that's why i joined martin mcmahon's initiative to sue the u.s.treasury so that they might investigate these organizations, so that my american compatriots might be moved to shut them down. i join this lawsuit because i see it as a way to confront power when we are mostly powerless, when we are so outgunned, outmoneyed, outmaneuvers, outconnected. i joined because i believe that con fronting -- confronting power with truth is the least one can do with the privilege we have. when so many who are a fraction of my age are risking their young lives to confront heavily-armed soldiers with rocks, when grown men and women with nothing but their bellies to protest waste away as hunger forces the body to eat itself. i join this lawsuit because i believe in the united states of the civil war period, of its warriors and intellectuals. because the cause of palestine is squarely in the categories of this america. i will close with one last quote by a man, who despite his supremacist ideas, clearly understood something fundamental about palestinians. he said th