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the PHRC achieved some success in elevating human rights concerns
?reaction was both hysterical and predictable. Using excessive and abusive language, some major Jewish groups denounced the letter and the churches represented by the signatories, charging them with "participation... in yet another one-sided anti-Israel campaign" and "vicious anti-Zionism" and accusing them of "stony silence to the use of anti-Judaism and relentless attacks on the Jewish state." The Jewish groups coupled this attack with an announcement that they would boycott a regularly scheduled "Jewish-Christian dialogue" session that was to have met next week. They countered with a call for an inter-faith summit to discuss the pain caused by the letter. Some leaders went so far as to suggest that they might go to friends in Congress and request a hearing into the behavior of the Christian groups,Timberland Roll Top Boots.
Now while this flare-up is new, the underlying tensions have been with us for a generation,Miu Miu Bags. So too has the bullying behavior of some of the mainstream Jewish organizations.
It was 34 years ago that we formed the Palestine Human Rights Committee (PHRC),Waterproof Leather Boots. The PHRC had as its principle objectives the defense of Palestinian human rights victims and the application of provisions of U.S. law requiring that recipients of U.S. assistance not use that aid to violate human rights. Bringing together Arab Americans, African American civil rights leaders,Timberland Roll Top Boots, leaders of the peace movement, and leaders from many of the same Christian churches who signed the recent letter to Congress, the PHRC achieved some success in elevating human rights concerns, but incurred the wrath of some major Jewish organizations. We were subjected to exclusion and defamation,Timberland Boots Men. We were denounced as "pro-terrorist" and our efforts to join a major progressive peace coalition were blocked,Timberland Roll Top Boots. Despite winning the support of over 90% of the coalition's members,Timberland Roll Top Boots, two Jewish groups threatened to abandon the group if we were allowed to join,Timberland Boots Men. The executive committee of the coalition was cowed by these threats and twice rejected our application for membership. |
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