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| In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful American Muslims for Jerusalem 208 G Street, NE Suite 100 Washington, DC 20002 Phone: (202) 548-4200 Fax: (202) 548-4201 E-mail: amj@amjerusalem.org WWW: http://www.amjerusalem.org Support the YMCA while under attack *************************** Action Request: Contact the World Alliance of YMCAs to show your support for their report which condemns Israel for violence against Palestinians. Please review the following release and use the contact information given. ************************** After a five-day visit to Palestine, the World Alliance of YMCAs issued a courageous report condemning Israel for violence against Palestinians. The YMCA team's findings include: 1. There are systematic and widespread human rights violations being perpetrated on the entire Palestinian population. These take the form of demolishing houses, shooting at ambulances and blocking their rapid passage to hospitals even when they are carrying severely wounded or sick patients, detention of people without charges, killing people without provocation, and placing entire villages and cities under a state of siege. 2. There is use of massive force against unarmed protestors and completely innocent people, mainly women, the elderly, and children. [The entire report can be read at http://www.ymca.int/programs/Declarations/MiddleEast_Main.htm] The World Alliance of YMCA has come under attack for its principled stand in support of Palestinian human rights. In an attempt to distract attention from the real issue of Israeli human rights violations, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has begun a campaign to discredit the World Alliance. The Center has called on YMCAs around the world to stop funding the World Alliance. AMJ Executive Director, Khalid Turaani noted that for a human rights organization that claims to confront racism and genocide to apply a different set of standards to Palestinian human rights is scandalous. He added that the Simon Wiesenthal Center?s attack on the World Alliance of YMCAs seriously calls into question the Center?s credibility and motivations. The YMCA report is consistent with the findings of all major international human rights organizations which have conducted similar fact-finding missions. These include Amnesty International, which characterized Israeli actions as war crimes, Human Rights Watch, Doctors without Borders, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem. The World Alliance of YMCAs is clearly in good company. *************************** Immediate Action Requested - Please write or call the World Alliance of YMCAs to express your support for their report using the information below: Martin Vogler World Alliance Executive Committee, President World Alliance of YMCAs 12 Clos Belmont 1208 Geneva, Switzerland office@ymca.int Phone: 41-22-849-5100 Fax: 41-22-849-5110 (Note: Letters are better than faxes. Faxes are better than phone calls. Phone calls are better than e-mails. Any one of these is better than in action.) American Muslims for Jerusalem 208 G Street NE Suite 100 Washington, DC 20002 Phone: (202) 548-4200 Fax: (202) 548-4201 E-mail: amj@amjerusalem.org WWW: http://www.amjerusalem.org Support AMJ & Commemorate Jerusalem with every purchase through our store: http://www.amjerusalem.org/ To subscribe to Jerusalem-net send an e-mail to jerusalem-net-request@lists.biglist.com with the word "subscribe" in the message body. To unsubscribe from this list send an e-mail to jerusalem-net-request@lists.biglist.com with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body. |
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