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From: CODEPINK [mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2016 11:53 AM
To: Miriam Vieni
Subject: Palestinian Human Rights Defenders Under Attack!
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Dear Miriam --
Palestinian human rights defenders are being threatened and attacked! This
past month there has been an uptick in threats of death and violence against
those in Israel and Palestine who dare to speak out and act in support of
Palestinian human rights. This kind of incitement, left unchecked, can lead
to actual physical harm.
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7cbb5300d207301f12&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pal_hum
_rights&n=2> Take action: Tell the US State Department to make a public
statement upholding the rights of Palestinian human rights defenders!
On March 28th, Israeli Transportation and Intelligence Minister Yisrael
Katz's called for
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e847a32f7d7cbb5300d207301f12&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campai
gn=pal_hum_rights&n=3> "targeted civil eliminations" of Boycott, Divestment
and Sanctions (BDS) leaders, specifically mentioning Boycott National
Committee founder and leader Omar Barghouti by name. This comes against a
backdrop of numerous threats and attacks including:
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Ongoing attempts
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%2F327534%2Fbreaking-the-silence-comes-under-withering-attack-for-questionin
g-israels-m%2F&e=a586e847a32f7d7cbb5300d207301f12&utm_source=codepink&utm_me
dium=email&utm_campaign=pal_hum_rights&n=4> to shut down Breaking the
Silence, an organization for Israeli veterans that publishes testimonies of
Israeli soldiers who have witnessed war crimes.
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Ongoing death threats, unwarranted
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Fcase%2Fcase-history-issa-amro&e=a586e847a32f7d7cbb5300d207301f12&utm_source
=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pal_hum_rights&n=5> arrests for such
things as "organizing illegal demonstrations", and attempts
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iolent_palestinian_youth_activism%2F&e=a586e847a32f7d7cbb5300d207301f12&utm_
source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pal_hum_rights&n=6> to shut
down the work of Hebron-based Palestinian nonviolent activist Issa Amro.
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Death threats against the Palestinian activist Emad abu-Shamsiyah,who filmed
the
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%2Fisraeli-rights-group-releases-video-soldier-executing-wounded-palestinian
-suspect%2F&e=a586e847a32f7d7cbb5300d207301f12&utm_source=codepink&utm_mediu
m=email&utm_campaign=pal_hum_rights&n=7> March 2016 extrajudicial killing of
a wounded Palestinian suspect Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif in Hebron.
Israeli government and right-wing settler incitement has been building for a
while and unfortunately we know that these are not empty threats. In May
2015, ultra-nationalist extreme right-wing politician Ayelet Shaked, who in
2014 called for a war
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ts&n=8> on the entire Palestinian population "including its elderly and
women," was appointed as Israel's Justice Minister. In July 2015, settlers
firebombed the two homes in the West Bank village of Duma killing
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586e847a32f7d7cbb5300d207301f12&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_cam
paign=pal_hum_rights&n=9> 18-month old Ali Dawabsheh and both of his
parents, leaving his 5-year old Amad Dawabsheh who survived the attack, an
orphan. A few weeks ago, in March 2016, the house of a key
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%2Fmar%2F20%2Ffire-west-bank-home-key-witness-duma-arson-attack-jewish-extre
mists-palestinian-family&e=a586e847a32f7d7cbb5300d207301f12&utm_source=codep
ink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pal_hum_rights&n=10> witness in the Duma
case was set ablaze in an arson attack.
The
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7cbb5300d207301f12&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pal_hum
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be protected. Please sign our petition, and we will deliver your signature!
Israel is the top recipient of US military assistance - receiving 3.1
billion dollars annually. This aid package, set to expire in 2017, is
currently being renegotiated and the Obama administration is offering $40
billion dollars over the next ten years. Now more than ever it is necessary
and urgent for the State Department to take a clear stand to protect the
safety of Palestinian human rights defenders in accordance with the United
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Declaration of Human Rights Defenders.
Together we can help bring about a just world of peace and equal rights for
all.
In solidarity,
Alli, Ariel, Nancy K., and the entire CODEPINK team
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