As Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza grinds on, Katie Halper says Jews should support Palestinian liberation from Israeli apartheid in this conversation with Yumna Patel.
Israel has a long history of taking Palestinian children captive, abusing and scarring them in the process. This mass incarceration of children living under occupation boils down to one thing: control and the deprivation of liberty.
Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed what rights groups are calling one of the “most intrusive and draconian legislative measures” ever passed.
In the wake of the Hamas attack on October 7th, Palestinian Citizens of Israel and residents of occupied Jerusalem are being targeted over their social media activity. Any expressions of Palestinian identity, or support for Gaza, is getting people fired from their jobs, expelled from universities, arrested, and doxxed online by right-wing Israeli groups.
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.
The massacre at the Ahli Baptist Hospital took the lives of 500 people, sparking outrage and waves of protest in the West Bank and the region, while Biden arrives at Israel and reaffirms U.S. commitment.
Gaza is burying its dead in mass graves after suffering the deadliest day since the Israeli assault began. Tens of thousands have sought refuge in southern Gaza and 2.3 million Palestinians are almost out of water and food, agencies warn.
Israel has already dropped more bombs on Gaza in six days than the U.S. dropped on Afghanistan in a single year. Now, the Israeli military is ordering over one million Palestinian civilians to flee their homes. This is genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Israel continued to pound Gaza with airstrikes for the 6th day Thursday. Settler violence in the West Bank claimed five lives, while calls for ceasefire are overshadowed by brazen U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza.