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Hanan Ashrawi and Peace Prize
Hanan Ashrawi and the Sydney Peace Prize
We would like to add our voice to those who have commended the Sydney Peace Foundation, for awarding the Sydney Peace Prize to Dr Hanan Ashrawi in recognition of her commitment to human rights, to the peace process in the
Middle East and for her courage in speaking out against oppression, against corruption and for justice.
She has been a beacon of hope and of sanity in the Middle-East and we, as a Jewish organisation, want to express our strong support for this award and our dismay that others, claiming to speak in the name of the Jewish community in Australia, should attempt to deny her this singular honour.
They do not speak for those who recognise that there will be no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without a just peace and no just peace without a frank and respectful dialogue. Hanan Ashrawi represents those on
both sides in this conflict who seek such a solution and this award is a justified recognition of her enormous contribution to this process.
European Jews for a Just Peace is a federation of Jewish organisations in eight different European countries and with associated organisations in the USA and Australia. It was founded in Amsterdam September 2002.
For further information contact the Secretariat: contact@ejjp.org
November 2nd, 2003
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