It is baffling that Democratic leadership has not yet gotten the message. Either Biden can go down in history as a 2-term President who was pro-union, fought #climatechange, & had record job growth... Or, he can be a 1-term Pres remembered for kowtowing to a murderous lunatic who runs a country with less than .03% of our population. #stopfundingisrael#gaza#Palestine
Protesters disrupted an annual Ramadan iftar event in Houston, Texas, when the city’s major John Whitmire was welcomed on stage and began his speech.
Houston for Palestinian Liberation helped lead the protest against Whitmire and the event. Earlier in March, the mayor ignored a demand from Houston Muslim leaders for the mayor to call for a ceasefire.
🇮🇱 (Dec.23) MSNBC’s Ali Velshi broke down how the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), a pro-Israel lobby group, has increased its influence on US politics.
Aipac directly endorses the candidates and contributing to their campaigns since 2021 in order to deter pro-Palestine politicians from gaining seats in US politics.
Aipac is among the largest donors in politics, contributing to the campaigns of 342 Congressmembers.
🇮🇱 A faulty airdrop of aid in Gaza City has killed at least two people, according to reports.
Videos captured by local journalists showed over a dozen packages dropped from a plane falling at a great speed near the al-Fayrouz Towers area.
Airdops are dangerous because they can hit people when they land and they can lead to turmoil on the ground. Normally, aid is distributed in coordination with the aid organizations on the ground.
🇮🇱 Pro-Palestine activists blockaded two companies in Belgium on Monday, which are reported to supply weapons to Israel.
Activists from "Palestine Action Belgium" chained themselves to the entrance of OIP Sensor Systems, which is owned by Elbit Systems. A banner with “Stop arming Israel” could also be seen on the roof of the building.
Another group of activists also blocked the entrance of the company Thales.
🇮🇱 Thursday's attack is being described as a massacre of civilians by Israeli troops.
Hundreds of hungry and starving Palestinians had gathered to collect food aid, when they were attacked by Israeli snipers and shelled by Israeli tanks.
Israel has killed at least 77 Palestinians injured hundreds more in Gaza City.
More than 30,000 people have now been killed since Israel launched it war on Gaza in October.
🇮🇱 A video shows Israeli farmers crossing the fence to the Gaza Strip and starting agricultural work in the fields.
The farmers want to convert all areas "captured" by soldiers into "Israeli agricultural land".
The Israelis are following the example of their best friends, the Americans, who had already completed the colonization of the wild west in the 19th century. The only remaining thing is to get rid of the natives.
🇮🇱 Israeli soldier quotes religious scripture to justify killing Hamas fighters who surrender. "If you don't erase him, he will return and hurt you."
In his enlightening speech, he referred to David, who cut off Goliath's head with the sword, after he was already defeated.
This soldier was identified as Hiya Ben Hamu, who works in the Israeli tech industry and is a rabbi at a Hasidic yeshiva in the town of Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut.
"Just as various international humanitarian and state-building interventions into Mogadishu have stifled true political alternatives, thus leaving extremist groups such as al-Shabaab and the Islamic State to fill the void with their own nihilistic projects, so too may we come to find that whatever emerges from the ruins of Gaza will be equally as monstrous, if not more so."