Biden gave a speech linking U.S. support for Israel and Ukraine, while a slew of resignations of U.S. officials over support for Israel begins to spread. Meanwhile, House members get death threats over Palestine support.
Israel bombed a church in Gaza, killing 17 people sheltering inside it. Meanwhile, UN aid through the Rafah crossing stalls, and the Israeli army launched a deadly raid on Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem.
Joe Biden is overseeing perhaps the most spectacular policy failure in Palestine and Israel in U.S. history. His embrace of Benjamin Netanyahu will be remembered as a symbol of how much he weakened U.S. standing in the region.
The events of October 7 have reminded us that resistance to settler colonialism is ever-present. The only way forward is decolonization, and that requires us to foreground a political solution.
State Dept. official Josh Paul resigned over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. In a statement announcing his departure he called U.S. policy, “shortsighted, destructive, unjust, and contradictory to the very values that we publicly espouse.”
CUNY staff and faculty reject Chancellor Félix Matos Rodríguez’s efforts to censure solidarity with the Palestinian people.
500 people, including two dozen Rabbis, were arrested in Washington, DC on Wednesday as thousands of Jewish activists and allies demanded a Gaza ceasefire.
Due to the destruction Israel wrought at the Rafah crossing and to roads, moving humanitarian aid into Gaza is currently impossible. Meanwhile, Israel has renewed its indiscriminate airstrikes with U.S. diplomatic cover.
Palestine Action US will shut down weapons companies in the US that are arming Israel’s genocide of Palestine.
On Monday, as the number of children killed in Gaza approached 1,000, Knesset member Meirav Ben-Ari declared “the children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves.” Such calls by Israeli politicians for collective punishment are not uncommon.