From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Wed Jul 1 11:43:17 2015 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 11:43:17 -0700 Subject: Please contact CA State Assembly NOW about SCR 35 Message-ID: Please share widely: SCR 35 will come to a vote very shortly ? possibly today, so please call now. Please take these three important actions to protect free speech, academic freedom, and our ability to work for Palestinian human rights: ? Contact your Assembly member and tell them to vote no on SCR 35 , another thinly veiled attempt to silence students at UC and CSU campuses who are working to end their schools? complicity with the Israeli government?s egregious, well documented violations of human rights and international law. Kevin McCarty ? 916-319-2007; Assemblymember.McCarty at assembly.ca.gov Ken Cooley 916-319-2008; Assemblymember.Cooley at assembly.ca.gov Jim Cooper 916-319-2009; Assemblymember.Cooper at assembly.ca.gov Bill Dodd (Davis) ? 916-319-2004; Assemblymember.Dodd at assembly.ca.gov ?Please sign the petition to tell UC President Napolitano and the UC Regents: criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic . UC Regents will be discussing labeling criticism of Israel as anti-Semitic at their upcoming meeting scheduled for July 22/23 in San Francisco. ?Please sign the petition to tell the State Department to revise its definition of anti-Semitism . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Wed Jul 8 20:20:26 2015 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 20:20:26 -0700 Subject: Friday Al Quds Day rally & 7 Actions for Palestinian Rights Message-ID: 1. This Friday, July 10, 2015, 4:30 - 6pm, International Day of Al-Quds [Jerusalem]: Join us for a Rally against the Occupation of Palestine and stand in solidarity with all oppressed people throughout the world. 16th & J, Sacramento. All welcome, FMI: k.booker313 at gmail.com 2. If you have not already done so, contact your Assemblymember and ask them to vote NO on SCR 35 , a thinly veiled attempt to restrict student's ability to criticize and organize to change Israel's human rights violations. 3. On July 22-23, 2015, the University of California Regents will meet in San Francisco. One of the items to be considered is whether they should adopt a definition that equate anti-Semitism with criticizing or challenging Israel is anti-Semitic. Tell them it isn't: sign the petition and/or send your own email to President Janet Napolitano president at ucop.edu and Members of the Board of Regents regentsoffice at ucop.edu. More info . 4. Please sign the petition to tell Congress to hold Israel accountable for using weapons against the Palestinian people in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the Leahy Law. 5. Ask your Congress member 202-224-3121 and their staff to attend a Capitol Hill briefing on Israel 's failure to hold itself accountable. Wednesday, July 29, 2015, at 12:00 PM in 121 Cannon House Building addressing This briefing will examine Israel's failure to hold itself accountable through domestic judicial proceedings and the options and need for the United States and the international community to do so. 6. Email Trader Joes and ask them to stop selling Pastures of Eden Feta Cheese and any other Israeli products. Tell them you support boycotting Israeli products as a non-violent means of protesting the Israeli regime's apartheid, occupation, and war crimes. Boycott was critical in ending the racist apartheid regime in South Africa and it can help bring equality and human rights to all who live in Israel. FMI: sacramentoBDS.org 7. Ask Oprah To Renounce Leviev's Angolan Blood Diamonds and Israeli Settlements. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Thu Jul 16 20:44:31 2015 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 20:44:31 -0700 Subject: Help save Susiya from destruction Message-ID: ? Help save the Palestinian village of Susiya. Below is an alert from the villagers of Susiya who are threatened with imminent destruction by the Israeli government. In addition to signing their statement , please contact the US State Department - 202-647-9572 and President Obama - 202-456-1111and ask them to intervene to save Susiya. You can also send the links to the web pages of Rabbis for Human Rights (http://rhr.org.il/eng/save-susya ) and B?Tselem http://www.btselem.org/press_realese/20150716_susiya_demolition. From: B'Tselem- Nasser Nawaj'ah [mailto:mail at btselem.org] Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2015 2:26 PM Subject: Help us stop the expulsion #SaveSusiya We, the residents of Khirbet Susiya , a Palestinian village in the West Bank, need your help. The Israeli Civil Administration (CA) has notified us of an intention to demolish homes in our village and leave entire families homeless in the desert once the month of Ramadan is over, three days from now. Last Sunday we met with CA officials and with the Israeli Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT). They told us that the nonprofit Regavim and settlers in our area had pressured them into starting the demolitions before August 3rd, which is when the Israeli High Court will hear our petition. Yesterday we received the list of structures the Civil Administration wants us to demolish. These structures serve 74 of the residents of Susiya, half of them are children. The list includes almost hald ouf our village structures: ten residential homes, our clinic, eight animal shelters, and twelve storerooms, outhouses, etc. I was born in the original village of Khirbet Susiya, but we were forced out of there by Israel. We now live on our farmland ? and we will not leave it. We drew up a master plan to legalize the status of our homes, which we built on our land, but the CA rejected it. We petitioned the High Court with the help of Rabbis for Human Rights, asking that that CA be ordered to accept the plan. There are several illegal Israeli outposts close to our village, but the authorities have not threatened them with demolition ? even though they have no building permits or master plans. All we can do now is to continue protesting the plan to demolish our homes, expel us from our land, and transfer it to the settlers. How can you help? 1. Get your friends to join and stand with Susiya ? we need as many people as possible. Share this information and sign up page: http://www.btselem.org/savesusiya/english/ 2. Save the date: On Friday afternoon, 24 July, come to demonstrate with us in the village, which lies south of Hebron. 