Protest Racist Celebration of Israel in Boston

Sunday, June 18, 11:00 AM, Boston Government Center.

Under this year's title "Talk, Rock and Walk with Israel", Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Boston has announced its annual event celebrating more than half a century of colonialism and genocide against the people of Palestine.

The event consists of a rally at Copley Square at 10:30 AM, a walk to Government Center, and a celebration at City Hall Plaza.

For the fifth year in a row The New England Committee to Defend Palestine calls for a protest.

When Zionists "Talk, Rock and Walk with Israel," what will they be celebrating?

*The mass expulsion of 780,000 Palestinians in 1948

*Military massacres, from Deir Yassin in 1948 to Jenin in 2002 to the attacks on Jericho and Gaza in 2006

*The use of U.S. fighter jets, attack helicopters, tanks, bulldozers, and assault rifles to attack Palestinians

*Soldiers shooting children

*The razing of Palestinian villages and home demolitions

*The imprisonment of more than 9,000 Palestinians for political reasons

*Assassination of Palestinian political leaders

*5 million refugees kept by force from returning to their homes in Palestine

*Economic strangulation of Palestinian communities

*The stealing of land by a state-sponsored settlement program

*The theft of water, the uprooting of olive trees, and the building of 450 miles of 24-foot-high concrete walls to imprison Palestinian cities and villages.

Don't let them hold this racist march in Boston.

Join all those for justice in Palestine at 11:00 AM Sunday, June 18 at Government Center!

Accessible via the Green line. Meet us there at 11:00 am

This protest is sponsored by the New England Committee to Defend Palestine (http://www.onepalestine.org) and has been endorsed by Mystic River Green-Rainbow Action and by Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner