Syracuse
Peace Council
2013 East Genesee St., Syracuse, NY 13210
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Report on the
Children of Gaza are our Children demonstration 6/5/09
Over 100 people from diverse part of the Central New York Community came out to support the children of Gaza on Friday, June 5th from 2:00 to 3:00pm, at Comfort Tyler Park. Organized by the CNY Working for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel (CNY/WJPPI) various speakers shared a message of love and concern for the children of Gaza.
Rally Program
(click on the linksbelow to read the remarks of that person)
Carole Resnick, child
psychologist and member of Syracuse Jews for Peace will speak about childrens'
experience during war times
Tanweer Haq, past president of the Islamic Society
of Central New York, longtime activist on Palestine-Israel peace both
here and in Ithaca
Leyana Dessauer,
Jewish-American homeschooling teenager who lives in Syracuse and in Truxton.
Two years ago she celebrated her Bat Mitzvah at Temple Society Concord
Song …We are a Gentle, Angry People
Hiba Attia, an 8th grader
at Jamesville-Dewitt Middle School will represent the youth of the Muslim
American Society Syracuse
Doris Courgi, a Jewish-Palestinian hybrid
Dr. Ashraf Attia, President
of the Muslim American Society Syracuse, proud father of Hiba and a professor
at SUNY Oswego
Karen Mihalyi, director of the Syracuse Community Choir