In recent weeks, the U.S. has seen hundreds of thousands of people hit the streets in support of Palestine. This weekend we will see the biggest protest yet.
At a briefing yesterday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre seemingly compared Palestine activists to the white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville, VA in 2017.
A new poll shows that a majority of Americans want a ceasefire, but The White House is sending Israel more weapons and declaring more innocent civilians will die.
The State Department is dismissing any talk of a ceasefire in Gaza claiming it will only help Hamas, while a White House National Security official warns, “innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward.”
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.
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.”
Appearing alongside PM Benjamin Netanyahu, President Biden said the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital attack “appears as though it was done by the other team.”
President Biden is headed to Tel Aviv and Jordan to firm up support before an expected Israeli escalation in Gaza.
A 71-year-old man in Illinois was charged with stabbing a 6-year-old boy to death and seriously injuring his mother in an Islamophobic, anti-Palestinian attack.
Today, Activists shut down an Elbit Systems facility in Cambridge, MA. “Right now Israel is using Elbit’s weapons to mass murder thousands of Palestinian men, women, and children indiscriminately,” protesters said.