In correspondence addressed to state legislative appropriations leadership, the officers of the Georgia Green Party today urged that "the state of Georgia sever its economic ties with the Apartheid state of Israel", and called specifically for the end of Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange collaboration with Israeli police agencies (http://www.georgiagreenparty.org/QDC/Actions/GeorgiaBudgetWritersUrgedToDivestFromIsrael).
Under this program, Georgia State University facilitates international travel and training between Georgia police agencies and police agencies from Israel, who enforce the Apartheid conditions in occupied Palestine. The Party warns such training would involve the sort of 'counter-terrorism' tactics which could only cost Georgia taxpayers expensive settlements in wrongful death and civil rights violations.
This past week's report by a UN Commission on Human Rights has focused renewed attention on the daily atrocities which make the Israeli settlement of Palestine possible.
"Our state and federal tax dollars support Israeli's militarized occupation of Palestine. Our government's spending choices have made each of us complicit in the IDF's murder of six Free Gaza activists this past Summer. Israel is guilty of crimes against humanity in general and the Palestinian people in particular," said Adam Shapiro, a member of Atlanta's Congregation Bet Havrim and the Co-Chair of the Georgia Green Party. "I grew up believing that the state of Israel would serve as a safe haven for oppressed Jews. It is a sad irony then, that Israel is instead the oppressor. Those jews who choose to defend Israeli aggression do not speak for all of us. And our silent complicity with those who would justify these crimes is tantamount to our serving as the Good Germans of our time."
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