13 activists from local Jewish group arrested protesting private US aid to Israel

May 15th is the anniversary of Al Nakba ("the catastrophe"), the mass deportation of nearly a million Palestinians from their homes, massacres of civilians, and the destruction of hundreds of Palestinian villages in 1948.

On this day when Palestinians remember these injustices, hundreds of major donors to the Jewish Community Federation gathered inside the Four Seasons Hotel, to celebrate their campaign to raise $30 million in support for Zionism and the exclusionary state of Israel. The Jewish Community Federation's campaign slogan is "We Stand with Israel, Now and Forever."

We say:
-Israel is a racist, apartheid state.
-Zionism is not in the best interest of the Jewish people.
-54 years of Palestinian suffering is 54 years too long.

We demand:
-An immediate end to all U.S. aid to Israel
-An end to the occupation
-The immediate democratization of the state of Israel and the abolishment of the apartheid structure of the state.
-The Right of Return for all Palestinian refugees in accordance with United Nations Resolution 194