA to #RedCardIsrael?


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Israel allows six teams based in illegal settlements to play in its national football league

Over 4,000 people have already joined us in calling on FIFA to take action on Israeli settlement teams participating in official Israeli leagues. We've just received information that FIFA may delay action indefinitely due to Israeli influence. This makes our pressure on FIFA more important than ever. Please write to FIFA now and help us promote this action with others.

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The UN, Human Rights Watch, parliamentarians, lawyers, campaigners and Palestinians have all urged FIFA to respect international law. They have asked FIFA to respect its own regulations and prevent teams based in illegal settlements from participating in its official leagues.

By failing to take action against the Israeli Football Association for including these illegal settlement-based teams, FIFA is complicit in Israel’s violation of international law, and is allowing Israel to use “the beautiful game” to whitewash its war crimes and forced displacement of Palestinians.

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AMP staffers arrested for disrupting Friedman confirmation hearing


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Kareem El-Hosseiny and Taher Herzallah of AMP, along with members of Code Pink and If Not Now, were arrested for disrupting the Friedman hearing yesterday. Watch the video (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Dy2hsFIFYAvDFSJzAnIXpyFdJRlB3H4Y).

AMP staffers, others, arrested for disrupting Friedman confirmation hearing at Senate Foreign Relations Committee
(WASHINGTON DC 02/17/2017) -- Capitol Police arrested two staff members from the American Muslims for Palestine after they disrupted confirmation hearings for David Friedman, President Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel, at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday.

During Friedman's remarks, Kareem El-Hosseiny, AMP’s government affairs coordinator, and Taher Herzallah, associate director of outreach and community organizing, stood up, holding Palestinian flags, and loudly protested the bankruptcy lawyer's pro-settlement and anti-Palestinian bias.

They were joined by members of Code Pink and If Not Now. In total, Capitol Police arrested six people.

“Friedman is very open about his pro-settlement stance and his willingness to support the annexation of these settlements into Israel,” said El-Hosseiny. “Several former American envoys have publicly stated that Friedman is unfit for the role of Ambassador to Israel because of his ‘extreme positions,’ that make him ‘unqualified for the position.”

El-Hosseiny was referring to a letter signed by five former ambassadors (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IaIOs24%2FcSkLNHLj6JL1piFdJRlB3H4Y) to Israel that was sent to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asking members to reject Friedman’s nomination. They suggested Friedman would not uphold decades of U.S. foreign policy in the region.

AMP has taken several actions to block Friedman’s confirmation, including having supporters email their senators and call Sens. Bob Corker and Ben Cardin, foreign relations committee chairman and ranking member, respectively. At last count, hundreds of people have taken action.

Friedman has no diplomatic experience and holds biased views on the Middle East that favor the extremist settler movement. The New York Times editorial board has said Friedman would be “far more likely to provoke conflict in Israel and the occupied territories, heighten regional tensions and undermine American leadership.”

AMP agrees. Friedman is the president of American Friends of Bet El Yeshiva, a pro-settlement organization that raises money for Beit El, a settlement near the Palestinian city of Ramallah. Contrary to decades of U.S. policy that views settlements as illegal, illegitimate and an obstacle to peace, Friedman supports expansionist policies and Israeli annexation of the West Bank. He also has vowed to serve as ambassador from the “U.S. embassy in Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem.”

U.S. policy has always viewed settlements as illegal and illegitimate, a position backed up with the December 2016 UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which confirmed Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem have “no legal validity.” The resolution, which passed on 14 votes and the historic U.S. abstention, also does not recognize land annexed by Israel into Jerusalem outside the June 4, 1967 lines.

“We felt strongly that Friedman is so wrong for this position that we were willing to engage in civil disobedience,” Herzallah said. “He is bad for Palestinians and he’s bad for America’s national interests. We need to get this message across.”

The two staffers, along with other activists, were released with various civil disobedience charges.

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http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/david-friedman-hearing-protest-israel
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Our trip to the US/Mexico Wall


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Dear Chris,

This past weekend, the staff and steering committee of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights held one of our biannual in-person meetings in San Diego, California. We gathered in the southwest corner of the United States to review strategic and programmatic planning for the year and beyond. While we had chosen the location of this meeting last summer, being in San Diego at this particular moment turned out to be especially important.

As we discussed how to advance the agenda for Palestinian rights, members of immigrant communities near and far were fearing and resisting a rash of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids launched that very weekend (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=VsjYuDXbehrxl8KYmW7qN4YFqil0R7Dn). We were reminded that even as we work for the rights of Palestinians who are abused, divided and oppressed by the machinations of Israeli government policy 10,000 miles away, there were families -- some even blocks away -- who were bracing for the possibility that state agents may burst into their homes in the middle of the night and forcibly separate parents from their children.

For months, we had planned to take the short ride from San Diego down to the US/Mexico border to meet and learn from human rights activists focused on immigrant rights and see for ourselves what is happening at the border. There, through a thick iron mesh wall, we watched (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SbQqR84Rwsz93dUO22SnUoYFqil0R7Dn) as mothers on the Mexican side prayed to be reunited with their daughters and as family members divided by this metallic monstrosity sat next to each other on opposite sides, cherishing the limited moments they had together before border patrol agents slammed shut the doors to the visitation area. As we watched these scenes before us, we could not help but feel we had seen them before and for some among us we could not help but recognize we had lived them before.

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All of this came amidst the heightened, hateful, political rhetoric that characterized Trump's presidential campaign and was quickly put into practice in recent weeks. Days after our trip to the border wall, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be meeting with President Trump in the White House. Netanyahu, who has made a career out of using fear to justify the imposition of abusive security policies, has lent enthusiastic support to Trump even as much of the world was appalled at orders to build bigger walls and ban Syrian refugees and many Muslim immigrants. In turn, Trump pointed to Israel's walls, which carve up Palestinian land and deny entry to refugees, as justification for his own policies.

While the situations are unique, the parallels are undeniable. Seeing the situation at the border with our own eyes was an important reminder of the urgent need to recognize the connectivity between people around the world whose dignity and humanity are threatened by state violence. Likewise, it is important to recognize the connectivity between those state agents of violence. While Trump and Netanyahu mutually reinforce each other's policies (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jc%2FPB1%2B0G64fNQdY%2BAsrHoYFqil0R7Dn), the Israeli company Elbit systems manages technology for both the US and Israeli walls, and Magal, the Israeli company which helped encage Gaza and build an illegal wall in the West Bank, is bidding on contracts to build an even bigger wall on the US/Mexico border. That project is reportedly going to cost US taxpayers over $20 billion -- no wonder Magal's stock has seen an unprecedented 62% increase in value since election day.

As we march on with our work for Palestinian rights, we do so with a redoubled focus on the connectivity between systems of oppression and the connectivity between those resisting oppression. Help us continue our work through this intersectional approach. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PNmjkELBMf%2BUcDaoUEkbm4YFqil0R7Dn) We encourage others to join us as we continue to investigate these connected systems to sharpen our analysis and commitment to each other and collective liberation.

Onward,

US Campaign Staff -- Yousef, Tamar, Ramah, Anna, Josh, and Karl

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Hi everyone-- We are organizing a rally in Dallas in support of Palestine and protesting AIPAC next month. The details are still being finalized, but here is the event page: facebook/events/668657573259525/ We need as many leftists as possible to come out and support. Palestine's liberation is deeply tied to all causes leftists care about.

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Oscars Celebrities #SkipTheTrip to Israel!


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Dear Chris,

We couldn’t wait to share this exciting news with you.

With the Academy Awards fast approaching this Sunday, it’s been a full year since Israel offered all-expenses-paid trips to 2016 Oscars host Chris Rock and 25 top nominees including Mark Ruffalo, Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Matt Damon, Mark Rylance, and Cate Blanchett. The Israeli tourism ministry organized the trip with hopes that the superstars would use their platforms to show Israel in a positive light, countering worldwide outrage over Israel’s oppression of Palestinians.

So what happened? It was an utter failure. One year later, it appears that not a single star visited Israel. Last night, the AFP wire service ran this extraordinary headline appearing in many media outlets, “Israel invited 26 Oscar stars to visit. So far none has. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=plmXJJm5tdJ4%2BscDbbfiVZh0a9LsX3Xw)”

Bringing celebrities to Israel has long been part of a "Brand Israel" strategy to improve the country’s image abroad. As Israeli tourism minister Yariv Levin explained last year, “These are the most senior people in the film industry in Hollywood and leading opinion-formers who we are interested in hosting. Their visit will have enormous resonance among millions of fans and followers, including social media.” But as of this week, the Israeli tourism ministry would not confirm any visits by the stars, and there was no evidence of trips on social media.

It seems that the harder Israel tries to improve its image, the worse it fails. Yesterday’s news comes on the heels of former Super Bowl star Michael Bennett and several other NFL stars (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TN0PWvmtY63Y6PrEtzn2Kph0a9LsX3Xw) also choosing to #SkipTheTrip that they were offered by Israel.

Far from achieving their desired effect, these propaganda trips give us an opportunity to create broader awareness about the Israeli government's brutal policies and attempts to whitewash them. While not every celebrity will turn down such offers, our cultural boycott campaigns are ensuring that every celebrity facing the choice must now consider the Israeli government’s cynical motivations and the impact on Palestinian communities struggling to survive.

That’s why days after the Oscars trips were announced last February, the US Campaign helped organize a coalition of Palestinian, Israeli, European, and U.S. organizations to launch a #SkipTheTrip (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CwEtmqFC7EDA3ro5qU6d9qFxYbG0y2wo) campaign including a petition to the stars, individual letters to actors, and a comprehensive social media strategy. The dynamic campaign included creative memes, a comical video (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nRu8uA9bu1kNdljttEh0Sph0a9LsX3Xw), and a satirical invitation from the legendary Brian Eno highlighting the types of “holiday” experiences one could have visiting Palestine like being interrogated, tear-gassed, beaten, and shot at.

Our efforts caught the attention of the Academy, which quickly distanced itself from the gift bags that included the trip and filed a lawsuit against the company that put them together. Then, when we tried to place an ad with member group Jewish Voice for Peace in Variety -- the most important paper in the entertainment industry -- calling on performers to #SkipTheTrip, we were censored! We were not about to be stopped. We called out Variety’s double standard and placed a full-page ad in the LA Times, generating headlines worldwide.

In the end, Israel’s big Oscars outreach campaign to showbusiness ended up netting them a bunch of no-shows instead.

Congratulations to everyone whose efforts led to the wonderful headline we got to read this morning. And if you want to be a critical part of future successes like this one, please consider making a contribution to the US Campaign today. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eIzGLq1iNOv%2BXQV6mXykIph0a9LsX3Xw)

With gratitude,





RAMAH KUDAIMI
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ANNA BALTZER
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Take Action: Palestinian's Rights To Jerusalem


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Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | February 23rd, 2017 – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) calls on all community members to take immediate action against H.R.257 - Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel Act (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3n4AipOxLx1KkotIjTNCvDrGgvLCyRSy). The Bill would change longstanding US policy by recognizing Jerusalem as the official Capital of Israel. Additionally, the Bill would move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. It is necessary you contact your elected officials and advocate against the passing of this legislative measure.

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The Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel Act would:

• Recognize Jerusalem as the undivided Capital of Israel. East Jerusalem is considered occupied Palestinian territory under international law, and any attempts to exercise jurisdiction over its entirety is illegal. Every US President has refused to recognize Jerusalem as the official Capital of Israel. The bill makes no mention of Palestinians and Arabs, and only mentions a Jewish historical right to the land while omitting that Palestinian Arabs have lived there for centuries.

• Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. All foreign embassies in Israel, including the US Embassy are located in Tel Aviv because of the disputed nature of Jerusalem. This move will signal a further diplomatic shift away from supporting Palestinian statehood.


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Dear Chris,

Did you watch the confirmation hearing two weeks ago for David Friedman, Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to Israel? If not, check out our three-minute highlight video of the protests, and Senators grilling Friedman over his anti-Palestinian views here (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sXmchTT3bDmWUNhaXBHNC8%2Bz03dex4KQ)! For those who don’t know, David Friedman is actively involved in funding illegal Israeli settlements, opposes Palestinian rights, and peddles Islamophobic conspiracy theories.

The campaign we and others have mounted against Friedman has grown tremendously over the past few weeks. Because of the great work from supporters like you, Chris, the Senators at the hearing felt emboldened to put pressure on Friedman. There were so many great things said at the hearing-- here are just a few snippets:

“We aren’t going away, Mr. Friedman. We were there, we are there now, and we will always be there. Palestinians will always be in Palestine!”--Taher Herzallah, American Muslims for Palestine

“You have no problem calling my actions anti-Semitic even if you believe that in my heart, I have no desire to discriminate against Jews?”--Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)

“Do you believe that the life of a Palestinian child is of the same value as the life of a Jewish child?”--Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)

“I’ve heard troubling stories from Arab Americans who say they have experienced discrimination by Israeli authorities at the Israeli border, for no other reason than they have Arab last names...How would you as ambassador address that concern?”--Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

"Having a military presence in the West Bank ad infinitum--forever--by Israel is really something different than a two state solution."--Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN)

“And the U.S. could never support a solution where Palestinians are deprived of equal rights...correct?”--Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)

“I am strongly opposed to this nominee...Mr. Friedman is completely unfit for this, or any other, diplomatic office…”--Senator Tom Udall (D-NM)

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Chris, the fight is not over yet. We have started an online petition targeted towards the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as we expect it to vote on Friedman’s nomination as early as tomorrow. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=D6GHlCtcYo0alCDdyJzUz8%2Bz03dex4KQ) Our goal is to get 10,000 signatures. We, along with our member groups Jewish Voice for Peace and Codepink, will deliver the petitions to Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), the Chair and Ranking Member of the committee, before the vote. Between JVP and Codepink, there are over 30,000 signatures. Now let’s make it 40,000!

Sign this petition now to Senators Corker and Cardin encouraging them, and the rest of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, to vote no on David Friedman. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aFp8kQ6UAMXc35NVtbrmIM%2Bz03dex4KQ)

You can read more about why we oppose Friedman in our policy memo here (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=815Yx7ox1UFaKsuQp8cc8M%2Bz03dex4KQ). Thank you for taking action!

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Dear Chris,

"I oppose David Friedman because he's directly insulted me, my family, and community in his vitriolic comments about progressive Jews. I reject Friedman because every year I visit Palestine and see that the Jewish-only settlements have increased in both number and size, stealing more and more land from Palestinians, in part due to the financial and political support from Friedman." —Tali Ruskin, CODEPINKer causing disruption during David Friedman's Senate hearing.

Two weeks ago we disrupted David Friedman’s confirmation hearing (http://www.codepink.org/codepink_protests_netanyahu_and_david_friedman?e=2 47b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friedmanpal_1&n=2) to be the next U.S. ambassador. Friedman has raised millions of dollars for Israel’s illegal settlements and gives a green light for an increase in settler violence. Friedman wants to destroy the Iran nuclear deal, move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, and denies that Palestinian refugees exist. He is so right-wing (http://www.codepink.org/david_friedman?e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friedmanpal_1&n=3) and toxic that he makes Netanyahu look like a liberal centrist!

Sign our petition (http://www.codepink.org/davidfriedman?e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friedmanpal_1&n=4) opposing Friedman! We will be delivering our petition signatures this week along with our partners Jewish Voice for Peace, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and others.

Our own Ariel Gold is on the ground right now in Palestine. On Friday she and a group of US Veterans for Peace attended a nonviolent demonstration (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmondoweiss.net%2F2017%2F02%2Fisra eli-nonviolent-protestors%2F&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friedmanpal_1&n=5) to end the closure, restriction, and separations in Hebron — the very definition of Israeli apartheid. The Israeli military attacked them with massive force firing tear gas, stun grenades, and more directly at them. Ariel and others suffered so much tear gas inhalation they had assisted out by medics. Sign the petition (http://www.codepink.org/open_shuhada_street_to_all_people?e=247b6f0c69174e e7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friedmanpal_1&n=6) asking the UN to use all its power and influence to demand Israel end its system of segregation in Hebron.

Prior to the protest in Hebron, Issa Amro of Youth Against Settlement organized an action of shoe throwing (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Fpalestinian-protesters-throw-shoes-at-trump-poster%2Fvp-AAnk37h&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=friedmanpal_1&n=7) at a large picture of Donald Trump to show their disrespect for the racism and hatred he espouses, including his pick of David Friedman to be US ambassador to Israel. They received wide media coverage for their action.

We will continue to resist hatred, racism, and militarism, from David Friedman to Donald Trump to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

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You Helped Halt the Pro-Settlement Resolution S.Res.6!


Dear Chris,

In January we asked you to urge your Senators and Representatives to vote against S.Res.6/H.Res.11, resolutions condemning the UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which reiterated the illegality of Israeli settlements, and President Obama's decision to abstain from voting on it. This is a message to let you know that, due to your hard work calling and emailing your Senators and Representatives, S.Res.6, the Senate resolution, has been stalled!

According to this report (http://forward.com/fast-forward/361245/dick-durbin-blocks-senate-move-to-condemn-un-resolution-on-israeli-settleme/), as many as four Senators have placed a hold on S.Res.6, preventing it from getting a vote.

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) is the main Senator placing a hold on S.Res.6, so we encourage you to call his office and thank him for doing so. His Washington, D.C. office phone number is: 202.224.2152.

You can use this script: "My name is _____and I want to thank Senator Durbin for placing a hold on S.Res.6. This senate resolution would have upended fifty years of bipartisan opposition to illegal Israeli settlements and would have given Israel more cover to further its unfettered, illegal colonization of Palestinian land. Please convey my gratitude to Senator Durbin for this great move."

While the House resolution passed, with a record 80 Representatives opposed, the Senate version getting stalled is quite an achievement. Because of your hard work and persistence, this awful resolution has been stalled for the foreseeable future.

We just wanted to let you know that your efforts have worked!

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Tamar Ghabin
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Will Senator Cardin oppose Friedman?


Dear Chris,

From the new Muslim Ban to the Republicans’ health care plan, this week is another leg of our marathon to stand up to the most inhumane elements of the Trump agenda. And we have another task to add:

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At least two Democrats on the committee have committed to vote against Friedman’s appointment - and I think ranking member Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) can get there too.

No matter what state you live in - this is a national and obviously an international issue. Cardin needs to hear from all of us, because letting Friedman get into office would hurt all of us.

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Just to recap the low-lights of his resume:


- He has no diplomatic experience.

- He’s a long-time fundraiser for one of the most notorious illegal Israeli settlements.

- He is on the record calling American Jews who support peace “kapos” and saying harmful things about Palestinians, Muslims, and elected officials in the US.


