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November 11th, 2015 
Awake Goy 
Print FriendlyWhen Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to Washington, DC to seek an increase in military aid from President Obama and the Congress, as well as to speak at the Center for American Progress his visit sparked protest.
Even before his arrival, the Washignton Post reported:
Eighteen organizations and 117 individuals — largely from academia and non-governmental organizations — don’t think so, and they have signed an open letter circulated by the group Jewish Voice for Peace and the Arab American Institute saying they are “dismayed that CAP will sponsor an address by Netanyahu” during the prime minister’s visit to Washington this week.
The group Jewish Voice for Peace also has circulated a petition from the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation that it says has garnered more than 26,300 signatures and was delivered to CAP last week.
Inside CAP there was open dissent. The Nation Magazine reports:
a dozen CAP employees rose at a tense all-staff meeting to deliver a statement of dissent over Netanyahu’s talk. The statement, which was obtained by The Nation from a person who was at the meeting, elucidates the staffers’ objections to hosting Netanyahu as well as the process by which the prime minister’s offer to appear came to be accepted. . . .
The staffers who rose to deliver the statement of dissent said they were left out of the process and now face difficulty returning to the communities from which they come and work with. “It becomes difficult to step outside of our building and say to our allies why this visit is happening, for some of us here we ourselves feel that we were not considered in that decision,” the statement reads. The authors cited, for example, the strong relationships built between Palestinian protesters, who face routine tear-gassing at their demonstrations, and Black Lives Matter activists in places like Ferguson, Missouri. “[I]t’s hard to separate American progress from world progress when young people in Palestine are advising young people in Ferguson on how to deal with tear gas and flash grenades,” they wrote. . . .
. . . according to Foreign Policy, the statement earned a round of applause during the meeting. “There weren’t just isolated pockets of disapproval, among the staff—it was practically the whole room clapping for 10-15 seconds,” one staffer told Foreign Policy.
There were multiple protests in Washington, DC in various locations. Outside the White House groups protested Israeli occupation in Palestinian territory as well as U.S. foreign aid to Israel as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Obama. See tweets and photos below.
Netanyahu who is seeking $4.5 billion annually in aid from the United States for a ten-year period 2018-2027. The current aid budget is around $3.1 billion, and the planned hike was to get it in the range of $4-$4.1 billion per year. Israel, with a population of only 8 million people, is already the largest recipient of foreign aid.
Protests at the White House. Photos by Ted Majdosz.
Protests at National Building Museum
DC Protest Tweets
Photos from picket in front of White House today to protest Netanyahu #NoWeapons4Israel pic.twitter.com/9FDtxMl3vO
— AMP (@AMPalestine) November 9, 2015
JVP’s Rabbi Joseph Berman opening the #noweapons4israel rally outside AEI where #Netanyahu is receiving an award pic.twitter.com/og8tjmkFUg
— JewishVoiceForPeace (@jvplive) November 9, 2015
#Jews say not in our name. #NOWEAPONS4ISRAEL pic.twitter.com/fbYVxtErf0
— JVP-DC Metro (@JVPDCMetro) November 9, 2015
Rev Hagler talks abt power and justice. “We who believe in justice will not rest.” #noweapons4israel pic.twitter.com/oOq4SPouzV
— JVP-DC Metro (@JVPDCMetro) November 9, 2015
Student for justice in #Palestine speaker says $ for students & justice #noweapons4israel pic.twitter.com/E6mvc4fEC7
— JVP-DC Metro (@JVPDCMetro) November 9, 2015
In DC Nov. 9th? #NoWeapons4Israel rally-> info at https://t.co/peFLfZObDO @codepink @GMUSAIA @GWUSJP @AmericanSJP pic.twitter.com/Sl6kQYwauC
— Bill Simonds (@Bill_Simonds) November 3, 2015
Source Article from https://www.popularresistance.org/netanyahu-sparks-protests-and-dissension-in-dc/
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