June 08, 2017
Action Alerts
As Palestinians are marking 50 years since the Six Day War, Israeli officials are engaging in a bold attack on peaceful human rights defenders. In an effort to stop his hugely successful nonviolent activism, Israel has dredged up 18-year-old charges...
(WASHINGTON DC, 05/08/2017) – Today marks the 22nd day of a hunger strike waged by 1,500 Palestinian political prisoners, who are protesting Israel’s use of administrative detention, lack of access to medical care, lack of family visits and the use...
AMP staffers Taher Herzallah and Kareem El-Hosseiny are due in DC Superior Court at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow for a status hearing on the criminal charges of unlawful disruption of Congress. Their attorney Ann Wilcox of the National Lawyers Guild will ask...
(WASHINGTON DC 04/172017) – In an op-ed today in the New York Times, Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti announced the beginning of a new hunger strike, joined by perhaps up to 1,500 Palestinian prisoners, to protest “torture, inhumane...
We need your help to get criminal charges against AMP staffers Taher Herzallah and Kareem El-Hosseiny dropped at their status hearing on April 20.
Capitol Hill Police arrested six people protesting at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Issa Amro is an internationally recognized Human Rights Defender from the city of Hebron in the Occupied West Bank. He is currently facing 18 charges in Israeli military court. The charges include such things as organizing an “illegal demonstration...
3 ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE TO STOP FRIEDMAN'S NOMINATION
Thanks to your efforts and the hundreds of phone calls you made to your senators, David Friedman barely squeaked by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week.
The 12-9 vote to pass...
(WASHINGTON DC 03/10/2017) – In a 12-9 vote that went mostly along party lines, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve the nomination of David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel on Thursday. The issue will not go before the full...
The American Muslims for Palestine has joined US Palestine Community Network, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Code Pink and Jewish Voice for Peace to support Open Shuhada Street, a campaign of the Hebron-based Youth Against...
Contact your senators TODAY and tell them #RejectFriedman
(WASHINGTON DC 02/15/2017) – The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will start hearings into the nomination of President Trump’s bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman as the U.S. ambassador to...
