Showing posts with label AIPAC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AIPAC. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Accusing peaceful pro-Palestine protesters of being "antisemitic" pleases Israel but it does not make any Jews any safer anywhere.
Our taxes should not be funding any religion, bigotry, injustice, and/or escalating extremism of any type.
Please step away from your AIPAC advisors and start noticing the
very real plight and suffering of the Palestinian people.
Israel's war on Palestinians did not start in response to Hamas' barbaric attack on an Israeli music festival last year. It started decades ago, way back when worldwide obviously racist nations conspired with Zionist ideologues to push Jewish people into Palestine, as if a person's religion should dictate citizenship rights.
Since its founding in 1948 after the Nazi Holocaust, Israel has been systematically oppressing and displacing the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine.
Hitler was not the only elected leader who believed in segregation and subjugation, America back then was very racist and unfair too. We know better now- America woke up and changed our laws and attitudes thanks to the Civil Rights Movement helping shape the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
America should not be ignoring Israel's brutality and blatant violations of international law and basic human rights.
If you want to empower non-violence and a more fair and just
political system anywhere you have to start with the rule of fair and just
laws, and you have to include respect for all sorts of people and
opinions.
Accusing peaceful pro-Palestine protesters here and there of
being "antisemitic" pleases Israel but it does not make any Jews
any safer anywhere. Not does it stop the escalating poverty and suffering in The Holy Land.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES https://anniesnewletters.blogspot.com/search/label/Notes
UN court orders Israel to end its occupation of Palestinian territories International court of justice says it should leave ‘as rapidly as possible’ and make full reparations for ‘wrongful acts’
The ICJ Ruling Confirms What Palestinians Have Been Saying for 57 Years
Items Israel Forbids from Entering Gaza 2024
Schools should never be used for fighting or military purposes by any party to the [any] conflict..
Hanan Ashrawi sums up some of the many ways Israel violates international law in its quest to torment and destroy Palestinians
People need and lack everything #CeasefireNow
“Every lesson I’ve learned about the Holocaust compels me to stand up for Palestinians now,” said Brian Keisling, one of the leaders of Sunday’s protest, who is Jewish.
American Money for Schools not Israeli Apartheid ... recent protest in Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA 07-2024
To enjoy fireworks... No Explosions poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
Dear Elected Leaders... Happy 4th of July!
Report: Israel demolished 318 facilities + uprooted 10,000 olive trees in West Bank this year
Forced displacement is once again pushing people to look for safety where there is none in #Gaza Palestine
Twelve former Biden administration officials who resigned over policy on Israel and the Gaza war say the government’s actions have endangered US national security... The US is by far the biggest supplier of arms to Israel, having helped it build one of the most technologically sophisticated militaries in the world.
The Arabic word for God is “Allah” whether you are A CHRISTIAN or a MUSLIM ... Inshaa Allah
Gaza now has the largest population of child amputees in the world.
Don't give Israel the power to destroy the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, International Law, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights... and America.
The RED LINE happened way back in 1948 when Zionist terrorists murdered Palestinians, destroyed Palestinian homes and villages, and pushed countless Palestinians into poverty and forced exile.
Connect The Dots
Please stop aiding and abetting Israeli insanity. Full Stop.
Will our own democracy and established Fourth Estate survive the decades old insidious invasion of a very foreign country that pretends to be our friend, but really is no one's friend, including its own Apartheid building citizens?
Americans should not be helping racist Israel maim, wound and kill the children of Palestine.
Part of Israel's nefarious Ethnic Cleansing campaign is stealing the story- pressuring newspapers and politicians worldwide to favor "The Jewish State" above and beyond all else. Israel Uber Alis.
Arresting students and banning Tiktok will not stifle the truth about Israeli crimes against humanity.
There are enough weapons of war and destruction already on planet earth.
Stop wasting America's time and resources playing word games for racist Israel
Please no more funds, weaponry, and support for war mongering Israel
American taxpayers should not be forced to fund Israeli crimes against humanity
Hate is evil and leads to evil things. Please no more wars and weaponry for Israel.
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?
The UN Mediator for Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, believed that the Palestinians displaced had a right to return to their homes and wrote several UN reports to that effect.
"It would be an offence against the principles of elemental justice if these innocent victims of the conflict were denied the right to return to their homes while Jewish immigrants flow into Palestine, and, indeed, at least offer the threat of permanent replacement of the Arab refugees who have been rooted in the land for centuries."
Bernadotte
was assassinated on Friday 17 September 1948 by members of the
group Lehi, a Zionist terrorist
organization, commonly known in the West as the Stern Gang
"Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world..." https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Our beloved "friend" Israel has been actively oppressing, demonizing, impoverishing, and displacing the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine and has been since 1948.
Pennsylvania's tax funds, our hard earned money usurped and saved
by our treasury should not be given to Israel.
Currently America's mainstream media refuses to expose the full
ugly truth about rampant Israeli cruelty, corruption, and lack of
REAL DEMOCRACY... but we no longer live at a time where America's
mainstream media and our elected officials are the only orators
heard.