If Senator Cardin comes out against Friedman’s divisive worldview and dangerous inexperience, it could unite centrist Democrats with other progressive leaders - notably Senators Bernie Sanders and Al Franken, two progressive Jewish leaders who seem ready to get more outspoken on our issue - for a fight against Trump’s nomination of David Friedman.

This is about our core, minimum responsibility in this political moment: to help make sure Palestinian human rights are clearly defined within the progressive agenda, at a time when extremist anti-Palestinian ideologues are ascendant in the Federal government.

Yesterday both the US and Israel issued travel bans with disastrous impacts. Israel passed a bill barring non-Israeli citizens who support the nonviolent tactics of boycott, divestment, and sanctions to advocate for Palestinians human rights from entering the country. This bill not only bars me from entering Israel, but could also prevent thousands of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza from seeking medical care or visiting their families in Israel, already an extremely difficult feat.

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Joseph


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A Salute to Women & Take Action for the Abuelaish Family

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Remember and Support the Abuelaish Family
Seeking accountability March 15th - Trial in Beersheba

During the three-week 2008-2009 Israeli assault on the people of Gaza, more than 1,400 Palestinians were killed and 5,300 injured. A third of the casualties were children. Among the tragedies is the story of the Abuelaish family.

Four women and girls from the same family: Bessan 21, Mayar 15, Aya 13 and Nour 17, were killed by indiscriminate Israeli shelling of their home in the Jabaliya refugee camp on 16 January 2009.

Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, father to three of the girls killed and uncle to the fourth, has filed a lawsuit against the Israeli government in pursuit of basic accountability. On March 15th and 19th, 2017, he will testify along with his surviving two daughters, Shatha and Rafah, at the Bir al-Sabe' (Beersheba) Israeli District Court. As we remember Bessan, Mayar, Aya, and Noor and their family members, we encourage you to learn about their case and provide what public support you can. Look for more information coming from the RCF.

Gaza doctor writes book of hope despite death of three daughters, 15 August 2010
Gaza doctor seeks justice in Israeli court, 17 February 2017

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ADDAMEER AND CODEPINK: 55 Palestinian Women and Girls In Israel Prisons on International Women's Day


07 March 2017


ADDAMEER AND CODEPINK: 55 PALESTINIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS IN ISRAELI PRISONS ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

This International Women’s Day, there are 55 Palestinian females held in Israeli prisons and detention centers, including 12 female children and 2 administrative detainees held without charge or trial. Among these female prisoners and detainees, 16 are mothers of 58 children. In total, 42 are held in HaSharon Prison and 13 are held in Damon Prison. Both of these prisons are located inside Israel in contravention with the Forth Geneva Convention which prohibits the transfer of the population from the occupied territory.


ARREST AND DETENTION OF PALESTINIAN WOMEN AND GIRLS

Since the beginning of the occupation 50 years ago in 1967, over 10,000 Palestinian women have been arrested and detained by Israeli occupation forces. In 2017, Palestinian women and girls are routinely arrested from the streets, Israeli military checkpoints, and during violent night raids on their homes during military incursions accompanied with the presence of Israeli soldiers, intelligence officers, and police dogs, during which destruction of household items and property damage takes place. They are blindfolded and their hands are tied, and are forcibly taken to a military jeep.

Marah Bakeer, a 16-year-old girl from the city of Jerusalem, was arrested on 10 October 2015, after she was shot 10 times in her left arm by Israeli forces. She was later transferred in a degrading manner by an ambulance to Hadassah Ein Karem, while she was left with her body exposed despite her repeated requests to cover her body. Marah was subsequently taken to a hospital room, with her hand and leg tied to the bed, with the presence of two male guards, who cursed her and her mother. One of the guards told her to die, and another guard took a ‘selfie’ with her against her will. Marah insisted that she had no intent to carry out an attack – which is corroborated by video recordings at the scene that indicate that she was unarmed – contrary to claims of Israeli prosecution. Despite this, in January 2017, Marah was sentenced by an Israeli court to 8 years and a half years in prison.


INTERROGATION

Upon being taken to interrogation and detention centers, female Palestinian detainees are routinely denied an explanation of their rights and the reason for their arrests. Often, they are denied attorney access, and held for several days under interrogation where they are subjected to torture and ill treatment. The methods of torture and ill treatment used against female Palestinian prisoners cause severe physical and mental suffering. Interrogation methods include prolonged isolation from the outside world, inhuman detention conditions, excessive use of blindfolds and handcuffs, sleep deprivation, denial of food and water for extended periods, denial of access to toilets, denial of access to showers or change of clothes for days or weeks, being forced into stress positions, yelling, insults and cursing, and sexual harassment.

22-year-old prisoner S.A. described her interrogation in Al-Moscobiyeh in an affidavit given to Addameer Attorney Mona Naddaf at Damon prison on 07/06/2016. She explained that after being arrested from her apartment in Abu Dis during a raid on 04/19/2016 at approximately 3:30 AM, she was subjected to shouting, being placed in shabah stress positions, sleep deprivation, prolonged interrogation sessions, threats of raiding her home, threats of assassinations, and threats of arrests of family members and friends. S.A, who was denied access to an attorney for 18 days also recounted that if her eyes would close due to sleep deprivation, the interrogator would hit the table in front of her or shout loudly to prevent her from sleeping. She also recounted:

“At the end of the investigation on this [particular] day, the interrogator ‘Reno’ told me that he would stay with me all night, and then he tied my hands behind the back of the chair with strapped restrictions on the chair I sat in, and I was kept in this position from 10:00 PM to 4:30 AM.”[1]


DEGRADING TRANSFERS

Palestinian girls and women in Israeli detention are subjected to an exhausting and degrading transfer process between the place of their arrest, and the interrogation or detention center, and from their prison to and from the court. They are placed in painfully uncomfortable seating, after being placed in a mavar, a cage-like holding place before the time of their transport. An affidavit of 16 year-old N.S. taken by Addameer attorney Mona Naddaf on 28 July 2017 described her experience:

“On April 28th, 2016, The Nahshon Unit soldier asked me to take off my clothes and my shoes, but it was very painful for me to do because of my injuries that were not yet healed, and another detainee … tried to help but the soldier would not let her… then came the restraints… My feet were cuffed and when they wanted to cuff my hands I was trying to tell her my hands are still injured and that it was too painful, but she did not listen to me and pulled the cuffs on my injured arm… We left HaSharon at 2.30 AM and were taken a vehicle with the Nahshon … there was an iron cell inside... it was so hot… we got to Ramlah in the morning… We waited in Ramlah for a long time… between two and three hours… we were then taken to an uncomfortable cell with a low metal bar… The driver was driving fast causing me to hit the wall of the cell, causing more pain to the wounds.”[2]


FEMALE PALESTINIANS IN CONTEXT OF OCCUPATION

Israel is accountable for its actions in the occupied territories, including West Bank military checkpoints, particularly the ill treatment of women during arrests and transfers. Article 12 of General Recommendation 28 by the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women on the Core Obligations of States Parties states that:

“Although subject to international law, States primarily exercise territorial jurisdiction. The obligations of States parties apply, however, without discrimination both to citizens and non-citizens, including refugees, asylum-seekers, migrant workers and stateless persons, within their territory or effective control, even if not situated within the territory. States parties are responsible for all their actions affecting human rights, regardless of whether the affected persons are in their territory.”[3]

In its General Recommendation No. 30 on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations, the Committee confirms the aforementioned paragraph, stating, “… the obligations of States parties also apply extraterritorially to persons within their effective control, even if not situated within their territory, and that States parties are responsible for all their actions affecting human rights, regardless of whether the affected persons are in their territory”. [4]

Testimonies by Palestinian women and girls highlight the brutality of the arrest process as well as conditions inside Israeli interrogation, detention and prison centers, and even hospitals while in custody. The abuse, ill treatment, and torture of Palestinian women and girls take place within the context of ongoing occupation of 50 years and annexation of Palestinian lands. In the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against women, States Parties emphasize “that the eradication of apartheid, all forms of racism, racial discrimination, colonialism, neo-colonialism, aggression, foreign occupation and domination and interference in the internal affairs of States is essential to the full enjoyment of the rights of men and women”. [5]


RECOMMENDATIONS

- The United Nations and all States Parties call upon Israel to respect, uphold and strive to surpass the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against women, and UN Security Council Resolution 1325, in regulating the treatment of women and girls during interrogation and detention, and their lives of women and girls in prison.

- States Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention call for an end to physical and psychological abuse in the hands of soldiers during the arrests of Palestinian women and girls and their illegal detention in occupying territory, accountability and sanctions.

- States Parties call for an end to the practices of physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment of Palestinian women under interrogation.

- States Parties to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against women call upon Israel to develop a gender-sensitive policy for the treatment of Palestinian female prisoners.

- States Parties, women’s organizations, and human rights organizations call for the immediate release of female prisoners and an end to their ill treatment


[1] Affidavit to Addameer Attorney Mona Naddaf at Damon prison on 07/06/2016 with 22-year-old prisoner S.A.

[2] Affidavit taken by Addameer attorney Mona Naddaf on 28 July 2017 with prisoner N.S.

[3] UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General Recommendation No. 28 on the Core Obligations of States Parties under Article 2 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, 16 December 2010, CEDAW/C/GC/28.

[4] UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), General recommendation No. 30 on women in conflict prevention, conflict and post-conflict situations, 1 November 2013, CEDAW/C/GC/30, paragraph 8.

[5] UN General Assembly, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 18 December 1979, United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1249, p. 13.



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(WASHINGTON DC 03/10/2017) – In a 12-9 vote that went mostly along party lines, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve the nomination of David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel on Thursday. The issue will go before the full Senate for a final vote.

All Democrats on the committee, except New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez voted against the nomination. Ranking member Ben Cardin of Maryland told the committee he would not be able to support the nomination because of Friedman’s “divisive, inflammatory, and offensive statements,” saying he could not “credibly” represent the United States.

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AMP condemns Israeli bill banning the call to prayer

(WASHINGTON DC 03/10/2017) – The Israeli Knesset on Wednesday passed (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WXWMeK6%2FGnbhSAzyr493dPg0OzS6hUFA) the first reading of a bill that would ban the use of loudspeakers to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. This draft, referred to as the “softer version,” was one of two bills lawmakers considered. The other, introduced by the extremist, right-wing Yisrael Beytenu party, would have banned the adhan outright.

The American Muslims for Palestine condemns both measures as an assault on religious freedom in general and on Palestinian Muslims in particular. While the draft bill targets all ‘houses of prayer,’ it makes allowances for the siren that announces the Jewish observance of the Sabbath on Friday evenings.

Israeli Knesset member MK Moti Yogev said he introduced his bill to protect people – including Muslims – from the “noise” of the adhan, a position AMP finds reprehensible.

“The Muslim call to prayer is a tradition that’s no different from Christian churches ringing bells to call worshipers to prayer or mass, or the siren used to pronounce the start of the Sabbath in the Jewish faith,” said Dr. Osama Abuirshaid, AMP national policy director. “If Israel is truly the only so-called democracy in the Middle East, this bill once again proves otherwise.”

The bill will now go to committee and eventually to the full Knesset for a vote. A timeline has not been set.

AMP calls on the U.S. State Department to intervene to ensure Israel does not interfere with the free practice of religion. If this bill eventually becomes law, AMP is asking for the State Department to designate it as a human rights violation and include it in its annual international religious freedom report.


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Issa Amro Should Be Free.

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Dear Chris,

Palestinian human rights defender, Issa Amro, is facing 18 politically-motivated charges in Israeli military courts.

As Israel ramps up its repressive campaign against Palestinians, human rights defenders--those documenting, speaking, and organizing against Israel's oppressive policies--are one of its first targets. And Issa Amro, community leader and co-founder of the Hebron-based Youth Against Settlements, is no stranger to being a target of Israeli efforts to silence his activism.

Palestinians face a conviction rate of 99.74% in Israeli military courts, which is why we, and our member groups at Codepink, Jewish Voice for Peace, Interfaith Peace Builders, and others, are petitioning United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein to pressure Israel to drop the charges against Issa (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JCsVaW4apkXUDVD74QZ8jSGM43Dl5PxE).

Under Israeli military occupation, Palestinians are forbidden from partaking in almost every form of political expression. The ridiculous charges against Issa range from "insulting a soldier" to "gathering without permission." They reek of political persecution as clear as day.

The work of Issa and Youth Against Settlements has been internationally recognized, and more importantly, it is incredibly effective in fostering and building Palestinian community and resistance in Hebron, a place where Israeli apartheid, oppression, and occupation is often at its worst and most violent. Israel wants to lock up Issa because he is a powerful community leader and organizer against Israeli apartheid, and therefore a threat to the Israeli status quo.

Chris, help keep Issa free and able to do his incredible work. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cMLxWETRRQwK3ImycbdauiGM43Dl5PxE) After you have signed the petition, share it on Facebook (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3Q09By7pv0627u7Xu1dCqyGM43Dl5PxE) & Twitter (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uDunV3L8Ai8f7HQZPKHdICGM43Dl5PxE) so we can get as many signatures as possible before the official start of his trial on March 26!

Thank you for taking action to help one more Palestinian voice for freedom, justice, and equality!

Sincerely,




TAMAR GHABIN

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P.S.--Israel is once again targeting Omar Barghouti, another Palestinian human rights defender, and co-founder of the global boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. Click here to read a statement by the Palestinian BDS National Committee about the fabricated charges against him. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=g08tmYvmScF06qLdYdVRASGM43Dl5PxE)


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Refusing Settler Colonialism, From Turtle Island to Palestine (http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls344.php)


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Refusing Settler Colonialism, From Turtle Island to Palestine

The keynote event of Israeli Apartheid Week 2017 focused on articulating connections between ongoing struggles against settler colonial violence and dispossession across Turtle Island (North America) and in historic Palestine. The panelists reflected on the history and current state of these anti-colonial struggles.

Erica Violet Lee is a Nēhiyaw (Cree) writer, student, feminist, and community organizer from misâskwatôminihk (Saskatoon) and Thunderchild First Nation, on Treaty 6 Territory and Métis Homeland. Erica is an organizer with Idle No More, a YWCA Women of Distinction award recipient, an Iris Marion Young scholar, and she was part of the 2015 Canadian Youth Delegation to the United Nations Climate Conference. She has a blog named Moontime Warrior: Fearless Philosophizing, Embodied Resistance, where she writes on environmental racism, colonial borders, and the love, knowledge, and beauty found in the wastelands.

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BNC Statement on Israel's Ongoing Campaign to Silence Omar Barghouti and Repress BDS


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BNC Statement on Israel’s Ongoing Campaign to Silence Omar Barghouti and Repress BDS (http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/1388.php)

BDS National Committee

On the morning of Sunday, March 19, Israeli tax authorities barged into the home of Omar Barghouti, the prominent Palestinian human rights defender and co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for the freedom, justice and equality of the Palestinian people. They detained and interrogated Omar and his wife Safa for 16 hours that first day. Omar is currently enduring a fourth day of interrogation.

Below is the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee’s (BNC) response to these developments and the Israeli government’s systematic efforts to criminalize the BDS movement, intimidate activists and stop free speech...

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Oppose AIPAC Bills Attacking Iran Deal & Palestinian Human Rights


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Urge your reps. to oppose AIPAC bills that attack the Iran deal & Palestinian rights.

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Lobbyists with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee [AIPAC] are pressing Members of Congress to co-sponsor bills that attack the Iran nuclear agreement by imposing new sanctions on Iran [S.722 & H.R.1698] [1] and attack Palestinian self-determination by promoting Israeli settlements in the West Bank [S.720 & H.R.1697]. [2]

Urge your reps. to oppose these bills by signing our petition at MoveOn (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=d%2FOAS3nOVowlNamHbeNHHffrMfI%2BdSgW).

S.722 would designate part of Iran's military as a terrorist organization, which would obstruct contact between the U.S. and Iranian militaries. U.S. military leaders have opposed this move on the grounds that it would undermine the U.S. fight against ISIS in Iraq. [3]

S.720 & H.R.1697 would erase the distinction in U.S. law between Israel and Israeli settlements in the West Bank and make it illegal for U.S. companies to boycott or otherwise discriminate against Israeli settlements in the West Bank based on calls by the United Nations or the European Union. [4]

Urge your reps. to oppose these bills by signing and sharing our petition (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3wGK31RQeVYipz3%2FtkSpcffrMfI%2BdSgW).

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Will Trump Move the Embassy to Jerusalem?

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Dear Chris,

Did you hear what Vice President Mike Pence said at last month’s AIPAC policy conference? The Trump administration is still giving “serious consideration” to moving the US Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

And the decision to do so could be coming soon. In 1995, Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act, which mandates an embassy move unless the president signs a waiver every six months declaring that doing so would harm national security.

For the past 22 years, Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama signed the waiver and kept the US Embassy in Tel Aviv.

And for good reason. Moving the embassy would be tantamount to recognizing Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem, an act which would legitimize Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from West Jerusalem in 1948 and its denial of Palestinian refugee rights.

It would also legitimize Israel’s violations of international law in East Jerusalem since 1967, including demolishing Palestinian homes and building illegal settlements.

The most recently signed waiver expires at the end of May, after which the president will have to decide whether to extend it or begin the process of moving the embassy to Jerusalem—one of his signature campaign pledges.

Today we’re releasing a policy paper, Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem: Historical, Legal, and Policy Considerations (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Q8u2GYImy9QQkldG1MHPilDE1P6a%2FrWl), detailing the seven-decade-long bipartisan policy of not recognizing Israeli sovereignty over any portion of Jerusalem and laying out the case for why moving the embassy would be a grave mistake.

Click here (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wgyzd5SJg%2BFhjVHivJEPTVDE1P6a%2FrWl) or on the picture below to read the report.

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Did you know?

• The Truman administration wrote a detailed plan for the internationalization of Jerusalem
• The Nixon administration determined that East Jerusalem is under Israeli military occupation
• The Obama administration successfully argued before the Supreme Court that Congress cannot force the president to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

These are just a few of the many interesting facts we dug up from the archives and declassified documents. Check out the policy paper (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NPq04L9mHxX%2FIKeqDTSsl1DE1P6a%2FrWl) to learn more about why every president since 1948 has refused to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.

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We also hope you’ll use this policy paper to:

• Send to the editorial board of your local newspaper to ask for an editorial opposing moving the embassy
• Write letters-to-the-editor and op-eds for your local paper opposing the move
• Send to your Members of Congress to ask them to make statements opposing the move

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Sincerely,




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Honor Deir Yassin by taking action for Palestine

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(WASHINGTON DC 04/09/2017) -- Deir Yassin was not the first massacre or even the largest that occurred between the Partition of Palestine in November 1947 and the end of the Zionist war in January 1949. But it was the one Zionist Jews used to terrorize the native Palestinians, causing them to flee their homes and their beloved Palestine.

