As the largest Arab-American grassroots, civil rights organization in the United States, the Anti-Arab Discrimination committee (ADC) strongly condemns the Tunisian dictatorship and its violent repression of the Tunisian people. Over the past three weeks over a hundred unarmed protesters demanding democracy, freedom, and social justice have been shot and killed by government forces, and scores of others have been injured by the regime’s thugs. We have seen disturbing images of unarmed Tunisians beaten in the streets, and hundreds have been swept up in mass arrests.
The ADC is also disturbed by the regime’s disregard for the rights of a free press, and the clamp down on journalists, especially the recent closure of the offices of Aljazeera, the Internationally-recognized and respected, undisputed news leader in the Arab world.
We also strongly condemn the US government for its decades of support for the Tunisian dictatorship, and the other tyrants in the Arab world. While US politicians, and spokespersons routinely, and hypocritically sing the virtues of democracy and freedom, they have consistently pursued an anti-democratic foreign policy and helped maintain in power the most unsavory of rulers. We have witnessed similar hypocritical behavior by the US government in the larger Middle East, Latin America, and elsewhere.
In addition to the US invasion of Iraq, and support for the usurping Zionist entity in Palestine, American support for these dictatorial regimes has always been a leading cause of anti-American sentiments in the region.
We call on US foreign policy makers to stop meddling in the internal affairs of the Arab states, and immediately end all support for all Arab dictators. American financial aid to these corrupt police states must end along with any military assistance, intelligence cooperation, and training of government security forces, and death squads.
We also call for an immediate end of the US occupation of Iraq, and Afghanistan, and the removal of all US military bases from the Middle East. Agreements with undemocratic, US-client regimes do not legitimize any American military presence in those countries. Only democratically elected governments, expressing the aspirations of their people can consent to the presence of foreign forces on their soil.
We call on the Arab-American community to join us in a show of solidarity with the Tunisian revolution and to protest US support for Arab tyrants. We will be meeting in front of the Tunisian embassy in Washington DC.
Arab-Americans Support The Tunisian Revolution!
Down With All Arab Tyrants!
No US Support For Arab Dictators!
US Out Of The Middle East!
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