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

#	First and Last Name	City and State/Country	Comments
201	Tom Brown	Oakland, CA, USA
202	sue goldstein	toronto, ontario, canada
203	Judith Deutsch	Toronto, Ontario; Canada
204	Anonymous	Anonymous	Why do any Jews wish to hide the truth and still be able claim Jewish moral and ethics?
205	Sydney Levy	San Francisco, CA
206	Charles Pottins	England	I can see nothing offensive about this mural. It is Israel's apartheid wall that offends conscience and defaces the land. It is time organisations claiming to represent Jewish people stopped acting like Pavlov-dogs trained to bark at everything the Israeli government might not like.
207	Maurice Naftalin	Edinburgh, United Kingdom
208	Dr Brian Robinson	Milton Keynes, UK	It upsets me when my fellow-Jews deny the realities of Israeli brutality and expansionism and try to suppress such information. H.O.M.E.Y's aims and work are admirable, and this Mural conveys superbly much of the Palestinian experience, some of which I've seen for myself in Palestine.
209	Mike Marqusee	London, UK
210	Roland Rance	London, UK	I entirely reject the false assertion that it is antisemitic to oppose to Israel's colonial policies or to support for the liberation struggle of the Palestinian people. It is ridiculous to claim that the mural "victimises" Jews or "isolates the Jewish community"; the image is a criticism of Israeli policy and practices, and does not in any way relate to the rights and well-being of Jews in San Francisco.
211	Judy Koch	Toronto Canada
212	Richard Kuper	London, UK	The Wall, condemned by the International Court of Justice, has emerged as a symbol of Israel's rapacious de facto annexation of a large proportion of the West Bank. Fitting it should be used in the H.O.M.E.Y. mural. If Israel's genuine concern were security it would have built the wall on the green line.
213	Sam Semoff	Liverpool, United Kingdom
214	Les Levidow	London, UK
215	Jesse Soodalter	Providence, RI	The ADL has no mandate to speak for me!
216	Susan Pashkoff	London, UK
217	Diana Neslen	Ilford Essex United Kingdom	It is by our shared commitment to the breaking down of barriers between peoples and our shared commitment to inalienable rights and our resistance against oppression including that carried out by people who share our identity, that we cement our common humanity and protect each other against tyranny.
218	Miriam Marino	Bassano in Teverina (VT) Italia
219	Randy Ostrow	Brooklyn, NY	I'm Jewish, and the JCRC and ADL do not speak for me. The mural must remain intact.
220	Elizabeth Block	Toronto, Canada	A small thing (well, not so small): The Apartheid Wall is not for security reasons. If it were, it would be on the Green Line. It is intended to steal Palestinian land, and it is succeeding. If Israel wanted security, it would not be building even more settlements in the occupied territories. A big thing: The more indefensible Israel's actions are, the more defensive become certain segments of the Jewish community. When will they wake up and realize that with friends like these, Jews don't need enemies? And yes, I'm Jewish.
221	Abe Hayeem	London. UK	This is another example of the pro-Israel lobby trying to stifle any expression of Palestinian resistance that challenges Israel's hegemony. As a Jew who cherishes freedom of speech and expression, I support this mural in the interests of democracy.
222	Naomi Binder Wall	Toronto, Ontario, Canada	member Jewish Women's Committee to End the Occupation, Toronto
223	Anonymous	Anonymous
224	Rebecca Marcus	Toronto Ontario	.Art is supposed to make you think, a lot of art doesn’t reach that criteria. This work does.
225	Reena Katz	Toronto, Canada	This is a prime example of the ways that Zionists are propegating censorship in the name of countering anti-Semitism. Of course the H.O.M.E.Y. youth should create their mural in its entirety! I strongly support their solidarity with Palestinians.
226	Judy Gerber	San Francisco, CA
227	Sam Green	San Francisco, CA
228	Marcia Patt	San Diego CA, USA	We must support the peaceful aspirations of those Arabs and Jews that want to bring about a just resolution of the current crisis that exists for the Palestinian people. Our experience of near-extermination as a people with no national homeland should make us all the more sympathetic and sensitive to the same trauma that exists for the Palestinians today.
229	Arthur Neslen	London, UK	Yes to murals, no to walls.
230	Anonymous	Anonymous
231	Judy Siff	San Francisco, CA
232	Emily Schaeffer	San Francisco, CA
233	Tova Fry	Kelseyville, CA/U.S.
234	Daniel Schleifer	Providence, RI	As a human, Jew and former Bay Area resident, I support the right of youth to express themselves and the right to self-determination of all peoples.
