[Peace-discuss] Anti-Semitism in the House

[C. G. Estabrook]

[This is from the "US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation."
 See their website at <us_campaign at endtheoccupation.org>. --CGE]


  Rep. Ros-Lehtinen to Push Anti-Palestinian 
  Legislation on Wednesday--Action Alert
  	
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chair of the Middle East and
Central Asia Subcommittee of the House International Relations
Committee (HIRC), has called a hearing for Wednesday on
“Palestinian Authority Elections: Implications for Peace,
Regional Security, and U.S. Assistance”.

This biased hearing will include as witnesses an Israeli
brigadier general, a researcher who claims that the
Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics over-counted
Palestinians by 1.3 million people, and a researcher who
claims that the European Union funds a Palestinian Authority
war against Israel. 

This absurd witness list shows that Rep. Ros-Lehtinen, who
aspires to become Chair of HIRC upon the retirement of the
current Chair, Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL), is not capable of
exercising her duties as Chair of the House Middle East
Subcommittee in a responsible way.  

Rep. Ros-Lehtinen’s anti-Palestinian agenda is clear: she is
also the sponsor of HR4681, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act
of 2006, which seeks to punish and isolate the Palestinian
people for voting by imposing draconian economic and
diplomatic measures against them.  The US Campaign has
organized a letter to Members of Congress, signed by nearly
240 US-based organizations, opposing this resolution.  Click
here to add your organization’s endorsement to this letter.    

TAKE ACTION:  Pick up the phone and call Rep. Ros-Lehtinen
today at 202-225-3931 and demand that she add to the witness
list a representative of an organization that does not think
the United States should punish and isolate the Palestinian
people for voting.   

Also, take a minute to contact your Member of Congress about
HR4681, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006

Your phone calls and emails make a difference!  In February
2004, Rep. Ros-Lehtinen called for a biased hearing on
Israel’s illegal West Bank wall in which the only witnesses
were from the same pro-Israel think tank.  Your emails and
phone calls forced Rep. Ros-Lehtinen to state publicly at this
hearing that the witness list was not balanced and another
hearing needed to be called to hear other opinions. 
Unfortunately Rep. Ros-Lehtinen never lived up to her word to
call another hearing despite pressure from the US Campaign to
do so. 

Don’t let her get away with another biased hearing.  Take
action today! 

Call Rep. Ros-Lehtinen’s office today at 202-225-3931 and
contact your Members of Congress.

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