THIRTY ONE GROUPS PROTEST FRIENDS OF THE IDF WALDORF 2010

ON MARCH 9, 2010, A SINGLE FILE SILENT PROCESSION OF 700 PEOPLE ENCIRCLED THE WALDORF ASTORIA IN NEW YORK CITY. ORGANIZED BY A COALITION OF 25 PEACE AND PALESTINE SOLIDARITY GROUPS, GRASSROOTS, COMMUNITY AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND ENDORSED BY 6 ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN GOUPS, THEY PROTESTED THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES WHO WERE HOLDING A FUNDRAISING GALA INSIDE THE WALDORF HONORING LT GENERAL GABI ASHKANAZI. EARLIER THE SAME DAY A STAGED READING OF THE GOLDSTONE REPORT,THE UN FACT FINDING MISSION ON THE GAZA CONFLICT WAS HELD ACROSS THE STREET. GROUPS THAT SPONSORED AND ENDORSED THE PROTEST PROCESSION INCLUDE A.R.T. (Activist Response Team), Adalah-NY, American Jews for a Just Peace, Brooklyn For Peace, Center for Immigrant Families, Codepink, Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism, Gaza Freedom March, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions-USA, Jewish Voice For Peace, Jews Say No!, Judson Church, Middle East Crisis Response, National Lawyers Guild - NY Chapter, NYC Anti-War Coalition, New York Collective of Radical Educators, Post Road, Progressive Democrats of America, Regeneración Childcare NYC, WESPAC Foundation, Women In Black Union Square, Women of a Certain Age, Woodstock Veterans For Peace, Veterans for Peace, Delaware Valley Veterans For America, Bilin Popular Committee, Friends of Freedom and Justice - Bil'in, Coalition of Women for Peace, Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian Call for BDS From Within, New Profile, Anarchists Against the Wall

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• Israel Apartheid Week
• IDF
• IDF protest
• Waldorf Astoria
• War Crimes
• Israeli War Crimes
• Friends of the IDF
• March 9
• Goldstone
• Report

[rosahill]

No wonder Israel has tried so hard to suppress the Goldstone Report.

[whauffend]

What a fantastic initiative. Let no one brush away the Goldstone Report. It truly marks a turning point in history I hope, and will contribute to the end of impunity, and peace, eventually.

[samiga36]

This report only show one thing...

What happens when you bring wadded up pieces of paper to a war with an army with real weapons...

When are the Jews allowed to defend themselves?

[OurFadedGarden]

As long as any of us are treated like this, all of us are (or will be).

[JesterPoetryArtVlogs]

those people reading should have had mics

[botchedonce]

Learn the facts. Read the Goldstone Report. A contradiction. Osrael HAD to kill to defend its' motherts and children from HAMAS, who threw its own people off rooftops and tortured as many. The policy of Hamas is to destroy EVERY Jew in Israel by murder. But Israel is the bad guy. Islam leaves no room for peace when it comes to Israel or the Jews. Peaceful religion my ass.

[Lagolop]

I had no idea that FIDF exited until the other day. I'm glad I found out about the organization. Now I know where to make a donation to Israel :))

[kirby4d]

CIVILIANS BEING KILLED IN A WAR?!?!? THIS MUST BE THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED!!!!

[elimeirov]

Palestina= Jordan

The video is robish...where was all this people when Hamas shot rockets from Gaza to Israel?

For all the "Phalastin" people...you have a big luck that you didt faith whit russian solders...

[steeveetee]

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