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Individuals</h1>
Statement by American Muslim Organizations: End Israeli Aggression
and Occupation, <font color="#ff0000">Uphold American principles</font>
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<p>August 2, 2014</p>
<p>The Israeli aggression against the civilian population of Gaza
has surpassed all levels of brutality and cruelty. For over three
weeks, the Israeli government has unleashed a violent campaign
that has so far resulted in more than 1600 deaths (including more
than 400 children, 300 women and dozens of elderly people), and
more than 9,000 wounded (over 2500 children and 1600 women). No
building, however sacred, was spared: more than 8,500 homes, 76
mosques, 2 churches, and 25 hospitals and health clinics were
destroyed. Ambulances, doctors, nurses and paramedics, schools,
universities, UN buildings, libraries, shelters, food markets,
playgrounds, graveyards were also bombed, in addition to 152
educational facilities. </p>
<p>According to Israeli authorities 95 percent of the sixty declared
Israeli fatalities are military, while according to the UN about
three-quarters of Palestinian casualties are civilians.
Consequently, top UN officials and human rights groups have
conducted investigation and accused Israel of “war crimes,” and
even called for the UN to impose an arms embargo against Israel.</p>
<p>Therefore, we, as American Muslim organizations, academics,
Imams, community leaders and activists, affirm our unequivocal
support for Palestinian rights to freedom and dignity while
forcefully condemning the illegal and oppressive occupation
structure. </p>
<p>In short, we call for:<br>
1) An immediate end to Israeli aggression and occupation: This
distressing fact must be central to all efforts to resolve the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The unceasing violence against the
Palestinian people that has taken place for decades must end
immediately. It should include the end of the siege and blockade
of Gaza, the opening of all border crossings, and the release of
thousands of political prisoners in Israeli prisons. The world, as
contracting parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, must
take responsibility and provide protection and security to the
defenseless Palestinian people living under Israeli occupation and
control.<br>
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2) Stop Sending US Tax Dollars To Israel: We call on our
government and Congress to stop punishing Palestinians and to act
in America’s best interest by upholding the UN Charter, the Fourth
Geneva Convention and our cherished ideals of supporting freedom
and self-determination. An Israel that continues to occupy
millions of human beings and apply Apartheid-like policies to
control them should be rejected and ostracized. We demand that our
tax dollars not be used in perpetrating the occupation and
suffering of Palestinians. In America it is illegal to fund
institutions that practice racial, ethnic or religious exclusions,
which is precisely what Israel praxis in every aspect of its
discriminatory approach to the Palestinians. Funding racism and
Apartheid is un-American and we call for an end to it. The
President and the Secretary of Defense have a specific legal
responsibility not to allow Israel to use US weapons against
innocent civilians. Such use not only violates International
Humanitarian Law and constitutes a war crime, but its systematic
violations also constitute crimes against humanity.</p>
<p>3) Support the BDS Campaign to end occupation: The Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is one non-violent tactic
that was employed successfully during the South African freedom
struggle. We believe that as BDS continues to successfully grow
worldwide, a similar, peaceful outcome in the Middle East conflict
will result. We call on all justice-seeking, freedom-caring and
peace-loving people across the US and around the world to join the
BDS campaign until the occupation ends and Palestinian rights are
