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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 17:28:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Steve Quester
To: spt31@columbia.edu
Subject: Jews Against the Occupation
I am writing to you today as a member of Jews Against the Occupation (JATO). Elizabeth Wilson gave me your address, and said that you could forward this message around.
JATO is an organization of progressive, secular, and religious Jews of all ages throughout the New York City area that is actively organizing and advocating around issues of peace and justice for Palestine. We bear witness to the fact that the Jewish community does not have one monolithic voice of unconditional support for the Israeli government. Rather, there is a growing national movement of American Jews who oppose Israeli oppression, and support Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
If you are planning any public events around the current crisis in Palestine, we would be delighted to provide a speaker who could address the issue from a Jewish, pro-Palestinian perspective. We can usually meet requests for speakers on evenings and weekends, and can sometimes meet requests for daytime speakers.
We can be contacted at jatonyc@yahoo.com, or at (212)539-6683.
Yours truly,
Steve Quester
for Jews Against the Occupation
from www.jewsagainsttheoccupation.org:
Jews Against the Occupation
Our Mission
NO OCCUPATION IN OUR NAME
We as American Jews reject the Israeli government assertion that it is "necessary" to subjugate Palestinians for the sake of keeping Jews safe. We assert that security can only come from mutual respect, and that the occupation of Palestine is only worsening the position of Jews in the Middle East and around the world.
RESTORE HUMAN & CIVIL RIGHTS
The Israeli military fires bone-crushing rubber bullets and live ammunition at unarmed Palestinian civilians engaged in peaceful protest, failing to distinguish between peaceful and violent resistance. The Israeli government has been demolishing Palestinian houses and crops in the Occupied Territories, while allowing Jewish settlers -- many of them American -- to illegally occupy the same land.
STOP ECONOMIC ATTACKS ON PALESTINE
The Israeli government has attacked the Palestinian economy by: closing Palestinian banks; imposing extreme taxes on business; withdrawing operating licenses; destroying industrial equipment; bulldozing farmland and banning fishing; restricting workers' movement; controlling the export of Palestinian goods; closing the borders of the Occupied Territories; and refusing to fund infrastructure like water and electricity -- even in Arab villages within Israel.
LET PALESTINIANS RETURN HOME
Thousands of Palestinians were driven out of their houses and off of their farms during and after the creation of Israel. They must be allowed to return to their homeland.
NO COLONIZATION OF PALESTINE
SAY YES TO THE RIGHT OF RETURN
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"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such a twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air—however slight—lest we become unwitting victims of darkness.”
William O. Douglas
U.S. Supreme Court
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If the nitwit makes it back alive, perhaps we can send him on a wild goose chase for a speaking engagement that doesn't exist. We could have some fun with this guy.
Classic communist technique! A couple of fast talkers can make a "movement" in the minds of a lot of uninformed 'well-meaning' listeners.
I am writing to you today as a member of Jews Against the Occupation (JATO). Elizabeth Wilson gave me your address, and said that you could forward this message around.
JATO is an organization of progressive, secular, and religious Jews of all ages throughout the New York City area that is actively organizing and advocating around issues of peace and justice for Palestine. We bear witness to the fact that the Jewish community does not have one monolithic voice of unconditional support for the Israeli government. Rather, there is a growing national movement of American Jews who oppose Israeli oppression, and support Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
Oy Dude, where's my car bomb?
They found out eventually as they were shoved into the cattle cars they were no different from the Ostjuden they hated as much as the nazis.