Arresting students and banning Tiktok will not stifle the truth about Israeli crimes against humanity.

 

Dear Bide ...etc...

Concerned college students are raising U.S. awareness about the very real plight and suffering of Palestinian men, women, and children.

In response, billionaire businessmen on broadcast TV news here in America boast that they won't hire college students who protest for Palestine.  Arrests are made, students are suspended... But even that is not stopping or silencing the passion for Palestine that has awakened in many young people today.

Arresting students and banning Tiktok will not stifle the truth about Israeli crimes against humanity. 

Foolishly our mainstream media, religious leaders, and politicians protect Jews-preferred Israel, empowering blatant bigotry and genocide:  FYI only reading echo chamber pro-Israel distractions and fabrications serves Israeli interests- not America.

American money should not be funding Israel in any way, shape or form.  But we should be fully funding UNWRA which was created in 1949 to help feed and educate the Palestine refugees  https://www.unrwa.org/who-we-are

Israel has failed to provide evidence of UNWRA staff terrorist links

UNWRA is a worthy institution worth investing in.  War and more weapons for Israel is not.  Please stop misusing American tax payers' hard earned money to fund rampant Israeli injustice, religious craziness, home demolitions, and escalating war in the Middle East.

Use our money to help feed starving people, help nourish hungry minds, help fair and just laws & policies flourish here and there.... for everyone's sake. 

Building a pier in Gaza for American aid for Palestinians is an expensive distraction, and not a good use of funds. UNWRA is already in place- already built thanks in a large part to American efforts after WWII.  Use the right tool for the job to get the job done.

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Sincerely,

Anne Selden Annab

FYI the Israel/Palestine conflict did not start on Oct 7th 2023. To be fair and honest you must go back to 1917 when the British Empire and Occupation promoted the Balfour Declaration to create a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.  At the time Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire and there was a small Arab Jewish population living there, living in peace along with Muslims and Christians.  

Fast forward to 1948 when following the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust, modern man made Israel was created. Israel was not created peacefully or by consensus with the Arab residents who had lived there for eons.  Israel was created by invading Zionist terrorists who murdered many indigenous Arabs- fragmenting families, and pushing millions of Palestinians into forced exile.

Israel has failed to provide evidence of Unrwa staff terrorist links: report

The Colonna report, which was commissioned by the UN in the wake of Israeli allegations, found that Unrwa had regularly supplied Israel with lists of its employees for vetting, and that “the Israeli government has not informed Unrwa of any concerns relating to any Unrwa staff based on these staff lists since 2011”.

The Nation: “The Bulldozer Kept Coming”: A Girl Stares Down Death in Gaza- The extraordinary story of a 14-year-old, her mother, and what happened when the Israeli military came to destroy their house.

CSM: Ken Makin Commentary on Columbia: History, protests, and humanity- After arrests at Columbia University and other schools, our commentator considers the legacy of civil disobedience. How and why does society’s lens on protests change over time?

Hundreds of Israeli extremists, under the protection of Israeli police, stormed occupied East Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on Wednesday: Israeli authorities and settlers seek to strip East Jerusalem of its Palestinian Muslim and Christian character and turn it into a Jewish-Israeli area.

This Passover, we don’t need or want the false idol of Zionism. We want freedom from the project that commits genocide in our name. We need an exodus from Zionism- Naomi Klein

Israel has dropped almost 75,000 bombs and shells on Gaza in 200 days, twenty times more than the US aimed at Iraq in six years of war. It’s not war. It’s genocide.

UN NEWS 23 April 2024 Mass graves in Gaza show victims’ hands were tied, says UN rights office...200 days of horror... “Every 10 minutes a child is killed or wounded. They are protected under the laws of war, and yet they are ones who are disproportionately paying the ultimate price in this war,” said the High Commissioner.

Colleges should not be using students' tuition money to invest in companies supporting Israel's war in Gaza... "I Am a Jewish Student at Columbia. Don’t Believe What You’re Being Told About ‘Campus Antisemitism’. Smears from the press and pro-Israel influencers are a dangerous distraction from real threats to our safety."

Student activists have been calling for universities to "divest from genocide".

Colleges should not be using students' tuition money to invest in companies supporting Israel's war in Gaza.

Mosab Abu Toha: "If you want to learn about the truth about our lives, at least for the past 30 years, not only for the past 200 days as many want others to understand, read these poems..."

A Dream of Palestine ... A children's book written by Wafa Shami illustrated by Christina Qahoush: Noor, a young school-aged girl, is curious to learn about what happened to her Palestinian grandmother (Teta) during the infamous 1948 Nakba (The Catastrophe) that befell the Palestinian people, and why her family was forced to leave their home in al-Quds (Jerusalem). Why were they pushed out of their homeland? Where did they go? And how did they become refugees?

Disinformation Warfare: Journalistic Cover for Israel’s Genocide- For decades, Israel has recognized the importance of information warfare in justifying the everyday violence of occupation, apartheid, and settler colonialism. Now they are using the same tactics in overdrive to justify and facilitate genocide. In just six months, Israeli forces have killed more than 33,000 Palestinians and left most of Gaza uninhabitable.

Mona Chalabi: Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank – visualized... International attention is on Gaza, but attacks by Israelis who live on Palestinian land have been increasing

Falastine Saleh: By weaponising settlers, the Israeli government not only perpetuates violence, but also lays the groundwork for further domination, displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians

April is Arab American Heritage Month!✨ ... GOOD BOOKS!

CSM In West Bank, wave of settler violence creating feel of a war zone

There are enough weapons of war and destruction already on planet earth.

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

 PALESTINE REMEMBERED