Deir Yassin represents the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Palestine that still continues because of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land and its apartheid policies that violate international law and deprives Palestinians of their human rights. Now with the confirmation of pro-settlement David Friedman as ambassador to Israel and plans of the Trump administration to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, there is concern among Palestinians and the global community the rate of Israeli dispossession of the Palestinian people will increase.

At dawn on April 9, 1948 extremist Zionist militias entered Deir Yassin and systematically murdered men, women and children as they slept. Zionist leaders, intent on creating the state of Israel, used the massacre to terrorize the indigenous population into fleeing the oncoming Haganah and militias, such as the Stern Gang and the Irgun.

“The Nakba is not just one historical event, but an ongoing event,” said Osama Abuirshaid, AMP National Policy Director. “The Nakba is a process that developed the systematic dispossession of Palestinians; it’s the destruction of a civil society for the intended purposes of a colonial enterprise to be set in its place.”

We must never forget the victims of Deir Yassin. Educate yourself so that you can spread the truth about the events that led to the creation of the state of Israel and the dispossession of the Palestinians.


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Watch for calls for action in coming months to push back against plans to move the embassy to Jerusalem and settlement expansion.

We must honor the deceased, those permanently in exile and all those who today continue to resist the occupation by striving to bring justice to the Palestinian people.


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On Prisoners Day, AMP stands with Palestinians hunger striking in Israeli prisons


On Prisoners Day, AMP stands with Palestinians hunger striking in Israeli prisons

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(WASHINGTON DC 04/172017) – In an op-ed (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bz1nnzdgCPA5qlk%2B42j1mBhsfMqQblFt) today in the New York Times, Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti announced the beginning of a new hunger strike, joined by perhaps up to 1,600 Palestinian prisoners (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pHX2saC6rKP60z85Ers3oRhsfMqQblFt), to protest “torture, inhumane and degrading treatment, and medical negligence.”

“Hunger striking is the most peaceful form of resistance available,” Barghouti writes. “It inflicts pain solely on those who participate and on their loved ones, in the hopes that their empty stomachs and their sacrifice will help the message resonate beyond the confines of their dark cells.”

The American Muslims for Palestine, a national education organization, fully stands with Palestinian prisoners and calls upon the international community and all people of conscience to demand an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands; and an end to arbitrary arrests and detentions, administrative detentions, isolation, torture and other treatment that violates numerous international laws.

The prisoner rights group Addameer estimates (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8j40LFJtfyeWkLUO3ceKuGKM2fVg0sYG) Israel has imprisoned fully 40 percent of the Palestinian male population and since 1967 has incarcerated about 800,000 Palestinians. Children are not immune. Defense for Children International – Palestine reports (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=c3ijmdYsHivdAUjNzygE%2BhhsfMqQblFt) that Israeli military authorities arrest and detain up to 700 children per year in the military court system and 8,000 children have been imprisoned since 2000.

Addameer reports (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sFWC%2BZLLTKG%2BLyrbz0BooBhsfMqQblFt) in April 6,300 Palestinians are being held as political prisoners. Of that number, 500 are being held without charge or trial in administrative detention; 300 are children; 16 are women; and 13 – including Marwan Barghouti – are Palestinian Legislative Council members.

The last massive Palestinian prisoner hunger strike took place in spring of 2012, when about 2,000 prisoners staged a long-standing hunger strike. In 2014, about 220 administrative detainees launched a hunger strike lasting 63 days to protest the illegal use of detention without charge or trial. The strike ended with Israeli prison authorities agreeing to ease restrictions on the prisoners and to continue dialogue about the use of administrative detention. The prisoners’ current demands include: family visits, proper medical care, end to Israel’s practice of detaining Palestinians without charge or trial in so-called administrative detention and stopping the use of isolation.

We must support the Palestinians who are putting their bodies and lives on the line to protest the occupation and inhumane treatment in Israeli prisons.

TAKE ACTION
Addameer is calling upon the international community to take action to support the hunger strike:

Social Media: Hold a sign saying #PalHunger, #FreePalestinianPoliticalPrisoners, and #StopAD (stop administrative detention), and share either a picture of you holding a sign or with the hashtag. Use Twitter handles @Addameer and @AMPalestine so we can follow your activism!

Organize an event: Plan a protest, demonstration, speaking event or banner drop in your city, community or campus calling for the immediate release of all Palestinian political prisoners and to show solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners and detainees. Contact AMP ([email protected]) for materials and information.

Join a BDS Campaign: Organize an action at Hewlett-Packard office in your city to highlight the role of corporations involved in – and profiting from – the political imprisonment of Palestinians by the Israeli occupation. Get information on BDS campaigns at www.bdsmovement.net (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rEdj1EzSH891ek3O57g%2F7xhsfMqQblFt).

Send an email to [email protected] to let us know what you’re doing to support Palestinian political prisoners. For further actions, go to www.addameer.org (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2F6nSZmy%2BPmlPcBJAOFsg8RhsfMqQblFt).

2017: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 70 years since the partition of Palestine; 50 years of occupation of the remaining 22 percent of historic Palestine and 10 years of the siege on Gaza.

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Take Action: Palestinian political prisoners launch mass hunger strike


Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers have launched a mass hunger strike starting 17 April 2017. The call for hunger strike came amidst resentment of Israeli’s cruel policies towards political prisoners. An estimated 1500 Palestinian prisoners have announced the beginning of an open hunger strike.

The hunger striking prisoners’ demands include: family visits, proper medical care, end to Israel’s practice of detaining Palestinians without charge or trial in so-called administrative detention and stopping the use of isolation. As the strike begins, Addameer Prisoner Support urges supporters of justice around the world to take action to support the Palestinian prisoners whose bodies and lives are on the line for freedom and dignity.

The issue of Palestinian prisoners and detainees held in Israeli prisons and detention centers transcends one of individual human rights; it is also one of collective rights of an entire people – the Palestinian people, who continue to be deprived of the right to self-determination and sovereignty – basic fundamentals of international law. All Palestinian political prisoners – regardless of their alleged political affiliations or charges – are entitled to fair trial guarantees under international humanitarian law and international human rights laws. Palestinian political prisoners and detainees are systematically subjected to torture and ill-treatment with continued impunity – highlighting the need for more solidarity actions from people around the globe to call for immediate release of all Palestinian political prisoners, long-denied their basic rights.

Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association urges all people to organize events in solidarity with the struggle of hunger-striking prisoners and detainees. 2017 marks 100 years of the Balfour declaration; 70 years of Palestinian Catastrophe (al-Nakba); 50 years of brutal military occupation. This is also the year to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its actions and to demand the immediate release of all Palestinian political prisoners!

TAKE ACTION:

1. Join Addameer social media campaign aims at raising awareness: hold a sign saying #PalHunger, #Free_Palestinian_Political_Prisoners, or #StopAD (administrative detention campaign), #NotATarget (Human Rights Defenders campaign), and share either a picture of you holding a sign or just the hashtag along with a picture of a prisoner or a detainee on social media (twitter and facebook) to raise awareness.

2. Join Addameer’s campaigns and their Call to Action: Addameer has two major campaigns: Stop Administrative Detention campaign (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=242&qid=367722) and the Human Rights Defenders (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=243&qid=367722). You could use any of addameer’s materials prepared for these two campaigns or any other materials on Addameer’s website. (http://www.addameer.org/)

3. Organize a protest, demonstration, speaking event or banner drop in your city, community or campus calling for the immediate release of all Palestinian political prisoners and to show solidarity with the hunger striking prisoners and detainees.

4. Write to Israeli officials or to your local MPs to demand release for Palestinian political prisoners. Write a message and email or fax it to the officials below.

5. Join BDS Campaign: Organize an action at HP office in your city to highlight the role of corporations involved in – and profiting from – the political imprisonment of Palestinians by the Israeli occupation.

6. Send an email to [email protected] or to our Facebook page (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=244&qid=367722) to let us know about any actions you are planning.

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Radiohead: don't be a creep, cancel your concert in Israel


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Dear Chris,

I was at the Radiohead show at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley last night - I’m a huge fan. And I unfurled this banner not to shame them, but to show frontman Thom Yorke and the band that they will be losing a huge fan if they go through with their planned concert in Tel Aviv.

The band knows what social justice means - they’ve stood up for Tibet, and against the War on Terror. York even tweeted about not normalizing Trump. And as artists with a conscience, Radiohead should stand in solidarity with Palestine.

Nearly 8,000 people have already signed our petition asking Radiohead to cancel their concert in Tel Aviv this July. Will you help us get to 18,000? (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8pniFJ%2BCyQ%2BNq5S0uu0%2FLBg2%2F4WPa%2Fa0)

Because in a world where Palestinians have freedom of movement and other basic human rights, there'd be no need for an international call for cultural boycott.

Radiohead has not played Israel since 2000. That was before the apartheid wall. 200,000 more illegal settlers have moved into the West Bank and East Jerusalem since then, and there have been three massive attacks on Gaza.

And more to the point, hundreds of Palestinian civil society organizations have come together to call for an international cultural boycott of Israel until it abides by international law. And Radiohead shouldn’t cross that picket line.

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They’d be far from alone. Ms. Lauryn Hill, Roger Waters, Brian Eno, Elvis Costello, Bjork and many others have heeded Palestinian civil society’s call. These artists see apartheid Israel for what it is. And most importantly, they’ve embraced their role in making change.

Palestinians don't have a choice to reject or accept apartheid in Israel. It is a daily, grinding experience. Radiohead has a choice to do the right thing. I still hold out hope that they will.

Sign the petition and tell Radiohead: don’t be a creep. Stand in solidarity with Palestinian civil society and cancel your concert in Israel. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QQWpMSoa2u%2FqbRntxFMGlBg2%2F4WPa%2Fa0)

Onward,
Susannah



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DIGEST: Prosecutors fail to drop charges: AMP staffers may be heading toward jury trial

Defense will file motion to dismiss based on selective prosecution


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NLG attorney Ann Wilcox explains the charges at a rally before the hearing for AMP staffers Kareem El-Hosseiny, left, and Taher Herzallah on April 20, 2017.

(WASHINGTON DC 04.20.2017) -- AMP staffers Taher Herzallah and Kareem El-Hosseiny may be heading to trial, after federal prosecutors declined to drop the charges against them stemming from their arrest at the Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.

In a short hearing before Superior Court Judge Marisa Demeo on Thursday morning, the Assistant US Attorney unfortunately failed to drop the charges, as we have demanded. Instead the parties established a schedule for filing the Motion to Dismiss based on selective prosecution, on the grounds the charges result from racial, religious and ethnic bias.

Motions will be filed over the coming weeks, and a hearing will be held at DC Superior Court, 500 Indiana Ave. NW, at 11:30 a.m. Friday, July 14 in Courtroom 311. If the motion to dismiss is not successful at that hearing, the jury trial will start on Oct. 12.

AMP was joined by more than 30 supporters, including representatives from Jewish Voice for Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace -DC chapter, IfNotNow, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and many others, who rallied in the rain for an hour. Stay tuned for more updates and action alerts. Please put July 14 on your calendar so we can fill the courtroom.

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FOSNA, 15 faith leaders sign letter of support

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Friends of Sabeel North America today released a letter signed by 15 Christian and faith leaders supporting AMP staffers Taher Herzallah and Kareem El-Hosseiny. The letter was addressed to the assistant attorney general and asked for the government to dismiss the charges against the two men, because they "suggested anti-Muslim bias."

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AMP-NJ impresses with star speakers at annual dinner

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An overwhelming crowd attended the annual dinner for the New Jersey chapter of the American Muslims for Palestine last weekend. Among the keynote speakers were The Empire Files journalist Abby Martin, author and activist Miko Peled and Sheikh Abdelfattah Mourou, founder of the Ennahdha Party in Tunisia. Dr. Osama Abuirshaid, AMP's national policy director, delivered a strong analysis of the current situation in Palestine.

AMP-NJ leaders Kefah Elabed, Ramzi Issa and Sayel Kayed presented Martin, Peled, Mourou and Imam Said Alqasabi with an award recognizing their dedication and committment to the cause of Palestine.


AMP's 3rd annual Palestine Advocacy Day in 11 days!

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We're excited because we're expecting a full house for our third annual Palestine Advocacy Day! In addition, we will be holding two full days of advocacy training that will give participants the tools they need to moblize people in their home districts.

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2017: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 70 years since the partition of Palestine; 50 years of occupation of the remaining 22 percent of historic Palestine and 10 years of the siege on Gaza.

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BREAKING: FEDS DROP CHARGES AGAINST AMP STAFFERS


BREAKING: FEDS DROP CHARGES!

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(WASHINGTON DC 04.21.2017) --The federal government has dropped the charges against AMP staffers Taher Herzallah and Kareem El-Hosseiny. Stephen Rickard, deputy chief of the misdemeanors section in the U.S. Attorney's office notified the men's attorney, Ann Wilcox, on Friday evening.

Filing what is called a "nolle prosequi," or a formal notice of abandonment, the charges have been dropped and the case is closed.

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"The United States of America, by and through its attorney, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, hereby notifies the court and the defense that the government is entering a nolle prosequi in this case, thereby causing the information to be dismissed without prejudice."
"We are overjoyed," Herzallah said. "We showed the federal government we were not going to take their biased charges silently. This really shows the power of the people to speak truth to power."

Herzallah and El-Hosseiny were arrested in February along with four others from Code Pink and If Not Now for protesting at the Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. Ambassador David Friedman. Herzallah and El-Hosseiny -- the only two Arabs and Muslims in the group -- were the only two with criminal charges filed against them by the U.S. Attorney’s office. Three of the protesters were allowed to pay a small fine the same day. One had his case transferred to traffic court.

The men rejected a plea deal that would have required 32 hours of community service and included being banned from Capitol grounds for a lengthy period of time. Instead, they opted for a trial to fight the selective prosecution charges on the grounds they were based on racial, religious and ethnic bias.

El-Hosseiny added, "This proves that all the public, organizational and faith-based support we received was enough to send a strong message to federal prosecutors."

In addition to a successful social media campaign, which was joined by several Palestinian rights and social justice organizations and that reached upwards of 1 million accounts, the Huffington Post (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Rk5bH8aWkdtdZ8Y16EUu5lKuzaX65CGs), AJ Plus (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wm1rS5e8jL2BE2oKGs1TyVKuzaX65CGs), Mondoweiss (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mdLj2m%2FNHYt1%2B7MPgYhUClKuzaX65CGs), Muftah (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AWjs5Hs6Q7ePhaxxZO8Ko1KuzaX65CGs) and other media outlets kept the case in the news. The Associated Press had also started working on a story.

The American Muslims for Palestine is extremely grateful for how our partners rallied around our colleagues and supported their effort to fight the charges.

"AMP thanks NLG attorney Ann Wilcox for her expertise, professionalism and willingness to fight for justice and to see this through to the end," said Dr. Osama Abuirshaid, AMP national policy director. "We could not be prouder of our colleagues and we're relieved at the positive outcome."

AMP is also thankful to all the individuals and groups who helped spread the word, including the US Palestinian Community Network, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Friends of Sabeel North America and the 15 faith leaders who signed the letter of support, DCI-Palestine, Adalah, IfNotNow, Code Pink, Jewish Voice for Peace national, as well as the DC and New York chapters of Jewish Voice for Peace.


2017: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 70 years since the partition of Palestine; 50 years of occupation of the remaining 22 percent of historic Palestine and 10 years of the siege on Gaza.

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On the occasion of Prisoners’ Day 2017 and 50 Years of Military Courts: PHROC Calls for International Protection of Palestinian


Date: 17 April 2017


On the occasion of Prisoners’ Day 2017 and 50 Years of Military Courts

PHROC Calls for International Protection of Palestinian Political Prisoners

On the occasion of Palestinians Prisoners’ Day, 2017, the year that marks 50 years since the establishment of the military courts which routinely charge and trial Palestinian civilians, including children as young as 12 years old, the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) calls for international protection of Palestinian political prisoners, an end to ongoing collective punishment by Israeli occupation forces, administrative detention, continued denial of fair trial, and illegal transfer and deportation of detainees. Since the occupation of 1967, an estimated 800,000 Palestinians, roughly 20% of the population, have been imprisoned by the occupying authorities. On this year’s Prisoners’ Day, Israel holds approximately 6300 Palestinian political prisoners, 300 children and approximately 56 females (including 13 female children) as well as an estimated 500 Palestinians in administrative detention (including 2 children), held for indefinite periods without charge or trial.

This year marks 50 years of torture of Palestinian political prisoners through a military system which has historically been endemic and various forms of physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment, including beatings, kicking, insults, being forced into stress positions, sleep deprivation, isolation and solitary confinement, threats of sexual violence, and threats of arrest of family members continue to date. Furthermore, they have been systematically denied the right to a fair trial, as well adequate health care, access to education, and the right to family visits. Palestinian prisoners and detainees also continue to suffer from a policy of deliberate medical negligence, as well as poor prison conditions, including overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and being kept in extreme temperatures.

Continued arrest and detention of Palestinians undermines the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people. These arrests target women, children, Palestinian Legislative Council Members, and civil society activists. With all Palestinian political parties being deemed illegal organizations by military orders, Palestinians continue to be deprived of participation in any form of civil and political activities. They are thereby criminalized for any tools of resistance – whether militant or not – against an illegal and protracted belligerent occupation by Israeli forces.

The issues of prisoners transcends one of individual human rights; it is also one of collective rights of an entire people – the Palestinian people, who continue to be deprived of the right to self-determination and sovereignty – basic fundamentals of international law. All Palestinian political prisoners – regardless of their alleged political affiliations or charges – are entitled to fair trial guarantees by international human rights laws.

Palestinian political prisoners are systematically subjected to torture and ill treatment with continued impunity – highlighting the need for the international community, as well as individuals, to intervene and call for immediate protection for these prisoners and detainees, long-denied basic rights.

While Palestinian prisoners are about to launch a hunger strike to end Israel’s ongoing violation of Palestinian prisoners human rights, including its rejection to fulfill its obligations in accordance to provisions of third and fourth Geneva conventions, the international community is asked to fulfill its responsibility through tangible and practical measures to ensure the protection for prisoners legitimate struggle and human rights.

PHROC therefore calls on the International Criminal Court to immediately open an investigation into the case of Palestinian prisoners and detainees, and bring those who have tortured, extrajudicially executed, forcibly transferred, and arbitrary detained Palestinians to be held to accountable.

