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Friend --

Israeli peace activists posted videos of last week’s attack while still
nursing their wounds.

The images are distressing. Over a dozen masked settlers converging on
Palestinian farmers and Israeli activists in the occupied West Bank.
Beating them with poles. Setting a car ablaze. Leaving them with fractured
bones and bloody headwounds.

The footage below -- circulated by Rabbis for Human Rights -- is just the
latest evidence of a surge in violent attacks against Palestinian families
and farmers, as well as the Israelis who stand with and support them.

Over the last 12 months, these attacks have left several dead, dozens
injured and put a child in the hospital after a rock fractured his skull.
One Israeli minister called the attacks “organized terror.” Another said
that “violent settler gangs supported by the indifference of the army” are
making the lives of Palestinians “unbearable.”

Yet Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who counts the settlement movement as
part of his political base, has said the problem is “insignificant.” Week
after week, month after month, the attacks have continued.

I know this footage is upsetting to watch -- especially for those of us
who have friends in these communities and care deeply about Israel’s
future as a just, democratic homeland for the Jewish people -- but we
cannot look away. We must confront the realities of the occupation if we
are going to convince our leaders to take the action needed to end it.

[ [link removed] ]Footage of Settler attacks against Palestinians and Israeli activists.
Click to load full video of recent settler attacks.

Friends -- We need your name on our petition calling on the Biden
Administration to push for immediate action on this.

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Last week (and every week) groups like Rabbis for Human Rights, the Olive
Harvest Coalition and Machsom Watch quite literally put themselves on the
frontline of our shared fight for justice, equality and peace. Here in the
United States, it’s vital that we have their backs.

For months, our movement has been organizing to bring more attention to
the issue of settler violence, to press for Israeli authorities to end the
impunity and prevent these attacks, and to call for [ [link removed] ]stronger US action
to stop this injustice. It’s an effort that’s gaining in strength.

In recent days, a growing chorus of leaders both in Israel and the US have
spoken out. This week, seven prominent American Jewish groups -- including
the Reform Movement, the Conservative Movement and the Anti-Defamation
League -- called on Israeli leaders to take “unequivocal action” to stop
“ongoing terrorism and political violence committed by Jewish Israeli
extremists in the West Bank.”

We must build on this momentum and make sure that our leaders take this
crisis seriously. [ [link removed] ]Please read, sign and share our petition if you have
not already done so >>

Together, we’re making clear that this type of violence and impunity stems
from a military occupation that denies fundamental civil rights and
political freedoms to millions of people. That’s why we must commit
ourselves to ending it, and to achieving a better future in which the
rights and security of both Israelis and Palestinians are guaranteed.

Thank you, sincerely, for joining us in this fight.

Yours,

Logan Bayroff,
VP of Communications


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