The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) is trying to take out print and online ads in the Los Angeles Times and Haaretz to bring attention to the case of the migrant and refugee children highlighted in the Oscar-winning film Strangers No More who are now under threat of deportation from Israel. MECA explains:
This Sunday, the State of Israel plans to deport 400 children from the Tel Aviv community of migrant workers and refugees featured in this film. . .
When the State of Israel was founded in 1948 it forced 750,000 Palestinians from their land and their homes. Today, Israel is destroying homes, neighborhoods and forcibly removing families from East Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley, and the Negev. Now, 400 children could be deported from Tel Aviv.
An Academy Award won’t stop these children from being deported but, together, we can.
Here is the ad (the names are all legit, some are just repeated as place holders). The ad is being signed by Alice Walker, Academy Award winner Debra Chasnoff and other notables. You can add your name and help get the ad published here.
