Lobby your senator to back Jewish refugees bill

Calling all US citizens!

Following the unanimous adoption of House Resolution 185 in April 2008, it is time to ensure that Senate Resolution 85 gets approved. Justice for Jews from Arab Countries are urging you to lobby your senator to support the resolution.

The resolution (see PDF), which was proposed in 2007 by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ); Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN); Sen. Richard Durbin (D-IL); Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) [now retired]; Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT); Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), is due to come before the Senate Foreign Relations committee. The resolution must be approved by the committee before a vote is taken in the Senate.

S.R 85 instructs the President to ensure that in all international forums, when the issue of "Middle East refugees" is discussed, representatives of the United States must ensure:

"That any explicit reference to Palestinian refugees is matched by a similar explicit reference to Jewish and other refugees, as a matter of law and equity."

You are urged to telephone, fax or email your support to senators Joseph Biden, leading the Democrats, and Richard Lugar, leading the Republicans. You can fax the senators sitting on the Foreign Relations committee, listed here, together with their fax numbers. JJAC has helpfully provided a sample letter.