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Free Cone Day Action 2017 - Report from Burlington, VT and Beyond


Free Cone Day Action 2017
Report from Burlington, VT and Beyond



Vermonters for Justice in Palestine's 5th annual Free Cone Day action was - different…

Firstly, this year we focussed on a national phone-in campaign to Ben & Jerry's headquarters to challenge their inaction over their commerce in illegal settlements. We did not make special leaflets to distribute and send out to our partner groups. Instead we publicized the actions via our bulk email list. The phone-in campaign got a huge boost from publicity by If Americans Knew (http://t.ymlp199.net/umbeataebuqqagamwsaaaesuw/click.php) and from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (http://t.ymlp199.net/umbmazaebuqqazamwsacaesuw/click.php). Nationally we know that many people phoned in about Palestine, and many sent emails to CEO Jostein Solheim.

Secondly, in Vermont, we knew that Migrant Justice (http://t.ymlp199.net/umbjaaaebuqqalamwsataesuw/click.php) would be challenging Ben & Jerry's failure so far to follow through on Milk with Dignity commitments. Sounds Familiar? From Palestine to Vermont: The Self-Imposed Limits of Ben & Jerry's Social Responsibility (http://t.ymlp199.net/umbbakaebuqqacamwsavaesuw/click.php). The Migrant Justice action was a great success. They also organized a phone-in the previous week, as well as actions on Free Cone Day using the same general approach we've used in previous years: leafleting at multiple scoop shop sites across the country, performances, and the slogan "Today your Ice Cream is Free, But Palestinians/Migrant Workers are not Free!", etc.

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They picketed the Ben & Jerry's headquarters during a meeting of the Board of Directors, and met with them outside the building.

At Burlington's Church Street scoop shop VTJP members held signs about Ben & Jerry's ice cream sales in illegal settlements. Some sympathetic people came up to us and we could talk and give them an informational leaflet. The media studiously avoided us - they only ever covered us the first year of our scoop shop action.

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Also, signs were posted on the window of the Church Street scoop shop two mornings running about Ben & Jerry's selling ice cream in illegal settlements. They didn't stay up for long.



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Disgusting. Appalling. And destined to lose.


Dear Chris,

This is beyond disgusting.

Tomorrow, right-wing Congressmen Ron DeSantis and Bill Johnson are launching a "Congressional Israel Victory Caucus" - the latest brainchild of notorious professional Islamophobe Daniel Pipes.

Will you send a note to your representative in Congress demanding that they boycott the event and make a public statement against it? (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EC9f02gLknB%2FDwxMMPPGyKzeXR0Rkwmc)

Pipes is a leading anti-Muslim misinformation expert and conspiracy theorist who highlights World War II Japanese Internment camps as a model to be used against Muslims today. DeSantis and Johnson aren't much better.

Pipes' rhetoric is so despicable, we apologize for even printing one sentence of it. "Palestinians," he says, "will have to pass through the bitter crucible of defeat, with all its deprivation, destruction, and despair… Defeat also frees them to improve their own lives [and] become a normal people."

That's the very definition of racism and Islamophobia in action - click here to tell your representative they need to condemn this caucus in the strongest possible terms. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=isGb2G5zIZE5%2FS0RjAZgKazeXR0Rkwmc)

There's no such thing as an "Israel Victory." There is only justice, for Jewish Israelis and Palestinians together. The alternative is ongoing occupation, apartheid, and dispossession.

Either you think both Palestinians and Jewish Israelis have inalienable human rights, or you don't. Either you believe this unvarnished hate is normal, or you believe that we have to get even louder, even faster, to insist on basic commitments to equality, justice, and dignity.

Coming up on 50 years of resistance and resilience under occupation, and 70 years since the Nakba, I know that Pipes, DeSantis and Johnson cannot win. No one stops working for their own freedom.

And we have to keep up the fight too.

So we've partnered up with our friends at MPower Change and the Center for New Community to act:

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Demand that they go on record on the side of human rights, not the side of apartheid and collective punishment.

Alissa


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Kick Settlements Out of Football at FIFA's Upcoming Congress!


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FIFA will make a decision on Israeli football teams based in illegal settlements (https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/3cmDuxj8Flk8926Ve64lehPg/EDuKrUoZCUibtfSQSHGKCg/F2Rah0kvInBt763rObR5n8Qg) at their upcoming Congress on May 11, 2017. This is our chance to ensure that Palestinian human rights are front and centre on their agenda!

More than one hundred (https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/3cmDuxj8Flk8926Ve64lehPg/AYUubEQRHc2FsaiCY8Em4A/F2Rah0kvInBt763rObR5n8Qg) sports and human rights associations representing millions of people across the globe have called on FIFA to demand that the Israeli Football Association immediately exclude teams based in illegal settlements, and for FIFA to suspend the association if it refuses to comply.

As the pressure mounts on FIFA to respect its statutes, the Israeli government is using its embassies (https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/3cmDuxj8Flk8926Ve64lehPg/U6tJv7tvK7631927oAjLTRFA/F2Rah0kvInBt763rObR5n8Qg) to push for removing the issue of settlement clubs from the Congress’ agenda altogether. We can’t let that happen: teams based in illegal settlements and human rights violations have no place in the beautiful game.

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Get the facts on Palestinian hunger strikes


An estimated 1500 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons and detention centers have declared the beginning of an open hunger strike on 17 April 2017. The call for hunger strike came amidst resentment of Israeli’s cruel policies towards political prisoners and detainees. The hunger striking prisoners’ demands include: family visits, proper medical care, an end to Israel’s practice of detaining Palestinians without charge or trial in so-called administrative detention and stopping the use of isolation. Here are some facts on Palestinian hunger strikes:

What is the History of Palestinian Hunger Strikes? Hunger strikes have long been used in different geographical areas as means to protest and demand basic rights, including the right to vote, the right to be free from torture and the right to self-determination. The long history of Palestinian prisoners in mass and individual hunger strikes, reveals the lack of trust in any judicial process and the lack of fair trial guarantees they face under the military and civil court systems of the Israeli occupation. Palestinian prisoners and detainees have resorted to hunger strikes as early as 1968 (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=251&qid=410856) as a legitimate peaceful protest to Israeli detention policies and cruel detention conditions including the use of solitary confinement, denial of family visits, inadequate medical treatment and torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

What are the Medical Risks of Hunger Strikes? Hunger strikes have associated health risks that can cause physical damage to the prisoner or detainee, including severe loss of weight, weakness, tiredness, inability to sleep, hearing loss, blindness, strokes, kidney failure as well as other organ failures, cardiac arrest, and heart attack. However, despite these medical risks, through hunger strikes, Palestinians have been able to obtain basic and fundamental rights and to improve their detention conditions through hunger strikes.

How do Israeli Authorities Deal with Hunger Strikes? Hunger strikes are often met with violent and coercive repression by Israeli Prison Service and special units (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=252&qid=410856), as well as medical personnel to push detainees to end their hunger strikes. Following hunger strikes, Addameer has documented several cases of raids on prison cells, transfers of hunger strikers to isolation cells, threats of indefinite detention, banning family visitation, reduction of money spent in the canteen.

What were other coercive measures taken? In response to the use of hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners and detainees, Israeli authorities practiced force-feeding during the 1980s. It was subsequently ceased by order from the Israeli High Court following several deaths of Palestinian prisoners resulting from force-feeding. At the time of earlier hunger strikes, Israel practiced force-feeding of hunger-strikers in order to coerce detainees to end to their hunger strikes without any legislation to regulate this measure. Several Palestinian prisoners have died as a result of being subjected to force-feeding (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=251&qid=410856). These include Abdul-Qader Abu al-Fahm who had died on 11 May 1970 during a hunger strike in Ashkelon prison, Rasem Halawah and Ali al-Ja'fari, who died following the insertion of the feeding tubes into their lungs instead of their stomachs in July 1980 during a hunger strike in Nafha prison, and Ishaq Maragha, who died in Beersheba prison in 1983. Recently, a proposal for a legislation (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=253&qid=410856) by the Israeli minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan was initiated in response to the mass hunger strike of 2012 with the purpose of putting an end to future hunger-strikes and depriving Palestinian detainees and prisoners of their fundamental right to peaceful protest. The bill was approved by the Israeli Knesset on the 30th of July 2015.

Since when have Hunger Strikes been used in Protest of Administrative Detention? At least since the 1990s, Palestinian prisoners have resorted to hunger strikes as means to protest Israeli arbitrary use of administrative detention. Administrative detention is a procedure that allows the Israeli military to hold prisoners indefinitely on secret information without charging them or allowing them to stand trial. There are an estimated 750 Palestinians placed under administrative detention, including women, children, and Palestinian Legislative Council members.

In recent years, Palestinian prisoners and detainees have resorted to hunger strike to protest and increasing and systematic use of administrative detention by the occupation authorities. For example, in 2012, Palestinian prisoners and detainees declared a mass hunger strike, (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=254&qid=410856) which involved nearly 2000 hunger strikers demanding the end of administrative detention, denial of family visitations to Gaza prisoners, isolation and other punitive measures. The 2012 hunger strike ended with Israel’s temporality limiting the use of administrative detention. However, few years later, the occupation authorities increased the use of administrative detention leading to another hunger strike in 2014 by over 80 administrative detainees asking for an end to the use of the arbitrary policy. (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=255&qid=410856) The hunger strike ended after 63 days without forcing the Israeli government to limit the use of administrative detention.

Additionally, several Palestinian administrative detainees embarked on individual hunger strikes in protest of replacing them under administrative detention without charge or trial of several times. These individual hunger strikes included Mohammad Al Qeeq, Khader Adnan, Hana Shalabi, Thaer Halahleh and Bilal Kayed.

Why do Palestinians Resort to Hunger Strikes? Palestinian prisoners and detainees resort to hunger strike in order to protest and have their voices heard outside an unfair legal system which administers their arbitrary detention and the repression of their voices. However, Israeli occupation authorities have not managed to break the will of Palestinian hunger strikers who continue to use their bodies, in the absence of any adequate judicial remedies, to practice legitimate disobedience. Hunger strikers defy disciplinary power of control and domination; the body of the hunger striker thereby constitutes a medium through which power is shifted and recreated. The prisoners and detainees refuse to comply with the prison’s structured system of constrain and privation where they do not have full autonomy over their bodies. Thus, through hunger strikes, these prisoners and detainees re-gain sovereignty over their bodies through becoming decision makers over the prison authorities.

What Are Our Demands? Addameer Prisoner Support urges supporters of justice around the world to take action (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=256&qid=410856) to support the Palestinian prisoners whose bodies and lives are on the line for freedom and dignity. Addameer urges all people to organize events in solidarity with the struggle of hunger-striking prisoners and detainees. 2017 marks 100 years of the Balfour declaration; 70 years of Palestinian Catastrophe (al-Nakba); 50 years of brutal military occupation. This is also the year to hold the Israeli occupation accountable for its actions and to demand the immediate release of all Palestinian political prisoners!

Addameer further calls upon the international community to demand that the Israeli government to respect the will of hunger strikers who use their bodies as a legitimate means of protest, which has been recognized by the World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikes as “often a form of protest by people who lack other ways of making their demands known (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=257&qid=410856).”

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Addameer visits Ashkelon, Hadarim and Nafha prisons


Today, 25 April 2107, Addameer’s attorneys visited Nafha, Hadarim and Asqlan prisons, where they were not able to visit hunger-striking prisoners and detainees due to Israeli Prison Service (IPS) refusal. However, they managed to visit prisoners who were not on hunger strike that informed the attorneys of the hunger strike's recent developments.

During a visit to the Hadarim prison, prisoner Thabet al-Mardawi explained to Addameer’s attorney Mona Naddaf, that the IPS started transferring prisoners from one section to another on the second day of the strike, 18 April 2017. He added, that Marwan Barghouthi and Karim Younis were placed in isolation in Al-Jalama prison, and Anas Jaradat and Mahmoud Abu Sorour were placed in isolation in Ela prison. He added that about 36 prisoners were transferred to Ramle prison, and the rest of the prisoners were placed in different prisons across occupied Palestine.

Additionally, sick prisoners were transferred to the cells of Section 5 in Hadarim, which is a civilian detention room located in the civil section of the prison. The prisoners live in a completely isolated situation, where there is no television, no electrical devices and were only given sleeping mats.

Prisoner Thabet explained that the IPS isolated 102 hunger-striking prisoners before placing them in different prisons. Special unit forces stormed and raided the hunger-striking sections confiscating personal belongings. All of the prisoners have been stripped of their possessions; only one blanket has been kept for each prisoner and one set of clothing in addition to the “Shabas clothing” or prison uniform. Prison administration also seized salt in the first days of the strike, and strikers have had to drink water from the tap as the administration does not provide them with drinking water.

The prison administration has also imposed several punitive sanctions on the hunger-striking prisoners. The most important of these is the denial of family visits, as well as the denial of recreation, denial of access to the “canteen” (prison store).

In Nafha prison, Addameer’s attorney Samer Samaan visited prisoners Ayman Odeh and Raed al-Saadi, who told him during the visit that the number of hunger striking prisoners in Nafha is 250 from all political factions. The IPS also started isolating hunger strikers from their fellow prisoners, raided their sections and banned them from having attorney visits.

In Ashkelon prison, Farah Beyadsi visited prisoner Sharif Hamid, who is not on hunger strike. He informed her that the IPS transferred all the prisoners who are not on hunger strike to Section 12 of the prison. And transferred hunger striking prisoners to Section 3 and placed them in isolation. 42 prisoners in Ashkelon prison are on hunger strike.

“In Ashkelon there are 5 rooms, each room has about ten prisoners, the prisoners are forbidden from communicating with anyone, and they are denied family visits and access to the prison canteen. They are not allowed to see their attorneys as well,” Hamid added. The prison administration in Ashkelon also stripped hunger striking prisoners of their possessions, and strikers have had to drink water from the tap as the administration does not provide them with drinking water. They also prohibited them from participating in group prayers on Friday.

Addameer Prisoner Support urges supporters of justice around the world to take action (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=261&qid=432355) to support the Palestinian prisoners whose bodies and lives are on the line for freedom and dignity. Addameer urges all people to organize events in solidarity with the struggle of hunger-striking prisoners and detainees. Addameer further calls upon the international community to demand that the Israeli government to respect the will of hunger strikers who use their bodies as a legitimate means of protest, which has been recognized by the World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikes as “often a form of protest by people who lack other ways of making their demands known (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=262&qid=432355).”

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1,500 hunger strikers: what Israel doesn't want you to know


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Dear Chris,

On April 17, over 1,500 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails began a hunger strike to demand basic human rights and dignity. The prisoners are putting their bodies and lives on the line in the hopes of achieving access to proper medical care, visits from family, as well as an end to the use of solitary confinement and administrative detention (the practice of holding Palestinian prisoners without charge or trial).

The hunger strikers are demanding basic human rights that should be guaranteed to all! Sign our petition to tell the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem to pressure Israel to meet the basic demands of the hunger strikers! (http://www.codepink.org/prisonerhumanrights?e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4e edfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=phungerstrike_1&n=3)

An increasing number of prisoners have joined the strike which began three weeks ago, bringing the total number of hunger strikers to 1,700. However, rather than meeting the basic demands of the prisoners, Israel has responded by putting the strike leaders in isolation, further restricting family visits, and threatening ongoing punishments.

Despite facing harsh retribution from Israel, the Palestinian hunger strikers remain hopeful that they will improve their conditions through their sacrifices. Support their struggle by signing the petition to tell the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv to use all of its power and influence to demand that Israel guarantees basic human rights to Palestinian prisoners (http://www.codepink.org/prisonerhumanrights?e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4e edfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=phungerstrike_1&n=4)

Hunger strikes have a long and revered history in the collective struggle for justice. The World Medical Association (WMA) Declaration of Malta on Hunger Strikes has stated that hunger strikes are, “often a form of protest by people who lack other ways of making their demands known.” There are currently over 6,500 Palestinians, including women, children, journalists, and human rights defenders, being held in Israeli prisons. Many are being held in administrative detention without charge or trial.

None of the human rights violations of the Israeli occupation have been able to break the will of the Palestinian people to resist. We are proud to stand with them in their struggle for dignity and freedom. Please join us by signing the petition (http://www.codepink.org/prisonerhumanrights?e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4e edfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=phungerstrike_1&n=5) and sharing it on Facebook (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsharer%2Fshar er.php%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.codepink.org%2 52Fprisonerhumanrights%26display%3Dpopup%26ref%3Dp lugin%26src%3Dlike%26kid_directed_site%3D0%26app_i d%3D126739610711965&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=phungerstrike_1&n=6) and Twitter (http://www.codepink.org/r?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fcodepink%2Fstatus% 2F859585316956622848%2Fphoto%2F1&e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=phungerstrike_1&n=7).

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Tell the NY Times: report on Palestinian prisoners


Dear Chris,

Palestinian political prisoners have been on hunger strike for 23 days, demanding an end to the cruel treatment and unjust policies they face in Israeli prisons.

The American media? Essentially silent.

1,600 people are taking their lives in their own hands for a reason, and our media should be covering it and covering it right.


In April, the editorial board at the New York Times published an important op-ed by Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian leader and political prisoner who initially called for the strike. But actual news coverage has been sparse and one-sided.

Send a letter to the editor of the New York Times and tell him this is news that’s fit to print. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=F%2F9XD5WKq4JmkhFmW2MhrmZx389siAV8)

This strike is about the one million Palestinians who have been detained since the establishment of the state of Israel. It’s about the approximately 6,500 Palestinians currently in Israeli custody, many of whom are children. It’s about the refusal of the Israeli and US governments to accede to conditions that would make truly just negotiations possible.

It’s about the ongoing occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem, which will enter its 50th year next month - and it’s about a historic moment in the struggle for Palestinian human rights. Solidarity protests have broken out across the West Bank and been violently suppressed by Israeli forces. Palestinians and allies all over the world are showing their support online.

And yet, the last story the New York Times published about it focused on whether Barghouti secretly ate a candy bar.

The conviction rate for Palestinians in Israel’s military courts is over 99%. Since the occupation of 1967, roughly 20% of the Palestinian population has been imprisoned by Israel at one point or another. That’s news. This isn’t about a candy bar.

The prisoners’ demands are simple. They include reinstating visitation rights, installing phones, improving medical care, and ending solitary confinement and administrative detention - which is just another term for being held indefinitely without charge or trial.

Our paper of record should be talking about this hunger strike in the context of how we arrived at this historical moment.

They should be talking about the conditions of Palestinian political prisoners and the injustices of the Israeli judicial and prison system. And they should be talking about the prisoners’ extremely reasonable demands.

