The Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine calls for Israel to end exploiting Palestinian water access as a tool of West Bank control.
At the Massachusetts State House a coalition of groups including Jewish Voice for Peace demonstrated across from the building before entering the State House to deliver a letter to all legislators with this demand. Coincidentally this was the same day the State Senate planned to vote on an amendment criminalizing BDS, Boycott Divest and Sanction of Israel, until it ends its occupation of the West Bank and seige of Gaza. We were successful in the latter: Senator Cynthia Creem, initiator of the anti-BDS amendment, withdrew it.
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Hillel Stavis (L), prominent supporter of Israel, with the David Project and the local nonprofit group CAMERA, whose mission, according to its web site, is to "promot[e] accurate and balanced overage of Israel." With Eleanor Rothman, one of the day's organizers