03-31-2012
Organizers say Jerusalem march achieved goals
GMJ demonstrators gather in Galilee on March 30, 2012
Dr. Ribhi Halloum talks with Ma'an News
Ma' an News Agency – (Bethlehem) Organizers of the Global March to Jerusalem commemorating Land Day say the march on Friday made big strides as most of its goals were realized.
General coordinator of the march Ribhi Halloum told Ma' an from Jordan that the organizers put forward three major goals. The first goal, he said, was to lay the grounds for future activities in line with this goal. The rally was divided into two parts the first of which was organizing rallies and sit-in strikes in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt.
Part two of this goal, added Halloum, was demonstrations and face-to-face confrontations with the occupation inside Palestine "to prove that the Palestinian people are still present and are still holding fast to their land."
The second goal, according to Halloum, was to maintain that the question of Palestine is no longer the cause of the Palestinian people alone, but rather a global cause, and that was evident in the participation of solidarity activists from 84 countries.
The third goal was to show that occupation will eventually disappear no matter how long it might survive, he said.
The organizers, added Halloum, do not pay great attention to the number of participants in the rallies, but rather to the number of countries joining the protests, as that reflects the support for Palestine.
Halloum highlighted that for the first time in Jordan more than 57,000 Jordanian citizens joined in different activities commemorating Land Day.
For his part, member of the organizing committee from inside Israel aja Aghbariyya told Ma' an that the march achieved its goals at an international level and in Arab countries.
He highlighted that there are plans to organize similar rallies on May 15 commemorating the Nakba anniversary. Preparations are underway, he said.
03-31-2012
Commemorating Palestinian Land Day in Jordan
by Tighe Barry
On March 30, 2012, hundreds of demonstrations took place across the globe in commemoration of Palestinian Land Day. This important day in the history of the Palestinian people is a sorrowful reminder of the six Palestinians who were killed by Israeli forces in 1976 while protesting the continued confiscation of their land.
Generation after generation, Palestinians continue to call for an end to the brutal Israeli military occupation and the right to return to their lands. The continued ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Jerusalem has resulted in a massive outcry and demonstrations worldwide.
Today people from around the world came together in a massive orchestrated effort known as the Global March to Jerusalem (GM2J), timed to coincide with Land Day. Marches took place in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Italy, Korea, all over the United States, and in many more locations. A peaceful movement, the Global March to Jerusalem is a people-powered action designed to assert the importance of Jerusalem politically, culturally, and religiously to the Palestinian people and humanity as a whole.
I had the privilege of participating in one of those protests in Amman, Jordan.This issue is of particular concern in Jordan because it has the world's largest concentration of Palestinian refugees. Nearly 65 percent of the country's population are of Palestinian origin.
Throughout the day, throngs of Jordanian Palestinians were joined by tens of thousands of Jordanian supporters, as well as those from around the world. Many came from as far away as Malaysia, Indonesia, Canada, Europe and the United States. We all came together, tens of thousands, on a dusty plain on the furthest end of the Jordan Valley overlooking occupied Palestine. We were a sea of peaceful protesters calling for a free Jerusalem for all and for a return of stolen Palestinian land.
Although we could all see the occupied territories, the Israelis would not let us cross the border. Hundreds of Jordanian police and military personnel, along with dozens of tanks and police cars, made sure the crowd stayed about a mile away. So close yet so far.
Groups of youth, not satisfied with being kept away from the border, tried to test the limits. They moved back and forth along the police lines, trying to find a way through. But the authorities would have none of it, and after many rounds of police pushing back and protesters running, the civil disobedience ended in peaceful chanting, singing and dancing.
The explosion of color in an otherwise amber hued surrounding was amazing. Waves of undulating flags, keffiyehs, balloons and kites filled the area. Many handmade signs claiming the injustices of 60 years of occupation abounded. Face painting was the mode of the day for the young children and teens. All this provided an almost celebratory background to an otherwise mournful event commemorating the ongoing suffering in the Palestinian people.
Palestinian dignitaries gave powerful speeches, and the organizers called on representatives from around the world to share their thoughts. The representatives from South Africa conjured up memories of the racist Apartheid system that Israel is mirroring today. Those from India spoke of the Ghandian peaceful protests to overthrow British rule, calling on the world to recognize this same form of civil disobedience, including the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement being used by the Palestinian civil society today.
But the speech that would spoke directly to me was the American, Michael Rabb. He reminded us about the similarities between the Palestinian struggle and the civil rights movement of the 60’s in our own country. He spoke of Martin Luther King, Mississippi and the long struggle to free a people who had long been promised justice only to be denied equal rights for over a hundred years.
