Our Veterans Against Torture Movement has joined the FREE Gaza Movement!!

Actually, the joining of these two organizations was inevitable. As veterans of American Wars, we feel an obligation to stand for human rights: The Free Gaza Movement is a coalition of human rights organizations and activists formed to challenge the Israeli blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip by sailing humanitarian aid ships to Gaza. The group has more than 70 endorsers, including Desmond Tutu and Noam Chomsky. The organizations participating in the Free Gaza Movement include the International Solidarity Movement. The activists participating in the effort include Jeff Halper, Hedy Epstein, Lauren Booth, and members of various Christian, Jewish, and Muslim religious organizations, though Israeli "intelligence" agencies say that it also includes Islamist organizations that "supposedly pose a security threat to the Jewish state. The first sailing took place in early August 2008, organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the International Solidarity Movement. Many of the latter's members had been barred from entering Israel on "security grounds". The group intended for the boat to cross the Israeli-declared "special security zone".