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ACTION ALERT
For Immediate Release
22 April 2004
Action Alert: Demand Schwarzenegger
Cancel Trip to Jerusalem Museum of "Tolerance" To
Be Built on Stolen Palestinian Land
On May 2nd 2004 California State Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled
to take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for a museum that will be built on
Palestinian land in Jerusalem stolen by Israel from its rightful owners. The
project is funded by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which designated the museum
to be a "Museum of Tolerance" to promote "civility and tolerance among Jews,
and between Jews and non-Jews, including Arabs."
Since the site for the museum will be on confiscated Palestinian land, calling
it a "Museum of Tolerance" is blatantly hypocritical. Additionally, the Simon
Wiesenthal Center advocates an exclusively Jewish State and considers "dangerous" the
demand for the implementation of the inalienable right of Palestinian refugees
to return to their original homes and lands from which they were dispossessed
by Israel. This natural, legal and moral right to return is enshrined the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, International Law and numerous UN resolutions.
ACTION:
Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition in California calls on all
people of conscience to phone and write to California State Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger to demand that he cancel his planned trip to Jerusalem immediately.
TALKING POINTS:
- The proposed site for the so
called "Museum of Tolerance" is
on confiscated Palestinian land. This land must be returned
to its rightful owners.
- The primary fiscal sponsor
of the museum is the Simon Weisenthal Center. This
is hardly the sort of organization capable of producing
a "Museum of Tolerance" since the
Weisenthal Center advocacy for an exclusive Jewish Israeli
State is well known. The Weisenthal Center's position
on the inalienable rights of Palestinian refugees is
contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
International Law and numerous UN resolutions.
- Governor Schwarzenegger should cancel his trip to
Jerusalem forthwith.
Please call, email and write to:
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814, USA
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-445-4633
governor@governor.ca.gov
Letters in the US may be faxed online via:
http://www.tpc.int/sendfax.html
This alert was produced by Al-Awda's chapters in:
Los Angeles http://al-awdala.org
San Diego http://al-awdasandiego.org
and San Francisco http://al-awda.org/sanfrancisco
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