Israel’s war on Iran has buried our genocide in the headlines, but what Israel is doing in Gaza is a stain upon humanity. Don’t stop talking about it.
Ahmad, a 16-year-old boy in Gaza, leaves his home at 3 a.m., armed with an iron hammer and a utility knife. But Ahmad is not a soldier, nor a fighter. He seeks only one thing: to obtain a sack of flour. And to do so, he must be prepared to die.
As Israel pushes for full U.S. intervention in its attacks on Iran, two dozen progressive House members are pushing a bill that would block the U.S. from sending Israel offensive weapons.
Palestinians in Gaza are watching the skies as missiles fall on Tel Aviv instead of them. While many think Israel can be defeated, others are left frustrated that Iran did not intervene and come to Gaza’s aid sooner.
Iranians know the logic of Zionism, underwritten by the American empire, is what has naturally led to the devastation they are now experiencing. Palestinian liberation from Zionism can bring the entire region, including Iran, closer to freedom.
After 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for being critical of Israel’s violence in Gaza and speaking out against the racism that leads to genocide.
Four days after Israel attacked Iran, both countries are widening their attacks. Meanwhile, Palestinians seeking aid in Gaza continue to be gunned down, while Israel shuts down the West Bank.
Palestinians refer to the locations where the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is distributing aid as “massacre sites” and “death traps” due to near-daily killings. But they are forced to visit because there is no other way to get food.
We called it the Gaza Sea even though it is part of the Mediterranean, because Israel isolated us from the world and made us believe that it was unreachable. The Freedom Flotilla broke that spell.
Israel’s attacks on the Madleen aid mission to Gaza and the repression of the anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles represent the same imperial logic: any challenge to injustice will be met with state violence.