152 Voice for Rebellion and Relief The task force also established a partnership with the Holocaust Museum in DC, which publicized the Caesar photographs and hosted events featuring prominent members of Congress, Syrian prisoners-turned-refugees, and Holocaust survivors.7 Activists like Ayman Abdel Nour of Syrian Christians for Democracy (later changed to Syrian Christians for Peace) also worked to combat regime propaganda that Assad protected minorities by informing “the West and the leaders that the Christians are not as the regime is trying to portray.” This was especially notable due to the regime’s long-standing and utterly false declarations that Assad is the protector of Christians and minorities in Syria.8 Yemeni respondents served as representatives of the revolution by meeting on several occasions with a range of officials in the US and British governments to express their grievances and lobby on behalf of their demands. These included asking their host-country governments to voice stronger support for the revolution, to pressure Saleh into halting attacks on protesters and to resign, and to cut financial backing of the regime. As Faris, spokesman for the DCbased Yemeni Youth Abroad for Change, recalled, The only thing we really wanted to do for [the revolution] was to vocalize, or at least show support, or put some type of pressure on the Yemeni government to try to stop the killing and the oppression that was occurring at that time. So we wanted to put pressure [on the US government] to put boundaries on the violence that was taking place. To this end, organizers from a cross-community delegation met with officials in the White House, the State Department, the National Security Council, and various congressional representatives to put forward these demands. Londonbased activists calling themselves the Yemen Revolution Support Group also delivered written demands to the Prime Minister’s office and to the Home Secretary, members of Parliament (MPs), Foreign Secretary William Hague, the Department for International Development, and the Saudi embassy “to say that you need to be more serious about what’s happening in Yemen,” according to Haidar in Birmingham. Safa, who was responsible for writing for this group, attested that she worked up draft template letters for community members to send their MPs and petitioned the Department for International Development (DFID) for emergency humanitarian aid. 7 8 was eventually used as the basis of bipartisan legislation sanctioning the Syrian regime and individuals and entities for working with Assad. The Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, which Moustafa helped to draft, was in the works when I spoke with him in 2014, but it only gained bipartisan support after Obama’s second term in office. President Donald Trump signed it into law in late 2019 and it became effective in June 2020. The Washington, DC-based Holocaust Museum has featured a number of exhibits on mass killings in Syria, the first of which featured photographs from regime-defector Caesar and was coordinated in conjunction with the Syrian Emergency Task Force (O’Grady 2014). Members of Syrian Christians for Peace and SAC penned a compelling opinion-editorial for The Hill refuting this myth. See Yamin et al. (2017). https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009272148 Published online by Cambridge University Press