American_Jihad
Flaming Libs/Koranimals
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TUESDAY, NOV 10, 2015 03:16 PM EST
āOccupation is root cause of violenceā: Jewish-Americans protest at Israelās Western Wall, call for boycott
Jewish-American activists with the peace organization CODEPINK protested at Israelās Western Wall (also known as the Kotel or Wailing Wall) on Tuesday morning. They unfurled a banner that read āAmerican Jews support BDS,ā referring to Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions, a peaceful global human rights movement called for by Palestinian civil society that seeks to use nonviolent economic means to pressure the Israeli government to end its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, grant equal rights to Palestinian citizens, and allow Palestinians who were violently expelled from their ancestral lands to return ā as is required by international law.
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After five minutes, plain-clothed Israeli authorities confiscated their banner and told them to leave. The activists, Ariel Gold and Ariel Vegosen, were part of a week-long CODEPINK trip to Israel-Palestine, where they witnessed firsthand what life is like for Palestinians living under military occupation.
CODEPINK said that, during its trip, āalong with helping Palestinian farmers with their olive harvest, the group witnessed Israelās apartheid system of different roads, services, and laws for different people. They experienced major restrictions on Palestinian freedom of movement, the massive growth of illegal Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian land, and numerous human rights abuses against Palestinians.ā
āAt this moment of escalated violence in Palestine and Israel, we are here at the Kotel to pray for an end to the occupation, the root cause of the violence,ā Gold and Vergosen explained. āAs American Jews we take a stand in support of peace and justice for all people.ā
A wave of unrest has recently swept Israel-Palestine. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, in just over a month, from Oct. 1 to Nov. 8, more than 3,000 Palestinians were injured by Israeli soldiers and/or settlers. 79 Palestinians were killed, including 17 children and four women, along with an Eritrean refugee, who was lynched by an Israeli mob after being confused for a Palestinian militant. In the same time period, eight Israelis were killed.
Addressing the bloodshed, Gold and Vergosen stated in a CODEPINK statement āWe know that the root cause of the violence is Israelās occupation, dispossession, and violence against the Palestinian people and that Americaās financial and political support is instrumental in allowing this to continue.ā
Code pink has nothing better to do with that double standard B/S...
They are anti conservative, they won't **** with obongo war crimes...






