Don’t look away from Palestine →

Rights Action urges folks in the US and Canada to get involved / stay involved in work and activism related to Israel’s ethnic cleansing, genocidal attack on Palestine that is supported and legitimized by the US and Canada, Germany, Britain, France and other EU countries, and Australia. This is “our” issue in the US and Canada. Here, a few recent reports …

“Massacre”: Analyst Slams Israeli Military Raid That Kills 270+ Palestinians, Frees 4 Hostages
Democracy Now, June 10, 2024
Israel’s weekend attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp killed at least 274 Palestinians, wounded nearly 700, and freed four Israeli hostages. It was reportedly supported by the Biden administration, which provided intelligence to Israel ahead of the raid.

“Apocalyptic”: 40 Killed in Israeli Airstrike on UN School Sheltering Displaced Palestinians
Democracy Now, June 6, 2024
An Israeli airstrike on a U.N. school in central Gaza has killed at least 40 people, including 14 children, according to local authorities. Nearly 80 Palestinians were also wounded in Thursday’s predawn strike that hit the al-Sardi School run by UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.

Where is Joe Biden’s fury about decapitated Palestinian babies?

By Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian, 30 May 2024
“The images out of Gaza have been unrelentingly traumatic, but the slaughter in Rafah was just unbearably upsetting. Reports of decapitated babies. Charred children. People burned alive. All just days after the International court of justice (ICJ) ordered Israel to halt its military offensive in Rafah. All while the US government makes excuse after excuse for Israel’s flagrant breaches of international law, which Israel said was just a “tragic mistake”.”

Connecting the dots – These are our issues

In our direct support work and activism related to systemic human rights violations, repression and violence, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala (primarily), Rights Action always tries to document and denounce how the US and Canadian governments and militaries, our companies and banks, and entities like the World Bank and InterAmerican Development Bank, oftentimes enable, cause and benefit from the human rights violations, repression and violence, corruption and impunity in both countries.

We understand things no differently in the case of US and Canada’s military, economic and political support for and legitimization of what Israel is doing in Palestine since October 7, 2023, and what it has been doing for decades.

Rights Action supports calls for

  • Immediate and permanent ceasefire.

  • Immediate delivery of massive amounts of comprehensive humanitarian relief, and reconstruction and rebuilding support.

  • Release of all political prisoners and illegally detained people.

  • And then support, for as long as it takes, a comprehensive negotiation process that deals with the extreme death, suffering and destruction happening right now (beginning on October 7), and that addresses the historic root causes, going back to 1948, including the establishment of the Israeli Apartheid system, the violent, illegal occupation and on-going illegal settler expansionism.

Full accountability for Western complicity

Rights Action supports activism and work to hold the US, Canada, EU and Australia legally and politically accountable for supporting and legitimizing Israel’s systematic crimes against humanity and war crimes against Palestine and the Palestinian people.

Urgent need to diversify media sources

Rights Action urges everyone to diversify their news sources. We suggest the daily news coverage provided by Al Jazeera news (https://www.aljazeera.com; @AJEnglish) and Democracy Now (www.democracynow.org; @democracynow). These are not the only other sources, but they provide serious reporting on the Israel/Palestine situation, and are a necessary antidote to the oftentimes harmful, misleading reporting coming from much of the mainstream government and corporate media in the US, EU, and Canada.

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