As a representative from the United States, I gave interviews to the press and denounced the $3 billion dollars that the U.S. government sends to Israel every year to prop up its repressive military, while here at home our sick lack healthcare and our youth can't afford a college education.
This is a day I will never forget. I was touched by the extraordinary power of a people in resistance for so many decades. One day, they will cross this border and enter a Free Jerusalem and a Free Palestine. I hope I can walk with them.
Tighe Barry is a member of the peace group CODEPINK.ORG
03-29-2012
03-27-2012
Does the Global March to Jerusalem Delegitimize Israel? Not at All.
By Paul Larudee, Feroze Mithiborwala, and Ali Mallah
Israel is justifiably concerned about being treated as an international pariah. Although its ability to advocate for its perceived interests through the American electoral system -- and thereby bond with the power structure of the United States -- appears stronger than ever, Israel's main strategic think-tank, the Reut Institute, considers Israel's reputation to be its Achilles heel, and the greatest threat to its very existence.
This is because Israel has, in effect, put all its eggs in the American basket. American power is what allows Israel to receive deferential treatment in most European countries, and even allows some Arab countries like Jordan and Egypt to promote Israeli interests in defiance of the wishes of their own people. Without U.S. diplomatic intervention, advocacy and arm-twisting, it is doubtful that any country in the world would defend Israel's policies. Indeed, the handful of tiny dollar economy Pacific island nations that consistently side with Israel in the United Nations are the absurd exceptions that prove the rule.
The worry is that even as Israel wins the governments of nations that need its good graces -- and that of its big American brother -- it is losing the people of those nations. While the point may be obvious in the case of U.S. allies in the Arab world, it is perhaps less well known in societies like Spain, Holland, India, Greece and others.
The government of Greece, for example, humiliated itself by preventing a peaceful flotilla of boats from leaving its shores for Gaza in 2011, for the sake of relations with Israel. If we want to know how the Greek people feel, on the other hand, we need only look at their pride in organizing the 2008 popular campaign to break the Israeli siege of Gaza, as shown in the Greek film Gaza, We Are Coming, or at a recent basketball match between Israelis and Greeks, which was more about Greek solidarity with Palestine than about athletics.
The Global March to Jerusalem, a movement to prevent the expulsion and marginalization of Palestinians in Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine, is merely an extension of these popular initiatives, which the Reut Institute rightly perceives to be growing. However, it is a grave mistake to think that such initiatives are the cause of Israel's delegitimization. Rather, it is Israel's actions and policies that create its image as a practitioner of ethnic cleansing and an abuser of human rights.
What can you say to put a positive spin on the disenfranchisement of 70,000 Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, accomplished with the stroke of a pen by Jerusalem's mayor, Nir Barakat, on December 26, 2011? What can put a nice face on the policy of reducing Jerusalem's Palestinian population from 37% to 30%? Of confining that population to 6% of the land area? Of the routine denial of housing expansion on Palestinian land? On the thousands of existing homes that are under demolition orders?
If the world's people refuse to stand still for such crimes, and instead organize themselves into a peaceful, nonviolent protest march to make their will known, is the movement the cause of Israel's poor image, or are both the result of Israel's actions? Is it any wonder that the world has despaired of its leadership holding Israel accountable, and has therefore created popular initiatives like the Gaza flotillas, the Gaza Freedom marches, and the Global March to Jerusalem?
If there is a trend, it is toward increasing unity among the world's peoples, with new partnerships and networks forming into larger and larger coalitions for action. This is not likely to change due to Israeli propaganda, whitewashing, public relations efforts or other attempted manipulation of opinion. "You can't fool all of the people all of the time," said U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
Increasingly, all the people are less inclined to be fooled, and more inclined to exert their will. The Global March to Jerusalem, engaging dozens of countries and many thousands of participants, is merely the latest and possibly the largest and most diverse expression of that will. However, it is not likely to remain so for long.
Paul Larudee, Feroze Mithiborwala and Ali Mallah are members of the Central Committee of the Global March to Jerusalem. For more information, visit gm2j.com or http://www.gmj-na.org.
03-26-2012
Popular Committees prepare for the Global March to Jerusalem
PNN - The High Follow-Up Popular Resistance Commission during a regular meeting held this afternoon at the Office of mobilization and organization in Ramallah in the presence of the Popular Resistance coordinators from different sites called to broader popular participation in the activities of "Land Day" which falls on the thirtieth of this month.
The commission reviewed all the preparations undertaken by the Popular Committees in positions of popular struggle against the occupation.
The meeting also addressed the need to organize the largest possible number of popular rallies in all Palestinian sites as a fulfillment for each drop of blood bled from a martyr or wounded and to every prisoner’s sigh lost freedom while defending our land to preserve its Arab identity. The Commission emphasized on the need for an active popular participation in the central peaceful marches “The Global March to Jerusalem” which begins after Friday prayers at 12:30 pm at Qalandia military checkpoint the North Gate of Jerusalem, the march of Bethlehem next to the apartheid wall, the march in our capital Jerusalem which will start marching from Damascus gate, as well as the march of our people in the occupied Palestine in 48 in Sakhnin and Deir Hanna, all these marches will coincide with the Global March to Jerusalem which will be launched in a number of Arab and international countries the same time.
In the same context, the Commission called on to actively participate in the olive planting activity in the Kafr Edik threatened land on Thursday, 3/29/2012 at 11 noon, the martyrs and land day activity in the village of Nabi Saleh on Friday 30.3.2012, in addition to the central activity marking the “Land Day” in Beit Omar town on Saturday, 31/3/2012 at one o’clock afternoon.
The commission also valued the outstanding efforts made by the people of Kafr Kadoum who stood up in face of the occupier to defend their land and dignity and condemned the brutal methods used by the Israeli occupation. At the same framework the commission called the parties leaderships to actively participate in the activities of popular resistance and to activate the regulatory decisions in this regard which will reflect significantly on the ground.
The commission called the government to provide the necessary financial and moral support to support the citizens’ steadfastness on their land and to reinforce their peaceful resistance to the unprecedented settlement attack. In the prisoners’ case, the commission pointed out the seriousness of the situation inside the Israeli occupation prisons, especially after the health status deterioration of the captive Hana Al-Shalabi, Kefah Hattab and the rest of the prisoners who are on hunger strike, in addition to the suppression of the prisoners and forcing them to do DNA tests.
Therefore, the commission called to escalate the supportive popular activities to the prisoners to meet their demands and release them. Commission members (popular committees): Hebron South Hills (Yatta) committees, Hebron city, Beit Ommar, Alm’sara, northwest Jerusalem committees, Jericho, Budrus, Ni’lin, Bil’in, Nabi Saleh, Nablus, Iraq Burin, Burin, Kof Kaddoom, Salfit, Kor Eddik.
3-22-2012
GMJ Asian caravan entered Turkey
Almost 130 members of Asian caravan to Jerusalem crossed Bazargan border between Iran and Turkey meanwhile rest of 22 Pakistani and 4 Afghan failed crossing the border.
The caravan was welcomed by Turkish people and NGOs at the border and a welcome ceremony was held in Ighdir city close to the borders. The Asian wing of GMJ will proceed to Istanbul and according to time table they will leave Istanbul on 25th March toward Kilis port in southern Turkey from where the caravan will board a passenger ship which will dock in Lebanon by 28th March to join the global march to Jerusalem.
Some European activists have announced their accompany with Asian caravan from Istanbul meanwhile remaining 26 members of Asian delegation who failed crossing the border intend to fly towards Beirut as soon as possible to joing the march on land day.
In spite of several contacts and negotiations with the Turkish embassy in Tehran they refused issuing VISA for the Pakistani and Afghan members of caravan. Although Turkish embassy was aware that the caravan is not a tourist one, Indian delegation consisting of 32 people was asked for paying almost 2000 USD as VISA fee.
03-17-2012
GMJ Asian caravan to Jerusalem crossed Iranian border
After 6 days since beginning of GMJ Asian caravan to Jerusalem, the caravan crossed Iranian border. Passing through Zahidan, Kerman and Qom the caravan reached Tehran last night at 9 pm. 120 delegates of the caravan are preparing themselves to proceed towards Turkish border and then via Mediterranean sea dock at Beirut port on 27th March where the number will be increased to 250 delegates.
The caravan will meet with Iranian prominent figures during its stay in Tehran and an Iranian delegation of artists, poets, students and activists as well as some MPs will join the caravan.
"Although it was supposed to reach to Jordanian borders to join the 30th of March program but due to situation in Syria and Iraq, no land route to the borders of Jordan was possible and available and the caravan has to follow the rout from Turkey to Lebanon" said Mr. Salim Ghafouri head of Iranian nation GMJ board.
