BREAKING — TELL NY GOVERNOR CUOMO: STOP SUPPORTING ISRAELI MASSACRES IN GAZA! SIGN PETITION HERE: tinyurl/StopIsraeliMassacres On August 10, 2014, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, announced an upcoming “unity visit” with Israeli leaders “in light of the continued threat of attacks by Hamas and other terrorist organizations”1 But the justification for the visit is in fact a lie; Israels latest massacres in Gaza — whose victims include hundreds of civilians, children, entire families, the elderly, and the disabled — are NOT an act of self defense. Rather, Israels current war on Gaza is the latest chapter in more than a century of Zionist racism, colonialism, dispossession, and ethnic cleaning. Scattered rockets, fired from Gaza — into land stolen from Palestinians in the first place — are merely a response to this systemic injustice. Co-Leader Klein, grandson of Holocaust survivors, calls Israel “a beacon for the values and rights inherent in a Democracy.” But more than 250 Jewish Holocaust survivors and descendants of survivors know better: they just signed a statement “condemning Israel’s massacre on Gaza and calling for an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people.”2 Speaker Silver added, “I am delighted to join Governor Cuomo and Senators Skelos and Klein in our mission to Israel to show New York’s solidarity with the people of the Jewish State.” Solidarity with this state, however, is solidarity with injustice. As Palestinian activist Ali Abunimah says, “Israel was created as a ‘Jewish state’ by expelling Palestinians and preventing their return. It can only survive in this form by maintaining current and committing future violations of the rights of Palestinians.”3 Governor Cuomo, et al: your unity with apartheid Israel doesnt speak for us. We stand with the people of Gaza, with the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against Israel, and with equal rights for all throughout historic Palestine. 1. governor.ny.gov/press/081014-leaders-israel-trip 2. ijsn.net/gaza/survivors_and_descendents-letter/ 3. mondoweiss.net/2014/04/process-abunimahs-palestine.html
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 19:31:44 +0000
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