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Support AMP’s work for Palestine in America on this final odd night

Dear William,

It is now confirmed that Masjid Al-Aqsa will be closed for Eid.

For generations, Masjid Al Aqsa has stood not only as a place of prayer but as the north star of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Today, it stands empty, silenced by Israeli military occupation for eighteen consecutive days during the holiest month of the year.

This move to keep the Masjid closed indefinitely denies millions of Palestinians and Muslims the ability to gather, pray, and celebrate one of the most sacred holidays in Islam at one of its holiest sites. Entire families who have, for generations, marked Eid within the walls of Al Aqsa are now being deliberately shut out.

Give to AMP on this blessed night and help us fight back against the erasure of Palestinian life, faith, and freedom in Jerusalem.

This is one of the most blatant phases of a full-frontal, decades-long war on Islam by the apartheid state. The Israeli government has been engaged in a systematic campaign to erase identifiable Islamic religious markers from Jerusalem for decades. By shutting down and limiting access to Al Aqsa during Ramadan, blocking the Adhan (the Muslim call to prayer), desecrating Muslim cemeteries, engaging in ethnic cleansing of native Palestinian Muslims from Jerusalem, and amplifying calls from cabinet ministers and settlers to replace the mosque with a temple, Israel is sending an unmistakable message: Islam is not welcome in the Holy City.

For over three decades, Israeli policy has worked to accelerate what started in 1967. The goal is the eventual division or destruction of the Al Aqsa compound to pave the way for the so-called "Third Temple" and to usher in an era of Jewish supremacy in Jerusalem and its surroundings.

If the world remains silent while Al Aqsa is emptied, while the Adhan is silenced, while the government and its settlers plot the mosque’s destruction, we become complicit in the erasure of Islam from Jerusalem.

On this blessed final odd night of Ramadan, we must double down on our work for Masjid Al Aqsa. Please donate to AMP today so we can expand our advocacy and organizing to challenge U.S. support for Israel’s attacks on Palestinian rights, holy sites, and freedom of worship.

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to engaging & educating Americans on Palestinian rights and the Israeli occupation. AMP is a premier national organization in the Palestine solidarity movement.