restored.</p>
<p>4) We affirm the UN Charter, UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous People, and the Fourth Geneva Convention (particularly
Article 3 and Protocol I which is part of Customary International
Law). They collectively provide protection for the Occupied
Palestinians. Furthermore, we affirm the right of the Palestinians
to defend themselves in the face of continued occupation,
expansion of settlements and land expropriation. International
Humanitarian Law does not allow for Israeli reprisals or
disproportionate response against the occupied Palestinians, which
respectively represent war crimes and crimes against humanity.</p>
<p>We call for the dozens of UN resolutions, which for decades, have
called for the restoration of Palestinian rights, and which have
been ignored by Israel and its supporters, to be implemented. This
includes ending Israel's occupation of Gaza, the West Bank, and
East Jerusalem; dismantling all Israeli settlements within the
1967 areas; and resolving the Palestinian refugee problem in
accordance with the principle of the right of return enshrined in
UN resolution 194.</p>
<p>The American Muslim community, through its national organizations
and community leaders, call for a worldwide education and
mobilization campaign to achieve these objectives. We call on all
organizations and community members to join the dozens of
demonstrations across the country in support of the Palestinian
struggle. We urge all to speak out and be heard. We further urge
them to participate politically and translate their anger and
frustration at the one sided support for Israel into votes across
the country at the ballot boxes come November 4th, 2014. Our votes
are and grassroots power will be mobilized for Palestine, justice,
and human and economic rights, both domestically and across the
globe in November. We do believe that a different world is
possible but it can only come about through knowledge and actions
manifesting the highest ethical ideals. We urge the community to
continue calling the White House, congressional representatives
and Senators demanding a change in our government policy and
supporting Palestinians aspiration for an end to the Occupation,
and for freedom and dignity.<br>
In his farewell address, George Washington warned his fellow
citizens against the “passionate attachment of one nation for
another” because it “produces a variety of evils,” and that such
sympathy would be “facilitating the illusion of an imaginary
common interest in cases where no real common interest exists.” As
responsible members of society we call upon our fellow citizens
and national leaders to uphold the principles upon which America
was established more than two centuries ago: self-determination,
freedom, justice, equality, and respect for the rule of law.<br>
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Signatures</p>
<p>A. Organizations</p>
<p>1. American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)<br>
2. American Muslim Alliance (AMA)<br>
3. Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) <br>
4. Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)<br>
5. Muslim American Society (MAS)<br>
6. Northern California Islamic Council (NCIC)<br>
7. Pakistan American Democratic Forum (PADF)<br>
8. Peace Thru Justice Foundation (PTJF)<br>
9. Muslim Voters of America (MVA)<br>
10. Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA)<br>
11. Lamppost Productions<br>
12. Sahaba Initiative<br>
13. Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project<br>
14. Institute of American Muslim Youth <br>
15. Palestinian American Society (PAS)<br>
16. American Muslim Voice<br>
17. Muslim News Digest<br>
18. Islamic Society of Nevada, Las Vegas<br>
19. Islamic Foundation North<br>
20. Islamic Leadership Institute of America<br>
21. MAS PACE & Outreach Chicago<br>
22. IslamiCity</p>
<p>B. Individuals</p>
<p>Dr. Sami Al-Arian<br>
Dr. Hatem Bazian<br>
Dr. Agha Saeed<br>
Professor Tariq Ramadan<br>
Imam Zaid Shakir<br>
Emeritus Professor M.Cherif Bassiouni<br>
Professor John L Esposito<br>