It’s not as if we can turn to David Friedman, Jared Kushner or, g-d knows, Donald Trump with these grievances. But we do know that if we can get mainstream outlets like the Times to actually report on the real story, decision-makers from Netanyahu on down will start to feel the pressure.

We’re not providing a template and asking you to just click send - that doesn’t work. For your words to matter, they have to be your words - the Times won’t publish open or third-party letters.

So I’m asking you to take a few minutes to write something yourself - with the help of the instructions and talking points we’ve provided here - asking the Times to give the hunger strike the coverage it deserves. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5dTtAo65ta7OqLo0b%2BRvvGZx389siAV8)

In solidarity,

Ari


Ari Wohlfeiler
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P.S. JVP Executive Director Rebecca Vilkomerson will be speaking live with Aarab Marwan Barghouti, Marwan Barghouti's son, about the hunger strike this afternoon at 2pm ET/ 11 am PT LIVE on JVP's Facebook page (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UJzxZRNPgZJSCJJcNYOIv2Zx389siAV8). Aarab was recently interviewed by Gideon Levy in Haaretz (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QNVe2WUIjL9sqC7xjWH%2FpxQvFhoYvd%2BV) about his father & the hunger strike.

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Commemorating the Nakba: 69 years of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people


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(WASHINGTON DC 05/13/2017) – On Monday, Palestinians around the world and their supporters will commemorate yet one more year of occupation and the continued dispossession of indigenous peoples from the land of Palestine.

Today, more than 1,200 Palestinian political prisoners are in the midst of a hunger strike to protest the illegal conditions under which they languish; Palestinians in Gaza struggle to find clean water to drink and exist on fewer than four hours of electricity per day; Palestinian citizens of Israel live as second-class citizens due to more than 50 discriminatory laws and Palestinians in diaspora, including refugees, are blocked from returning to their homeland.

Visit our Nakba Project Page to download our Nakba booklet, "Preserving our Narrative," a powerpoint, factsheet, brochure and more! (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Fk74Sa4b4RJ5UpKAfbKol0FI23r46Mzh)

Now, 69 years after Zionist militias and terrorist groups killed 13,000 Palestinians, destroyed about 500 villages and forced 750,000 – two thirds of the Palestinian population – from their homes and into exile, Israeli policies, fueled by Zionism, ensure the continued displacement of Palestinians. The Nabka is not a one-time event, but rather, a continuous effort to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Palestine.

These are not mere emotional sentiments; historical statements lend credence to the fact that removing Palestinians lies at the heart of Zionist ideology:

“The concept of ‘transferring’ European Jews to Palestine and ‘transferring’ the Palestinian people out is central to Zionism,” Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, said in 1944.

The late Ariel Sharon, a former Israeli prime minister, told Agence France Press in 1998 that, “… there is no Zionism, colonization, or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.” He furthered clarified to the London Times that Israel won’t put Palestinians on “trucks and drive them away,” but rather Israel will “induce people to leave” by making their lives difficult.

Difficult is an understatement. The Israeli military occupation controls every aspect of Palestinian life.

Since 1967, Israeli Occupation Forces have demolished more than 27,000 Palestinian homes, while more than 600,000 Jews currently are colonizing the West Bank and Jerusalem, illegally appropriating increasingly more Palestinian land. Also since 1967, the Israeli military has detained more than 700,000 Palestinians – 20 percent of the population - according to the First International Conference on the Rights of Palestinian Prisoners and Detainees, which was held in Geneva in March 2011.

At least 6,300 Palestinian political prisoners currently are being detained in prisons within Israel, a direct violation of international law. In addition, the siege on Gaza will render the area uninhabitable within the next few years, according to the United Nations. And the Apartheid Wall in the West Bank and Jerusalem have denied Palestinians’ freedom of movement. More than 7 million Palestinian refugees are prohibited from returning to their homeland, in contravention of international law.

We cannot sit idly by while the Nakba continues. The American Muslims for Palestine takes heart in the growing shift in American public opinion, including among lawmakers, toward acknowledging that Palestinians deserve their human rights. A recent Pew Research Center poll (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2ouNmoVyV8idegEsUtvkq0FI23r46Mzh) shows a growing generation gap in terms of attitudes toward Palestine and Israel, with the Millennial generation more likely than previous generations to support Palestinian rights. Israel is also becoming a partisan issue on Capitol Hill.

AMP is working diligently to educate the public and to train members of our community to participate in civic engagement, bringing their Palestinian narrative to those who create our foreign policy. Recently, AMP held its third annual Palestine Advocacy Day and Training (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Cw89OgwIH%2BqEHwx%2FCgCansozsVujk3TV), tripling the number of attendees and advocates to nearly 70. AMP continues to work with the national media, appearing both in print and broadcast nationally and internationally. AMP recently updated its U.S. policy booklet to include the impact of the Trump administration on U.S. policy in Palestine and Israel.

Together, we are confident we can continue to build momentum both at the grassroots and policymaker level. Please take a moment today to help the effort to shift foreign policy so that Palestinians may find justice by taking action:

✔ Please take action for the Palestinian hunger strikers (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=C5GOLHeiSfIjYkJFHf5dDsozsVujk3TV)

✔ Take the Salt Water challenge (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QseYpado0rnGDy0OvZvEhkFI23r46Mzh)

✔ Download our Nakba booklet, our Nakba power point, and Nakba and refugee fact sheet and distribute them to your coworkers, neighbors and friends. (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZQVO3SVuua6Ep7w0NgrS7UFI23r46Mzh)

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The American Muslims for Palestine continues its efforts to raise awareness and educate the public about how their tax dollars support this illegal and unjust regime.



2017: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 70 years since the partition of Palestine; 50 years of occupation of the remaining 22 percent of historic Palestine and 10 years of the siege on Gaza.

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Today Marks 69th Anniversary of Palestinian Nakba


Dear BDS movement supporter,

Today, on the 69th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, the BNC released the statement below. You can also view it on our website here (https://bdsmovement.net/emailblaster/sendy/l/3cmDuxj8Flk8926Ve64lehPg/gvhxxtBbcRpYetvH0KlCwg/kNfRtW5mVcquewCM7630c5ow). [Click to access links within text.]

Thank you for your continuing solidarity,

Guman Mussa

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The Palestinian Nakba, 1948


BDS: Upholding our Rights, Resisting the Ongoing Nakba

The BNC Commemorates the 69th Anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba



It is possible…

It is possible at least sometimes…

It is possible especially now

To ride a horse

Inside a prison cell

And run away…

It is possible for prison walls

To disappear.

For the cell to become a distant land

Without frontiers

– Mahmoud Darwish



May 15, 2017, Occupied Palestine – Today marks the 69th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, the mass expulsion of Palestinians from our homeland. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist paramilitaries, and subsequently Israeli forces, made 750,000 to one million indigenous Palestinians into refugees to establish a Jewish-majority state in Palestine.

The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) calls on people of conscience the world over to further intensify BDS campaigns to end academic, cultural, sports, military and economic links of complicity with Israel’s regime of occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid. This is the most effective means of standing with the Palestinian people in pursuing our inherent and UN-stipulated rights, and nonviolently resisting the ongoing, intensifying Nakba.

The Israeli regime today is ruthlessly pursuing the one constant strategy of its settler-colonial project —the simultaneous pillage and colonization of as much Palestinian land as possible and the gradual ethnic cleansing of as many Palestinians as practical without evoking international sanctions.

Following in the footsteps of all previous Israeli governments, the current far-right government, the most openly racist in Israel’s history, is heeding the words of the Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky who wrote in 1923:

"Every native population in the world resists colonists as long as it has the slightest hope of being able to rid itself of the danger of being colonised. [...] Zionist colonisation must either stop, or else proceed regardless of the native population. Which means that it can proceed and develop only under the protection of a power that is independent of the native population—behind an iron wall, which the native population cannot breach."

Sixty-nine years after the systematic, premeditated uprooting and dispossession of most of the indigenous Palestinian Arabs from the land of Palestine at the hands of Zionist gangs and later the state of Israel, the Nakba is not over. Israel is intent on building its “iron wall” in Palestinian minds, not just our lands, through its sprawling illegal settlements and concrete walls in the occupied Palestinian territory, its genocidal siege of over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, its denial of the Palestinian refugee’s right to return, its racist laws and policies against Palestinians inside Israel, and its escalating, violent ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and the Naqab (Negev). It is sparing no brutality in its relentless, desperate attempts to sear into our consciousness the futility of resistance and the vainness of hope.

The present mass hunger strike by over one thousand Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails and the grassroots support that it has triggered give us hope.

The growing support for BDS among international trade unions, including the most recent adoption by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) – representing over 910,000 workers – of an “international economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel” to achieve comprehensive Palestinian rights, gives us hope.

The fact the none of the 26 Oscar nominees offered a free, $55,000-valued trip by the Israeli government accepted the propaganda gift and that six out of eleven National Football League players turned down a similar Israeli junket gives us hope.

The BDS movement has succeeded in sharply raising the price of corporate complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. It has compelled companies of the size of Orange and Veolia to end their complicity and pushed global giant G4S to begin exiting the Israeli market. Churches, city councils and thousands around the world have pledged to boycott Hewlett Packard (HP) for its deep complicity in Israel’s occupation and apartheid. This gives us and many human rights campaigns around the world great hope.

The Barcelona municipality’s decision to end complicity with Israel’s occupation, coming on the heels of tens of local councils in the Spanish state declaring themselves “Israeli apartheid free zones,” give us hope.

The divestment by some of the largest mainline churches in the US, including the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church USA and the United Church of Christ, from Israeli banks or complicit international corporations gives us hope.

The spread of remarkably effective BDS campaigns from South Africa to South Korea, from Egypt to Chile, and from the UK to the US gives us real hope.

The growing intersectional coalitions that are emerging in many countries, organically re-connecting the struggle for Palestinian rights with the diverse international struggles for racial, economic, gender, climate and indigenous justice give us unlimited hope.

In 1968, twenty years after the Nakba but unrelated to it, Dr. Martin Luther King said, “There can be no justice without peace and there can be no peace without justice.” For seven decades, and against all odds, Palestinians have continued to assert our inalienable right to self-determination and to genuine peace, which can only stem from freedom, justice and equality.

But to reach that just peace we realize that we must nourish our hope for a dignified life with our boundless commitment to resist injustice, resist apathy and, crucially, resist their “iron walls” of despair.

In this context, the Palestinian-led, global BDS movement with its impressive growth and unquestionable impact is today an indispensable component of our popular resistance and the most promising form of international solidarity with our struggle for rights.

No iron wall of theirs can suppress or overshadow the rising sun of our emancipation.



The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) is the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society. It leads and supports the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Visit www.bdsmovement.net and follow @BDSmovement

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Addameer visits hunger-striking political leader Ahmad Sa'adat


Addameer's attorney Farah Bayadsi visited hunger-striking political leader and Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ahmad Sa'adat today, 14 May 2017, in Ohli Kedar prison. Addameer's attorney was previously denied visitation, but received approval following a High Court petition submitted on 10 May 2017. Since the beginning of the strike, 17 April 2017, Addameer requested several visits from Israeli Prison Service (IPS) to visit hunger-striking prisoners and detainees, but the IPS either did not respond or rejected the requests.

Mr. Sa'adat joined the hunger strike, along with several significant Palestinian political leaders on 3 May 2017 including, Nael Barghouthi, Hassan Salameh, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Abbas al-Sayed, Ziad Bseiso, Basem al-Khandakji, Mohammed al-Malah, Tamim Salem, Mahmoud Issa, and Said al-Tubasi.

Mr. Sada'at was transferred, along with 38 hunger-striking prisoners and detainees, from isolation in Ashkelon prison to isolation in Ohli Kedar prison on Thursday, 11 May 2017. Mr. Sada'at informed Addameer's attorney that the prisoners are subjected to two violent search raids daily, during which prisoners are forced to leave their room, which is physically exhausting for prisoners due to their hunger strikes. He also added that 10 prisoners are held in one tight cell with one sink and one toilet and no fan or air conditioning (with high-temperature weather), and each prisoner is given 3 blankets.

Bayadsi noted that Mr. Sa'adat's health condition is deteriorating and that he appears frail, walks and speaks very slowly and has lost significant weight. Additionally, his face appears pale and he is only consuming water. Mr. Sa'adat added that the medical examinations carried out by the IPS are not sufficient, as only blood pressure and weight of the hunger strikers were examined. Despite his deteriorating health condition, Bayadsi reported that Mr. Sa'adat is in high spirits and intends to continue on hunger strike until the prisoners' demands are met.

Mr. Sa'adat further added that the IPS imposed restrictions on hunger-striking prisoners including a disciplinary fine of 200 NIS; ban of family visits for two months; denial of access to the “canteen” (prison store); and seizure of salt and all clothes except one set of clothing per prisoner.

More troubling, the IPS has made it exceedingly difficult for independent doctors to visit the hunger striking prisoners and has provided prisoners with plastic cups in order to drink from the tap rather than the usually provided drinking water.

Addameer strongly condemns such treatment, which violates the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners which underlines the need for appropriate medical care inside detention. Furthermore, the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners states that "Prisoners shall be allowed under necessary supervision to communicate with their family and reputable friends at regular intervals, both by correspondence and by receiving visits" (37).

As the hunger strike enters its 28th day, Addameer Prisoner Support urges supporters of justice around the world to take action to support the Palestinian prisoners whose bodies and lives are on the line for freedom and dignity. Addameer urges all people to organize events in solidarity with the struggle of hunger-striking prisoners and detainees. Addameer further calls on the diplomatic community to pressure Israel to immediately allow for hunger striking prisoners to have access to necessary healthcare and legal advisement.

Addameer further urges all political parties, institutions, organizations and solidarity groups working in the field of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory and abroad to support the prisoners in their hunger strike and demand that their legitimate demands be granted. Addameer will continue to closely follow the prisoner’s strike and provide regular updates on the situation as it develops.

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USPCN statement: 69 Years Since Al-Nakba & 29 Days of the #DignityStrike


USPCN statement on #NakbaDay

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Today, May 15th, 2017, marks the 69th anniversary of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands. Today also marks 69 years of resistance to Israeli colonization and occupation, and to British and later U.S. imperialism. Generations of Palestinians have refused to concede tnakba imagehis key demand of the national liberation movement, our inalienable and collective Right of Return. Sixty-nine years later, Palestinians all over the world, the refugees who were expelled as well as their descendants, maintain that they WILL return to their original homes and lands.

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Israel understands it is losing the public relations war in the international arena, as well as its grip on the masses of Palestinian people living under apartheid or under the subservient Palestinian Authority. It is this reality that has pushed the politics of Israel further and further to the right, to become the borderline fascist government that we see today. But in the face of unrelenting violence and repression, the Palestinian people continue to resist. And today, the 69 year commemoration of the Nakba also marks the 29th day of the #DignityStrike, a hunger strike by over 1,800 political prisoners in Israeli jails.

As USPCN has stated countless times, the struggle of our prisoners is central to the struggle to liberate Palestine, and more specifically, that the defense of Palestinian political prisoners is the defense of the right of Palestinian resistance and the defense of our national liberation movement. The prisoners’ strike has inspired action across historic Palestine and around the world, where Palestinians and our supporters are organizing everything from general strikes and “days of rage” to vigils and and solidarity fasts.

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USPCN has been at the forefront of these actions here in the U.S., and our Chicago chapter led the organizing of a day-long fast and encampment in solidarity with the prisoners on May 11th, when over 200 community members and supporters gathered in a makeshift tent in Burbank, Illinois, a suburb just southwest of Chicago.grp pic hunger strike

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Besides posters and pictures of prisoners, including the relatives of a number of Chicagoans, the tent offered a number of activities for participants, including taking the #SaltwaterChallenge and sending video of it on social media to raise awareness about the fact that the hunger strikers are consuming only salt and water. In addition, USPCN’s ongoing “When I Return” (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=ffd6f35d93&e=266d74dd41) project encouraged children to draw pictures and write poems imagining what return to a liberated Palestine would look like.

A press conference was held near the end of the long day, when Thaira Hamayel, the sister of prisoner and hunger striker Thaer Hamayel, who is currently serving a 25-year sentence, spoke about her beloved brother’s struggle in the Israeli prisons and laid out the prisoners’ basic, humanitarian demands, which include the restoration of regular family visits, an end to solitary confinement, an end to administrative detention (imprisonment for months without formal charge), the strengthening of medical care, and access to education.

U.S. Congressman Danny Davis sent a written message (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=8685ccdff4&e=266d74dd41) that was read by USPCN member Kareem Youssef, and powerful statements of solidarity were made by Lesley Williams of Jewish Voice for Peace, Frank Chapman of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and others. The evening ended with a picket line and some chanting, as well as classical Palestinian call-and-response folkloric song. The main co-conveners of the day of action were the Palestinian American Community Center and Students for Justice in Palestine – DePaul University, but see this page (http://uspcn.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0ce8bf015c0d49d11d99fdefb&id=f25d4ee00d&e=266d74dd41) for all the endorsers.

The prisoners are entering the fifth week of the hunger strike, and their health conditions will begin to deteriorate rapidly, so USPCN is urging everyone to:

Call Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson at 202.647.9572;

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Amnesty International USA Headquarters at 212.807.8400;

International Red Cross at 202.587.4600; and

Senator Richard Durbin at 312.353.4952;

and DEMAND that they pressure Israel to agree to the Palestinian hunger strikers’ basic humanitarian demands!

For more information, follow @uspcn, @addameer, and @samidoun, as well as these hashtags on twitter: #DignityStrikeChi, #DignityStrike, #PalHunger, and #StopAD.

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DIGEST: This Ramadan, boycott Israeli dates!


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Did you know Israel exports more than half the world's Medjool dates? And that Israeli date imports in the US are valued at $51 million per year, according to the USDA? Almost all dates grown in the Jordan Valley are grown in Israeli settlements grown on stolen Palestinian land. Profits from those dates support the settlement industry, while Palestinians are forced by harsh economic conditions created by the occupation to work on these date farms for substandard wages and in hazardous conditions? This Ramadan, choose occupation-free dates. Buy American! Boycott Israeli dates for the sake of our brothers and sisters in Palestine.

Boycott Jordan River, Jordan River Bio-Tops, King Solomon and any brands marketed by Hadiklaim! Purchase California dates instead. Two brands to try are Medjooldates.com and Oasisdate.com.

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Commemorating the Nakba: 69 years of ongoing ethnic cleansing

On Monday, Palestinians around the world and their supporters will commemorated yet one more year of occupation and the continued dispossession of indigenous peoples from the land of Palestine.