The worldwide internet is exploding with real stories about the tragic plight and suffering of the Palestinians. Heartbreaking stories: Our beloved "friend" Israel has been actively oppressing, demonizing, impoverishing, and displacing the native non-Jewish people of historic Palestine and has been since 1948.
AIPAC and other Israel focused fund raising groups are highly motivated to silence support for real justice and a lasting peace for all people, regardless of supposed race or religion.
We live in a post Holocaust world, a time when international law and basic human rights are a vital part of how we say we operate, and how we expect other countries to operate, but we make Israel the exception to every rule and ideal we are supposed to uphold.
Shame on America for investing in Israeli
injustice and war... and the intentional torture and starvation
of Gaza's children.
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
American Homemaker & Poet
NOTES
Washington Post: Why the U.S. should start telling the whole truth about Israel nukes: American silence no longer makes sense. In fact, it's dangerous https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../israel-nuclear-weapons/
Patriot News Harrisburg: Treasurer Stacy Garrity’s decision to invest more Pa. money in Israel Bonds, "Protesters called for Garrity to divest from all Israeli investments due to the war’s rising death toll and invest in domestic priorities instead. They also demanded she consistently take into account environmental, social, and governance ethics when choosing investments.“We’re talking about a large percentage of money that we have invested in Israel Bonds that [isn’t] going towards our schools, [isn’t] going towards our roads,” said Omar Mussa, an organizer with the Pennsylvania Palestine Network." https://www.pennlive.com/news/2024/02/treasurer-stacy-garritys-decision-to-invest-more-pa-money-in-israel-bonds-draws-democratic-opposition.htmlThe Guardian: Gaza’s social media activists
are a potent force for change in the fight against racism, The new
wave of Palestinian protesters are heirs to giants such as Martin
Luther King, Malcolm X, CLR James and Rosa Parks "Railing against
the state propaganda machines, people such as Motaz Azaiza, Bisan Owda, Plestia Alaqad, Hind Khoudary
and the veteran journalist Wael al-Dahdouh have brought
shocking, heart-rending images straight to our phones. Pictures of
weeping parents kneeling over the tiny, bloodied corpses of
children have stirred up deep anger against Hamas, the Israeli
government and its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and at the
complicity of the US, UK and EU governments. Politicians may
dominate the narrative, as they gaslight the world with fake
facts, but the voices of activists, amplified through social
media, are making an indelible mark."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/feb/20/gaza-palestinian-protesters-social-media-activists-fight-racism-inequality
The Patriot News Harrisburg: Israeli siege has placed Gazans at risk of starvation − prewar policies made them vulnerable in the first place | The Conversation "Yet untangling what Israel’s intentions may be – whether it is using starvation as a weapon of war, to force mass displacement, or if, as it claims, it is simply a byproduct of war – does little for the people on the ground in Gaza. " https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2024/02/israeli-siege-has-placed-gazans-at-risk-of-starvation-prewar-policies-made-them-vulnerable-in-the-first-place-the-conversation.html
"I cannot understand how raw, naked evidence can be overridden by American intellectuals just because the “security” of Israel demands it" Edward Said"
The Philly Palestine Coalition, CAIR, and Jewish Voice for Peace Rally for Justice & Peace: DIVEST FROM GENOCIDE
Please stopping funding Israel and fueling terrorism and war all over the Middle East
Violence is the feel good answer in movies & on TV- not in real life
Religion should be a personal choice, not a state funded project.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights "Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and
inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation
of freedom, justice and peace in the world..."
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Revealed: Congress backers of Gaza war received most from pro-Israel donors
Guardian analysis finds top recipients of pro-Israel contributions in last elections were centrist Democrats who defeated progressives in primaries
Tom Perkins, with data reporting by Will Craft
Wed 10 Jan 2024 07.30 EST
Congress members who were more supportive of Israel at the start of the Gaza war received over $100,000 more on average from pro-Israel donors during their last election than those who most supported Palestine, a Guardian analysis of campaign data shows.
Those who took more money most often called for US military support and backed Israel’s response, even as Gaza’s civilian death toll mounted, the findings show. The analysis, which looks at positions taken during the war’s first six weeks, does not prove any particular member changed their position because they received pro-Israel campaign donations. However, some campaign finance experts who viewed the data argue that donor spending helped fuel Congress’s overwhelming support for Israel.
The
analysis compared campaign contributions from pro-Israel groups and
individuals to almost every member of the current Congress with each
lawmaker’s statements on the war through mid-November... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/10/congress-member-pro-israel-donations-military-support
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Cartoon that appeared with a letter to the American Jewish community signed by academics and other public figures from Israel/Palestine and abroad calling on U.S. Jews to address the “elephant in the room”: Israeli apartheid.
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Cartoon that appeared with letter
signed by 750 academics and other public figures from Israel/Palestine and abroad, calling on U.S. Jews to address the “elephant in the room”:
Israeli apartheid. The letter calls on U.S. Jews “to embrace equality for Jews and
Palestinians” inside Israel and in the occupied territories.
