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Palestine | U.S.Groups protest settlement fundraiser at New York hotel
Saturday, November 15, 2008 : Eight groups representing tens of thousands of people in the United States, Palestine and Israel have called on the Marriott Marquis hotel in Manhattan to cancel the 17 November dinner for the Brooklyn-based Hebron Fund aiming to raise money for Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Hebron. In a 7 November letter the groups stated: "The Marriot Marquis will be facilitating activities that directly violate international law and US foreign policy, actively promote racial discrimination, and, at least indirectly, support brutal Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian civilians and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Hebron." The signers of the letter include Adalah-NY, Coalition of Women for Peace, (Israel), Gush Shalom (Israel), Jews Against the Occupation-NYC, Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and WESPAC Foundation. Adalah-NY has called for a protest at the hotel on 17 November if the dinner is not cancelled. Kathleen Duffy, a spokesperson for Marriott in New York City, told Adalah-NY on 12 November that the dinner will go ahead. Duffy did not respond directly to questions about seeming violations of the Marriott's Human Rights Policy Statement which notes the Marriott's respect for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and says that the Marriott endeavors to remain "free from complicity in human rights abuses." All Israeli settlements violate international law, according to a broad international consensus. Duffy noted that in the past the Marriott cancelled the event of a group linked with white supremacist David Duke. On the Hebron Fund webpage, clicking on the symbol which says "Give to Hebron" leads to a donations page on the website for the Jewish Community of Hebron which says, among other things, "keep Hebron Jewish for the Jewish people." In a report on Hebron, the Israeli human rights organizations B'Tselem and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) have labeled the demands of Hebron's settlers as "racist."
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