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[January 23, 2008]
Power to the (Palestinian) People

Jeff Halper, the coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, wrote these words after the momentous events of January 23, when Palestinians in Gaza blew up the prison wall that Israel (and Egypt) had erected. This allowed hundreds of thousands to travel into Egypt to obtain supplies that Israel had prevented from entering Gaza.

The people of Palestine have done it again, taking their own fate in their hands after being let down by their own "moderate" political leadership and, indeed, the entire international community in their struggle for freedom.  Early this morning they simply blew up the wall separating Gaza from Egypt, breaking a siege imposed on them by an Arab government in collaboration with Israel.

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[June 12, 2007]
Resistance Begins...And So Does the Repression

Lucia Pizarro
International Coordinator
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
PO Box 2030, 91020 Jerusalem, Israel

Yesterday, June 11, 2007, the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) announced the launching of a campaign to rebuild the home of every Palestinian family whose house is demolished over the coming year.  We held our launch in conjunction with the 40th year of the Occupation, for which we returned to the place where the Occupation began—the few houses of what had been the historic Mughrabi Quarter where, on the night of June 11, 1967, 135 Palestinian families were roused from their beds in the Middle of the night and their neighborhood demolished so as to create a plaza in front of the Wailing Wall.  It was an act that had nothing to do with either the war or with security.  It represented only the creation of the first "fact on the ground" of thousands that would come asserting exclusive Israeli claims over the entire country.

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What Israel's leaders want to prevent: friendship

Israeli and Palestinian Farmers

An Israeli volunteer and a Palestinian farmer working together during the olive harvest.

©2006 Anna Baltzar—Used with permission of the author.

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Haggai Matar at a NIMN Vigil "We have been punished for speaking out, for wanting not only to have no share in the evil ourselves, but to get rid of the evil.  They said in the verdict that we are undermining the legitimacy of what the government and the army are doing.  That's absolutely true, and that's what we intend to continue doing."

—Haggai Matar after being sentenced to one year in jail for refusing to serve in the Israeli military (January 5, 2004).

Haggai, pictured here when he attended our Vigil in Chicago, was released from prison (along with Matan Kaminer, Shimri Zameret, Adam Maor and Noam Bahat) on September 15, 2004.  They were immediately presented "call-up" orders and told to report for interviews on September 19th.


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Craig Corrie holds a picture of his daughter, Rachel, at a NIMN Vigil.

Not In My Name is a predominantly Jewish peace group that was founded in November 2000 to organize opposition to the Israeli Occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.  We believe that the Israelis and Palestinians deserve a chance to live in peace but that there are obstacles that prevent this from happening.

The main obstacles include the Israeli Occupation and the U.S. government’s support of it.  We believe that the first step toward attaining peace must be for Israel to end its Occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem and for the U.S. to stop using our tax dollars to support it.

We call ourselves "Not In My Name" because the State of Israel often claims to act in the name and interests of all the Jews in the world.  Taking our place within the Jewish community, we offer an alternative voice, motivated first and foremost by a love for peace and justice.

We welcome the full and active participation of non-Jews who support our work and who, recognizing that their tax dollars are being use to support the Israeli Occupation, want to say “Not in my name, either!”


Please note that we are not associated in any way with Not In OUR Name (NION).  If you wish to comment on their politics, please contact them.


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