The Patriot Ledger · Quincy, Massachusetts · 14 June 2017
CP-2017-003
Alliance between Palestinians, Israelis and American Jews offers hope
Commentary
Daoud Kuttab, a Palestinian journalist and former Ferris professor of journalism at Princeton University
Transcribed from the clipping
“While Israelis and Palestinians have mostly failed to find common ground in opposing the 50 years of Israeli occupation, a new Palestinian-Israeli-U.S.
Jewish alliance is emerging that many are hoping will take root… A group of 300 Israelis, Palestinians and diaspora Jews from a coalition of five groups decided May 18 to join in support of a beleaguered Palestinian village in the West Bank.
Their model was the Standing Rock protest, the North Dakota encampment created in an effort to block an oil pipeline near an Indian reservation… Three times in a span of the first 12 days, Israeli troops raided the Sumud Freedom Camp and confiscated the campers’ tents, sound equipment and even a car belonging to a local Palestinian.
Sumud means steadfastness in Arabic… When Palestinians from nearby towns saw that the Sumud Freedom Camp survived, they began making daily visits. Many brought food and broke the Ramadan fast with their newly discovered comrades.”
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A Palestinian journalist writing in a Massachusetts daily, not quoted in one.
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"Alliance between Palestinians, Israelis and American Jews offers hope," The Patriot Ledger, 14 June 2017, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2017-003. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2017-003
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