"There is no need to emphasize all the delegates are free to join any other surrounding country of Palestine on 30th march but as scheduled and announced before the Asian caravan is planning to join Lebanon program on 30th march 2012" he mentioned.
People from Indonesia, Philippine, Malaysia, India, Bahrain, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Iran has joined the caravan till now.
Source: www.apsp.asia
03-06-2012
World Leaders unite for GMJ
We, the Advisory Board of the Global March to Jerusalem, are alarmed and deeply troubled by the continuing repression of Palestinians in Jerusalem and by the deliberate and systematic attempts to expel and reduce the Christian and Muslim Palestinian population of the city as part of the policy called “Judaisation,” which is being applied to every part of historic Palestine.
This policy is inconsistent with all relevant United Nations resolutions on Jerusalem and contrary to the most basic principles of international law. Its purpose is plainly to ethnically cleanse Jerusalem of its non-Jewish population and transform a once proud symbol of international tolerance and religious and cultural diversity into an exclusionary and racist enclave.
Jerusalem is our common universal heritage. It is the centre of spirituality and ideological significance for all of the monotheistic religions, and a beacon of emancipation and hope for the downtrodden. This historic city is venerated across the world for enhancing the spiritual heritage of all humanity; it has been a symbol of unity and equality, with a message of love, mercy and compassion.
However the entire world is now witnessing a threat to the sovereignty, sanctity and inviolability of Jerusalem. The plan is not only to destroy the Muslim and Christian presence, but also to change and dismantle the social structure of Jerusalem, obliterating its indigenous Arab identity and changing the character of the city.
The people of the world have therefore taken it upon themselves to prevent this abomination, by mobilizing themselves in every part of the world and representing all religious, humanitarian, and cultural backgrounds in a global march to Jerusalem (GMJ) aimed at guarding the City of Peace from becoming a wasteland of intolerance. We therefore lend our names to support the convergence of people from all countries and continents of the world to Jerusalem, and to the nearest points to which they are able to approach, both inside Palestine and at the Palestinian borders with Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon, as well as in their own countries, in a peaceful march towards Jerusalem.
We therefore support this effort, and encourage all of humanity to support it, by making the pledge set forth below, that all participants in the Global March to Jerusalem have agreed to accept.
We assert the importance of Jerusalem politically, culturally and religiously to the Palestinian people and humanity as a whole. We call for the protection of the Holy Places and all archeological sites and consider all the efforts done to change its Arabic & cultural identity as a crime against humanity. We call on all international institutions to do their duties towards the city.
The defense of Jerusalem and its liberation are a duty of all free people around the world and we call on all institutions, organizations, and individuals to participate in this duty.
We condemn the Zionist campaign of ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem and the rest of Palestine including all ongoing policies intended to change the demographic and geographic situation in the city and aimed at its Judaisation. We also condemn the continuation of the Zionist occupation forces in building the apartheid wall that aims to expropriate more Palestinian lands and convert the occupied areas into shrinking cantons isolated from each other.
We support the right of the Palestinian People to self-determination, to liberate their lands and to live on them in freedom and dignity like all other people on earth.
We support the non-negotiable & inalienable rights of the Palestinian People, including their families, to return to their homes and lands from which they were uprooted.
We reject all racist laws that distinguish between people based on ethnicity or religion and call for their cancellation and criminalization.
The Global March to Jerusalem does not represent any one faction or political party, but we call for participation of all social forces, political factions, and ideologies.
The Global March to Jerusalem is a global peaceful movement, which does not use violence to achieve its goals.
