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September 7 • 2006
he fifth annual National
Organizers' Conference and
Grassroots Training Institute
of the U.S. Campaign To End the Israeli
Occupation held last weekend at the
University of Michigan-Dearborn
drew about 200 representatives from
organizational members of the U.S.
Campaign coalition.
The opening reception and awards
program Sept. 1 at the Arab American
National Museum in Dearborn was
open to the media, while the rest of
the conference was not. U.S. Reps.
Criticizing U.S.
John Conyers and. Carolyn Cheeks
Kilpatrick, both D r-Detroit, were sched- Hasan Newash, the Dearborn-based
organizer of the Palestine Office-
uled to be given the second annual
Edward Said Human Rights Awards,
Michigan, spoke as the local host of the
conference. He was introduced as com-
but neither attended the event.
In opening remarks, U.S. Campaign
ing from Ein Kerem in "Israeli-con-
co-chairs Nadia Hijab and Mark Lance
fiscated west Jerusalem." Newash said
briefly outlined the goals of the U.S.
the conference was being held "on the
heels of the destruction of the entire
Campaign.
Hijab, a senior fellow and co-director country of Lebanon and the continued
of the Washington office of, the Institute war" against Palestinians.
"Saluting the [American] flag
for Palestine Studies, said the group
becomes more and more difficult,"
was formed in 2001 because there was
Newash said, insisting the struggle
"not enough focus on the Israeli occu-
pation of east Jerusalem, the West Bank against Israel was in keeping with
American values. Condemning Bush
and Gaza." But Hijab acknowledged
administration support for Israel
that opposition to Israel goes deeper
than the land
won by Israel
in 1967, saving
those territories
"obviously are
not the core of
-Hasan Newash, the Dearborn-based organizer
the problem."
of the Palestine Office-Michigan
(Also running
counter to the
and the war in Iraq, particularly U.S.
oft-stated position that opposition to
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's
Israel is simply about "the occupa.-
role, he said the U.S. flag appears to
tion:' the U.S. Campaign supports a
be the "starve and strangle banner."
Palestinian "right of return" to pre-
Calling for ending the occupation
1967 Israel.)
of "Lebanon, Iraq and Palestine': he
Hijab also noted that the group
urged the activists to "jump in the ring
started with volunteer support, but
and carve history according to our val-
now has three staff members and a
ues and principles we hold dean"
new office in Washington, D.C.
Osama Siblani, publisher of the
Lance, a philosophy professor at
Arab-American News, chairman
Georgetown University, is also general
of the Congress of Arab American
director of the Institute for Anarchist
Organizations and a leader of the Arab
Studies and a leader of Stop U.S. Tax-
American Political Action Committee,
funded Aid to Israel Now (SUSTAIN).
"Saluting the [American] flag
becomes more and more difficult."
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He gave a positive assessment of the
impact of the U.S. Campaign, say-
ing that Zionist organizations had to
spend millions of dollars to defeat
its initiatives such as the Caterpillar
[bulldozer] campaign, divestment and
an academic and economic boycott
of Israel. He said this was a success
because critics of Israel were "setting
an agenda for the first time in the his-
tory of the movement."
Citing historic American issues of
labor rights, desegregation and opposi-
tion to apartheid South Africa, Lance
assured the audience that "we will win
this one, too, however long it takes."