I felt heartsick all day.
While Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, and Benjamin Netanyahu cheered the
new US embassy in Jerusalem yesterday, just 40 miles away over a
thousand protesters demanding their freedom were shot by Israeli
snipers.
60 Palestinians were killed, including eight children. It’s hard to imagine a more willful and total disregard for human life.
THIS. HAS. TO. STOP.
I’m furious and heartbroken to see so many politicians and generals are speaking in the name of all Jews to justify the massacre of innocent people.
A massive emergency
petition can show the opposition to this outrage is enormous and at a
key moment indicate to the US and Israeli governments -- and maybe even
more importantly Palestinian allies -- that the world demands these
killings must stop.
JVP is working non-stop
right now to set up demonstrations and vigils, visit Members of Congress
(and protests outside their offices), and get the word out in the media
-- and at every opportunity we’ll deliver this emergency petition to
show that US and Israeli attacks on Palestinians don’t represent
American Jews or our allies.
Last night I saw a news
clip of Noura Erakat, the brilliant Palestinian-American leader. The
news anchor asked her what she’d recommend.
And Erakat quite simply said “I’d recommend freedom.”
Let’s never forget that.
The work we’re doing at JVP is about standing up for the incredibly
simple idea that Palestinians should be free. Today, on the 70th
commemoration of Nakba Day, and every day.
Onward,
Rebecca
Rebecca Vilkomerson
Executive Director
Executive Director
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