EXCERPT:
PRESSLEY: "Last summer, when Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets to demand justice, they were met with force, they faced tear gas, rubber bullets and a militarized police, just as our Palestinian brothers and sisters are facing in Jerusalem today. Palestinians are being told the same thing as black folks in America. There is no acceptable form of resistance. We’re bearing witness to egregious just human rights violations. The pain, trauma and terror that Palestinians are facing is not just the result of this week’s escalation, but the consequence of years of military occupation. In Sheikh Jarrah, the Israeli government is violently dispossessing yet another neighborhood of Palestinian families from homes they have lived in for decades. We cannot stand idly and complicity by and allow the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people to continue."