ISRAEL REFUSES ENTRY TO U.S. CONGRESSIONAL STAFF DELEGATION
NEWS RELEASE FROM AMERICAN MUSLIMS FOR JERUSALEM
Contact: Josh Ruebner, JPPI, 962-79-664-8145 or
Khalid Turaani, AMJ, 962-79-567-4917
(AMMAN, JORDAN, AUGUST 8, 2002) Israel today refused entry to a nine-person
U.S. Congressional staff delegation co-sponsored by American Muslims for
Jerusalem (AMJ) and Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel (JPPI). This was
to have been the first Jewish-Muslim co-sponsored Congressional delegation
to Palestine and Israel. The bi-partisan delegation planned to meet with
Israeli and Palestinian peace activists, American and international
humanitarian organizations, and U.S. government officials...
Congressional staffers requested that the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem
intervene on behalf of the delegation. They were informed that the
Consulate would intervene for everyone but the two American Muslims on the
delegation. Khalid Turaani, Executive Director of AMJ, stated "I am
sickened that representatives of my government would condone Israel's
blatant ethnic and religious profiling. The State Department consistently
has winked at Israel's pattern of discrimination against and intimidation
of American Muslims seeking to further peace and to provide humanitarian
assistance to Palestinians suffering under Israel's brutal military
occupation."
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