Shervin Aazami (CA-32) "I’m honored and humbled to receive an endorsement from Americans for Justice in Palestine Action for our race in California’s 32nd Congressional District. Just last week, Amnesty International released an extensive report declaring Israel to be an apartheid state – joining similar declarations made by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, and the Jerusalem-based B’Tselem. Every year we watch as the civil rights, public health, and economic conditions of the Palestinian people in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza erode further. In 2021, the United States sent $4.8 billion in military aid and equipment to Israel, compared to $360 million – just seven percent of that amount – in humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people. At this moment of reckoning, where a growing majority of Americans are demanding justice for Palestine and over a quarter of American Jews now identify as anti-Zionist, we need more outspoken advocates in Congress for Palestinian human rights. I will proudly continue to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their movement for freedom, in support of BDS and against its criminalization, and for the right of return."- Shervin Aazami |
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