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Blog · December 5, 2014

Ads Against Apartheid + Los Angeles


UPDATE: Ads Against Apartheid now operates under the name Palestine Advocacy Project

Ads Against Apartheid (AAA) has launched its first campaign in Los Angeles, California. It will run on more than 30 small billboards across the city over a period of two months. The ads, which highlight South African liberation leader Nelson Mandela’s powerful statement of solidarity with the Palestinian people, represent AAA’s first effort on the West Coast.

This new campaign comes at a critical time in the region. Palestinians, particularly those in Jerusalem, are facing some of the worst repression in years. Excessive use of force by the Israeli police, rapidly increasing settler violence, and restrictions on access to the Haram Al-Sharif (Temple Mount) have lead Palestinian communities all over Israel/Palestine to protest, and in a few tragic instances, to commit acts of violence.

“It is important for Americans to understand where Palestinians’ frustration comes from,” Ads Against Apartheid board member Richard Colbath-Hess explained. “Israel is applying increasingly brutal force as it seeks to maintain the horribly unjust status quo, but there is no security-based solution to what is, at it’s core, a civil and human rights problem.”

Palestinians residents of Jerusalem live under a different set of laws from their Jewish counterparts. They are forbidden from voting in national elections, and their residency status – and with it their right to live in Israel/Palestine – may be revoked if the government discovers that they maintain a residence elsewhere. The Jerusalem municipality also assigns the city’s highest tax rate, usually reserved for the wealthiest residents, to predominantly Palestinian neighborhoods while leaving them drastically underserved.

“Keeping people under separate sets of laws based on the race, religion and geographic location is a central component of apartheid,” Colbath-Hess said. “Nelson Mandela recognized that, and we hope Americans will too.”

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