Signed,
The Advisory Board of the Global March to Jerusalem
Abdul Ghaffar Aziz, Coordinator of Pakistani NGOs in Solidarity with Palestine
Shaikh Dr. Abdul Ghani al-Tamimi, poet and preacher; chairman of the Palestine Scholars Abroad
Abdullatif Arabiyyat, Former Speaker of the Jordanian Parliament
Swami Agnivesh, Founder, Bonded Labour Liberation Front and World Council of Arya Samaj, former member of the Indian parliament and former chairperson of the UN Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery
Ahmad Obeidat, Former Jordanian Prime Minister & Head of the National Front for Reform
Dr. Ahmed Mohammed attia Bahar, Vice President, Palestinian Legislative Council
Tan Sri Anthony Francis Fernandes, Malaysian entrepreneur; founder and CEO, Air Asia
Dr. Anton Shuhaiber, Gaza Christian Association
Arnold Hottinger,Swiss journalist and publicist; former Middle East correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
H.E. Atallah Hanna, Archbishop of Sebastia, Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Bouguerra Soltani, Algerian Government Minister and party leader for the Movement of the Society for Peace
Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist; mother of US soldier killed in Iraq; author
Dr. Cornel West, Professor of African American studies. Princeton University; philosopher, writer and civil rights activist
Datuk Yasmin Yusoff, Malaysian actress and television host
David Hartsough, Director, Peaceworkers, San Francisco
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate
HE Dr. Dzukelly Ahmad, member of the Malaysian parliament
Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Jewish German author, activist and publicist
Dr. Francis Boyle, Professor of International Law, University of Illinois
Dr. Franco Cavalli, oncologist and former leader of the Swiss Social Democrat Party parliamentary group
George Galloway, former Member of British Parliament and Founder of Viva Palestina
Dr. Ghada Karmi, Writer and Co-Director, Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter
Gretta Duisenberg, Founder and Chair, “Stop the Occupation” (Netherlands), Free Gaza Movement Board Member
Dr. Hammam Said, Head of the Jordanian Consultative Council of the Muslim Brothers
Hilarion Capucci, Archbishop of Caesarea, Greek Melkite Church
Ibrahim Nasrallah, Jordanian-Palestinian Poet & Novelist
Baroness Jenny Tonge, Member, British Parlialment, House of Lords
Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Pastor Emeritus, Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Prof. Judith Butler, writer and philosopher, University of California, Berkeley
Laith Shubeilat, Former Jordanian Parliamentarian
Lalita Ramdas, Chair, Greenpeace International
Lauren Booth, broadcaster, journalist and activist
Admiral Laxminarayan Ramdas, Magsaysay Peace Award Recipient and anti-nuclear advocate
Dr. Leo Gabriel, Austrian socioanthropologist, journalist and documentary filmmaker; member, World Social Forum International Council
Fr. Louis Vitale, Order of Franciscan Monks; Pace e Bene; nonviolent resistor
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohammed, former Prime Minister of Malaysia
Mairead McGuire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Marzuki Alie, Speaker, Indonesian House of Representatives
Marwah Daud Ibrahim, Indonesian feminist, writer and Member of Parliament
Medha Patkar, Leader, National Alliance of People’s Movements; Recipient, Right Livelihood Award, Goldman Environment Prize & Amnesty International Human Rights Defenders Award
Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary General, Palestinian National Initiative and President, Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
Michel Warschawski, anti-Zionist activist and journalist; co-founder, Alternative Information Center
Neta Golan, Co-Founder, International Solidarity Movement
Dr. Norman Paech, former Member of the German Parliament; professor of law, emeritus, University of Hamburg
Sheikh Raed Salah, President of the Islamic movement within the 1949 Ceasefire Line
Raja Zafar ul Haq,Pakistani senator; Chairman, Pakistan Muslim Leaque; General Secretary, World Muslim League
Justice Rajinder Sachar, Former Chief Justice, Delhi High Court, Member, UN Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Senior Advisor & Counsel, People’s Union for Civil Liberties
Ronnie Kasrils, South African national liberation leader and former cabinet minister
Seema Mustafa, Syndicated columnist & former political editor, Asian Age
Prof Siddique Hassan, Director, Vision 2016 and Assistant Amir of the Jamat-e-Islami, Hind)
Subhi Ghosheh, Chairman, Jordanian Beitul-Maqdes Forum
Syeda Hameed, Columnist, The Indian Express, and Member, Indian National Planning Commission
Dr. Tanveer Ahmad Zubairi, President, International Organization of Doctors
Tikva Honig-Parnass, author and anti-Zionist activist
HE Tony Pua Kiam Wee, member of the Malaysian parliament
Tujan Faysal, First elected woman Jordanian Parliamentarian
Uri Davis, author and civil rights activist
Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat, Former Chief of the Naval Staff of India
Mrs. Wardina Safiyyah, Malaysian actress and television host
Dr. Yacoub Zaiadeen, Former Jerusalem Representative to the Jordanian parliament
Sheikh Yousuf Jumaa, former Palestinian Minister of Awqaf and Religious Affairs; former preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque
Dr. Zakaria Agha, M.D., member, Palestine Liberation Organization Executive Committee; former chair, Gaza Strip Medical Association
Dr. Zeenat Shaukat Ali, Author; Vice Chairman and Founder Trustee of SAGE Foundation; Professor of Islamic Studies, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
ENDORSERS
Organizations
Following is a partial list of
organizations that have endorsed the Global March to Jerusalem. It includes those that are
based or have a significant presence in North America, and are either participating in the
organizing of the North American contingent of the GMJ or have been invited to do so.
