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Gaza: What we can do
Lift the Gaza Blockade: Call on Congress to Speak Up and Join Us in the Streets!
01.24.2008 | Jewish Voice for Peace
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The 1.5 million Palestinian inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are facing a tremendous humanitarian and medical crisis. Israel's sharp restrictions on fuel and electricity have severely damaged the provision of safe drinking water, forcing people to make do with extremely poor quality water which is dangerous to their health.
A group of Israeli organizations is planning a major action for Saturday, January 26th, to bring a relief convoy of desperately needed water filters to be distributed in Gaza by their Palestinian partner there, The End the Siege Campaign. We must not stand idle.
Join our solidarity rallies this week in Boston, Philly, San Francisco, and Seattle!
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BOSTON
Protest at the Israeli Consulate Boston, in solidarity with the international relief convoy, to demand that Israel stop its blockade of Gaza, which is leading to malnutrition, raw sewage in the streets, and no electricity.
Time: NOON to 1pm this Thursday January 24th
Place: Isreali Consulate Boston, located in the park plaza hotel
Directions: Park Plaza hotel is located near the Boston Public Gardens (Arlington St. stop) We're meeting at noon right across the street from the Park Plaza Hotel, the entrance closest to the Common (Arlington St. stop).
Action: We are one of hundreds of protest world wide to demand that the international relief convoy be let thought on Saturday January 26th.
We will attempt to bring food to the Israeli Consulate and demand they end the siege of GAZA. Bring one food item to give...
We will have leaflets, signs, speaker, music, and a few cartons of medical and food aid to carry in to the consulate - we're going to try asking the consul to deliver it to Gaza, and to forward to his government our demand that they let the Israeli relief convoy through the Erez checkpoint this Saturday.
Jews for human rights in Gaza
Cosponsors Jewish Voice For Peace Boston, Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights
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PHILADELPHIA
Friday, Jan 25: Press conference and vigil in front of the Israeli Consulate (15th & Locust) at 12 noon
Sat, Jan 26: INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Assemble at 12 noon to march from 5th and Market Sts. to the Israeli Consulate (15th & Locust)
Philadelphia area sponsors and endorsers include: Bubbes & Zaydes (Grandparents) for Peace in the Middle East - Jewish Voice for Peace–Philadelphia - Philadelphia al-Nakba Committee - SUSTAIN - Philadelphia Anti-War Forum - Philadelphia International Action Center - Students for Justice in Palestine, Larry Davidson (professor, Westchester University) - Brandywine Peace Community - University of Pennsylvania Students for Justice in Palestine - Steamboat Project and more.….
Israeli & Palestinian sponsors include: Palestinian International Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza - Gush Shalom - Combatants for Peace - Coalition of Women for Peace - ICAHD/Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions - Bat Shalom - Bat Tzafon for Peace & Equality - Balad - Hadash - Adalah - Tarabut-Hithabrut - Physicians for Human Rights - Alternative Information Center - Psychoactive/Mental Health Professionals for Human Rights - ActiveStills - Student Coalition Tel-Aviv University - New Profile - Machsom Watch - PCATI/Public Committee Against Torture - Yesh G’vul - Gisha - Social TV on the internet.
Together we call on the U.S. and Israel to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip!
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SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
VIGIL IN SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI PEACE
ACTIVISTS CALLING ON ISRAEL TO END THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA
SUPPORT THE JAN 26TH INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION TO BRING
RELIEF CONVOYS FROM ISRAEL TO THE BESIEGED PEOPLE OF GAZA
When:
Friday, January 25, at noon
Where:
In front of the Israeli Consulate (456 Montgomery St. at California, near Montgomery BART)
What: We will stand silently holding signs and handing out flyers to publicize the relief convoys departing from Israel on Jan 26th to the Israeli- controlled Erez crossing on the Gaza border, which has been closed down partially or completely by the IDF since 2006. Led by a broad coalition of Israeli peace activists, the convoys will bring desperately needed supplies to the people of Gaza. The convoys will be met on the other side of the border by peace and human rights activists of Gaza.
This is a time to show our solidarity with a revived Israeli peace movement and a partnership of Israelis and Palestinians for peace and justice.
