This is a protest announcement email to Stop the Genocidal War on Palestine.
Dear Friends,
We are holding two upcoming Palestine Peace Protests in Fayetteville. The first one is this Sunday October 22nd at 11 A.M. and the second one is Saturday November 4th. We will meet for street protest in front of the Washington County Courthouse both days, and on November 4th we will proceed for a march on a route yet to be determined. (Facebook Events Here & Here)
We are calling to Stop the War on Palestinians, and a Stop to the Israeli Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians. We are standing up to say: Enough is Enough!
Dr. Raz Segal, a professor of genocide studies at Stockton University, describes here in the journal Jewish Currents how the Israeli attacks on Gaza are a Textbook Case of Genocide:
https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide
The U.S.-supported Israeli carpet bombings of Gaza, a densely packed city of 2 million trapped civilians, is a genocidal war crime. The Israeli collective punishment of Gaza by cutting off water, food & electricity is also a genocidal war crime.
If we sincerely wish for Peace, we must be honest about the Root Cause of the decades-long conflict, and the endless injustices Palestinians have faced. The Root Cause of the war is 75 years of Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, starting with the 1948 Nakba. At least 750,000 native Palestinians were driven from their homes during a Zionist campaign of violence, and the ethnic cleansing never ceased.
In a 1948 letter to the New York Times, Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt and other Jewish leaders warned Americans of danger by condemning the ethnic cleansing actions of Irgun & the “Freedom Party”, which became Likud, the ruling party of Netanyahu in Israel currently:
“Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party”, a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties. It was formed out of the membership and following of the former Irgun Zvai Leumi, a terrorist, right-wing, chauvinist organization in Palestine. “
Einstein’s warnings were obviously not heeded. Consequently, the United States also became very responsible in sponsoring Israeli ethnic cleansing policy by giving $260 billion in foreign aid to Israel since the 1948 Nakba, primarily military aid. The U.S. also gives massive political support by vetoing at least 53 U.N. resolutions (as of 2021) that condemn the illegal Israeli military occupation, illegal settlements, massacres of nonviolent protestors, bombings of Gaza & war crimes.
Please join me in calling for peace.
Thank you,
—
Abel Tomlinson
Arkansas Antiwar Alliance, Founder
OMNI Peace Action Committee, Chair
(479)283-5762
Abel Tomlinson 