The following petition to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders was initiated by Jews for Palestinian Right of Return. You can sign on to the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/bernie-sanders-in-the-spirit-of-dr-king-condemn-the-land-day-massacre-no-arms-for-israel
April 4, 2018
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” Letter from a Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963
On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. courageously condemned the Vietnam War, declaring, “For the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.”
On this, the 50th anniversary Dr. King’s assassination, we follow his example by condemning Israel’s premeditated massacre of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza on March 30, 2018, which left at least 17 dead and 1,400 wounded — some of them shot in the back by snipers while fleeing.
They were among 30,000 participants in the Great Return March demanding their right, enshrined in UN Resolution 194, to return to homes from which they were expelled during the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) that created the Israeli settler-colonial state.
“I will not whitewash colonial violence by describing it with benign terminology,” says Palestinian-American scholar Steven Salaita about the massacre. “It is cruel, depraved, gratuitous, racist, and genocidal.”
The massacre took place on Land Day, which commemorates Israel’s 1976 killing of six Palestinians during mass protests against land theft, and is part of Israel’s crippling twelve-year siege on Gaza, including the military assault in 2014 that murdered 2,200 Palestinians, including 500 children.
By weaponizing Israel to the tune of $3.8 billion a year, the U.S. government — with virtually unanimous bipartisan support — shares full responsibility for all these crimes.
Evoking memories of racist violence at Sharpesville, South Africa in 1960 and Selma, Alabama in 1965, this latest massacre exposes the innate inhumanity of the entire Zionist project, while only strengthening refugees’ resolve.
“Being a Palestinian and standing up for our rights has meant sacrifice since our first displacement in 1948,” explains Rana Shubair. “My family and I will not back down.”
More than ever, in solidarity with this popular resistance, we call on all people of conscience to support the full Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions platform, which demands an end to Israeli occupation and apartheid, full equality for Palestinians, and — what BDS co-founder Omar Barghouti describes as “absolutely the most significant right in the BDS call” — refugees’ right to return to their homes and lands.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Sign on to the petition here: https://www.change.org/p/bernie-sanders-in-the-spirit-of-dr-king-condemn-the-land-day-massacre-no-arms-for-israel
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During Land Day protests, the Israeli army killed 18 Palestinian demonstrators and injured over 1500, around 800 were injured by live ammunition. Palestinians marched in thousands to commemorate 30 March 1976 when six unarmed Palestinian citizens of Israel were killed by Israeli forces during protests against the Israeli government’s further expropriation of Palestinian land.
In solidarity with Palestinians on the 
Come out in Gothenburg on Sunday to stand with the Palestinian people in Gaza!
Organized by the Association of Palestinians in Toulouse, BDS France Toulouse, Coup Pour Coup 31, NPA…
Join us in protest at the massacres currently happening on the Gaza border!
Join us as we call on our elected Illinois officials to speak out against the Israeli government killing Palestinian protesters at the #GreatReturnMarch and brutal military blockade lasting over a decade causing immense suffering in Gaza.
Palestinian Youth Movement – Los Angeles, Orange County, and Inland Empire (PYM LA,OC,IE), along with Arab American Activists, have called upon residents of Orange County and Southern California to stand in solidarity with Palestinians, especially Palestinians in Gaza, participating in the 46 day long Great Return March — from March 30th, Land Day, until May 15th, Al Nakba, the day of catastrophe.
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