3. Ta?ayush is coordinating regular presence of activists at our village from the end of ?Eid al-Fitr on Monday, 20 July, to the date of the High Court hearing in our petition on 3 August. Sign up for shifts. Thank you for your support, Nasser Nawaj?ah B?Tselem researcher, resident of Khirbet Susiya ?If you have not already done so, contact Safeway ( 1-866-239-1376 or business.ethics at safeway.com) and Trader Joe?s and ask them to support human rights by not selling Israeli products until Israel stops violating the human and international legal rights of the Palestinian People. ? Sign petitions for Palestinian rights, new petitions include: ? Sign the petition to stop attacks on the Arab Resource Center of San Francisco. ? Sign petition joining the Palestinian BDS National Committee in Unwelcoming the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), sponsored by Shalom Hartman Institute. ? Learn more about Justice for Nadeem & stay tuned for upcoming events and alerts. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Thu Jul 23 09:55:07 2015 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 09:55:07 -0700 Subject: Please contact Congress now about Gaza briefing Message-ID: Please contact your Congressional representative now and ask them to attend the briefing on Gaza to be held on July 29, 2015, 12noon in 121 Cannon House Office Building in Washington DC. ? To have a message sent on your behalf, click here . ? To contact your representative directly, call 202-224-3121 or send an email through: www.house.gov ? To find your representative: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ More information from Jewish Voice for Peace: We?ve got just one week to make sure our Members of Congress attend an important Congressional briefing on Gaza put together by our friends at the U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation. Here's where you come in. It turns out the single most effective thing you can do is simply send a message to your Representative. We've made it really easy. Will you contact your Rep now and ask him or her to attend the July 29th Congressional briefing: Gaza one year after the devastation of "Operation Protective Edge." Our strength comes from you. You've taken action online, and raised your voice for human rights. That's why I wanted to write and give you an update about some of the campaigns you?ve been part of. We didn't win them all, but every time we show politicians that Jews and allies alike care about standing up for Palestine, we've moved the needle. ? Iran Deal: In the last week, 12,000 supporters have contacted their Representatives, urging them to support diplomacy and oppose war with Iran. It's going to be a close one, but I'm optimistic that warmongers in Congress won't have the votes to override a veto. If you haven't already, contact your Representative and urge them to stand for peace. This summer our chapters will be meeting with Representatives in person to ask them to support the agreement. ? Fast-Track: We joined a coalition of labor, environmental, and peace and justice organizations in the fight against Fast-Track, which, beyond facilitating shady trade deals, made it a "principal U.S. trade negotiating objectives? to prevent boycott, divestment, and sanctions of Israel. Even though Fast-Track passed, the U.S. State Department released a statement asserting that the United States will not extend its diplomatic protection to Israeli settlements. As reported by columnist Chemi Shalev in Haaretz: "The boycott of settlements, in effect, has now been officially stamped ?kosher? by the State Department." ? Child Detention: The Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy, American Friends Service Committee, and Defense for Children International Palestine , are doing an incredible job leading the No Way to Treat a Child Campaign, working to end the military detention of Palestinian children. JVP has joined the coalition and we asked you to contact your Members of Congress and encourage them to sign on to a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, calling on him to make the protecting of Palestinian children a priority in the U.S. - Israel relationship. You helped get 19 Member of Congress to sign the letter! And just in the last week, 23,000 of you have stepped up to defend Susiya, pushing the State Department to take forceful steps to prevent the demolition of that West Bank Village. It's true what they say, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." The new spate of anti-boycott legislation at both the State and Federal level is a sign of our power. Why else would defenders of Israel?s human rights abuses try to ram provisions into unrelated legislation? We didn't win all these fights, but by suiting up and making our voices heard, we?re continuing to move forward our movement for justice. The forces of militarism and fear are trying to stop our movement, but they will not succeed. L?Shalom ? may we move together towards peace and wholeness, Rabbi Joseph -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com Fri Jul 24 22:04:02 2015 From: palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com (palestinianrightssacregion at list.omsoft.com) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 22:04:02 -0700 Subject: Please tweet about NBAs players supporting Israeli apartheid Message-ID: Help counter Sheldon Adelson 's flying NBA stars to Israel to fight boycott movement. Sacramento Kings players, Cousins, Gay and Butler are already tweeting about their trip to Israel with Omri Casspi, who has apparently started a foundation to fight BDS. Use these tweets or do your own, but please use the hashtag: #DontPlayForIsraeliApartheid #DontPlayForIsraeliApartheid @boogiecousins @SacramentoKings @NBA support #BDS! #DontPlayForIsraeliApartheid @Team_RG8 @RudyGay8 @NBA @SacramentoKings support #BDS! #DontPlayForIsraeliApartheid @CaronButler @realtuffjuice @NBA @SacramentoKings support #BDS! Support Palestinian rights: don't buy products from or invest in companies that support Israel's occupation & apartheid and sign petitions for Palestine at: www.sacbds.org/petitions -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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They can call the Israeli embassy and Secretary of State John Kerry. Tell them you do not want your tax dollars funding Israel?s demolition of Palestinian homes or any other violation of Palestinian rights. FMI: SacReg4PalestinianRights at gmail.com ? Attend demonstration this Saturday, August 1, 2015: Middle Eastern Lives Matter! Rally to support Palestinian Rights, peace with Iran and an end to U.S. militarism in the Middle East. 11am-1pm, Arden Fair Mall entrance at Heritage & Arden, Sacramento. FMI: SacramentoBDS at gmail.com and sac at answerCoalition.org Every day Support Palestinian rights: don't buy products from or invest in companies that support Israel?s occupation & apartheid and sign petitions for Palestine at: www.sacbds.org/petitions -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: