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there are issues of racism and human rights, then it makes a farce of the whole thing. We're not trying to protect Israel from being criticized, but as people who are really concerned with human rights and racism, and think it is important that there be a body among the community of nations dealing with these things, we don't want to see another hijacking."
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harvest from vandalism and assault by settlers living on nearby land; every year, clashes are reported between settlers and
Palestinian farmers. In 2008, the volunteer effort encompassed 40 villages. The effort was launched in 2002 when a Palestinian peace activist solicited RHR's help to protect
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Ascherman and RHR also expressed concern about the second Durban conference, saying "that Israel has committed human rights violations can appropriately be discussed at a conference like this. But if you allow the conference to be hijacked as if Israel is the only place in the world where
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in any place where it entails the expropriation of Arab-owned land, the division of villages, or cutting farmers off from their fields. RHR achieved a major victory in 2006 when it won a lawsuit to prevent the division by the fence of the village of
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