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https://indyweek.com/news/northcarolina/op-ed-jewish-voice-peace/   …Our tax dollars should not fund a racist and profit-driven military occupation of Palestinian land. As Jewish people, we refuse to be divided from other people seeking freedom and will continue to support Palestinians in their fight for liberation.   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://popularresistance.org/israeli-blockade-has-cost-gaza-16-7-billion/ Israel 's blockade of the  Gaza Strip  cost the Palestinian enclave's economy an estimated $16.7 billion in just over a decade, the United Nations said Wednesday… Over the period, Gaza's share of the total Palestinian economy decreased from 31 percent to 18 percent, while investment to the enclave "virtually disappeared", at 2.7 percent of GDP in 2018… And Gaza now has one of the world's highest unemployment rates, at around 52 percent, the report said… Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/biden-trump-israel-palestine/ … And the Biden administration should make it clear that it will apply internationally recognized human rights standards to Israeli behavior in the occupied territories— calling out Israel for home demolitions, land seizures, acts of collective punishment, and other violations of individual and communal rights…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article247312484.html   …Calling nonviolent advocates for Palestinian rights anti-Semitic is just a cheap shot done to divert attention away from the real problem, which is the right-wing extremists in the Israeli government who relentlessly grab land owned for generations by Palestinian families…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

Rep. Joaquin Castro has spoken out for Palestinian rights as he seeks to become the next chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. ..Rep. Castro will vie with two other candidates, Rep. Brad Sherman (CA-30) and Rep. Gregory Meeks (NY-5), who are both clearly candidates of the status quo : endless wars, rampant militarization with its massive profits for the few, and the propensity to settle conflict with violence…   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

11-19-2020 Pompeo says settlement products to be labeled 'Made in Israel' – Al Monitor   https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/11/west-bank-made-in-israel-settlement-pompeo-bds-anti-semitic.html   In a reversal of longstanding US policy, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Thursday that imports to the United States coming from settlements in the West Bank will now require a label indicating they were made in Israel…Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also announced the United States would identify and label groups that support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as "anti-Semitic." .. In another break with decades-long policy on Israel, Pompeo announced late last month that American citizens born in Jerusalem may now list "Israel" as their place of birth on their passports. Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member  

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/georgia-lawmaker-says-israeli-government-asked-me-for-anti-boycott-law-she-introduced/   A Georgia state legislator who has pushed the state law opposing boycotts of Israel [State Rep. Deborah Silcox] testified at a hearing that the Israeli consulate "asked me" to introduce an amendment to the law, and she did.   [She] appeared at the hearing in March with an Israeli consular officer seated at her side, and introduced him to the House committee... Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/georgia-lawmaker-says-israeli-government-asked-me-for-anti-boycott-law-she-introduced/   A Georgia state legislator who has pushed the state law opposing boycotts of Israel [Rep. Deborah Silcox] testified at a hearing that the Israeli consulate "asked me" to introduce an amendment to the law, and she did.   [She] appeared at the hearing in March with an Israeli consular officer seated at her side, and introduced him to the House committee... Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://popularresistance.org/update-abby-martins-lawsuit-over-israel-loyalty-oath-mandate-in-us/   In February, Abby Martin refused to sign a state-mandated pledge not to   boycott Israel in order to speak at Georgia Southern University. Martin, working with two civil rights organizations, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and The Partnership for Civil Civil Justice Fund, is suing Georgia.   Popular Resistance has a video with one Martin's lawyers.   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member

https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/georgia-dem-senate-candidate-signed-letter-comparing-israel-to-apartheid-south-africa/   [The 2019] Statement signed by Rev. Raphael Warnock [and confirmed by the Progressive Baptist Convention, which also called for an end to military aid for Israel] following delegation visit to the West Bank: "We saw the patterns that seem to have been borrowed and perfected from other previous oppressive regimes."   Posted by Judith Ferster, Voices for Justice in Palestine member