This vigil is being initiated by Jewish Voice for Peace-Bay Area, and all are welcome. Please pass this on to your friends and lists. RSVP, if possible, to bayarea at jewishvoiceforpeace.org
SEATTLE
Leafletting/sign-waving protest on Saturday Jan 26, 12-2 at Westlake Center downtown.
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What we can do:
On Gaza, West Bank, East Jerusalem & the Occupation:
On the Lobby & "the New anti-Semitism"
On Hezbollah & Hamas:
- The Guardian: Hamas acted on a very real fear of a US-sponsored coup. (06.22.2007)
- Haaretz: Haniyeh: Hamas willing to accept Palestinian state with 1967 borders. (11.09.2008)
- Henry Siegman, International Herald Tribune: Bring in Hamas. (03.04.2008)
- The Washington Post: No Peace Without Hamas. (04.17.2008)
- Al Jazeera English: Talk to Jazeera - Khaled Meshaal. (03.05.2008)
- International Herald Tribune: Bring in Hamas. (03.04.2008)
- "the Hezbollah model"
and "There is this claim that the obstacle [to peace] is that Hamas won't recognize Israel..." (09.30.2006)
"Israel always depended on the fact that its adversaries were stupid, incompetent... and, in fact, they were right... That when they were dealing with a Nasser, he was a blowhard; a Saddam Hussein,
he was a windbag; when they were dealing with Yasser Arafat, he was a hot air ballon.
They were nothing of any substance... [inaudible]... That was Israel's ace in the hole. Now comes along an Arab leader who says we have to use "reason."
It's a very remarkable thing to read. We have to use "reason."
We have to think, plan, organize."
- Hamas: A reasonable statement. (Los Angeles Times, 07.10.2007)
- The Guardian: Hamas condemns the Holocaust. (05.12.2008)
- Salon.com: The "hiding among civilians" myth. (07.28.2006)
- AIPAC v. Norman Finkelstein: A Debate on Israel's Assault on Gaza. (06.29.2006)
- Foreign Policy: Habitat for Hezbollah. (08.2006)
- The Irish Times: Hizbullah rockets cannot be fired from buildings. (07.31.2006)
Finkelstein on Israel:
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Video: On the place of civility
in academic life (10.18.2007)
Finkelstein's talk at the academic freedom conference
Tenure Denial Letters
(June - November, 2007)
On How Actual Survivors Were Cheated by
Jewish Organizations:
- Haaretz: "The Claims Conference intentionally defrauded Holocaust survivors." (09.25.2008)
- Ynet: Where did the Shoah money go? (12.11.2006)
'First Class flights around the world, accommodation at deluxe hotels, dining at fancy restaurants and a series of credit cards, this is how the Claims Conference, which deals with restitution of stolen Jewish property from the Holocaust, operates.'
- Haaretz: Survivors' protest makes foreign journalists gasp, security vanish (08.06.2007)
"I want the Germans to know where the money they gave Israel went," he said angrily. "I want the Germans to know that Israel took the money we should have received. I want them to answer one question: Where did our money go?"
- AP: Holocaust survivors blast $20 stipend (07.31.2007)
'Survivors have long claimed that European countries treat them far better than Israel, where many elderly survivors live in poverty.'
- Jewish Week: Holocaust Cash Went To Shadowy Pal Of Ousted WJC Leader (05.04.2007)
'Israeli finance minister, now being probed for corruption, urged death camp tour group to hire little-known N.Y. consultant; Singer friend Curtis Hoxter can't explain what he did for $709,000.'
- Jewish Week: "Survivors Balking At Lawyer's Fee" (03.02.2006)
- Shocking revelation in the London Jewish Chronicle. ("The man on the left earns $437,811 a year handling Shoah claims. So why are so many survivors pleading poverty?"; 05.30.2006)
- Survivors Protest Holocaust Industry Shakedown (08.29.2000)
- Finkelstein: Will The Holocaust Industry Incite Anti-Semitism? (08.11.2000)
- Finkelstein: Lessons of Holocaust Compensation (2001)
Finkelstein on Jimmy Carter:
Israeli civil libertarian's introduction to German edition of Beyond Chutzpah. (03.27.2006)
Communication for Middle East Journal. (02.19.2006)
Alleged Errors in Beyond Chutzpah. (2005)
MEMRI NAZIS (again) (10.23.2006)

New evidence of old lies (2005)
Under the heading DIABOLICAL PLOTS, I stated in Beyond Chutzpah...



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