235	Hani	Anani
236	Adam Levenstein	Roswell, Georgia
237	Andrew Chan	San Francisco/CA	As a resident of the Mission of not being part of any affiliation (Jewish, Palestinian, Middle Eastern, Muslim, etc.) of this conflict, I find the mural, in it's entirety, to be reflective of the ultimate goal of our society - for all walls that separate people to be destroyed. These physical barriers must be brought down first, in order for us to bring down the mental barriers preventing solidarity, tolerance and acceptance.
238	Daniel Lang/Levitsky	Brooklyn, NY	Jews Against the Occupation/NYC in golus iz undzer heym - mir zenen do!
239	Anonymous	Anonymous
240	Judy Haiven	Halifax, NS, CANADA	I happen to be Jewish. I am appalled at the bullying tactics of Jews who, in their blind support for Israel, want to prevent the world from seeing the apartheid reality that Palestinians live under every day.
241	Raphael Cohen	Oakland, CA, U.S.A.	As a U.S. born and raised Jew, whose parents were born in Poland and Egypt respectively, and whose maternal grandparents survived the Jewish Holocaust and the state-sanctioned persecution that preceded it, I want to clearly and forthrightly state my support for the H.O.M.E.Y. youth mural at 24th and Capp. As stated in this petition's letter, the JCRC does not speak for or represent many members of the Bay area Jewish community who are in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for self-determination. As one such Jew, I wish to state that my support for this mural, and its depiction of Palestinian resistance, stems from my understanding that a just peace in Israel-Palestine cannot be created until a full recognition and permanent disruption of Israeli aggression towards Palestinians (as represented by the Wall) is achieved. I echo the sentiments expressed above, regarding the importance of showing intra-national solidarity amongst oppressed or marginalized peoples who have a presence in the Mission district of San Francisco. Please do all that is in your power to ensure that this mural remains intact, in its full and completed state, with the section depicting Palestinian history and political struggle as a powerful reminder of the work we yet have before us to create a healthy, just, and peaceful world. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Raphael Cohen
242	Alli Starr	San Francisco	Let us show our solidarity as Jews of conscience for our Palestian brothers and sisters. With justice shall come peace for all.
243	Judith Deutsch	Toronto, Ontario; Canada
244	Penni	Kimmel	I am of Jewish heritage and have lost family and friends in both Holocaust and Israeli/Palestine conflict.(s). I decry ALL censorship, whether of art, speech or thought. This attempt to exercise Power by the Stupid is not politics; it's racism.
245	Mitch Altman	San Francisco, CA / USA	Ugly acts have been committed by Israelis and Palestinians. We need to somehow get to a place where we can somehow share the small planet that we all live on. How to do that? Flaming fires of hatred sure is not the way. Silencing constructive criticism is certainly not the way. So what is? I wish I had some answers.
246	Amy Jay Schoenwald	Brooklyn, NY	This mural is a beautiful depiction of struggles for liberation, both global and local, and the connections between the two. Right-wing organizations such as JCRC will never speak for all Jews. This wall will fall; this mural will stand...onward to justice!
247	Betsy Levine	Oakland, CA
248	Jenny Polak	Brooklyn, NY	I am a Jew and I support this mural's inclusion of images of Palestinian resistance to Israeli violence and oppression. And especially the depiction of the barrier wall and the hope for its destruction seem to me much needed in this country whose Jews are given to blind support for Israel's militarism. I wish more Jews could understand the connections made in this mural between current struggles for justice and historic ones. Are white Americans complaining about the depictions of Civil Rights struggles?
249	Marianne Gassel	Bruxelles / Belgique	I am Jewish and I want the auto-determination end the free expression of all peoples including the Palestinian people. Us, like Jewish, have to be recognizing to the PAlestinan people who recieve our fathers, mothers, grand-fathers, grand-mothers or other members of our family when they became refugied in Palestine because intheir lands it was impossible to live.
250	Gruszow-Wozek Larissa	Bruxelles, Belgium	I really have the impression that the pictures reflect the real situationof the Palestinian People, which is occupied by the Israeli State. It is great time to negociate the two-Stes Solution on the basis of the Geneva Statement by Abbo / Beilin.