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The Middle East Crisis Response is a group of Hudson Valley residents joined in support of human rights...(read more) Donate to MECR Make checks out to "MECR" and send them to: MECR, Box 1362, Woodstock, NY 12498. If an Agent Knocks Download and read a PDF file from the Center for Constitutional Rights. Hand Crafted
Our Blogs Articles Events Hudson to the West Bank Local Groups We Support Children of Occupation Project Hudson to Gaza Freedom March Hudson Valley BDS US to Gaza Woostock International Woodstock Peace Economy Other Blogs Al-Awda-NY Convoy Doctor in Galilee Eyewitness Reports Gaza Views George Salzman Joan Nestle: Mondoweiss Raising Yousuf: Shalom Rav Sunshine Tales to Tell from Gaza Podcasts Palcast: podcasting the occupation. ClassWars podcast. Nic Abramson's visit to the West Bank Background Mapping the Israeli Apartheid in the West Bank. Find out which Israeli and international corporations are directly involved in the occupation.
Read Joel Kovel's book Overcoming Zionism that was censored by the Israeli Lobby. Listen to his interview on "Democracy Now!"
Read about Rachel Corrie, the 23 year old American peace activist, who was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer as she knelt in front of a Palestinian home. A memorial as well as a tribute to Rachel Corrie were put in the Poughkeepsie Journal. Watch a video of Jim Page singing "I'd Rather Be Dancing." Listen to Ilan Pappe, Israeli historian, talk about apartheid and the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Listen to: "They're Building a Wall" by David Rovics.
Watch a short clip from "A Palestinian Woman," a new release from Red Hill Films. Watch the "Shame of Ertas" on YouTube.
Listen to Yonatan Shapira, an Israeli air force pilot who refused to serve in Palestine. He spoke at Bard and on Activist Radio. Read the "Two-States or One State" public debate between Uri Avnery and Ilan Pappe. Read: MuzzleWatch What YOU can do for justice in Palestine. |
Sign Petition: Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that the joint bid advanced by Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in the multi-billion-dollar competition to create a massive applied sciences and technology campus on Roosevelt Island had won. We are opposited to Cornell University’s Collaboration with Technion, Israel Institute of Technology...
Our resolution asks TIAA-CREF to engage with companies that profit from the Israeli occupation, to ask them to change course or face divestment next year. We think it's reasonable, fair, and takes an important stand for justice. Aaron Levitt, on behalf of Jewish Voice for Peace If you have retirement or other funds in TIAA-CREF (or know someone who does, like a teacher public service worker), please sign the pledge. The Young Jewish Declaration
If you are/were in education and have a TIAA/CREF retirement account, please call and ask them to stop investing in Israel. Making money from apartheid is inconsistent with the stated ideals and goals of this special investment company. Also, please sign the Jewish Voice for Peace's petition online. TO TIAA-CREF: I also request that you establish investment criteria to exclude any such investments in the future. As one of the largest financial services companies in the world, changing your policies will send a message of hope to Palestinians and Israelis who seek peace and justice.
 Furkan Dogan, American dual citizen born in Troy, N.Y., was shot a total of five times, four in the head at close range.
"It's so difficult to imagine a 'terrorist,' the label Israelis put on the activists who joined the flotilla and allegedly attacked the solders — someone sympathetic to Al Qaeda — emerging from this environment. Moderation, prudence and conformity are bywords in the culture here. Kayseri, the hometown of Turkish President Abdullah Gul, has been enormously friendly and welcoming to me, my wife, and son in the eight months we've been here… This young man obviously was a respected member of the community. He was studying at a private high school in Kayseri, similar to the one I teach at, and hoped to become a doctor. He was a neighbor of a student of mine."
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More than any other university in Israel, the Technion, which is involved in the research and development of military and arms technology, is directly implicated in war crimes. Its joint programs with the Israeli military and its cooperative research programs with two of Israel’s major weapons corporations, Elbit and Rafael, renders Technion a full participant in the actions carried out by the Israeli military. Those actions include targeting civilians, as in the 2006 invasion of Lebanon and the 2008-2009 Cast Lead operation against Gaza, and physically contributing to Israel’s discriminatory practices in the West Bank with the construction of the separation wall that cuts sharply into the occupied West Bank and disrupts the lives of Palestinians in countless ways. The Cornell administration cannot plead ignorance of these facts. We refuse to collaborate with this.
It’s time, finally, after forty years for the United States to do the right thing for the people of Palestine. Will they?
We exist. We are everywhere. We speak and love and dream in every language. We pray three times a day or only during the high holidays or when we feel like we really need to or not at all. We are punks and students and parents and janitors and Rabbis and freedom fighters. We are your children...