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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1063418.html Pro-Palestinian Bronx Expressway banner - a Jewish initiative
By Natasha Mozgovaya, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: New York, Israel news
If drivers on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway were wondering who was responsible for hanging banners over the highway calling to "Free Palestine" - they might be surprised to discover it was an initiative by Jewish activists.
Another banner was spotted over New York City's entrance to the Cross Bronx Expressway, at 179th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan on Wednesday morning.
The group is calling themselves JATO (Jews against the occupation); some of them also participated in demonstrations against last month's Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, claiming that "The occupation is being paid for with U.S. taxpayers' money," and "Even if foreclosures and unemployment weren't decimating our neighborhoods, surely there are better uses for $3 billion a year than helping the Israeli government commit war crimes."
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"Today's action is one small contribution to the growing movement in solidarity with the 1.5 million Palestinians whose lives are being destroyed by the occupation," said Ethan Heitner, one of the group's activists.
"We know from our own history what being sealed behind barbed wire and checkpoints is like, and we know that 'Never Again' means not anyone, not anywhere - or it means nothing at all," he said.