Urgent: Letters needed to stop JNF at Museum of Civilization

I have been asked by Jewish Independent Voices to circulate this petition and request for letters of protest. Please take a minute and sign the petition and send an original short letter of protest. Remember numbers count. I have corrected the mail to: victor.rabinovitch@civilization.ca. Thanks

Ed CorriganGreetings,

Please do not delay acting on this urgent request. It is important that we voice our opposition to the racist JNFand its sympathizers, and our support for the human rights of the occupied Arab Palestinian people.

Details follow.

Could you please send your own letter to the Museum - and sign the online petition http://www.petition spot.com/ petitions/ MuseumofCiv - and circulate this call.
Thanks!

The Jewish National Fund is holding is annual Negev fund-raising dinner at Canada's Museum of Civilization next Monday, Nov. 24. About 500,000 of the 625,000 acres of land owned by the JNF were confiscated from Palestinians fleeing war in 1948, and were not purchased with contributions from Jews around the world as the JNF claims. Before 1953, Israel transferred ownership of this land to the JNF for the sole use of Jews, without any compensaiton to its Palestinian owners. This confiscation violates international law. "Canada Park," which is maintained through JNF-Canada contributions, is built on the site of three Palestinian villages captured in 1967, whose 10,000 peaceful residents were expelled and all their homes razed to the ground.

IJV is cooperating with Al-Haq, an Israeli/Palestinian human rights organization in campaigning for justice especially for the residents of these three villages. We are asking the Museum of Civilization to cancel its permission for the JNF to use its facilities for this fund-raising dinner. We have sent the CEO, Victor Rabinovitch, the attached letters from IJV and from representatives of the three Palestinian villages. We have requested a meeting with him this week and are planning a peaceful demonstration at the Museum on Nov. 24.

Before THIS Saturday, Nov. 22, please:

* Sign our petition at http://www.petition spot.com/ petitions/ MuseumofCiv and/or
* Send your own letter with a copy to ijv@magma.ca to:

Dr. Victor Rabinovitch
President and CEO
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Gatineau, Quebec

mailto: victor.rabinovitch@civilization.ca


Fax 819-776-7122

If you would like to participate in the demonstration, please let me know.

For justice and peace,

Diana Ralph
Coordinator
IJV (Canada)