<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>As we say in Jobs with Justice: "I'll be there."</div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Deheeger, JVP</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:info@jewishvoiceforpeace.org" target="_blank">info@jewishvoiceforpeace.org</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:47 AM<br>Subject: BDS Begins at Home<br>To: <a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><br><br><u></u>
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<p align="center" style="margin-left:40px;font-weight:bold;font-size:22px;line-height:1.3em;color:rgb(203,77,38)"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=J5wVYU8nRJ3UXI9298wkrIbXJZtu%2Bq9z" style="line-height:28.6px" target="_blank"><img width="350" height="66" src="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/301/images/2015horizontallogo.png" alt=""></a></p>
<p align="center" style="font-weight:bold;font-size:22px;line-height:1.3em;color:rgb(203,77,38)"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=z1pVg%2B%2BIilk70O1F7r5VjYbXJZtu%2Bq9z" style="line-height:28.6px" target="_blank"></a><span style="font-size:larger">Tell the JNF: we won't fund dispossession</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:medium">Dear Robert-</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="line-height:1.6">This weekend, the Jewish National Fund will be in my hometown of Chicago for their annual conference.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium">While racist Israeli mobs march through the streets of Jerusalem chanting “Death to Arabs,” and Palestinians are being subjected to ever-increasing levels of collective punishment, the JNF will be celebrating how much money they send to Israel and toasting the segregation they enforce on the huge swathes of Israeli land they own. </span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size:medium">The oppression of Palestinians worsens every day. Yet the JNF will be gathering this weekend to double down on their support for discrimination, land theft, and occupation.<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:medium">That’s why I’ll be in at the JNF conference in Chicago. Along with JVP members from across the country and our allies in the Palestinian liberation movement, we’ll be protesting, and making it clear that the JNF doesn’t speak for all Jews.<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:medium">But we don’t just want to raise our voices -- we want to raise your voice too. We’ve started an open letter for Jews and our allies to publicly pledge not just to stop funding the JNF, but to actively expose the organization for what it is: a root cause of the escalated violence we’re all seeing. <br>
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<p><u><span style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3j0ejTtAsg%2FQUuNNi017UYbXJZtu%2Bq9z" target="_blank"></a></span></u><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><u><span style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aoXtWXRaddF%2F6IK1LitCnobXJZtu%2Bq9z" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><u><b>Add your name to our open letter -- we won’t fund dispossession. We’ll be displaying the letter loud and proud at the JNF convention.</b></u></span><u><b><br>
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<p><span style="font-size:medium">Growing up at my synagogue, I was taught the importance of Tzedakah (charity), and lots of us grew up putting change in JNF’s blue tzedakah boxes. But the JNF isn’t just another neutral charity -- and the donations they receive from thousands of Jews around the world are being used to perpetuate hatred and persecution in Israel and Palestine.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium">The JNF controls 13% of all the land in Israel. [1] <b>That's the equivalent of Texas, California, and New York states combined.</b> And across that huge swath of land, the JNF prevents non-Jewish Israelis from renting it or using it. <b>There’s a word for that: segregation.</b> And the JNF admits it. In 2004, in response to a lawsuit, the JNF admitted that they “don’t have a duty to practice equality.” [2]<br>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FfOy8Rcyz98SRgtbsJWksYbXJZtu%2Bq9z" target="_blank"></a></span></b><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rJM8vDCRE99K8URcIHsL%2FYbXJZtu%2Bq9z" target="_blank"></a></span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qzcqmyPMsSdw%2BPoem23u2YbXJZtu%2Bq9z" target="_blank"></a></span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DDG0uRNOJFzudQsM1hynfIbXJZtu%2Bq9z" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b><u>It doesn’t have to be like this. Sign our open letter, and make it clear that the JNF they can’t count on the uncritical support of Americans any longer.</u></b></span><b><u><br>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:medium">We’ll be taking the fight directly to the JNF, but that’s not where this battle ends, because the JNF isn’t the only entity propping up Israeli apartheid.<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:medium">Defenders of Israel’s racist policies want us to think that the current turmoil is the fault of the Palestinian people. But the fact of the matter is clear: NGOs like the JNF, Israel’s defenders in Congress, and Netanyahu’s extremist policies have created the conditions that lead to violence and instability.<br>
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<p><b><span style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bSgCghwvkIoWA8CpMxUoaobXJZtu%2Bq9z" target="_blank"></a></span></b><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b><span style="font-size:medium"><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=t7blVCq1hPDw5Gmi4sgNr4bXJZtu%2Bq9z" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><b><u>It’s time to chart a new course. Send a message to the JNF -- we won’t fund dispossession.</u></b></span><b><u><br>
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<p><span style="font-size:medium">This is an example of how we can all participate in the BDS movement from right where we are. Exerting non-violent economic and social pressure is a time-honored, extremely effective way of achieving political change. And we need to direct it at these major organizations that perpetuate injustice in Israel and Palestine. BDS begins at home -- by withholding money from the JNF -- and our campaign begins with you adding your name.<br>
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<p><span style="font-size:medium">Thank you for all that you do,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:medium;line-height:1.6">Michael Deheeger</span><br>
<span style="font-size:medium;line-height:1.6">Chicago Organizer</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:xx-small">[1, 2] </span><a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GwQFgeYjQm6FuqMxqsOe4obXJZtu%2Bq9z" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:xx-small"><span style="color:rgb(128,0,0)"><u><b>Statement submitted by Habitat International Coalition and Adalah to the 62nd Session of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, April 2006.</b></u></span></span></a></p>
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