Today, more than 1,200 Palestinian political prisoners are in the midst of a hunger strike to protest the illegal conditions under which they languish; Palestinians in Gaza struggle to find clean water to drink and exist on fewer than four hours of electricity per day; Palestinian citizens of Israel live as second-class citizens due to more than 50 discriminatory laws and Palestinians in diaspora, including refugees, are blocked from returning to their homeland.

Now, 69 years after Zionist militias and terrorist groups killed 13,000 Palestinians, destroyed about 500 villages and forced 750,000 – two thirds of the Palestinian population – from their homes and into exile, Israeli policies, fueled by Zionism, ensure the continued displacement of Palestinians. The Nabka is not a one-time event, but rather, a continuous effort to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from Palestine.

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The American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) strongly condemn flyers targeting our organizations and specifically AMP Chairman Hatem Bazian and JVP Director Rebecca Vilkomerson personally. We are particularly concerned that the distribution of these flyers specifically targeted the neighborhoods and specific blocks where they live. 
These reprehensible tactics--of attempted intimidation and guilt by association -- are indicative of the depths to which the anonymous organizations and/or individuals who distributed them will sink in order to attack our growing movement.

JVP and AMP affirm are proud to affirm our ongoing partnership on behalf of freedom and equality for Palestinian people. Our two organizations represent a hopeful future horizon for Jewish-Muslim partnerships grounded in social justice, deeper understanding and opposition to all forms of racism. We know that this attack is but the longest in a long history of Islamophobic conspiracy theories that attempt to link Islam with terrorism. We greatly appreciate the support we have received in the aftermath of this attack and it has only redoubled our commitment to continue to our work together toward freedom and justice.

Job Opening: Chicago Chapter Coordinator

AMP-Chicago, a national education and advocacy organization, is seeking a local full time (part time applicants will be considered as well) Chapter Coordinator to coordinate all chapter's committees and programs.

Qualifications:

1. Successful candidate will be a reliable, self-starter and enterprising individual, who can set and meet goals and deadlines.

2. Has good knowledge on and/or is willing to learn about the cause and history of Palestine.

3. Good communications and public relations skills.

4. Non-profit work or volunteer experience.

5. Previous experience with planning and/or coordinating events, committees and meetings.

6. Ability to present, lecture and speak in classroom settings and in public.

7. Ability to speak Arabic a plus.

8. Ability and availability to work a flexible schedule, and late evenings as well as weekends.

Job duties and expectations:

1. Coordinate with Chicago chapter and its committees to plan and implement AMP-Chicago events, including the annual fundraising dinner; the Nakba event; film screenings, rallies and demonstrations, lectures and other such events. In addition to the AMP annual conference.

2. Manage all Chicago office administration affairs.

3. Oversee all marketing and social media affairs for the chapter.

4. Coordinate volunteers for all events.

5. Create and maintain visually appealing AMP booth for major events and conferences.

6. Identify opportunities for AMP leafleting and/or tabling, with the goal of marketing AMP to wider audiences.

7. Act as liaison between AMP-Chicago and other Chicago-based social justice organizations and attend meetings to ensure AMP-Chicago involvement in local BDS and other Palestine advocacy campaigns.

8. Help organize and implement the AMP national Ramadan Date Boycott campaign, in coordination with other national staff.

9. Build relationships with other Islamic/Arab, and other social justice organizations in the Chicago metro region.

10. Work with, assist and coordinate the educational committee efforts in implementing its state-wide campaigns and projects.

11. Attend chapter meetings and other committee meetings as needed.

12. Report to the chapter chairperson and the ED.

Compensation:

According to skills, qualifications and schedule.

How to apply:

Please send a resume, cover letter and references to: [email protected]

NO phone calls please.


2017: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 70 years since the partition of Palestine; 50 years of occupation of the remaining 22 percent of historic Palestine and 10 years of the siege on Gaza.

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Are Your Members of Congress Trying to Criminalize BDS?


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This dangerous, unconstitutional bill was near the top of AIPAC’s agenda when its members lobbied Congress in March.

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A normal American politician?


Dear Chris,

Trump landed about ten hours ago in Tel Aviv - and when he’s talking about Israel/Palestine, I have to say: he sounds more or less like a normal American politician.

But that’s only because the narrative around Israel/Palestine in US discourse is so dehumanizing, convoluted, and inaccurate already.

Let’s not lose sight of the bigger picture here: Palestinians have been living under apartheid and occupation for decades, and the US is complicit.

The New York Times headline today reads “As Trump Arrives in Israel, His Deal-Making Skills Face a Test.”

Let’s leave aside the fact that actually, his deal-making skills are, as he would say, #sad. This isn’t about deal-making skills. It’s about values; it’s about justice, and human rights.

All the talk about talks - how urgent or how delicate the current moment is, whether Trump and Netanyahu are on the same page, if Palestinians will be receptive - obscures what is truly urgent: the suffering and struggle of Palestinians who have been oppressed for too long by a brutal occupier.

It’s true that over the last weeks, what seemed a tight alliance between Trump and Netanyahu has become a more fraught relationship - the Times even reported that some Israeli officials said their main goal for the visit was simply “to make sure that there was no great gaffe or misunderstanding.”

But we shouldn’t be distracted by the fine points of disagreement between them. Nothing that comes from either of their mouths about Palestine comes from a desire for peace, because there is no shred of evidence that either harbors any such desire. If they did, David Friedman wouldn’t be ambassador. If they did, settlements wouldn’t be continuing to expand in the West Bank.

Dangling the possibility of more peace talks is the same as it ever was: a cover for increased expansion and further cementing “the facts on the ground.”

So let’s get back to basics: please take this moment to share our “Israel/Palestine 101” video with family and friends. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qrzKO9xuXaJZVSZeivZPUHOaD95OF5%2B7)

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This is a concrete tool for people you want to have healthier, more honest conversations with: about how we can’t normalize Trump, and we also can’t normalize Israel. The only thing that will bring about a just resolution is grassroots organizing that demands true change to US policy on Israel and an end to occupation, siege, and apartheid.

Also be sure to take a look at this livestreamed video (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ewI%2BfOVAaOWwiF%2FQ4XQnJXOaD95OF5%2B7) from our Media Program Manager, Naomi Dann, who is on the ground in Israel/Palestine this week.

With you working for justice, yesterday, today, and tomorrow,

Ari


Ari Wohlfeiler
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We are fighting for justice in Hebron!


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Dear Chris --

The other day, we dropped a banner from Shuhada Street, an area almost entirely closed to Palestinians. The banner read, "This is Palestine. Welcome to Apartheid Street." Here is why:

For the last 20 years, and increasing even more over the last two years, Israeli settlers have been installing hateful signs in Hebron. The signs change the names of streets from Arabic to Hebrew and ferment hatred and violence. Many of the signs are illegally mounted on Palestinian homes and shops without permission from the owner. Issa Amro wrote about the signs for Mondoweiss (http://www.workingforpeaceandjustice.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmondoweiss.net%2F2017%2F05%2Fsett lers-palestinian-identity%2F&e=5dab5ebc94690a29a9c167ebe8523085&utm_source=wpj&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=injustice_signs&n=1): "The purpose of the sign is not to provide directions but to erase Palestinian identity, and even the Arabic language, from the area." We have been working with Rabbis for Human Rights to use legal measures to have the signs removed. However, the army refused, citing fear of violence. Yet the army regularly grants permits for settlers to have marches celebrating terrorism against Palestinians.

Sign the petition (http://www.yashebron.org/no_settlers_signs?e=5dab5ebc94690a29a9c167ebe85230 85&utm_source=wpj&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=injustice_signs&n=2) to tell the Israeli Civil Administration to implement their own laws and remove the signs! Then contribute to our grassroots direct action campaign to counter the hateful signs (http://www.yashebron.org/apartheid_signs?e=5dab5ebc94690a29a9c167ebe8523085&utm_source=wpj&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=injustice_signs&n=3).

With your support we will be continue to spread truth and justice in Hebron. Part of this will involve more grassroots efforts like our banner drops and protests. Other parts will involve ongoing legal measures and countering the signs and with installations that celebrate Palestinian life and history in the city.

Donate to our truth telling project to maintain Palestinian identity in the most heavily occupied city in the West Bank! (https://youthagainstsettlements-wpj.nationbuilder.com/donate?e=5dab5ebc94690a29a9c167ebe8523085&utm_source=wpj&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=injustice_signs&n=4)

Together we will continue to promote justice freedom, and equality for all people. Thank you for your support.

Towards justice,

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It was never meant to be temporary


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Dear Chris,

Next week will mark 50 years since Israel occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip. For half a century, Palestinian life has been characterized by U.S.-funded apartheid characterized by -- among other things -- illegal colonies on stolen indigenous land; military checkpoints; racial profiling; mass incarceration; torture of children; separation of families; tear gas and executions; indiscriminate bombing; environmental destruction; and repression of resistance in any form.

Palestinians younger than 50 in the West Bank and Gaza have never known a single day of freedom in their entire lives.

Chris, we cannot let this moment pass without saying clearly: ENOUGH! Join with others nationwide in a Week of Action June 5-10. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oCsGFAykR5JwSf6NmJeOliPEbU0%2BbT2D)

The week of action is designed to be flexible, to boost your own local organizing. You decide which action to take to push forward your work for justice in Palestine. Sign up on this page (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EoCfeSLipFah%2BvrfHv6fcLupKcgf9eE8), where you can find ideas for actions including informational events, campaigns, media actions, direct action, and policy work. Here is a sampling of what's in store:

• Day of fasting in honor of the #DignityStrike

• #SaltWaterChallenge opposing “Celebrate Israel” Parade in NYC

• Rallies, marches, and disruptions

• Media engagement

• Poetry direct action

• Putting up billboards

• #DeadlyExchange actions

• Meetings with representatives

• Film production and screenings

• Palestinian speakers in local communities

• Workshop challenging anti-Muslim oppression

• 50th anniversary briefing on Capitol Hill

• and more…


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2017 also marks 10 years of Israel's suffocating blockade of Gaza; 70 years since the Nakba and ethnic cleansing of Palestine began following UN recommended partition of the land against the will of the indigenous community; and 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, which set the stage for the Zionist movement to colonize Palestine and later to establish a Jewish state. This moment, and this context, can erase any illusions that the 1967 occupation was ever meant to be temporary. It is no aberration. It is the continuation of Israel's settler colonial project and we must say ENOUGH.

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With anticipation...





ANNA BALTZER
Director of Organizing & Advocacy








RAMAH KUDAIMI
Director of Grassroots Organizing




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P.P.S. As we commemorate these anniversaries, a groundbreaking delegation of Palestinians -- including those living in Palestine and in exile -- will travel to key sites of the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter struggles to connect Palestinian resistance to Israeli colonialism to impacted communities working against racism and injustice in the United States.

Chris, your generous donation today (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=W%2FxPpBSPC0RbM03pjHRNKrupKcgf9eE8) will help us support this tour and the other exciting cross-movement campaigns we have planned around this year’s anniversaries.

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BREAKING: Trump Signs Waiver, But Senate Wants Embassy in Jerusalem


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Dear Chris,

Breaking news: Donald Trump has backed off one of his major campaign pledges and signed a waiver to the Jerusalem Embassy Act to keep the US Embassy to Israel in Tel Aviv for another six months.

For the time being, Trump is upholding a long-standing, bipartisan policy of not recognizing any nation’s claims to sovereignty in Jerusalem.

While Trump has realized that moving the US embassy to Jerusalem at this point would be a mistake, the Senate has other ideas.

Last week, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) introduced S.Res.176, a resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of what it terms Israel’s “reunification of Jerusalem.” And he’ll be bringing it up for a vote next Monday, June 5.

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Not only does S.Res.176 call on the president to move the US embassy to Jerusalem. It also celebrates the fact that Israel has held East Jerusalem under military occupation for the past half-century and ignores Israel’s violations of international law—its construction of settlements and a wall, its expropriation of Palestinian property and demolition of Palestinian homes—there.

It makes patently false claims that all people enjoy freedom of worship in Jerusalem under Israeli administration when Palestinians from other parts of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip do not have the ability to pray at their holy sites in Jerusalem without a permit, which is often difficult or nearly impossible to obtain.

The resolution also fails to mention the separate-and-unequal status that Palestinian Jerusalemites face under Israel’s regime. Even though Israel annexed East Jerusalem, a move which even the United States refuses to recognize, Palestinian residents are not citizens of Israel and can’t vote for its parliament. Israel often regularly revokes Palestinians’ residency rights in the city as part of a plan to engineer a favorable demographic balance. And Palestinians face systematic discrimination from the municipality in the allocation of building permits and funds for schools, health care, sanitation and other services.

Click here (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FDJ9PBMJIYesQLhmGZPjX7VB7U7Vhtf3) to contact your Senators about this resolution (and your Representative about a similar one in the House which may also come up for a vote next week).

Learn more about why we oppose these resolutions in the talking points (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KbqT%2Bn4ejGfGQ1jYp7JbAbVB7U7Vhtf3) we sent to Capitol Hill earlier this week. And learn more why we think it would be a terrible mistake to move the US Embassy to Israel to Jerusalem in this policy paper (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RnAvelzNbJvVNo%2FTBRbOtrVB7U7Vhtf3) we published earlier this year.

This is urgent! We can’t let the Senate vote on this resolution on Monday before our Senators hear an outcry from constituents like you who oppose Israel’s military occupation of East Jerusalem and the separate-and-unequal regime (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3AvYVPE90Vrnu%2Bu4r5p8J6cyn4ukolMN) it has created in the city.

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Sincerely,

JOSH RUEBNER

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Three things you can do for Palestine today


ACTION ALERT

Please support Washington Post for exposing Israel’s occupation
Paper under attack for presenting Palestinian perspective

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Join AMP's team of News Flash Responders! The media needs to hear from us so they know accurate coverage of Palestinians is important to a large segment of their readers or viewers.

We will occasionally send out a News Flash! so you can let the media know you support them when they are accurate or that you're holding them accountable when they're not.

We'll provide quick access links, pre-written letters to the editor, or talking points. If you'd like to be included in this important group, please let us know ([email protected])!

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Last week, the Washington Post published a three-part, multi-media series answering the question, “What’s it like to live under occupation?” The project was published in conjunction with the 50th year of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem.


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Of course, there may be things in each of the articles with which we do not agree. We may think some of the descriptions of occupation don’t go far enough. But, this is one of the first efforts by a national, mainstream news organization to really bring a Palestinian point of view to the American people. For this reason, the American Muslims for Palestine believes the Washington Post and the writers, William Booth and Sufian Taha, and photographer Linda Davidson need to be supported.

That’s because the Jewish Community Resource Council (JCRC) sent an action alert to its supporters asking them to criticize the articles by writing letters to the editor. It is important that our voices are heard so the Washington Post and other mainstream news organizations will continue to bring the Palestinian narrative to the average American. This is how we change what editors and reporters decide to cover.

Please send a letter to the editor (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fSb%2F4M3NjainfUdyKU5HsBWSAGP6cWDG) to thank them for this comprehensive series. Send this action alert to your friends and family members, too. The more people they hear from, the greater the chances they’ll do something like this again. Talking points will be provided once you click the links.

Israeli military ‘reservists’ attack SJP students at UC Irvine
Take action to protect Palestine solidarity activists from intimidation!

For four straight days this past May, a group of Israel soldiers called “Reservists On Duty” (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WPIM0woUOTiCCrOFH8GquBWSAGP6cWDG) harassed University of California, Irvine (UCI) students at their mock apartheid wall. The soldiers surveilled, disrupted, and physically assaulted Palestinian members of UCI SJP, along with their Latinx, Black, Native and Jewish allies.

Reservists on Duty is an Israeli group that sends soldiers to U.S. campuses to counter the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights by creating a “shockwave” on campuses, according to Palestine Legal.

The intimidation occurred in full view of administrators who took no action to protect students from foreign military agents. When students complained, they were told that nothing could be done.

Palestine Legal, the American Muslims for Palestine and other civil rights groups sent a letter (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MtvY6G%2Frp3JhDBzcINRtXRWSAGP6cWDG) to Chancellor Howard Gilman decrying the outrageous actions by members of a foreign military against American students, and demanded the university protect Palestinian American students.

This occurred in full view of administrators who took no action to protect students from foreign military agents. When students complained, they were told that nothing could be done.

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Watch New Boycott HP Video Just Released!


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Dear Chris,

Check out this new video (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ICelqidMggtZE0as1zfKfOpbiBMo3MF2) USCPR member group Adalah-NY just released as part of our #Marking50 Week of Action!

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As we continue #Marking50 this week to bring attention to the plight of Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza, now is the time to also push forward boycott and divestment campaigns to force companies to stop underpinning Israel's oppression.

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We have more than 50 actions (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Yk6PWIu55nO33gGrkKx2jupbiBMo3MF2) taking place nationwide to mark this moment, but today, we need you to take action online!

For years activists worldwide have been targeting Hewlett Packard Enterprise and HP Inc. for enabling Israel's racial profiling of Palestinians and hindering their freedom of movement; helping Israel implement its siege of Gaza; and supporting illegal Israeli settlements. In February 2016 we sent letters (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Jc8RtT1%2BMe7cX4DCQsrcRepbiBMo3MF2) to the CEOs of both companies asking for clarity around HP companies’ occupation-related contracts. We have yet to receive any response.

HP Enterprise is hosting its #HPEDiscover event this week in Las Vegas. Let take action online today by tweeting using both the event hashtag #HPEDiscover and #Marking50 to demand all HP companies stop profiting off of occupation!

Click on the tweets below to automatically send them. Tweets include links for more information about HP's complicity in Israel's oppression of Palestinians. You can also download the graphics (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ULlv2UjJbbAFJ%2Fv1G4shXOpbiBMo3MF2) here and post them too. If you do not have a Twitter account, you can also post messages on HPE's Facebook page (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qHpS%2BkYLcZ9%2BUG4Y064%2BcepbiBMo3MF2).

Check out new #Marking50 video released just in time for #HPEDiscover! http://bit.ly/2sjm52Z

Exciting new #HPEDiscover video just released about HP technology! Watch and share: http://bit.ly/2sjm52Z #Marking50

Why hasn't HP responded to concerns its technology is being used to violate human rights? #HPEDiscover #Marking50 http://bit.ly/2s7Yoe4

#HPEDiscover why human rights activists are targeting HP: http://bit.ly/2gfjBvN #Marking50

Checkpoints. Prisons. Settlements. #HPEDiscover how HP is multitasking against Palestinian rights: http://bit.ly/1Gor7Zf #Marking50

#HPEDiscover: Stop supplying Israel with technology that Harms Palestinians! http://bit.ly/boycotthp #Marking50

#HPEDiscover: HPE technology enables profiling & segregation of Palestinians by Israel. http://bit.ly/boycotthp #Marking50

#HPEDiscover New #Marking50 workshop: "Israel’s use of HPE technology to segregate, oppress & harm Palestinians." http://bit.ly/boycotthp

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Factsheet: Arrests of Children in Jerusalem: Detention, Education, Financial Strains and Social Burdens


Check out Addameer's latest factsheet titled, "Arrests of Children in Jerusalem: Detention, Education, Financial Strains and Social Burdens." (http://www.addameer.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=280&qid=518019)

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SJP has a right to exist.


