America Tax Day Is Coming: Offset Your Tax Dollars to Israel

In 2007, the United States gave
Israel $2.34 billion in military aid
to enforce its illegal military
occupation and siege of the
Palestinian West Bank, East
Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip.

That amounts to each
individual tax payer giving
on average $8.56 to Israel to commit its human rights abuses. [1]

As Tax Day nears, the US
Campaign to End the
Israeli Occupation wants
to give you an opportunity
to offset the tax dollars
you give to Israel by making
an equal, tax-deductible
contribution to the US Campaign by clicking here.

The US Campaign will use your tax-deductible contribution
to continue its educational and organizing work to challenge
military aid to Israel and to change U.S. policy toward
Palestine/Israel to support human rights, international
law, and equality for all. If you agree that this is a
better use of your hard-earned dollars, then click here.

You can offset not only your own tax bill for Israel's
human rights abuses, but that of your family, friends,
co-workers, and neighbors as well. Please consider
making a generous contribution to offset the tax
dollars for everyone in your office, in your apartment
building or block, or even in your town! To do so,
please click here.

Just a little more than 33,000 offsets would
help us raise our entire budget for the year.
Please do your part by making a tax-deductible
offset for one person, ten, fifty, one hundred or
more people today by clicking here.

OTHER WAYS TO TAKE ACTION TO CHALLENGE MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL 1. Have your organization endorse our sign -on letter to the appropriations subcommittee calling for it to cut off military aid to Israel. More than 325 organizations from 40 states plusthe District of Columbia and groups of U.S. citizensabroad have already signed the letter. To add yourorganization's endorsement to the list below, click here. 2. Call the appropriations subcommittee andlet them know you oppose military aid to Israel. Call the House Appropriations Subcommittee onState, Foreign Operations and Related Programsat 202-225-2041 to express your opposition to$2.55 billion in military aid for Israel proposed inthe FY2009 budget. 3. Send your own personal letter to membersof the subcommittee. Each member of the subcommittee has already received more than 4,500 letters from individuals opposing military aid to Israel. Be sure to send your letter prior by clicking here. 4. Organize with us to challenge military aid to Israel. Help us to educate and organize people in your community to challenge military aid to Israel by signing up for an organizing packet which includes fact sheets, petitions, and postcards by clicking here. We've already sent out 2000 organizing packets around the country. Join us in our ongoing campaign to challenge military aid to Israel and sign up to be a volunteer organizer by clicking here.

Thank you for offsetting your tax dollars
to Israel with the US Campaign.

[1] In 2007, the IRS reported it received 138,894,000
individual tax filings, accounting for 50.8% of all taxes.
Individuals' share of military aid to Israel in 2007 was
therefore $1.19 billion, or on average $8.56 per individual
tax filing. Statistics are drawn from
Internal Revenue Service Data Book, 2007.