Source: The News and Observer

http://www.newsobserver.com/682/story/458591.html

On July 8, 2006 The News and Observer reported, "More than 100 protesters of Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip marched on the state Capitol Friday carrying banners and a mock corpse and demanding an end to the violence.

The protesters were responding to a national call for solidarity with the Palestinian people issued by the Muslim American Society. In Raleigh, they included Palestinian natives, Muslims, Christians and a handful of Jews.

Though small in number, the group was united in its insistence that the Israeli government has used excessive force in trying to win the release of a soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, captured by Palestinian forces last month... In response to the protest, the Raleigh-Cary Jewish Federation held a news conference earlier in the day to demand the release of Shalit and an end to the rocket attacks fired by Palestinians from Gaza into Israel. 'The provocation of kidnapping is beyond any acceptable relationship Israel can have with any of its neighbors,' said Judah Segal, executive director of the Raleigh-Cary Jewish Federation.

Segal acknowledged that not all Jews agreed with the Israeli government's actions. At least a handful of Jews who attended Friday's protest at the Capitol raised a large banner that read 'Jews Against the Occupation.'"