March 11, 2024
Hi friends,
Ramadan begins tonight and there is no ceasefire.
The US is planning to build a pier on the coast of Gaza for delivering aid. It will take weeks, however, and famine is already imminent.
Twelve human rights groups in Israel
have signed an open letter accusing the country of failing to comply with the international court of justice’s (ICJ) provisional ruling that it should facilitate access of humanitarian aid into Gaza.
World Central Kitchen is delivering meals to Gaza now. Donations during Ramadan are being doubled by a matching grant.
In Ramadan, the values of compassion, generosity, and empathy are amplified.
Or rather, that’s the idea.
Call on the president (again!) to stop supplying Israel with weapons.
My Home in Israel, a real estate company, offers apartments and villas for sale in the Occupied West Bank. Yesterday, one of these Israeli Real Estate Events drew hundreds of protesters to Teaneck, NJ.
There’s another event scheduled in Midwood, Brooklyn this week and NY-9 Neighbors for Palestine is petitioning to cancel it.
At this event, Israeli real estate companies are going to market and sell homes built on illegal West Bank settlements by a nation that is right now engaging in ethnic cleansing and genocide against the Palestinian people.
Israel’s regime of West Bank settlement on stolen, occupied Palestinian land is widely recognized as a war crime and a violation of international law. Palestinians in the West Bank report persistent settler violence and land theft - in the past few months, hundreds have been killed and over 1,000 have been displaced from their homes.
Even the Biden Administration, which has armed and supported Israel’s genocide in Gaza, says that the settlements are illegal. One of the settlements advertised on the Great Israeli Real Estate Event website is Ma’ale Adumim, which has been called “the settlement that broke the two-state solution.”
The event’s sponsors are advertising it as “Your chance to own a piece of the holy land.”
Stop the illegal sales of Palestinian land.
Here’s a repeat action, in case you missed it.
Join CodePink in urging women in the Progressive Caucus to vote no on aid to Israel.
with love,
L