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Source: http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new_york/jewish_activists_sail_flotilla_shalit_un's_backyard
Jewish Activists Sail Flotilla for Shalit to UN's Backyard
(New York Jewish Week) Adam Dickter - Waving Israeli and U.S. flags and posters of Gilad Shalit, hundreds of Jewish activists on eight ships sailed up the East River to the United Nations on Thursday to call for action on behalf of the Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas for four years. The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations organized two large passenger boats and several groups joined the flotilla on sailboats and other pleasure craft on the fourth anniversary of Shalit's capture. "This is the true freedom flotilla," said Malcolm Hoenlein of the Conference of Presidents. "The real siege in Gaza is not against the people of Gaza but against Gilad Shalit who for four years has been held without even the Red Cross having access to him."