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End U.S. funding for brutality against Palestinians.
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CUFI is Christians United for Israel, the largest organization within the Israel Lobby. That coalition pushes for the United States to invest more and more tax dollars in weapons for Israel, despite the Israeli military's continual human rights abuses against Palestinians.
Claiming over seven million members, CUFI uses its political clout to ensure unconditional U.S. support for Israeli crimes against Palestinians: imprisoning hundreds of children per year, destroying villages to confiscate their land, bombing schools and hospitals in Gaza, and killing unarmed protestors.
CUFI is a Christian Zionist organization that teaches a deeply harmful theology, promoting policies that are entrenched in white nationalism and systemic racism.
As people of faith and people of conscience, we must stand up to bigotry and racial violence. We MUST confront racists when they use bible passages and religious language as justification for ethnic cleansing and cruel oppression.
TWO EXCITING DEVELOPMENTS
ONE: Last week, thirteen US legislators released a Dear Colleague Letter to Secretary of State Pompeo about Israel's threat to formally annex occupied Palestinian territory this summer. (Governments and leaders around the world have been warning that Israeli annexation would be an unconscionable flouting of international law and Palestinian rights, and the consequences could be dire.) In this letter spearheaded by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the legislators state they intend to ensure US tax dollars “are not supporting annexation in any way.”
As JVP Action put it, this letter “stands apart from the crowd of many previous weaker Congressional statements in response to Israel’s plans to annex parts of the Palestinian West Bank. Signers of the letter are demanding action from Pompeo...and making a bold commitment to condition the $3.8 billion in funding we send to the Israeli military every year.”
The full list of signers includes: Representatives Ocasio-Cortez, Jayapal, McCollum, Tlaib, Carson, Davis, Garcia, Grijalva, Omar, Pressley, Rush, Velázquez, and Senator Bernie Sanders.
TWO: On July 2, Senator Chris Van Hollen introduced an amendment to a crucial bill, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA); the amendment is titled: “Prohibiting U.S. Funds from Supporting Israeli Annexation of the West Bank." This legislation is expected to come up for a vote this month.
On the Senate floor, Van Hollen said: "I do not believe that the United States government and the United States taxpayer should be aiding and abetting Prime Minister Netanyahu's plan to unilaterally annex the West Bank."
These are remarkable actions by US legislators. For so many years, thousands of advocates like you have spoken up for Palestinian rights, and those faithful efforts are beginning show results in Congress.
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