Be A Moral Voice in Your Community:
As witnesses to Israel's periodic offensives on Gaza and exponential encroachment in the West Bank, we must insist that our leaders stop supporting violence. That includes our religious leadership.
A powerful statement by David Glick, member of Jewish Voice Peace and the NorCal Friends of Sabeel steering committee, published today in Tikkun Daily:
DAYS OF ACTION, July-August, 2014
People from around the world stand in solidarity with Gaza, a community of people so squeezed by Israeli occupation, yet so resilient and lively. We celebrate International Freedom Day in Gaza with some of the activists who joined the US Freedom Flotilla to Gaza to break the blocade. We asked them why they joined:
Bill Moyers on Gaza: "Brute force can turn self defense into state terrorism…spilling the blood that turns the wheel of retribution." (January 9, 2009).
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The Closed Zone Yoni Goodman, director of animation for the Academy Award-nominated film, "Waltz with Bashir", has created a new animated short film on the closure of Gaza together with the Israeli human rights group Gisha.
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Free Gaza This short film documents the landing in August, 2008, of the first international boat– thoroughly inspected and carrying aid– to land in Gaza since 1967, thereby breaking the Israeli seige and affirming Palestine's right to welcome internationals to their shores. To learn about the latest developments in this ongoing non-violent effort, please visit www.freegaza.org.
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A Young Gazan Speaks In the Spring of 2010 students at the University of California (Berkeley) debated divestment from two companies that support the occupation of Palestine. Among those who spoke was this young woman from Gaza, who wanted to know why it is that we cannot understand that "the one thing my family wants is the opportunity to live like a human being." View the entire 10 minute video, "UCB Supporters of Divestment from Israel", at the Jewish Voice for Peace Youtube Channel.