Human Rights Violations
From its founding in 1998 until 2002, Partners for Peace reported on the imprisonment, interrogation and torture of US citizens by the Israeli security services. Founder and President Jerri Bird continues to actively engage these issues although Partners for Peace no longer has a full program dedicated to imprisonment, interrogation and torture. Please see below for additional information and contact us with any questions or if you are seeking additional resources.
INTRODUCTION FROM PARTNERS FOR PEACE FOUNDER JERRI BIRD
It may come as an unpleasant surprise for many of you to learn that for over 30 years, Israel has repeatedly detained, tortured and incarcerated Americans of Arab origin, without suffering any sanctions or even a public reprimand from Washington.
Of course the Palestinians have been suffering this torture for 35 years on a scale that is truly unimaginable. According to Miftah (an Arab NGO headed by Hanan Ashrawi) since 1967 the Israelis have carried out over 600,000 arrests or detentions. Both Miftah and B'Tselem (an Israeli human rights organization) concur that between 90 and 94 percent of those arrestees have been tortured. Even if we halve that number, that means that some 270,000 individuals have been tortured. Or to put it another way: if that proportion were applied to the U.S. population, it would mean that more than 25 million cases of torture had occurred in the past 35 years
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