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Dear Chris,

It's Day 5. Fifty years ago today, Israel was near completion of its occupation of the Palestinian West Bank and Gaza Strip, which continues today, a half century later, on top of Israel's acquisition of the rest of historic Palestine in 1948.

Yesterday, Defense for Children International - Palestine and American Friends Service Committee held a powerful Capitol Hill briefing (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2%2BHZZDHF7Ds0jv%2B%2BmUPcoeCG%2FDWoTFKP) about 50 years of occupation and life for Palestinian children. Speakers included USCPR Steering Committee member Nadia Ben-Youssef, who testified about Umm Al Hiran Bedouin village in the Negev, capturing the reality that the occupation is but one component of Israel's ongoing settler colonial project.

Extraordinary actions have been unfolding every day (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=biH7MtruoPZGRB6I6sRiDeCG%2FDWoTFKP) from coast to coast as part of an inspiring Week of Action (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bEbjpEjiG%2FeOcRPIEsR1mOCG%2FDWoTFKP) #Marking50, including this subway poem-reading action (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qmIvMf%2Fs8CfSbJAuHl6EeeCG%2FDWoTFKP) by member group Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, and much more!

To complement these actions on the ground, here's the fifth online action in our six-day series supporting policy advocacy, faith-based work, corporate accountability, and more...

ACTION 5 on DAY 5:

For months, Fordham University has denied Students for Justice in Palestine the right to be an official club on campus, prompting a lawsuit by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal on behalf of the students. This week, Fordham moved to dismiss the lawsuit and, in its response, betrayed the true motivation for its ban: SJP's commitment to justice in Palestine.

NOW is the time to send the strongest message possible to its administration demanding an end to its ban! Please take these quick actions:

1. Click here to instantly tweet (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=heQXET3ePtbssJbWBJWUgcSjp%2BhX6JYK) the following message: Stop denying Students for Justice in Palestine's right to exist! @FordhamNYC @dk_eldredge @FordhamAAUP @FordhamUSGLC @FordhamAlumni

2. CALL Fordham President Rev. Joseph M. McShane, S.J. at 718-817-3000 and demand that he permits the students to establish an SJP.

3. CLICK TO INSTANTLY EMAIL (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SA0wt%2B7AJbl%2BSh6CQL9P1%2BCG%2FDWoTFKP) the President and Dean!

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According to international law, Israel's settlements and apartheid wall do not have a right to exist. Israel's discriminatory laws targeting Palestinian citizens and denying refugees' return do not have a right to exist. Israel's practices of torture and collective punishment do not have a right to exist.

Yet in today's backwards world, it is Students for Justice in Palestine -- which supports justice and liberation -- that is fighting for its right to exist on Fordham's campus.

SJP has always stood for those fighting discrimination. Today, let's stand with them. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xGkrnqKtl73KaUsvIZTR08Sjp%2BhX6JYK)





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Ten years. Can you imagine?


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Dear Chris,

10 years ago, Israel closed its borders with the Gaza Strip, intensifying restrictions that had long been in place targeting the tiny strip of land home to more than 1.5 million Palestinians -- many of them children -- to whom Israel has deliberately denied the most basic means of survival including sanitation infrastructure, food, and drinking water. Today, a decade later, 2 million Palestinians remain trapped and as the population has steadily grown, the economy has been decimated, leaving the residents in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.

The blockade of Gaza (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2300Xx2og%2BnQae0ouiLw%2F96b0XoTBrfD), which is enforced by both Israel and Egypt and backed by the U.S., has not only denied Palestinians in Gaza the ability to leave to secure medical treatment, unite with family, or study abroad; it also denies them the right to sustain themselves through fishing, farming, and other traditional means of survival. This tenth anniversary comes at a time when Israel, with support of other regimes in the region, is implementing further cuts to electricity and catastrophe looms (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Hqtw3z6g0DEo5nNVHoEV%2Ft6b0XoTBrfD).

Please take a minute to imagine: an entire decade of being cut off from the world.

This summer, we'll be sharing actions against the blockade and in commemoration of the devastating 2014 bombardment of Gaza that left more than 2,000 dead, the vast majority innocent civilians, including more than 500 children.

USCPR has also begun creating a web section on Gaza (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ZgUXN3gAxnvd4YDarItjht6b0XoTBrfD) compiling important resources from member groups and other sources as part of Track 1: Not that Complicated in our 2017 political education series, Together We Rise: Palestine as a Model of Resistance (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Hqtw3z6g0DH70XFIjNzLTt6b0XoTBrfD). The section includes:

• Powerful infographics and videos about Gaza that help tell the story

• Gaza Unlocked (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FlNBPh6F93kKXoP5OwksMN6b0XoTBrfD), a project of member group American Friends Service Committee that provides first-hand accounts from Palestinians living in Gaza, as well as action ideas including this online form to urge your congressional representatives to end the blockade. (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vw3J5s6UIvdNomlNPj8Ud96b0XoTBrfD)


Through Gaza, we see the compounded iterations of Israeli settler colonialism. The vast majority of Palestinians in Gaza are already refugees from Israel's creation in 1948 through the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which forced hundreds of thousands living in the southern parts of Palestine to flee to what became known as the Gaza Strip. Less than 20 years later, in 1967, Israel occupied Gaza along with the West Bank, displacing and traumatizing the population for a second time in a violent occupation that continues today, a half century later. Israel's blockade over the past decade has subjected that same population to an intentional humanitarian crisis manufactured by Israel.

With Gaza closed off from the world, it may be easy to put it out of our minds the grotesque situation designed by Israel to strangle the people of Gaza. We cannot forget. Today, as we mark ten years, let us recommit ourselves to the liberation of Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere resisting varied forms of Israel's brutal policies.

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YOUSEF MUNAYYER
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P.S. There's still time to sign up for our webinar on Tuesday, World Refugee Day -- No Bans on Stolen Lands: Refugee Resistance from the U.S. to Palestine (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UTEORLEGz%2FhsgXERR1DfPd6MejllOMYN) -- connecting Trump's #MuslimBan with Israel's 70-year ban on Palestinian refugees.

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A conviction rate of 99%


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Dear Chris,

Last week marked 50 years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Two separate laws for two groups of people is apartheid. While Israeli settlers living illegally in the West Bank are governed under civilian law, Palestinians are subject to Israeli military law with a conviction rate of 99%. It is in the context of this injustice that nonviolent Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro is facing 18 charges in military court.

Issa needs our help. (http://www.codepink.org/stand_with_issa?e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issa_june16&n=2)

Many of the offenses that Issa is accused of are not considered crimes under international or even Israeli civilian law. All of Issa’s charges are connected to his nonviolent activism to bring about a just end to the occupation. For this, he is facing years in prison!

In 2010 the United Nations declared Issa Human Rights Defender of the Year for Palestine. In 2013 the European Union gave Issa official human rights defender recognition. Amnesty International has called for urgent action, stating that the charges against Issa are politically motivated. Now members of Congress are circulating a letter calling on the State Department to protect Issa.

Tell your member of Congress to sign the letter by Representatives Mark Pocan, Keith Ellison, Betty McCullum, and Earl Blumenauer. (http://www.codepink.org/stand_with_issa?e=247b6f0c69174ee7dfa25e341c4eedfe&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=issa_june16&n=3)

The letter in support of Issa is quickly gaining traction on Capitol Hill. But we need more signatures. That’s why we are depending on you to tell your representative to #StandWithIssa!

Towards freedom, justice, and equality!
Ann, Ariel, Medea, and the entire CODEPINK team

P.S. Last week Israel announced it will be reducing electricity in Gaza by 40%! Already at only four hours a day, a further reduction will devastate the population. In the coming days, we will be building a campaign to keep the lights on in Gaza. Stay tuned for how you can help.

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What a week


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Dear Chris,

The occupation is now a half century old, and people are saying ENOUGH!

During the June 5-10 week of action, from coast to coast, in the midwest, and in the south, groups were #Marking50, calling for an end to Israel’s occupation and all forms of its ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

The actions were diverse, creative, and inspiring, catering to the unique context of each location. Check out our new online album of week of action images! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=M3BWOPQZiL1Kaxy%2B1xqd8JlbhUYDvgFl)

Chico, CA NYC Portland, ME
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Here is a sampling of the more than 50 actions that occurred:
Demonstrations and rallies took place in Hilton Head, SC; Ashland, OR; Wilmington, DE (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cyGnCSc14ZcnTscI5rqPHy%2FBFCxWSItK); Santa Fe, NM; Tucson, AZ; Philadelphia, PA; San Francisco (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rgL%2B8pkehM9%2Ff01Kqh%2BWXplbhUYDvgFl), San Mateo, and Santa Cruz, CA; Greenfield, MA; Washington, DC; and many other cities. In Cambridge, MA (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uvbj1jHOOl7SVhbCkBv0ei%2FBFCxWSItK), 250 people shut down a major street for an hour.

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There were six demonstrations in the state of New York alone, including a series of creative direct actions by member group Jewish Voice for Peace disrupting the Celebrate Israel Parade (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DH%2BYZIKEVJ%2FeQx9Sjlk%2B2i%2FBFCxWSItK) in Manhattan and calling out the Israeli-NYPD #deadlyexchange; while in Brooklyn, activists from Librarians and Archivists for Palestine read Palestinian poetry on the subway (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xtsneelcKEp2FD5hJAkefy%2FBFCxWSItK) to honor Palestinian life.

Two member groups fasted and held a solidarity iftar (breaking of the fast).

In Boston (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AnPnJRopNXes0wWOvR%2Bri5lbhUYDvgFl) and New Orleans (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bMgfSMNar%2Fil56G52rtIJC%2FBFCxWSItK), member groups put up educational billboards to reach the masses, while members in Columbia, MO (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qN4caN9NyeVvnL440qQgrC%2FBFCxWSItK) and Richmond, VA (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vKQlmyP%2BlqU681bbc6stgy%2FBFCxWSItK) published articles for the local media while USCPR Executive Director Yousef Munayyer published this piece (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ik2JKPVArHO%2FEcPlaOngqC%2FBFCxWSItK) in The New Yorker.

During a powerful Congressional briefing in Washington, DC (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wGHxcutuX8894Z4lvRawSS%2FBFCxWSItK), member groups in Chicago gathered for a watch party! Meanwhile, groups in Missouri, Maine, and Washington, D.C. met with Members of Congress.

Educational events and workshops were held by groups in Wichita, KS; St. Louis, MO; Durham, NC; Knoxville, TN; Northfield, MN; Austin, TX; Madison and Wausau, WI; Richmond, VA; Albany, NY; Los Angeles (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Bl0fRzo7vSM3z2%2BL9L8hVC%2FBFCxWSItK) and Chico, CA; and beyond!

Amnesty International launched a major new campaign (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=w08WcJMQmoFBZLL%2ByhnqBy%2FBFCxWSItK); churches nationwide have been passing resolutions and becoming HP-free; Kairos-USA launched a new online portal (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=F9K0Sv4Te4WA1bFNOufchC%2FBFCxWSItK), and the US Campaign kicked off its 2017 political education curriculum (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EfLjc2ZxXSM8W5noeyCxhy%2FBFCxWSItK), Together We Rise: Palestine as a Model of Resistance.

Here is an online album of images from these creative actions! (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6HqlX7cNQcY0VQnAcNxJYS%2FBFCxWSItK)

Hats off to the amazing work of all the groups who took part in #Marking50. Together we show the growing opposition to Israel’s occupation and apartheid regime, and the broad support for freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

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Onward,





RAMAH KUDAIMI
Director of Grassroots Organizing






ANNA BALTZER
Director of Organizing & Advocacy





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AMP organizes alumni letter to UCI chancellor to address Israeli military attacks against Palestine solidarity students on campus

As reported here earlier, a group of Israeli soldiers who belong to a group called "Reservists on Duty" were sent to the campus of the University of California - Irvine to harrass and intimidate students advocating for Palestinian rights in May.

Several organizations, including AMP, have gotten involved (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IEIniPXkAvYH8WhpzPsLblIonW5QI66y) to condemn the outrageous nature of the action and the university's lack of response.

Now, AMP has organized a petition to Chancellor Howard Gillman to further decry the university's inaction.

From the petition: "From May 8th to May 11th 2017, a group of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers called “Reservists On Duty” harassed UC Irvine students during a week of educational events about the plight of Palestinians. When students complained to administrative officials, they refused to intervene. Furthermore, the administration is now investigating whether disciplinary actions should be taken against the students who complained about the intimidation they faced. In the current national political climate, with the rise in violence and hate crimes against minority communities, ensuring the safety of students should always be a priority for the administration. Soldiers from a foreign military should never be allowed to physically intimidate college students."

More than 130 UC Irvine Muslim alumni signed the petition, which was delivered to the chancellor on Tuesday morning. We are calling on the administration to immediately stop punishing students for exercising their free speech rights.


Palestinian Youth Movement Summer School July 23 - 29

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2017: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 70 years since the partition of Palestine; 50 years of occupation of the remaining 22 percent of historic Palestine and 10 years of the siege on Gaza.

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Ask Jared Kushner about Gaza


Dear Chris,

Today in the Gaza Strip, power is expected to be cut down to two hours a day. Two!

This should be big news - just think about what your life would be like: 22 hours with no refrigeration or lights, 22 hours a day without power even in hospitals. But as of now, the top headline out of Israel/Palestine is: Jared Kushner arrives “in pursuit of peace.”

This is absurd. There’s silence over a crushing humanitarian and political crisis in Gaza, and an hour’s drive away, a million cameras are focused on a settlement-funder whose only “diplomatic experience” is being friends with Benjamin Netanyahu.

But I think we can work with the media to our advantage right now. Tell the NY Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ian Fisher to #AskKushner:

Will ending the Gaza blockade be part of your peace process?

Click here to tweet this message to the NY Times. (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Kushner%20is%20going%20to%20Israel.%20% 40fisheri%20%40nytimes%20%23AskKushner%20is%20end% 20of%20%23Gaza%20blockade%20part%20of%20your%20pea ce%20process%3F%20pic.twitter.com%2FqNjDDGzrRb&source=webclient)

Click here to email this message to the NY Times. ([email protected])

This is wrapped up in a bigger question we shouldn’t even have to ask: What will it take for the Israeli government to respect Palestinian human rights in Gaza? The Times hasn’t been afraid to criticize Kushne before, and he shouldn’t get a pass when it comes to Palestine.

So now I want to see them ask: Would your “peace process” end the blockade of Gaza?

Click here to tweet this message to the NY Times. (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Kushner%20is%20going%20to%20Israel.%20% 40fisheri%20%40nytimes%20%23AskKushner%20is%20end% 20of%20%23Gaza%20blockade%20part%20of%20your%20pea ce%20process%3F%20pic.twitter.com%2FqNjDDGzrRb&source=webclient)

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No matter how tenuous your trust in the mainstream media, the fact is we’re in a moment where they are responsive to pressure to ask tougher questions and give more context.

Otherwise...well, we’ve seen this story over, and over, and over again.

The US starts a peace process, which sucks up all the attention media and the general public have for the issue. And what happens happens? Israel’s control over Palestinian life deepens, Palestinians are asked to “negotiate” for human rights, and then blamed if they refuse.

One of the hardest things about working on the issue from here is that we’re so far away. Some days, it feels like there’s really so little we can do. But we do have leverage over The New YorkTimes and other media outlets.

We all need to be pressuring Kushner to answer this question: will ending the blockade of Gaza be part of your peace process?

Click here to tweet this message to the NY Times. (https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Kushner%20is%20going%20to%20Israel.%20% 40fisheri%20%40nytimes%20%23AskKushner%20is%20end% 20of%20%23Gaza%20blockade%20part%20of%20your%20pea ce%20process%3F%20pic.twitter.com%2FqNjDDGzrRb&source=webclient)

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Onward,

Naomi


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The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine denounced the repeated Zionist attacks against the city of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque and collective punishment that has escalated over the last few days and hours, and the besieging of the village of Deir Abu Mashaal. Zionist forces have launched a campaign of attacks and arrests against the people of the village. These raids against the village will not extinguish the flame of resistance and will only intensify the determination of the Palestinian people to defend their rights, principles and holy sites.
The Front condemned the heavily armed forces of the Israeli police that stormed the courtyards of al-Aqsa Mosque, attacking worshippers and imposing closure on the Damascus Gate area. This military stranglehold is a retaliatory attack meant to divert attention from the clear failure of its military forces in preventing the heroic Jerusalem operation, which hit Zionist occupation forces in the holy city. These criminal practices reflect the essence of Zionist policy.
The Front denounced the prime minister of the Zionist enemy Netanyahu as a war criminal. His threats to take unprecedented action against the city of Jerusalem and the village of Deir Abu Mashaal and the orders to demolish the homes of the families of the strugglers who carried out the Jerusalem operation are empty baloons directed at the Zionist population after failing once more in Jerusalem and in an attempt to again cover up the corruption charges that have arisen once more. The demolition of homes and the policy of collective punishment by the occupation and its soldiers have never succeeded in smothering the spirit of resistance or breaking the popular support of the masses of our people. Instead, these attacks only fuel the flame of intifada and resistance.
The PFLP saluted the steadfastness of the Paletinian people in occupied Jerusalem and Deir Abu Mashaal village who continue to act to confront the crimes of the occupation. It called on the Palestinian masses to support their steadfastness by acting to break the siege on the city and the village, calling on all to turn any home demolitions into a battle with the enemy to prevent and stop this policy and expose it before the world. The aim of this policy is an attempt to break the will of the masses and weaken their embrace of resistance.
The Front also urged the Palestinian, Arab and international media to display the images of repression, abuse and closure on the steadfast village of Deir Abu Mashaal.
The Front warned the Zionist enemy that for every demolished home in Deir Abu Mashaal, Palestinian fighters will emerge from the rubble of these homes to respond to the crime as occurred in the courageous Promise of al-Buraq operation.
The PFLP emphasized its deepest greetings of pride for the families of the martyrs, their mothers in particular, for their steadfastness and national and human pride and strength.


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The Palestinian cause today has in some respects reverted to where it stood before the 1967 War. It is worth retracing this trajectory to understand how we reached the current […]

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Israel broke ground on Tuesday on its first new illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank for two decades, Israel's prime minister said, on the eve of a visit by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner to discuss peace talks.