Dr. Khaled Abou El Fadl<br>
Shakeel Syed<br>
Dr. Muzammil Siddiqi<br>
Professor Sahar Aziz<br>
Professor Haider A. Khan<br>
Anwar N. Haddam<br>
Professor Abbas Barzegar<br>
Rahman Khan<br>
Ramzy Baroud<br>
Ustadh Abdullah Ali<br>
Mansour Ansari<br>
Professor Atif Kubursi<br>
Aisha Siddiqui<br>
Abe Abed<br>
Arbazz MJ<br>
Nader Abuljebain<br>
Hamzah Alhadi<br>
Paula Thompson<br>
Dr. Emad Hamdeh<br>
Laura Kirchner<br>
Omar Rehmane<br>
Waleed Osman<br>
Danish Farooq <br>
Dr. Trish Kanous<br>
Rafat Ali<br>
Khalid Alaoui Belghiti<br>
İpek Coşkun<br>
Lubaaba Al-Azami<br>
Muhammad Shahedul Haque<br>
Jessica Elizabeth Peters<br>
Luis Marnet<br>
Noshaba Bhatti<br>
Shayan Hussain<br>
Vernon Humphrey<br>
Hanan Rasheed<br>
Kalim Aadan<br>
Qadri Abdallah<br>
Rubina Hussain<br>
Mohsin Bajwa<br>
Dr. Muhammad Hussain<br>
Abdulmumin Mohammed<br>
Rania Shah<br>
Amal Awad<br>
Aisha Rahman<br>
Wajahat Razzaq<br>
Abida Hussain<br>
Sefer Soydar<br>
Nishat Hussain<br>
Abdul-Malik Ryan<br>
Afraz Haide<br>
Eid Masri<br>
Hisham Mohammad<br>
Ramina Habib<br>
Wael Hakmeh<br>
Sharif Rosen<br>
Mohammad Ansari<br>
Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi<br>
R. David Coolidge<br>
Gretchen Engelson<br>
Omer Awass<br>
Rida Fatima<br>
Rachelle Fawcett<br>
Abdelraouf Ismail<br>
Monadel Herzallah <br>
Dr. Sylvia Chan-Malik<br>
Osama Ahmad<br>
Beth Lupe<br>
Professor Johnathan Brown<br>
Professor Omid Safi<br>
Azhar Dalal<br>
Salwa Abed<br>
Ibrahim Aoude<br>
bakr teebi<br>
Elaine Hagopian<br>
Yusuf Bashir<br>
Hamzah Alhadi<br>
Asrar Khan<br>
Richard Idriss<br>
Rasheedah bashir<br>
Zahra Billoo<br>
Said Benmensour<br>
Fazle Tiwana<br>
Dr Khaleel isa<br>
Sadia Jadoon<br>
Cathy Humphreys<br>
Nadeen salama<br>
Amina Hakim<br>
Daud Rehman<br>
Professor Rafik Beekun<br>
Lynette Wehner<br>
abed abusneineh<br>
zane motiwala<br>
hina ghani<br>
Azim mogaddedi<br>
Hamidah Kaufman<br>
Zulfiqar Malik<br>
Suad Mohamed<br>
Dr Ghada El Yafi<br>
Belal Siddiqui<br>
Karla N. Evans<br>
Mohammad Hussain, MD<br>
Moussa BAGGILI<br>
Sinan Jaber<br>
Maleeha Latif<br>
Dr. Mansoor Takun<br>
Roberta Davenport<br>
Marlene Poulin<br>
Somee Sharifi<br>
Hisham Yakub<br>
Zeenat yakub<br>
Samina Sundas<br>
Aslam Abdullah<br>
Wahaj Aman<br>
karl lawar<br>
Ayesha Khalid<br>
Hussam Ayloush<br>
Saleh Arakji<br>
Karen Danielson<br>
Lida Larson<br>
Adam Larson<br>
Mounia Chaib<br>
Adriaan Joubert<br>
Awad Hamdan<br>
Sarah<br>
Cierra Hall<br>
Yonis Musa<br>
George Hudes<br>
Haitham Abulhaija<br>
Firasath Ali<br>
Haider javed<br>
Fadi Sahouri<br>
Meral Baris<br>
Tugrul Keskin<br>
S. Reshma Inamdar<br>
Ahmed Darwish<br>
S. Reshma Inamdar<br>
Dustin Craun<br>
Yama niazi<br>
Faisal Durrani<br>
Mona kayyali<br>
Ehab Odeh<br>
Fahim Aref<br>
Malek Odeh<br>
Islam Elayan<br>
Ghias El Yafi<br>
Mohannad Malas<br>
MUHAMMAD BELLO IBRAHIM<br>
Alexander Abbasi<br>
Ramee Hijaz<br>
Ryan Brizendine<br>
Manal<br>
Mustafa Mohamed Ali<br>
Dr. Yasir Qadhi<br>
Mariana Orozco<br>
Nagi Mabruk<br>
Ali Heydari<br>
Lucas Fleisher<br>
Hani Kharufeh<br>
Professor Ihsan Khalifeh<br>
Ali S diab<br>
Lubna Said<br>
Sarra Tlili<br>
Maria Sheikh<br>
Sarra Tlili<br>
Arooj Ahmad<br>
Lubna Quraishi<br>
Saifullah Siddiqui<br>
Michael Elayn<br>
Junaid Haqqi<br>
Junaid Haqqi<br>
Dr. Emran El-Badawi<br>
Ramzi Issa<br>
Kate Jamal<br>
Joel rogers<br>
Ramy Salah<br>
Kamilah Albahri<br>
Nadeem Iqbal<br>
Professor Nahyan Fancy<br>
Dr. Taj Hashmi<br>
Dr Amr Osman<br>
Brianna Meyers<br>
Dawayne Allen<br>
Ehaab Zubi<br>
Amna Latif<br>
Armaan Siddiqi<br>
Iman Seirafi<br>
Ariana Hussain<br>
Hamid Algar<br>
Sarah Bhatt<br>
Imam Osman Umarji<br>
Imam Jihad Saafir<br>
Imam Asim Buyuksoy<br>
Imam Ameen Omar<br>
Imam Jamaal Diwan<br>
Imam Mustafa Umar<br>
Imam Taha Hassane<br>
Dawayne Allen<br>
Abdulkarim Soroush<br>
Safeer Mohiuddin<br>
Mehmet Murat Sahin<br>
Kalim Farooki<br>
rafe husain<br>
Ephrosine Daniggelis<br>
Sumera Siddiqui<br>
Lilliane Abufanas<br>
Ahmed Shaikh<br>
Kazbek Soobzokov<br>
Lilliane Abufanas<br>
Mehdi Syed<br>
Dany Doueiri<br>
Yaser Ali</p>
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