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Rabbis for Human Rights
23 March 2005Amid the dozens of stories about Israeli rabbis encouraging "forcible resistance" to the evacuation of Jewish settlements, comes the story of Arik Ascherman, an American-born rabbi living in Jerusalem who has been convicted of interfering with police duties for trying to prevent the destruction of illegally built Palestinianian homes by blocking the bulldozers with his body. Rabbi Ascherman, who heads the activist group, Rabbis for Human Rights, argues that Israeli bureaucacy is designed to prevent Palestinians from building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and that the legal obstacles have resulted in the demolition of 2,200 Palestinian homes in the past decade.
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