If your organization wishes to endorse and/or participate in the organizing, please contact
organize@gmj-na.org.
For organizations outside North America, see www.globalmarchtojerusalem.org.
A.N.S.W.E.R-Act Now to Stop War & End Racism - Coalition
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition
American Indian Movement - West
Bay Area Women in Black
Birthright Unplugged
Boycott Israeli Apartheid Campaign
Canada Palestine Association
Canada-Palestine Support Network
Canadian Arab Federation
Canadian Boat to Gaza
Canadian Muslim Union
Canadian Peace Alliance
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Centre for Research on Globalization
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
CNY Working for a Just Peace in Palestine & Israel
CODEPINK Women for Peace
Existence is Resistance
Faculty for Palestine
Freedom Socialist Party
Free Palestine Committee, National Lawyers Guild
Free Palestine Movement
Friends of Sabeel - Hawaii
Friends of Sabeel - North America
Friends of Sabeel - Northern California
General Union of Palestinian Students - San Francisco State University
Global Exchange
Hamilton Coalition to stop the War
Hilton Head for Peace
Independent Jewish Voices
International Committee, National Lawyers Guild
International Socialist Organization
International Solidarity Movement Bard College
International Solidarity Movement Northern California
International Solidarity Movement Vancouver
Intifada Tent - Occupy Oakland
ICAHD USA
Leadership Team of Franciscan Sisters of Little Falls, MN
Middle East Childres's Alliance
Middle East Crisis Response
Middle East Study Group
Middle Eastern Student Association (MESA) York University
Muslim American Society Immigrant Justice Center
North Coast Coalition for Palestine
Not In Our Name (NION): Jewish Voices Opposing Zionism
Our Neighbors in Palestine
Palestine House
Palestinian American Congress
Palestinian Association of Brantford
Palestinian Association of Hamilton
Resource Center for Nonviolence
San Jose Peace & Justice Center
Siraat
Science for Peace
September15
South Alameda County Peace & Justice Committee
Students for Justice in Palestine - UC Berkeley
United Progressives
U.S. Dominican Palestine Coordinating Committee
Unitarian Universalists For Justice In the Middle East
Voice of Palestine
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
Individuals
Following is a list of
indivduals who endorse the Global March to Jerusalem. Additional endorsements are welcome and may
be sent to organize@gmj-na.org.
Dr. Amir M. Maasoumi
Ann Wright, United States Army colonel, ret.
Benjamin Monnet, World Assembly Member, USA/Korea
Clayborne Carson, Professor & Director, Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University
Cindy Sheehan, anti-war activist; mother of US soldier killed in Iraq; author
Cornell West, Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University; Philosopher, writer and Civil Rights Activist
David Hartsough, Director, Peaceworkers, San Francisco
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake, Presiding Minister, Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples, San Francisco
Edward Peck, Retired US Ambassador and career US Diplomat
Professor Francis A. Boyle, University of Illinois College of Law
George Galloway, British Member of Parliament
Dr. Ghada Karmi, Co-Director, Centre for Palestine Studies, University of Exeter
Dr. Hatem Bazian, Senior Lecturer in Near Eastern and Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Izzet Sahin, International Affairs Secretary, IHH
Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Pastor Emeritus, Trinity Church of Christ, Chicago
Joe Meadors, Veteran and Survivor of the 1967 Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty
Dr. Judith Butler, American philosopher and Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Lauren Booth, broadcaster, journalist and activist
Fr. Louis Vitale, Order of Franciscan Monks; Pace e Bene; nonviolent resistor
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb, Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence
Mairead Maguire, , Nobel Peace Laureate
Marcy Winograd, Los Angeles teacher, peace activist and former candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives
Medea Benjamin, Co-founder Code Pink and Global Exchange
Michel Warschawski, anti-Zionist activist and journalist; co-founder, Alternative Information Center
Mustafa Barghouti, Palestinian democracy activist and former presidential candidate
Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT
Richard Falk, Professor of International Law Emeritus, Princeton University
Roger Leisner, Radio Free Maine
Ronnie Kasrils, South African ANC leader and cabinet minister
Samuel F. Hart, U.S. Ambassador, ret.
Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian-American author and Founder of Playgrounds for Palestine
Dr. Tanveer Ahmad Zubairi, President, International Organization of Doctors
Tariq Ali, British Pakistani military historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator
GMJ demonstrators gather in Galilee on March 30, 2012
AROUND THE GLOBE
