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Only a Tent Over Their Heads

What Tents Mean to Palestinians

Pro-Israel groups have developed a new way to get their message out: putting up tents on college campuses around the country to talk about Israel. Tents went up around North America in September 2011 and are expected again on future dates.

One organizer of the tent project calls it an “answer to the war against Israel’s legitimacy that is being waged around the world.” Hillel says the goal is to foster civil dialog.

We designed these cards to enrich that dialog with facts and context that may otherwise be ignored – particularly since these organizations are often provided with extremely distorted pro-Israel materials to distribute.

You can also use these fliers even in places where the “tent events” are not taking place – We have worded them in a way to make them useful everywhere.

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What tents mean to Palestinians

In 1947-49 at least 750,000 Palestinian men, women, and children were violently forced from their ancestral homes. Many of these refugees lived in tents for three years or more.

In 1967 Israel forced out another 200,000 Palestinians... once again, the newly homeless lived in tents.

These refugees and their families are still waiting to return home, a right that belongs to all refugees regardless of race, nationality, religion, or ethnicity.

In Dec 2008 - Jan 2009 Israel attacked tiny Gaza with its powerful military (more powerful than others in the region combined), killing 1,417 Palestinians and making 100,000 homeless. When Israel prevented essential supplies, including cement, from entering Gaza for years, Palestinian families again were forced to live in tents.

Israel has ordered demolition of 24,813 Palestinian homes since 1967. Still more lived in tents.

Israel is able to get away with actions that populations throughout the world repeatedly condemn, because most Americans of all backgrounds don’t know the facts. As a result, we allow our government to give Israel over $8 million per day of American tax money (more than to any other country), which fuels the continual tragic violence.

When we all join together to call for an end to U.S. supported Israeli military aggression, then Israelis and Palestinians of vision will be able to sit down together and decide how they will share the holy land they inhabit... and their children will finally know the peace that all children deserve.

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