{"article":{"id":254856,"heading":"Action Alert: Act now to stop the latest effort to legitimize Israeli Apartheid Terrorism!","author":"The friends of Palestine","created":"2012-08-11 18:17:15","modified":"2013-11-11 01:11:06","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 08:11:06","article":"<p>The city of Ashkelon is occupying Palestinian village lands. By  November 5th, 1948 most of the Palestinian population of 11,000 had been forced to leave. <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palestineremembered.com\/Gaza\/Ni%27ilya\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.palestineremembered.com\/Gaza\/Ni%27ilya\/index.html<\/a> <br><br> Members of the Sacramento City Council are now being inundated with e-mails from across the country asking them to vote for recognizing Ashkelon as a Sister City. This effort appears to be a disturbing new front in the effort to legitimize Israeli terrorism in America as if it were not already prevalent enough.  If Palestine&rsquo;s enemies succeed in Sacramento, they will no doubt be emboldened to oppose other such resolutions across the country.  <br><br> We need to stop this new anti-Palestine campaign in its tracks. We need to send a strong message right now that we stand with Palestine and that we believe that Sacramento should not be used as another stamp of approval for the Israeli terror regime.   <br><br> Please act now to ensure that we deny Palestine&rsquo;s opponents a victory in their ongoing efforts to legitimize apartheid terror.   <br><br> Call all of the members of the Sacramento City Council and tell them to vote NO on adopting Ashkelon, as a Sister City on August 14th.  The friends of Palestine thank you! <br>  <br> Their numbers are found here&hellip;   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofsacramento.org\/council\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.cityofsacramento.org\/council\/<\/a> <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","summary":"Take Action...The City Council of Sacramento, California, is scheduled to vote on adopting Ashkelon, Israel as a Sister City on August 14th.\r\n\r\nGiven Israel\u2019s continued policy of killing and displacing Palestinians and illegally confiscating their land, the Capital of California, Sacramento, should not be used as a stamp of approval for these policies.\r\n","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2012\/08\/120213-apartheid-roads_1_.jpg","filesize":"76.9 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2012\/08\/254856.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2012\/08\/120213-apartheid-roads_1_.jpg","small":"\/uploads\/2012\/08\/120213-apartheid-roads_1_.jpgthumb.jpg","medium":"\/uploads\/2012\/08\/120213-apartheid-roads_1_.jpgmid.jpg"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}