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| National Lawyers Guild Oregon Members Participate in Delegation to Palestine and Israel Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2001, page 56 Northwest News National Lawyers Guild Oregon Members Participate in Delegation to Palestine and Israel By Elaine Kelley Two Portland-based members of the National Lawyers Guild who joined the organization’s Middle East delegation to Israel and Palestine in January of this year also are members of Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights (AUPHR). Founded in October 2000 following the outbreak of the al-Aqsa intifada, AUPHR cooperates with other national groups in pursuing litigation and congressional hearings on Israel’s misuse of U.S. weapons and challenging U.S. economic and security assistance to Israel. Attorneys Zaha Hassan, an American-born Palestinian whose family is from Al Bireh, and Steven Goldberg, chairperson of the National Lawyers Guild’s International Committee and a member of Congregation Havurah Shalom in Portland, were among those who traveled to Palestine and Israel after the Guild, at its November 2000 annual convention in Boston, approved sending the fact-finding delegation to the Middle East. The group of 10 lawyers and law students, including four Jewish and four Palestinian Americans, traveled in Palestine and Israel from Jan. 20 to 28. They visited hospitals, toured illegal Israeli settlements, met with parents of children killed in Gaza, v...
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