Bay Area Launches Network with Press Conference and Tashlich
Saturday, October 04, 2008 Oakland
On Thursday, October 2nd, Bay Area members of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) and our allies gathered for a press conference and rally to announce IJAN's launch with a reading of the founding Charter. The event was held in front of the East Bay Jewish Community Federation Building, with the purpose of confronting and exposing the role of Zionist institutions in perpetuating atrocities committed against Palestinian people.
The press conference was followed by a Tashlich service across the street beside Lake Merritt. This Tashlich service (an adaptation of the traditional High Holiday ritual of casting bread or stones into a body of water) reiterated a commitment to spiritual and cultural divestment from Zionism, and the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions against the State of Israel.
