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The Link ArchivesTitle: Americans Tortured in Israeli Jails About This Issue Forty-five thousand United States citizens of Palestinian origin are living in or visiting the West Bank, according to U.S. officials. Some of these citizens are imprisoned by Israel—without ever being charged with a crime; some have their U.S. passports taken from them—without ever being charged with a crime; all report that they were tortured. These cases are being monitored jointly by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the largest Arab-American organization in the U.S., and by Partners for Peace, a Washington, D.C.-based organization founded in 1991 by Jerri Bird. Jerri profiles several cases in this issue, relying on the sworn affidavits of the tortured. Also—at our urging—she tells why she feels so compelled to labor on behalf of Palestinian Americans who, shamefully, receive little support from their own government. This is our second issue on this topic. Our January-March, 1990 Link by Albert Mokhiber, then ADC’s Legal Director, documented several cases of Israeli human rights abuses against U.S. citizens. Sadly, the number of reported cases has escalated over the past ten months.—John F. Mahoney, Executive Director, June, 2001 Contents
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