New Middle East Committee Name Expresses Who We Are and What We Do
November 2020
By Barbara Taft
Co-chair, Middle East Peace and Justice Action Committee
The Middle East Committee has changed its name to better reflect who we are and what we do. We are now the Middle East Peace and Justice Action Committee. Several governments in the region have taken COVID-19 restrictions as an opportunity to move away from peace and to prevent justice from taking place. We need action now!!
Please engage with us on our three campaigns. Specific information will be updated regularly on our portion of the WILPF US website. They are:
- the No Way to Treat a Child Campaignsupporting legislation to stop Israel and other states from incarcerating children without access to legal counsel or their families (to learn more, read this article in the October eNews);
- the No to Annexation Campaignworking to prevent the annexation by Israel of land taking away the last contiguous area lived on and farmed by Palestinians, preventing peace and justice for the Palestinian Arab population; and
- the Bridges Not Walls Campaignacknowledging both physical and psychological walls separate people and prevent them from achieving normal, constructive lives, and encouraging the construction of bridges of understanding, while working to tear down physical walls and other obstructions that highlight differences rather than commonalities. Visit our website for specific actions.
We hope you will join our committee. We are actively recruiting members from all branches, including our at-large Jane Addams branch, as well as liaison persons, to convey our news to branches and share your branch news about Middle East actions to us. Please check our website and contact us to join as a member or liaison to our committee.
Contact Barbara Taft (beejayssite@yahoo.com) or Odile Hugonot Haber (odilehh@gmail.com), co-chairs, ME Peace & Justice Action Committee.
