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From Americans for Peace Now Below please read and stand up if you can, sign the petition!!!
Israel is going through a dark time, marked by increased settler violence, intensified incitement against pro-peace leaders and causes in Israel, and vicious demonization of pro-peace, pro-democracy forces.
Enough is enough. Stand for peace. Condemn the use of violence by settlers.
( Petition Statement below) To sign petition go to www.peacenow.org
Stand for Peace.
I reject the use of violence by extremist settlers, deplore incitement against Israel’s peace movement, and denounce the demonization of Israel’s pro-peace, pro-democracy forces.
I know that Israel needs peace to survive, and that peace requires a vibrant civil society and an outspoken peace camp. I stand for peace.
89 stand with
People Supporting Peace
“With its new campaign for respect and tolerance, “Stop the Violence, Stop the Hate” Americans for Peace Now has firmly planted itself on the shoulder of the Jewish body politic from which it will unapologetically prick our collective conscience and hold the State of Israel to its promise to be both Jewish and democratic…. [+] My parents, who were lifelong Zionist activists, took literally the biblical mandate that Israel was to be “a light unto the nations.” Sadly, that light is presently buried under a bushel of misguided policy decisions, moral malfeasance, and anti-democratic trends. I applaud APN for illuminating the dark corners.Read More…”
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Writer and Activist
“It’s very distressing to see Jews engage in the kind of silencing tactics and political violence against fellow Jews that we’ve seen used so many times by others, in our history, against Jews…. [+] I doubt that anyone who ever sat down and tried to envision a Jewish homeland, at any time in the modern history of the Jewish people, imagined a place that tolerates, let alone embraces, an implicit or explicit policy of intimidation and violence against Jews. Read More …”
Michael Chabon, Author
“As an American Jew who loves, respects, and fully believes in the Zionist dream of a Jewish homeland in the land of our forefathers/mothers, I worry about those “New Purists” those who are attempting to steal open discourse from a community and culture that has always prided itself on it’s openness, intelligence, and willingness to grow, as well as adapt and empathize with the downtrodden and oppressed in the world. These “new purists” seem to be on a quest to re-define Zionism and who can be part of that movement. … [+] First though, here is a beautiful passage from the Israeli Declaration of Independence: Read More …”
Jon Segall
“Enough to the violence, to the incitement and the intolerance, enough to holding Israel hostage to zealotry, exclusionist and messianic dreams. Enough! The time has come to stand up for the Israel that we believe in, the Israel we would be proud of, the Israel that does not grant a violent minority a veto power over its future as a Jewish and democratic country. … [+] As a performance artist, who works to promote peace in Israel and Palestine, and as an Israeli-American who cares deeply about my homeland, I am particularly offended and outraged by fellow Israelis who are deliberately trying to ruin any hope for peace and to shatter the democratic foundations of Israel’s society through violence. Read More …”
Noa Baum, Actress and Stortyteller
“”Everyone” is a little subversive but “thee” and me, and sometimes I think even thee. … [+] These are the words of Uncle Sam to the Statue of Liberty as depicted in a cartoon by Daniel Fitzpatrick (1947) published during the McCarthy years. As attacks on voices of dissent increase here in Israel, these words are seen as a warning of a future we might be facing.
And why have voices of dissent recently been attacked in Israel so vehemently? I suggest it is a combination of the success those voices had in creating cracks in the propaganda of the government, together with a growing frustration of a nation lacking a clear vision of its future. Read More …”
Hadas Ziv, Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights – Israel
“What I care about is Israel, and the Jews, and the toxic effect of allowing ourselves to tolerate and accept violent behavior on the part of our own people…. [+] Israelis has had on the nation’s democracy. Faced with a society in which large sectors unabashedly declare their primary allegiance to religious law rather than to national law, faced with a political establishment that is increasingly influenced by these sectors, even the Supreme Court of Israel finds itself under unprecedented political attack from the right. Now is the time to stand up and support Israelis who are fighting to strengthen Israel’s democracy, its civil society, and its rule of law. I salute Americans for Peace Now for leading this fight here, in the United States, by assembling the support of American Jewry and others to denounce this outrageous and growing violence. Read More …”
Ayelet Waldman, Author
“Notwithstanding Israel’s commitment to build a strong democracy ruled by law, I am increasingly alarmed by the corrosive effect that violence upon distinguished… [+] Faced with a society in which large sectors unabashedly declare their primary allegiance to religious law rather than to national law, faced with a political establishment that is increasingly influenced by these sectors, even the Supreme Court of Israel finds itself under unprecedented political attack from the right. Now is the time to stand up and support Israelis who are fighting to strengthen Israel’s democracy, its civil society, and its rule of law. I salute Americans for Peace Now for leading this fight by assembling the support of American Jewry and others to denounce this outrageous and growing violence.”
Victor Kovner, Peace Activist
“ If people like me are no longer safe in their own home because saying the wrong thing could get them killed – what is left of the dream of a Jewish democracy?… [+] But if some Israelis and their supporters act to derail any and all attempts at peace, stifling dissent through violent means, then we will, I fear, be witnesses to a slow-moving self-destruction for which we will truly have no one but ourselves to blame. Read More …”
Emily Hauser, Writer
“Israel is experiencing an organized campaign against democracy and human rights. There is a thread that runs through the violent attack of the … [+] radical right on Palestinians, the bomb that was placed at the door of Professor Sternhell’s home, and the death threats on Defense Ministrer Ehud Barak. The effort to negate the legitimacy of peace and human rights groups and to try to stop their funding began thirty years ago against Peace Now and is now reaching new heights with the attack on the New Israel Fund.
The grave new element is the participation of Israel’s establishment – headed by Kadima and Likud – in the attack against human rights and democracy. It is manifested in Knesset legislation. Examples include the “Admissions Committee Bill,” which could block Arab citizens from living in some Israeli towns and proposed legislation to prevent foreign funding for political associations. The establishment’s endorsement spills over to police violence against peace activists in the streets, the clear example of which is the police’s handling of protests in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.
If we don’t wake up soon, it may be too late.”
Mossi Raz. Former Knesset Member
Yaakov (Jack) Teitel (pictured in Israeli custody) is not the first and probably not the last Israeli terrorist to target Palestinians or Israeli supporters of peace.
Furthermore, many of these Jewish terrorists came from the ranks of the West Bank settlers.
By Haaretz Editorial
There is no way to describe the West Bank settlers’ attack on the Palestinian village of Bitilu but as a well-planned terror attack. The settlers’ “military” organization and violent resistance to the cabinet decision to destroy the illegal outpost of Givat Menachem, as described by Chaim Levinson in Haaretz yesterday, are no different from the activities of other terrorist organizations. This includes the incitement, ranting and raving preceding the act of vengeance on Bitilu, the attempt to set a house on fire, the injuring of villagers with stones, and the threat to continue these violent tactics.
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