[van-announce] Fwd: Picket the Jewish National Fund, Vancouver

[Charlotte Kates]

*Please distribute to your contacts*
 Picket the Jewish National Fund, Vancouver,
Canada<http://www.cpavancouver.org/index.php/2012/05/20/picket-the-jewish-national-fund-vancouver-canada/>
*Thursday, May 31, 2012, 6:30 pm*
*Gather across the street from Schara Tzedeck Synagogue, 3476 Oak St.,
Vancouver*

On May 31, 2012, the Jewish National Fund JNF Pacific Region will be
holding an evening to support their 2012 project - the "Arava Peace Route".
Similar to the mockery that is Canada Park, the JNF is publicly claiming to
be enhancing the environment and supporting a "peace route", while *ethnically
cleansing* the Palestinian Bedouins from the same Negev region where their
"peace route" will "enhance access to and from farmers fields .. (and) will
improve security". The Bedouin village of Al Araqib in the Negev has been
destroyed 37 times by Israeli and JNF paramilitary forces, but the
Palestinians of the village refuse to surrender, many of them returning
time and time again to rebuild (more info at Stop the JNF
Campaign<http://www.stopthejnf.org/>
).
The JNF uses language like "pioneering" and "security" and "100% Israel" in
its publicity for the event. And equally fitting is the guest speaker that
JNF Pacific Region is highlighting for the evening:- Dennis Prager from the
U.S., who is a close associate of Christian Zionist leader John Hagee and
his organization, Christians United for Israel.

Canada Palestine Association <http://www.cpavancouver.org/> is calling on
all our supporters to join us and add their voices in telling the JNF that
green-washing *apartheid* is no longer acceptable.

Please join the Facebook page
event<http://www.facebook.com/events/402616929759255/>
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In a recent interview, Dennis Prager (from the U.S.) seems to feel we need
his input on our democratic rights here in B.C. to picket this JNF event.
He also describes Israel as "one of the most humane, open and civilized
countries on earth", the same Israel that commits war crimes and ethnic
cleansing.
See the article “Dedicated lobbyist for
Israel<http://www.jewishindependent.ca/cover/index.html#one>”
in the local Zionist paper the "Jewish Independent":
"*Prager has a simple message for those JNF critics who may picket his
Vancouver talk, as they have previous JNF and other Israel-related events:
‘You live in a free country, so If you are peaceful, welcome,’ he offered.
'Having said that, I regard those who protest against Israel or the JNF and
other supporters of Israel – one of the most humane, open and civilized
countries on earth – as having broken moral compasses. The world is filled
[with] barbarism, and they protest against Israel!'.*"


-- 
Charlotte L. Kates     charlotte.kates at gmail.com