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"American
Jews have long been at the forefront of social justice causes, from
racial equality to abortion rights, but have paid insufficient attention
to the elephant in the room: Israel’s long-standing occupation that, we
repeat, has yielded a regime of apartheid. As Israel has grown more
right-wing and come under the spell of the current government’s
messianic, homophobic, and misogynistic agenda, young American Jews have
grown more and more alienated from it. Meanwhile, American Jewish billionaire funders help support the Israeli far right." The Elephant in the Room
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
My letter to the NYTimes RE Art of the Anecdote: Presidential Candidates’ Speeches to AIPAC
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| Photoshopped meme (depicting an image that evokes a creepy image from a wellknown horror movie coupled with two names from a well known nursery rhyme & Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass) found flying around on Facebook & Twitter March 2016: "Tweedledee and Tweedledum to headline #AIPAC conference" |
http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/art-of-the-anecdote-presidential-candidates-speeches-to-aipac/?ref=international&_r=0
Dear Editor,
Presidential candidates speaking at AIPAC wanted free media coverage and more campaign funds... and the New York Times helps hand them exactly that, completing a trifecta of complicity that further empowers Israel's punitively cruel anti-Palestinian apartheid policies by perpetuating a warped "pro-Israel" narrative that totally ignores sovereign Israel's ongoing flagrant violations of international law and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Shedding light on personality? I'd say it is more like shedding light on a lack of character and integrity- and a lack of understanding American ideals of real freedom, justice, equality and democracy... plus a distinct lack of interest in being an honest broker for peace and the rule of fair and just laws in the Middle East.
Israel clearly wants the land but not the native non-Jewish population of that land. How would you feel if tonight, you were denied your right to return to your family home because the powers that be decided you were the "wrong" religion?!!!
We live in a global world with the internet giving every one the ability to ferret out news and opinion worldwide: How would you feel about negotiations to end the Israel-Palestine conflict knowing that Palestinian men, women and children continue to be harshly oppressed, impoverished, pushed into forced exile, and cruelly demonized by the so-called "Jewish State" while America's presidential candidates tell AIPAC exactly what Israel's state subsidized settlers and religious extremists want to hear. Not what they need to hear, but what they want to hear.
And hey- lets not forget about real terrorists, those criminals of ISIS/Daesh following Israel's lead by arming religion with lethal weaponry and a desire to impoverish and/or kill "others" ... What message does America want to send them?
Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab
NOTES
PLO's Hanan Ashrawi's strong
condemnation of the events in Brussels
بيان صادر عن منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية حول بروكسل
http://ln.is/dci.plo.ps/EN/XsjIt …
Erekat met US
Senate Delegation: Security & peace won't be achieved
without justice for the Palestinian people.
Erekat to @ThomasOppermann:
To defeat Daesh,is mandatory to end the occupation &
establish an independent #Palestine
Ted Cruz wants to "secure
Muslim neighborhoods." How many shawarma restaurants does it
take to make it officially a "Muslim neighborhood"?
Trump truly
spreading #hate and #violence
My #Trump
Tweets Earned Me So Many Anti-Semitic Haters That I Bought a
Gun
http://forward.com/opinion/336159/my-trump-tweets-earned-me-so-many-anti-semitic-haters-that-i-bought-a-gun/#ixzz43XqKlSY5 …
Hussein Ibish
Retweeted
If values
have any meaning at all, they should disqualify Trump from
becoming President. http://huff.to/22pMtRB
Please let's stand together
against anti-semitism of Trump supporters same way we denounce
racism. My @thedailybeast
http://thebea.st/1XKzF52
Islamic
State: How Iraqi widow's resistance became a symbol of hope
http://trib.al/dtA6iBG @janearraf
Prize-winning
Palestinian teacher: I create a safe, peaceful, loving
environment https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/prize-winning-palestinian-teacher-theyve-seen-death/2016/03/21/78aad396-ec80-11e5-a9ce-681055c7a05f_story.html …
#OurCulture
He hated Israel but became a voice for
peace--even after Israeli police killed his child. http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/03/22/467689134/a-palestinian-takes-a-different-road-in-his-fight?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20160322 …
The time is now to
prevent & end conflict. @WHSummit
info is here: http://bit.ly/core_1 #ShareHumanity
Friday, February 28, 2014
AIPAC Threatens to Sue CODEPINK Over Controversial Video Clip "AIPAC Policy Conference 2014"
http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=6636
On February 25th, an AIPAC member called a CODEPINK staffer
threatening legal action in response to a controversial video clip that
he alleges was made by the peace group CODEPINK. The video is a
satirical version of an AIPAC policy conference promotional video
On February 25th, an AIPAC member called a CODEPINK staffer
threatening legal action in response to a controversial video clip that
he alleges was made by the peace group CODEPINK. The video is a
satirical version of an AIPAC policy conference promotional video
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