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November 17, 2010

Dozens Protest U.S. Fundraiser for West Bank Settlement
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Dozens of people gathered in New York Tuesday night to protest a
fundraiser for a group that finances Israeli settlements in the occupied
West Bank city of Hebron. The Hebron Fund is one of over two dozen
tax-exempt U.S. charities that have raised millions of dollars for West
Bank settlements. Gloria Bletter of the Adalah Campaign for the Boycott
of Israel criticized the Obama administration’s record on Palestinian
human rights.

Gloria Bletter: "We’re against exacerbating the facts of the occupation.
It’s been so terrible up 'til now what Israel has been doing and
militarily and killing and starving Gazans and people in the West Bank,
that every time it seems to get worse. It seems like they up the ante
again and again. And this government, Obama, is going along with them.
It doesn't stand up to them."



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