UN Must Act to Halt Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Sheikh Jarrah in Occupied East Jerusalem by CJ Werleman

Please TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW and send your letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.

“These violations happened at the request of the Israeli settlers taking over our homes. I can’t get the voice of our neighbors’ children screaming out of my head. This is a nation of terrorists. Israel is fascist and genocidal,” tweeted Mohammed el-Kurd, a journalist and resident of Sheikh Jarrah… “They destroyed our neighbor’s gates, broke into their rooms, terrorized their children, all while the settlers taunted and played their genocidal racist Zionist music. All of this force because people want to protest ethnic cleansing. Israel is a terrorist state,” said el-Kurd.

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Israel’s extremist rabbis are becoming the norm, not the exception by CJ Werleman

Please TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW and send your letter to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor.

The current Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has come to depend on extremist rabbis and the ultra-orthodox community for his political survival. Without their respective support, he is finished. To that end, it’s Netanyahu’s refusal to condemn those who call for genocide of the Palestinians that makes these radicals all the more normal, and ever more dangerous.

Continue reading at https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2018/5/7/in-israel-extremist-rabbis-are-becoming-the-norm