Americans for Justice in Palestine Action calls for Day of Action Thursday Oct. 28
Join us today as we #StandWithThe6
Last week, six leading Palestinian human rights organizations, whose missions are to protect and uphold human rights and provide essential services to Palestinian communities, were designated as terrorist organizations by Israel in an attempt to deter them from documenting the Israeli government’s violent and oppressive regime against Palestinians.
This attack is a continuation of the sustained Israeli assault on Palestinian rights. Shutting down, suppressing, and censoring human rights organizations illustrates Israel’s separate and unequal apartheid rule over Palestinians. Israel strives to evade accountability for its atrocities by attacking Palestinian organizations advocating for human rights.
TODAY, Thursday, October 28th, is a global day of action for the protection of Palestinian civil society.
Here’s what YOU can do to help:
- Voice your support on social media: explain why you #StandWithThe6 orgs & wider Palestinian civil society (use the following hashtags #StandWithThe6 #WeWillNotBeSilenced #ProtectPalestinianCSO)
- Use this toolkit: http://bit.ly/standwiththe6
- Organize in your city: host rallies, sit-ins, events, panels, conversations, phone banks, etc
- Get your organization to post a public statement
- Vocalize your criticism of Israeli crimes & attempts at silencing dissent
Israel is attacking the messenger because it cannot effectively respond to their message. Silencing the six organizations will put millions of Palestinians in danger and we will not allow Israel to silence them or the Palestinian movement overall.
At any moment, Israel can arrest these organizations (Defense for Children International- Palestine, Al Haq, Addameer: Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Bisan Center for Research and Development, Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees) staff, raid their offices, and deny them essential funding amongst many other things.
It’s critical that we speak out against these unjust attacks, remain consistent in our work against the Israeli government’s oppressive regime, and stand firm until they are held accountable.
Thank you for rising up and taking action for Palestine. We can’t stop until it is free.
Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.
Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).
Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.
Hanania is the recipient of four (4) Chicago Headline Club “Peter Lisagor Awards” for Column writing. In November 2006, he was named “Best Ethnic American Columnist” by the New American Media. In 2009, Hanania received the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists. He is the recipient of the MT Mehdi Courage in Journalism Award. He was honored for his writing skills with two (2) Chicago Stick-o-Type awards from the Chicago Newspaper Guild. In 1990, Hanania was nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.
His writings have also been honored by two national Awards from ADC for his writing, and from the National Arab American Journalists Association.
Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for the Arab News Newspaper, covering Middle East and Arab American issues. He writes for the Southwest News newspaper group writing on mainstream American issues.
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