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Cecilie Surasky, JVP
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2015 4:08 PM
To: miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: From Ferguson to Gaza
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Dear Miriam,
For decades, the lives of millions of Palestinians have been marked by daily
confrontation with the institutional violence of occupation, displacement,
and discrimination. The dehumanization of Palestinian lives is so
commonplace that daily deaths or injuries at the hands of the Israeli
military barely warrant comment in the media.
But a different kind of violence has emerged these past days, fueled by the
escalation of settler and government provocations, an increasingly brutal
occupation, and hopelessness in response to an empty peace process.
Frustrated Palestinians without political ties, many of them teenagers, have
attacked Jewish Israeli civilians, mostly with knives. Some 30 Palestinians
and seven Jewish Israelis have been killed in this upsurge. Racist Jewish
mobs have repeatedly marched through the streets of Jerusalem, chanting
"Death to Arabs", sometimes attacking those who appear to be Palestinian.
East Jerusalem is now in lockdown, and over 1,000 people, mostly
Palestinian, have been attacked.
While fear, death, and family heartbreak are a daily part of Palestinian
life, today they are part of all lives in Israel and Palestine. We deeply
mourn the loss of all lives, and know that this violence will not end until
the conditions of oppression that created it also end.
The only way forward for all people is a future of equality and freedom that
includes Palestinians.
In this heartbreaking moment, we draw inspiration from this new
groundbreaking video, a Black-Palestinian collaboration that points the way
forward through joint struggle against state sanctioned violence and
dehumanization, and towards equality and freedom.
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Watch Black and Palestinian activists-including Ms. Lauryn Hill, Danny
Glover, DAM, Omar Barghouti, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Yousef Erakat,
Annemarie Jacir, Boots Riley, Dr. Cornel West, and many others- identify how
state violence, structural racism, dehumanization, and the globalization of
the technology of control connects us all, from Gaza to Ferguson, Charleston
to Bethlehem.
This video is a joint project of the Dream Defenders, Black Youth Project,
the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, the Institute for Middle East
Understanding, the Arab Studies Institute, and Jewish Voice for Peace.
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Onward,
Cecilie Surasky
Deputy Director
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