Jewish Support For H.O.M.E.Y. Mural Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]

#	First and Last Name	City and State/Country	Comments
51	Donna Wallach	San Jose, CA, USA	The H.O.M.E.Y. mural is a true work of art, it is beautiful, and expresses very powerfully the experiences of so many people. This mural must stand in its entirety! It is totally appropriate. The silencing of the Arab and Palestinian voices must stop!
52	Manal Swairjo	San Diego CA USA
53	cubby sherman	bombay india	i am a jewish american living outside the US
54	Daniel Cohen	Chicago, IL
55	Yali Amit	Chicago
56	Michael-David Sasson	Oakland, CA
57	Osnat Bar-Or	Israel
58	EMMA ROSENTAL	LOS ANGELES, CA	The ADL and the JCRC condemn this mural for its alleged opposition to a "peaceful two-state solution." But these organizations have never supported any real two-state solution and their beloved wall (what they call a security fence) cutting deep into the heart of what would be a Palestinian state, blocking off entire communities, separating farmers from fields, students from schools and the sick from doctors and hospitals is hardly a simple security system. Their argument is disingenuous and dishonest. To raise the history of Jewish suffering, in this context is the false play of the race card. The Israelis are victims of their own colonialist government and the massive support both public and private, for its most brutal manifestations from the United States. As U.S. citizens, we all have to speak out on this issue. This is not separate from our own realities, as Israel is THE LARGEST recipient of U.S. military aid, taking away precious resources from our own communities in the relentless and racist attacks on Palestinian communities under Israeli hegemony and occupation.
59	Gordon	Quinn	We know that if the identities where reversed there would be no censorship. We as Jews must stand up to those powerful Jewish organizations, who do not speak for us, and are trying suppress the open debate and free artistic expression that are essential to our American Democracy.
60	Janet Ertz	Schenectady, NY USA
61	Norma Musih	Tel Aviv Israel
62	Sylvia Sherman	Oakland, CA
63	Megan Weintraub	Washington, DC/USA
64	sheila Goldmacher	Berkeley, California	I am a Jewish grandmother of 73 and wholeheartedly support this mural project and its youth in their artistic and political spirit. Justice for all is what is needed now more than ever.
65	Jack Heyman	Oakland, CA	I support this artistic endeavor.
66	Jackie Brookman	Oakland, CA, USA
67	Michael Eisenscher	Oakland, CA/USA	Beware of institutions that proclaim themselves to be guardians of the faith and the voice of an entire community. Many Jews, like myself, do not want Zionist organizations to speak for me. They do not speak for the entire Jewish community.
68	Susan Jacobson	Berkeley, CA
69	Ruth Wallen	San Diego, Ca
70	Jesse Bacon	Chicago, IL	We need more cultural expression, not less.
71	Stephen Kessler	Berkeley, CA
72	Arlene Eisen	San Francisco, CA/USA	As a Jewish woman who has witnessed, first-hand, the atrocities committed against the Palestinian people by the Israeli state, I support the Palestinian people's right to resist an illegal military occupation. Also I condemn the blind acceptance of the Anti-defamation League and other Zionist organizations of anything Israel does. Neither the Israeli govenrment or various Zionist organizations speak for me and many other Jewish people.
73	Sanaz Meshkinpour	San Francisco	I would just like to stress the work of Palestinians, Arabs, Israelis, Jews and Internationals in their efforts to oppose the continued building and effects of the wall. The wall has been deemed as a tool of economic and social repression by many international institutions and organizations. And the depiction of the wall and Palestinians in the mural is neither Anti-Semitic nor violent.
74	diane levinson	san jose, ca usa
75	michael liebert	oakland, ca.
76	Deborah Agre	Berkeley, CA	Whether you call it a wall, a fence, or a barrier, it takes land, divides families, and worse. the Isreali Human rights group b'tselem has documented that it does not, in fact, prevent terrorist attacks.
77	Bob Ness	San Francisco, CA
78	Barbara Engel	Chicago, Illinois
79	Allan Fisher	San Francsco, CA
80	Jaron Browne	San Francisco, CA
81	Gary Gregerson	SF CA
82	Gene Herman	Berkeley, CA	The Palestinians need as much support as they can get...art is art is art... Some Jews don't like what they see in the Mission Many Jews don't like what we see being done to the Plalestinians in the West Bank and Gaza by the Isaraeli Defense(?) Force...Keep the mural as is!
83	Anonymous	Anonymous	Being against oppression is not racism! The thinking that oppressing Palestinians (or anyone) is a good thing - THAT is racism.
84	John Pitman Weber	Chicago, IL	As one of the pioneers of the community mural movement nationally, an artist, professor of art, and Jewish-American, grandson of a Yiddish poet and a Bund activist, I support the H.O.M.E.Y. youth mural in its entirety. I strongly oppose ANY EFFORT to censor or destroy this mural. I totally reject any claim by the JCRC or any other organization to speak for all Jews. I totally support freedom of speech, specifically the freedom of symbolic speech in public murals. There is NOTHING in the H.O.M.E.Y. mural which offends me, nor is there anything in it which can be characterized as anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish per se. Sincerely, John Pitman Weber, professor of Art and muralist and Jewish citizen.
85	Rachel Wofsy	Brooklyn, NY
86	Amanda Gelender	Stanford, CA	As a Jewish person who works in the Mission district of San Francisco, I fully support this mural and HOMEY's artistic resistance to the destructive Israeli occupation of Palestine.
87	Phyllis Willett	Berkeley, CA
88	anne silver	berkeley ca	in the name of all that is decent and just, support this mural
89	Jack Hirschman	San Francisco, CA	I have already written a letter of protest against the meddlin in the life of the mural. Such action is clearly reprehensible. Long Life to the Mural as painted by the COLLECTIVE!!!
90	Assaf Sahron	Stanford, CA
91	Matt Benfield	Berkeley, CA
92	Judy Shelton	Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
93	Jeffrey Skoller	Berkeley, CA USA	The Aug. 10th letter from the JCRC is nothing short of a weapon of intimidation to coerce the SF Arts commission into silencing free speech and creative expression among the diverse members of our community. This is the kind of political thugery that would make Karl Rove proud and has NO place in a democracy. A shanda fur die goyim!!
94	Douglas Spalding	San Leandro, CA
95	Ofer Kahana	israel
96	Tom Brown	Oakland, CA, USA
97	Zach Foster	West Bloomfield, MI USA
98	Bronna Zlochiver	Sandy Spring, Maryland, USA
99	Penina Eilberg-Schwartz	Portola Valley, CA
100	Sele Nadel-Hayes	Oakland, CA