Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak
Nov 6, 2015 07:11:40 #
Stefanie Fox
Co-Director of Organizing
The "liberal" Center for American Progress is planning to roll out the welcome mat for Benjamin Netanyahu next week -- while his government is busy brutalizing the Palestinian people and entrenching a decades-long occupation. We're calling on CAP to rescind their invitation and almost 7,000 activists like you have already signed our petition. We're delivering it to CAP's office in DC this afternoon - can you help us get to 10,000 signatures before we deliver it? Thanks, Stefanie.
Tell the Center for American Progress to
rescind their invitation to Netanyahu
Since college -- actually, since grade school -- Ive been a political activist, and Ive spent my entire career fighting for peace, and justice, and e******y. Its what us progressives do.
But some progressives didnt get the memo.
The Center for American Progress, one of the biggest and most influential progressive think tanks in the U.S. has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Let me put it another way: one of the most important progressive organizations in America is giving a huge platform to one of the least progressive men alive, at a time when hes inciting hatred, entrenching a brutal status quo of apartheid, and presiding over a terrifying descent into far-right extremist violence.
Our allies at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation are calling on CAP to rescind their invitation to Netanyahu, and were standing with them.
But we need you, too. Add your name to our letter: Bibi is no progressive, and CAP has no business inviting him to speak.
Over 70 Palestinians and 9 Israelis have been k**led this month. Over 8,000 Palestinians have been injured since October. Thats not a typo -- over 8,000. Israeli soldiers and militarized police are inflicting brutal collective punishment on the people of Palestine -- and egged on by Netanyahu's rhetoric, r****t mobs march through the streets of Israel, attacking the non-Jews that they pass.
Netanyahu wants us to ignore all that. He wants to give a speech, and offer some vague platitudes, and hope that well forget that hes spent his premiership shilling for war and dispossession.
But I can see what Netanyahu has done, and you can too.
After nearly 70 years of dispossession and displacement -- and just as many years of Palestinian resistance -- Netanyahu knows that the age-old bipartisan consensus over Israel is breaking up. The Israel lobby can always count on the support of the neocons and the Christian far-right, but progressives are waking up to the reality of Israels decades-long occupation and its displacement of the Palestinian people.
Jews like me, and supporters of justice and e******y from all walks of life are moving the needle, and changing the political conversation around Israel and Palestine. Fealty to the Israeli occupation is no longer guaranteed, and Netanyahu knows it. The emerging progressive majority has had enough of Israeli apartheid, and Netanyahu is running scared.
We cant let the Center for American Progress give Netanyahu the veneer of bipartisan respectability. Not now, when the tide is turning for peace and human rights.
Tell the Center for American Progress: dont roll out the welcome mat for warmongers. Rescind your invitation to Netanyahu.
It really comes down to a simple t***h: you cannot call yourself progressive and be silent on Palestine. If youre committed to human rights, your commitment cant stop at the Green Line. If you believe in e******y for all, that has to include Palestinians. And if you want to fight r****m, you have to fight it in Israel, too.
Im Progressive. Netanyahu isnt. Add your name, and tell CAP to disinvite Netanyahu.
Onwards,
Stefanie Fox
Co-Director of Organizing
Co-Director of Organizing
The "liberal" Center for American Progress is planning to roll out the welcome mat for Benjamin Netanyahu next week -- while his government is busy brutalizing the Palestinian people and entrenching a decades-long occupation. We're calling on CAP to rescind their invitation and almost 7,000 activists like you have already signed our petition. We're delivering it to CAP's office in DC this afternoon - can you help us get to 10,000 signatures before we deliver it? Thanks, Stefanie.
Tell the Center for American Progress to
rescind their invitation to Netanyahu
Since college -- actually, since grade school -- Ive been a political activist, and Ive spent my entire career fighting for peace, and justice, and e******y. Its what us progressives do.
But some progressives didnt get the memo.
The Center for American Progress, one of the biggest and most influential progressive think tanks in the U.S. has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Let me put it another way: one of the most important progressive organizations in America is giving a huge platform to one of the least progressive men alive, at a time when hes inciting hatred, entrenching a brutal status quo of apartheid, and presiding over a terrifying descent into far-right extremist violence.
Our allies at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation are calling on CAP to rescind their invitation to Netanyahu, and were standing with them.
But we need you, too. Add your name to our letter: Bibi is no progressive, and CAP has no business inviting him to speak.
Over 70 Palestinians and 9 Israelis have been k**led this month. Over 8,000 Palestinians have been injured since October. Thats not a typo -- over 8,000. Israeli soldiers and militarized police are inflicting brutal collective punishment on the people of Palestine -- and egged on by Netanyahu's rhetoric, r****t mobs march through the streets of Israel, attacking the non-Jews that they pass.
Netanyahu wants us to ignore all that. He wants to give a speech, and offer some vague platitudes, and hope that well forget that hes spent his premiership shilling for war and dispossession.
But I can see what Netanyahu has done, and you can too.
After nearly 70 years of dispossession and displacement -- and just as many years of Palestinian resistance -- Netanyahu knows that the age-old bipartisan consensus over Israel is breaking up. The Israel lobby can always count on the support of the neocons and the Christian far-right, but progressives are waking up to the reality of Israels decades-long occupation and its displacement of the Palestinian people.
Jews like me, and supporters of justice and e******y from all walks of life are moving the needle, and changing the political conversation around Israel and Palestine. Fealty to the Israeli occupation is no longer guaranteed, and Netanyahu knows it. The emerging progressive majority has had enough of Israeli apartheid, and Netanyahu is running scared.
We cant let the Center for American Progress give Netanyahu the veneer of bipartisan respectability. Not now, when the tide is turning for peace and human rights.
Tell the Center for American Progress: dont roll out the welcome mat for warmongers. Rescind your invitation to Netanyahu.
It really comes down to a simple t***h: you cannot call yourself progressive and be silent on Palestine. If youre committed to human rights, your commitment cant stop at the Green Line. If you believe in e******y for all, that has to include Palestinians. And if you want to fight r****m, you have to fight it in Israel, too.
Im Progressive. Netanyahu isnt. Add your name, and tell CAP to disinvite Netanyahu.
Onwards,
Stefanie Fox
Co-Director of Organizing
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