Within Israeli society, supporters of human rights (and an end to the Israeli government’s occupation of Palestine) are objecting publicly to incitement by right-wing groups. The group “Omdim Beyachad” (Standing Together) organized a rally on 19 Dec. 2015 in Tel Aviv; read more in this article by Haggai Matar (click here).
On Dec. 11, a Canadian citizen was shot in Bethlehem. Her name is Rehab Nazzal and she is a photographer and PhD student at the University of Western Ontario. Please consider this blog and the letter from Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb (click here). Please sign the petition to the Honourable Stéphane Dion, Canadian Foreign Minister and Ambassador Vivian Bercovici, Canadian Ambassador to Israel (click here). See also this article and the article.
Canadian photographer Rehab Nazzal, here shown speaking in Ottawa in 2014, was shot last week in Bethlehem by an Israeli sniper. I ask six questions of Canada’s new Global Affairs Minister, Hon. Stephane Dion. Read my letter here.
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