Two New Articles/ Announcement
Two New Articles/ Announcement
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Advocating For Palestine Life in Gaza
Over the last five days, The Intersection published two articles. Both articles are about local activists advocating for Palestinian life in Gaza. In the firs, activist stage a protest in front of Congressman Glenn Ivey’s home. In the second article, religious leaders in District Heights, are demanding for the Prince George’s County Council and the County Executive to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. They say it’s a human rights issue.
Prince George’s County Activists Call For A Permanent Ceasefire
Cheverly, MD – On Feb. 3, a Saturday morning, the Israeli government attacked two small towns in Gaza: Deir al-Balah and Rafah, a small town on the edge of Egypt, where Palestinians fled due to the war. On that day, early reports said that 18 people, women, men, and children, were killed during that airstrike. On that morning around 10 a.m., for a prescheduled protest, approximately 50 Jewish and non-Jewish men women, and children – most of them dressed in Black from head-to-toe – gathered at Cheverly-Euclid Street Park. Their protest entailed marching nearly a mile to Congressman Glenn Ivey’s home, their District 4 representative, to publicly mourn the unnecessary killing of Palestinians in Gaza. Additionally, they wanted to pressure their congressman to join some Maryland Democrats and others in calling for a permanent ceasefire in the region.
Paul Adowd, a spokesperson for the group, called MD-4 For A Ceasefire, said they had been trying for months to put pressure on Ivey to “stand in defense of innocent civilians in Palestine, who are being bombed indiscriminately with our tax dollars and our political support.”
“We're here as his constituents to say that we do not support that,” said Adowd. “We want him to act in our name in the interest of human rights and a peaceful policy, calling on him to support a ceasefire. It's been more than 100 days of indiscriminate bombing in Palestine. We need him to stand up and raise his voice.”
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People of Faith Say The War In Gaza Is A Human Rights Issue
District Heights, MD (South County) — On March 28, Maher Karma, a member of the Prince George’s Muslim Association, stood in front of the Hemingway African American Methodist Episcopal Church with Christian pastors, political leaders, and community activists listening to Jameel Aalim-Johnson, president of the Prince George’s County Muslim Council, draw upon his Muslim faith to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Then Aalim-Johnson called on him to speak.
Referring to the now unfortunate state of Palestinian people in Gaza, Karma, a Palestinian, said the plight of his people did not begin the day after Oct. 7, when Israel, in retaliation, began to excessively bomb civilian Palestinians for Hamas’ attack on Israel. For him, it started in 1948 when Israel launched a campaign to remove Palestinians from their land.
During the month of Ramadan and Holy Week, Muslims, Jews, Black pastors, activists, and local politicians gathered at the Hemingway AME Church in District Heights, Maryland calling for county council members and the Biden administration to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
“There's no way that we weren’t going to open our doors,” said Rev. Krishnan Natesan, pastor of Hemingway AME Church. “This is not a Christian, Muslim or Jewish thing. This is a humanitarian thing – and because it's a human thing, we must extend compassion. Compassion must ring out for the least of these.”
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