Palestine & Israel
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Freedom and Human Rights
CODEPINK stands in solidarity with Palestinian
and Israeli nonviolent activists and human
rights advocates working to hold Israel
accountable for its violations of international
law and to promote the rights of Palestinians.
In addition, we work here in the United
States to educate Americans about the realities
of Israel's occupation and to change U.S.
foreign policy in the region.
We feel personally implicated in Israel's
violations of human rights and international
law because our tax dollars--$3 billion
annually in military aid--subsidize Israel's
occupation.
Join
Our Current Campaigns:
Please read more about our campaigns below
and join us in working towards a just peace
for Palestinians and Israelis.
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Stolen
Beauty Ahava Boycott
Background: CODEPINK's
launched stolenbeauty.org
in June 2009 with a protest at the Ahava
shop in the Tel Aviv Hilton. As part of
the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS) Movement that aims to ensure equality,
freedom and justice, CODEPINK has focused
its boycott efforts on Ahava and Soda Stream,
two companies that have manufacturing plants
in illegal settlements in the Occupied West
Bank.
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End
US Military Aid to Israel
Background: CODEPINK, together
with Global Exchange, Interfaith Peace-builders,
the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and over
100 peace and justice groups, are dedicated
to exposing and decrying the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), a far-right
Israel lobby group. The Move Over AIPAC campaign
held a national policy summit and several
days of protests in DC in May, 2011 during
AIPAC's annual conference. CODEPINK
filed a complaint with the Congressional Ethics
Committee in August, 2011 in response
to a right-wing junket in which 81 Congresspeople
visited Israel with an AIPAC affiliate. Join
us to send a message to our lawmakers in Washington:
Move
over AIPAC: Time for a new foreign policy!
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Kids have the right to read about Palestine!
Background: CODEPINK is cosponsoring
the "Kids have the right to read
about Palestine" campaign,
which is calling on editors of social studies
series found in juvenile collections in
libraries to add the title PALESTINE to
their series aimed at celebrating diversity,
allowing young readers a chance to see how
people live in faraway lands. Alice Walker,
Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein and Naomi
Shihab Nye have endorsed this campaign. Won't
you join us? More info
at TheWorldIncludesPalestine.org
or contact our Middle East Campaigner Rae.
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Support
Palestinian Human Rights Advocates
Background: CODEPINK,
Jewish Voice for Peace and the US Campaign
to End the Israeli Occupation have worked
to elevate the voices of popular Palestinian
organizers. In collaboration with the Popular
Struggle Coordination Committee (PSCC) in
the West Bank, US-based solidarity groups
have been instrumental in raising the profile
of the many non-violent activists who commit
themselves to organizing against the Israeli
occupation and who face Israeli violence
and repression because of their steadfastness.
(Photo at left is Bassem Tamimi,
Palestinian organizer from Nabi Saleh who
is currently in Israeli prison for peaceful
protest. Photo by ActiveStills.org.)
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Lift
the Siege of Gaza:
Background: During Israel's
three-week brutal assault on the besieged
Gaza Strip, the world watched as over 1,400
Palestinians, most of them civilians and
350 of them children, were killed. CODEPINK
had been a member group of the U.S.
Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
for several years and immediately spurred
into action. Since 2009, CODEPINK has lead
over ten delegations to Gaza and has partnered
with Global
Exchange on trips to Israel and the
West Bank.
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