Jewish and Palestinian students protest outside Birthright Headquarters, Call for Jewish Boycott, NYC

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 3, 2017: Jewish and Palestinian students rally and protest outside Birthright Israel’s New York headquarters (33 East 33rd Street, New York, NY). The event was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and calls Jewish young adults to boycott the gratuitous trips to Israel offered by Birthright. The Jewish Voice for Peace #ReturntheBirthright campaign asks that more than 1,000 people who have already signed up for the free trips to Israel to reject the free trip. At the end of the rally the demonstrators symbolically gave up their ‘plane tickets’ and lit Hanukkah candles. On Sunday, December 3, 2017 Birthright Israel was scheduled to host their 18th anniversary fundraising gala at their NYC headquarters and honor their guest Sheldon Adelson with the 'Guardian of the Jewish Future’ award for his work funding hundreds of Birthright trips. The event was canceled but the organizers of the rally Jewish Voice for Peace held the protest nonetheless. Sheldon Adelson is considered a far-right pro-Trump mega donor by the organizers of this rally. Note: Taglit-Birthright Israel, also known as Birthright Israel or simply Birthright, is a not-for-profit educational organization that sponsors free ten-day heritage trips to Israel for young adults of Jewish heritage, aged 18–26.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – DECEMBER 3, 2017: Jewish and Palestinian students rally and protest outside Birthright Israel’s New York headquarters (33 East 33rd Street, New York, NY). The event was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace and calls Jewish young adults to boycott the gratuitous trips to Israel offered by Birthright. The Jewish Voice for Peace #ReturntheBirthright campaign asks that more than 1,000 people who have already signed up for the free trips to Israel to reject the free trip. At the end of the rally the demonstrators symbolically gave up their ‘plane tickets’ and lit Hanukkah candles. On Sunday, December 3, 2017 Birthright Israel was scheduled to host their 18th anniversary fundraising gala at their NYC headquarters and honor their guest Sheldon Adelson with the 'Guardian of the Jewish Future’ award for his work funding hundreds of Birthright trips. The event was canceled but the organizers of the rally Jewish Voice for Peace held the protest nonetheless. Sheldon Adelson is considered a far-right pro-Trump mega donor by the organizers of this rally. Note: Taglit-Birthright Israel, also known as Birthright Israel or simply Birthright, is a not-for-profit educational organization that sponsors free ten-day heritage trips to Israel for young adults of Jewish heritage, aged 18–26.
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