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Now with Code Pink, ex-Diller teen prepares for Gaza Freedom March
Rae Abileah first visited Israel with her BBYO chapter, then as a Diller Teen fellow. She remembers feeling "an amazing homecoming" the first time she stepped on the tarmac at Ben Gurion Airport.
That was then.
Now, as the grassroots coordinator for far-left organization Code Pink: Women for Peace, she takes part in protests against Israel and what she calls the "illegal siege" of Gaza.
She will be one of more than 40 Bay Area residents taking part in the Gaza Freedom March, a three-day trek from the Egyptian-Gaza border into Gaza, beginning Dec. 29. Up to 1,000 people from 40 countries are expected to participate.