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The year 2008 is the 60th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe marked by the destruction or depopulation of more than 400 Palestinian villages through massacre and intimidation and the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinian people from their lands, communities and homes. Since then, Palestinians have lived under occupation, as refugees, and as second class citizens on their own land; Israel's assault against the indigenous Palestinian communities continues with unremitting brutality. In Gaza, with the support of the US government and its allies, Israel, has effectively cut off food, water, electricity, humanitarian aid, medical supplies and the means of basic employment or trade, despite the pretense of ‘disengagement’ offered by Israeli withdrawal of settlements ...

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Jewish Community Relations Council

…you do not speak for us!

The Jewish Community Relations Council consistently claims a monopoly on being “the Jewish voice”. It claims that its unconditional support for Israel’s policies and practices is the consensus within the “organized Jewish community.”  It claims that any Jew who disagrees with the Israel/US agenda for Palestine and the Middle East cannot claim a voice within the Jewish community.  Against this claim, we stand here in opposition to this celebration of the 60^th anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel that displaced over 800,000 indigenous Palestinians from their homeland.