August 2 – August 15, 2009
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) is proud to announce its 7th annual summer rebuilding camp...During two weeks we will construct two homes from the foundations to the roof, and hand the key to the families...For two weeks in August, camp participants engage in building activities punctuated by evening meetings with Palestinian and Israeli political figures, activists, academics and artists, including tours throughout the West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel...For two weeks the work site is a hive of construction, interaction, learning, discussion, and constructive resistance [and subversive activity].
We offer transportation to the camp every morning at 8am leaving from the New Gate in East Jerusalem...Suggested donation: $50 for the day; $25 for ½ a day.
The cost covers meals, all activities on site, and transport from the Old City to Beit Arabyia and back, and contribution to construction costs.
If you ask me, $50 is a rip-off expense.
And if we're talking about money, check this:
ICAHD Funding:
* ICAHD has received funding from the EU since at least 2000. In 2005, this NGO received 472,786 Euros for 24 months from the EU through the Partnerships for Peace program (EU link has expired, from NGO Monitor report, December 18, 2008). In 2008, PfP funding for ICAHD was not renewed.
* ICAHD received (p.3) $80,000 from the NGO Development Committee (NDC) which is made up of the pooled funding from the governments of Switzerland, Denmark, Holland, and Sweden in 2008-9.
* ICAHD’s annual budget (NIS):
2003 - 1,837,178
2004 - 1,928,743
2005 - 2,220,975
2006 - 2,346,196
* For 2005 and 2006, EU funding represented approximately half of ICAHD’s budget
In 2008, EU funding was halted.
I wonder who really needs the $50.
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2 comments:
How can you possibly say that?!
$50 is nothing if it means innocent refugees have can have a roof over their heads. As a wealthy westerner it is the least one can do!
How ICAHD is funded has nothing to do with it. That money goes into so many other things; as an relatively unpopular NGO they rely on volunteers and donations.
Clearly you are not prepared to help others in their time of need if it means you have to pay. So stop moaning and let us decent human being give a little back.
You call yourself a jew? God would be ashamed of your selfish attitude.
Dear Lucy Love (or is that Dear Lucy, 'Luv?),
I have no opposition to humanitarian aid for the unfortunates. I do have a problem with people who build illegally and with people who claim only Arabs are worthy of support for the illegal things they do.
I also have a problem with the spiteful, dishonest and subversive propaganda actions undertaken by Jeff Halper (btw, do you know his salary? i don't but I just thought I'd ask).
If you want to be considered decent, what have you done for the expelled Jewish population of Gaza in their time of need?
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