Listen to APN briefing call from Monday, August 4.
Walzer, a longtime member of APN's Board of Directors, is America's leading expert on ethics in wartime, and one of America's foremost political philosophers. He is the author of the iconic Just and Unjust Wars, a practical analysis of the Just War doctrine, professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, the co-editor of Dissent, and contributing editor to the New Republic, where he published a new analysis of the ethical dilemmas of the Israel-Hamas war.
Last semester, Ori Nir, APN’s Director of Communications and Public Engagement, came to American University to speak, and it was a jam-packed event. Some students came for the free pizza, but everyone stayed for Ori’s intelligent, open, and engaging conversation on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. That was when I knew I had to intern for APN.
Interning this summer with APN has given me invaluable tools to continue being a leader on campus and in general, and has taught me how to effectively do my part to work for peace. It is imperative that APN is able to continue their powerful campus outreach and internship programs. Please support APN’s efforts to empower the next leaders of the Jewish community and the country. I hope to raise $5,000 to help APN do this. At this time of chaos and violence, it is especially important that APN has the resources it needs to continue reaching out to young students and leaders who envision a brighter future. With APN’s help, we will work to make that future a reality.
Sincerely,
Hannah Ehlers
Summer Intern, 2014
Americans for Peace Now
Update: this action, now closed, ran from July-August 2014.
The current devastating round of Gaza-Israel fighting shows no signs of ending, with both Israel and Hamas apparently viewing the conflict in increasingly zero-sum terms. While there have been fitful attempts at short-term humanitarian “pauses” in the fighting, it is clear that now, more than ever, Israelis and Palestinians alike urgently need outside help to find an off-ramp from the destruction, fear, and anger that has taken over their lives. Secretary of State Kerry and President Obama understand this, which is why they have been working to achieve a ceasefire. In doing so, they are acting as true friends of Israel and its citizens.
Tell Secretary Kerry: I Stand With You in Seeking a Gaza-Israel Ceasefire.
Click here to access the State Department’s email web form. Cut and paste the following subject line and message into the web form to send your message to Secretary Kerry:
Thank you for taking action and telling Secretary Kerry to ignore the cynics and critics, that you stand with him and you want him to keep working for a ceasefire!
Please help APN keep promoting these initiatives: We won't give up until there is peace and a two-state solution, and we hope you won't either. By supporting APN, you make sure that we will be able to keep the pressure on and keep hope alive for a just, secure peace. Please support us today!
Americans for Peace Now (APN) today repeated its call for an immediate ceasefire between Hamas and Israel.
APN condemned the criticism coming from senior Israeli officials and Knesset members targeting Secretary of State
Kerry and President Obama for their efforts to find a way to end the fighting. Israelis and Palestinians
alike urgently need an off-ramp from the destruction, fear, and anger that has taken over their lives.
Secretary Kerry and President Obama deserve credit, not scorn, for acting as true friends of Israel by trying to
find such an off-ramp. A mutually-agreed ceasefire will, by definition, have to deliver something to both
sides. Even if some concerns about a ceasefire proposal have merit, publicly suggesting that the Obama
Administration has “betrayed” Israel by seeking to craft a ceasefire proposal that takes this fact into account are
contemptible, dishonest, and do not serve Israel’s best interests.