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It's the worst thing Israel's done all year. It's a punishment which targets huge numbers of people who have committed no crime.


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The court ruled that it is unlawful for the government to restrict local councils from exercising their conscience and divesting their pensions from Israeli companies complicit in violating Palestinian human rights.


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One more hour in Gaza without electricity, and the signal there will be given: Qassam rockets. Israel once again will be the victim, and the massacre will begin. &#160; Israel […]

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To 'smear critics with allegations of anti-Semitism is to confuse criticisms of Israel's state policies with anti-Semitism,' writes international law expert Richard Falk.


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On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Addameer highlights systematic abuses by Israeli forces

26/06/2017- On International Day to Support Victims of Torture, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association highlights the continued forms of physical and psychological torture of Palestinian prisoners and detainees by Israeli forces. Occupation authorities practice torture and ill-treatment in a systematic manner, in contravention with international law, which prohibits physical and psychological torture. Human rights conventions, including the Convention Against Torture, to which Israeli is a signatory, as well as the Fourth Geneva Convention, prohibit the use of torture with no exceptions.

On the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the Palestinians prisoners’ issue has a special importance. Since 1967, 73 Palestinian prisoners and detainees have died as a result of torture in Israeli detention during interrogation. The latest case is Arafat Jaradat, who died on 23 February 2013 as a result of torture during interrogation. Commissioned Forensic Pathology expert Dr. Sebnem Korur Fincanci, found that “Arafat Jaradat was severely beaten while in detention, resulting in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, which caused his death in Israeli custody on 23 February 2013.”[1] Despite this, up to date, no Israeli official has been charged for Jaradat’s death.

Palestinian prisoners and detainees are subjected to torture and ill-treatment from the moment of the arrest, whether soldiers forcibly enter their homes in pre-dawn raids to arrest them, or at military checkpoints, from public streets, or at borders upon travel. While times and places may differ with regards to the arrest of the Palestinian detainees, the policy of physical assaults against the detainees is systematic and practiced in a widespread manner, regardless of age, gender, or health conditions.

Palestinian prisoners are often subjected to both psychological and physical torture during interrogation. Under military detention, interrogation can last for up to 75 days and where lawyer visits can be denied for the first 60 days. The forms of torture and ill-treatment employed against Palestinian prisoners include: prolonged isolation from the outside world; inhuman detention conditions; excessive use of blindfolds and handcuffs; slapping and kicking; sleep deprivation; denial of food and water for extended periods of time; denial of access to toilets; denial of access to showers or change of clothes for days or weeks; exposure to extreme cold or heat; position abuse; yelling and exposure to loud noises; insults and cursing; arresting family members or alleging that family members have been arrested; sexual abuse; slaps, kicks and blows; and violent shaking.

Confessions extracted through these illegal practices are then admissible in court. These policies are in direct contravention of international law, including Article 2(1) of the United Nations Convention against Torture (CAT), ratified by Israel on 3 October 1991, which requires any State Party to prevent the use of torture and associated practices. On this day, Addameer underlines the fact that there are 6200 Palestinian political prisoners who continue to suffer from systematic intentional torture and ill-treatment.

Addameer hereby calls upon the Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres to pressure Israel to implement its obligations according to international law, and to allow UN Special Rapporteurs and the UN Committee Against Torture to visit the prisons and detention centers – in order to monitor and investigate the conditions and allegations of torture.

Addameer also calls upon the United Nations and individual state parties to call upon the ICC to investigate the crime of torture and ill-treatment committed systematically against Palestinian prisoners and detainees.


[1] The Public Committee Against Torture and Al-Haq, 04 April 2014. “Leading International Forensic Pathologist: Palestinian Detainee Arafat Jaradat Was Tortured, Which Led To His Death In Israeli Custody”. Available at http://www.alhaq.org/advocacy/topics/right-to-life-and-body-integrity/794-joint-press-statement-the-public-committee-against-torture-in-israel-and-al-haq

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following July 2 statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine confirmed that the Zionist occupation forces launched a pre-dawn campaign of raids across the occupied West Bank of Palestine on Sunday, arresting a number of leaders and activists of the Front, led by the Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar, feminist activist Khitam Saafin and former prisoner Ihab Massoud, as well as a number of activists in al-Khalil. The Front declared that these attacks will not stop it from continuing its role in resistance to occupation and confronting the crimes and projects that attempt to liquidate the Palestinian cause.
The Front emphasized that these arrests only underline the futility of the choices of the Palestinian Authority to continue to bet on settlements, “peace process” and security coordination. It also confirms the correctness of the Front’s position and its continuing struggle to build the resistance and the primary contradiction with the occupation as a major feature of its approach and political positions.
The Front further stated that these arrests have come after the major campaign of incitement launched by the Zionist entity and its prime minister, the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the resistance factions.
The PFLP urged the Palestinian masses to escalate the popular movement to support the struggle of the brave prisoners in Israeli jails, for Jarrar and Saafin and the prisoner Muhammad Allan, on hunger strike for 25 days.
The Front promised to continue to defend the rights and principles of the Palestinian people. Continued targeting by the occupation only emphasizes the importance of continuing the path to return and liberation.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
July 2, 2017


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Palestinian photos and films seized by Israeli troops have been gathering dust in the army and Defense Ministry archives until Dr. Rona Sela, a curator and art historian, exposed them. […]

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Khalida Jarrar, a civil society leader, has been a Palestinian Legislative Council Member since 2006, is head of the Prisoners' Commission in the Palestinian Legislative Council, and member of the Board of Directors of Addameer Prisoner Support.


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DIGEST: Largest number of US Reps ever take stand for Palestinian rights


VICTORY! Unprecedented show of support for Palestinian rights in Congress!

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In an extraordinary show of support by Congress, 32 members issued a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson calling for Israel to end its persecution of Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro, who is facing several years in prison based upon 18 old, trump-up charges.

The “Dear Colleague” letter was sponsored by Reps. Ralph Blumenauer (D-OR), along with Keith Ellison (D-MN), Betty McCollum (D-MN), and Mark Pocan (D-WI). It states, “We fear that Israeli military courts deliberating over Mr. Amro’s charges will be unlikely to render a fair and impartial verdict given that the conviction rate within that system is 99.74 percent.” AMP was part of a broad coalition, headed by CodePink, that worked tirelessy to bring Issa's story to Congress.

This is the largest number to date of U.S. congressmen and women who have taken a public stand for Palestinian human rights.

It is imperative that we show support for those members of Congress who took a public stand for Palestinians.
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AMP's media director attends Palestine forum at United Nations

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(WASHINGTON DC 07/03/2017) -- Kristin Szremski, AMP's director of media and communications, attended a daylong civil society forum Friday hosted by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at the UN headquarters in New York.

Keynote speaker was Noble Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams, who won the prestigious prize for her work on landmines. The forum was to mark 50 years of Israeli occupation, and the day's event was titled, "Ending the Occupation: Creating the Space for Human Rights, Development and a Just Peace." It was geaared toward civil society organizations.

"It was affirming to be in the presence of old and new friends, all of whom are committed to working for Palestinian justice and liberty," Szremski said. "It was also heartening to see that AMP's work is aligned with the forum's message - that activist organizations need to continue to provide education, legislative advocacy and to support the BDS movement."


SFSU Professor under attack: Support her defense fund
Zionists sue university

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In a major attempt to silence a Palestinian solidarity activism, the far-right Zionist organization, Lawfare, filed a lawsuit against San Francisco State University (SFSU) under the Title VI provision of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Since 2011, Zionist organizations such as the Zionist Organization of America and the AMCHA Initiative, have filed Title VI complaints with the U.S. Department of Education against several campuses across the country, saying activism for Palestinian rights was anti-Semitic. None of the complaints was successful, however.

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"The true intent of the lawsuit is clear: to ensure that advocates for Palestinian rights are punished for standing up for human rights and justice for Palestinians, who have been dispossessed, occupied, and deprived of basic human rights for 70 years," wrote Palestine Legal in its statement about the lawsuit.

Professor Rabab Abdulhadi of the Arab Muslim and Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies program, is named in the lawsuit and has been under attack for her outspoken support of Palestinian rights for years. Please support her and her students by donating to her legal fund. (http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TYRhX1rVvI3O%2FKcxm%2BFdYHJMrE6pLFUV)

Job Opening: Chicago Chapter Coordinator

AMP-Chicago, a national education and advocacy organization, is seeking a local full time (part time applicants will be considered as well) Chapter Coordinator to coordinate all chapter's committees and programs.

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2017: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 70 years since the partition of Palestine; 50 years of occupation of the remaining 22 percent of historic Palestine and 10 years of the siege on Gaza.


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Like the children of countless American Jewish families, throughout her childhood Ayelet Waldman was told that trees were being planted in her name across Israel, something very few people questioned back then.


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The North American Jewish establishment is furious with Israel - and has just let loose an astonishing fusillade of collective protest.


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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following July 2 statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine confirmed that the Zionist occupation forces launched a pre-dawn campaign of raids across the occupied West Bank of Palestine on Sunday, arresting a number of leaders and activists of the Front, led by the Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar, feminist activist Khitam Saafin and former prisoner Ihab Massoud, as well as a number of activists in al-Khalil. The Front declared that these attacks will not stop it from continuing its role in resistance to occupation and confronting the crimes and projects that attempt to liquidate the Palestinian cause.
The Front emphasized that these arrests only underline the futility of the choices of the Palestinian Authority to continue to bet on settlements, “peace process” and security coordination. It also confirms the correctness of the Front’s position and its continuing struggle to build the resistance and the primary contradiction with the occupation as a major feature of its approach and political positions.
The Front further stated that these arrests have come after the major campaign of incitement launched by the Zionist entity and its prime minister, the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the resistance factions.
The PFLP urged the Palestinian masses to escalate the popular movement to support the struggle of the brave prisoners in Israeli jails, for Jarrar and Saafin and the prisoner Muhammad Allan, on hunger strike for 25 days.
The Front promised to continue to defend the rights and principles of the Palestinian people. Continued targeting by the occupation only emphasizes the importance of continuing the path to return and liberation.
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
July 2, 2017


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What an evil whole world this is, not just Israel. If the world was full of good people, of good armed forces and of good governments, many governments of the world would've invaded Israel already and stop Israel from violating Palestines, and many other evil nations of this world like USA, who also need to be stopped from doing more evil. Because I believe that 241 years of evil is too much (USA doing evil from 4th of July 1776 until 5th of July of 2017). But this world is not like that, this world is full of heart less people, heart less citizens who keep voting for capitalist and imperialist political parties


Khalida Jarrar, a civil society leader, has been a Palestinian Legislative Council Member since 2006, is head of the Prisoners' Commission in the Palestinian Legislative Council, and member of the Board of Directors of Addameer Prisoner Support.


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http://socialistproject.ca/go3416.jpgEvery couple of years, since Hamas was elected in 2006, the international community grants Israel an opportunity to carry out a major attack on Gaza. All the leaders of the 'free world' then stand together in supporting Israel's right to 'defend itself' from besieged, unarmed Gazan civilians. Some countries provide political backup, others provide arms, while others offer their silence--allowing Israel to carry out its violations of international law and human rights unimpeded.

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http://socialistproject.ca/go3417.jpgThis month marks the 50th anniversary of the Israeli occupation, and as NDP leadership candidates and activists prepare for Sunday’s leadership debate, a group of over 80 academics, community leaders and organizations have authored this open letter to send a message for the NDP: It’s time to commit to a bold policy of support for human rights in the occupied territories.

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Two Palestinian families in occupied East Jerusalem were forced to demolish their own homes yesterday after occupying forces claimed they were built without the nearly impossible to obtain building permits.


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News and Action Digest: Gaza, SF State, Congress


Dear Chris,

I hope you are enjoying your summer thus far! Here are a few key updates from JVP that I wanted to share as we head into the weekend. Please let me know if you have questions, feedback, or other ideas to make our work stronger!

TURN THE LIGHTS ON

While much attention has been paid recently in the American Jewish community to discussions of gender equity at the Western Wall, the electricity crisis in Gaza has been largely ignored. During the same period of time, the Palestinian Authority and Israel colluded to reduce the already drastically curtailed supplies of electricity to Gaza to just two hours a day, which constitutes a severe public health crisis and escalation of pressure on Gaza. Our new Health Workers Council put out this statement (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Qb2n1o6PlFHMRu%2F%2B%2B0ycVtErn%2FUCTjSd) to help bring a sense of urgency to the crisis. And please watch and share this video (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Zrav4wsehpxTXOZrgAR2VpZzCJ7%2BRMQ3) from the IMEU for a sense of the impact on people in Gaza.

ON CAMPUS

JVP student and faculty members in California have been fighting hard on an egregious case at SF State (sadly only one of several battles being waged on campuses this month). A coalition of groups (including JVP) held a “Know Your Rights” fair at SF State, specifically for undocumented Arab, Muslim and LGBTQ students. Hillel subsequently filed a suit claiming that their exclusion from tabling as part of the event was an incident of discrimination against Jews.

These claims not only erase the Jews on campus who are actually supportive of Palestinian rights, but it uses claims of Jewish discomfort to harass and repress the rights of Arab and Muslim students. David Spero wrote an excellent op-ed (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=s5P2gptGYhZmmHuFKL7Bv9Ern%2FUCTjSd) explaining the situation, many students wrote letters to the editors, and our members in California have been making calls to the President of the University, urging him to defend against the lawsuit and protect all students. The decision is expected sometime in the next week. If the university rules in Hillel's favor, it will effectively validate Hillel's claim to define Jewishness on campus, and its claims that the Palestine solidarity movement is inherently antisemitic.

BIG FIRSTS: #ISSAAMRO, TOWN HALLS, AND THE UN FORUM

In better news, we are very proud to have been part of the effort, along with the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Code Pink, and American Muslims for Palestine, to urge Members of Congress to sign on to a letter in support of Issa Amro, the founder of Youth Against Settlements in Hebron, who will be prosecuted in Israeli court on July 9th for non-violent protests.

An unprecedented 32 congresspeople signed on to the letter, the largest number to date on a letter supporting Palestinian rights. So many of you in chapters did an enormous amount of work reaching out to your congressperson-- and even if yours didn't sign on this time, hopefully they will the next!

Speaking of which, we have set an ambitious goal for 20 chapters to participate in Town Halls with Members of Congress in August. We want to make sure that Palestinian rights are on the progressive agenda.

Also this month, I was invited to represent JVP at the UN Forum to Mark 50 Years of Occupation, a first for us! You can see video of my remarks here (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2zeFZCm1pS3AH3c%2BERkejdErn%2FUCTjSd).

ON ANTISEMITISM

If you haven’t already, you can order our book "On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice" here (http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GV9%2FPH4%2BlyhCnrTWVVh0LtErn%2FUCTjSd)! In light of so much recent public discourse on the relationship between Zionism and antisemitism and the role of Israel in Jewish identity (and discussions on the intersection of queerness with Jewishness sparked by events at the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York and the Chicago Dyke March), this is a great time to organize talks about the book-- if you are interested in doing so please contact [email protected]

Here's to a summer of fruitful political conversations, effective campaigning, and continued progress!

Until next time, until we win,

Rebecca


Rebecca Vilkomerson
Executive Director

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Activists are welcoming a decision by lawmakers in Spain to recognize that the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement for Palestinian rights is protected by laws guaranteeing free speech.


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Proceduralism--the idea that established criteria govern the validity of a procedure's outcome--has been the rule in enacting institutional discrimination. As Salaita is painfully aware, proceduralism is the loophole for backdoor politics.


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I am headed to court


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Dear Chris --

Tomorrow I begin trial on 18 charges in Israel military court. It is a kangaroo court system where there is no justice at all. The charges against me are an effort to shut down my human rights work and stop me from speaking up for my people.

But no matter what I will not be silent. Recently, Israel moved from segregated streets in Hebron to enclosing entire Palestinian neighborhoods. The gate is locked at 11pm each night and families are imprisoned inside. So, even as I prepare for the surety of my conviction, I am working to end this new injustice.

Sign the petition to tell the Israeli Civil Administration to remove the gate around the families and end the apartheid separation of the street! (http://www.yashebron.org/segregated_and_unequal?e=5dab5ebc94690a29a9c167ebe 8523085&utm_source=wpj&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=trial_begins&n=1)

Tomorrow the first two of the 38 witnesses against me will testify. All of the witnesses are settlers and soldiers. The judge and prosecutor are military officers. The conviction rate is 99.74%!

In an encouraging show of support 32 members of US congress (http://www.workingforpeaceandjustice.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fblogs%2Fpundits-blog%2Finternational-affairs%2F340278-from-a-palestinian-to-american-lawmakers-thank-you&e=5dab5ebc94690a29a9c167ebe8523085&utm_source=wpj&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=trial_begins&n=2) released a letter last week to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking him to tell Israel to reconsider the charges against me. Yesterday, UN human rights (http://www.workingforpeaceandjustice.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohchr.org%2FEN%2FNewsEvents%2 FPages%2FDisplayNews.aspx%3FNewsID%3D21855%26LangI D%3DE&e=5dab5ebc94690a29a9c167ebe8523085&utm_source=wpj&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=trial_begins&n=3) experts followed suit and also called on Israel to reconsider the charges.

As I enter Ofer military court tomorrow, I know all of you will be there with me in spirit. I appreciate your support. If you are able, please make a donation to support the continuation of my work. (https://youthagainstsettlements-wpj.nationbuilder.com/donate?e=5dab5ebc94690a29a9c167ebe8523085&utm_source=wpj&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=trial_begins&n=4)

In solidarity,

Issa Amro


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http://socialistproject.ca/go3421.jpgJuly 9, 2017 marks 12 years since the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was born. It’s been 12 years since an impressively large and diverse coalition across Palestinian civil society surmounted incredible odds to unify around three basic Palestinian rights and a nonviolent, inclusive, anti-racist path of struggle to achieve them. Despite the fragmentation, military occupation, segregation and dispossession, we came together to assert our people’s right to freedom, justice, equality and dignity.

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The political turmoil in the United Kingdom following Prime Minister Theresa May’s re-election with a reduced, precarious majority and the implications for the UK’s negotiations to leave the European Union […]

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The crisis in Gaza is not simply a humanitarian tragedy. It's a moral outrage.


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It's a nonviolent, rights-based movement that represents the concerns of all Palestinian stakeholders--and the reasons for its existence are increasingly urgent.


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A day after Israel's ambassador harshly called on the Hungarian PM to remove posters against the Jewish billionaire, the Foreign Ministry backtracks, says George Soros constantly undermines Israel's governments.


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