Letters For Palestine
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Stand By Your Principles — Stand With Palestine!
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2) Click on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's email address here - us@ocasio2018.com
3) Put "Stand By Your Principles — Stand With Palestine!" into the Subject Line
3) Copy and Paste the suggested text below into that email
4) Edit that email to reflect any words YOU want to include in that email
5) Send your email
6) Wait 24 hours and follow up asking for a response if you don't receive Confirmation of your email
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To: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Subject - Stand By Your Principles — Stand With Palestine!
Dear Ms Ocasio-Cortez
Supporters of justice around the world were heartened you recently won the Queens Democratic congressional primaries with a grassroots campaign that included a forceful condemnation of the ongoing Israeli massacre of Palestinian Great Return March protesters in Gaza.
Now, under intense Zionist backlash, you seem to have “walked back” your stand, saying you had not used “the right words” in calling out Israeli occupation, and endorsing Israel's “right to exist.”
We fully embrace your original defense of Palestinian rights, and reiterate these essential facts:
Alexandria, your campaign is only as strong as its principles. Just as you speak truth to power for Abolish ICE, Standing Rock, Black Lives Matter, and Puerto Rico, stand firm with justice for Palestine!
Kind regards
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- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently won the Queens Democratic congressional primaries with a grassroots campaign that included a forceful condemnation of the ongoing Israeli massacre of Palestinian Great Return March protesters in Gaza.
- Now, under intense Zionist backlash, she has “walked back” her stand, saying she had not used “the right words” in calling out Israeli occupation, and endorsing Israel's “right to exist.”
- Please take action and ask Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to "Stand By Your Principles — Stand With Palestine!"
- How to take action:
2) Click on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's email address here - us@ocasio2018.com
3) Put "Stand By Your Principles — Stand With Palestine!" into the Subject Line
3) Copy and Paste the suggested text below into that email
4) Edit that email to reflect any words YOU want to include in that email
5) Send your email
6) Wait 24 hours and follow up asking for a response if you don't receive Confirmation of your email
Suggested Text
To: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Subject - Stand By Your Principles — Stand With Palestine!
Dear Ms Ocasio-Cortez
Supporters of justice around the world were heartened you recently won the Queens Democratic congressional primaries with a grassroots campaign that included a forceful condemnation of the ongoing Israeli massacre of Palestinian Great Return March protesters in Gaza.
Now, under intense Zionist backlash, you seem to have “walked back” your stand, saying you had not used “the right words” in calling out Israeli occupation, and endorsing Israel's “right to exist.”
We fully embrace your original defense of Palestinian rights, and reiterate these essential facts:
- From day one, zionism in Israel has been a settler-colonial regime of occupation on stolen Palestinian land, a status it recently formalized. It has no more “right to exist” than Jim Crow or apartheid South Africa!
- The Great Return March demands an end to Israel's genocidal siege on Gaza, as well as refugees’ right, enshrined in UN Resolution 194, to return to homes from which they were expelled during the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe) that created that Israeli state.
- Since the Gaza protests began in March, Israel has murdered at least 146 Palestinians (including seventeen children, two reporters, and two first responders), while wounding another 16,496. Unconscionably, this massacre is made possible by $3.8 billion a year in bipartisan U.S. military aid to Israel.
- The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), of which You are a member, endorses the growing movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against apartheid Israel.
Alexandria, your campaign is only as strong as its principles. Just as you speak truth to power for Abolish ICE, Standing Rock, Black Lives Matter, and Puerto Rico, stand firm with justice for Palestine!
Kind regards
<your name>
<suburb>
<city> <post code>
<email address>
