Zohran Mamdani says he’s consistently said there’s no room for antisemitism in this city or country. Asked why he hasn’t had a more visceral reaction, he gets emotional talking about the Islamophobic responses he’s received throughout the campaign.
In the deal Hamas reached last week with Witkoff, they agreed to hand over governance of Gaza to an independent Palestinian technocratic committee.
In order to get Israel on board, the new agreement, struck with Israel, would leave Hamas in control, according to the draft agreement obtained by @jeremyscahill
If you consider yourself a person who can think independently, I want you to think about what that means. Specifically:
Why is Hamas willing to give up control in order to get a peace deal, yet Israel insists on keeping Hamas in control? Why would that be?
Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist and Queens assemblyman, has transformed New York City’s mayoral race with an optimistic, internet-savvy campaign. Backed by the Democratic Socialists of America and long active in pro-Palestinian advocacy, Mamdani was initially dismissed as a fringe candidate. But six months in, he’s polling second behind Andrew Cuomo and has built the largest field operation in a mayoral race—22,000 volunteers knocking on 450,000 doors (and counting). His campaign centers on bold policy promises: taxing the rich, creating municipal grocery stores, establishing a department to handle mental-health crises, and, notably, bringing back fare-free buses.
❌Israel’s conduct aiming to ethnically cleanse the occupied Palestinian territory, amounts to a genocidal campaign against the Palestinians as a people.
❌States must enforce the ICJ Advisory Opinion recognising the unlawfulness of, and ordering an unconditional end to, Israel’s ongoing presence in Gaza, West Bank, east Jerusalem, and enforce the ICJ provisional measures to prevent further acts of genocide.
Ah yes, humanizing the mass murder of children is H propaganda. Any and all empathy for real, actual people in Palestine exists only to demonize the people murdering them
“I'm living under civilian law & Basel is under military law.... We live 30 minutes from one another but i have voting rights, basel doesn't have........”
The United States should not be sanctioning our allies for enforcing the international law that our government has refused to uphold. I led a letter calling on the Federal Maritime Commission to suspend its investigation into Spain's Arms Embargo against the Israeli government.
Today, I'm leading 20 Members of Congress to demand that the Biden Admin withhold offensive weapons from the Israeli military.
U.S. law is clear: if the Netanyahu government does not allow sufficient food & medicine to enter Gaza, then the U.S. cannot send weapons.
This is how you know the vote is important.
Biden is terrified of the world seeing that his genocidal foreign policy is not actually representative of what a rapidly growing number of Democrats want.
A vote like this is a key pressure point to force action. 🧵
H.R. 9495 - the law targeting pro-Palestinian civil society - is back for a vote (again)!
We need you to keep up the pressure to defeat it! Send an email to your rep now >>> https://t.co/ZYSuLm9zXP
Take Action Now: Demand That Your Senator Support the JRD > https://t.co/8w4Gb5j2Jf
Next week, for the first time, the Senate will vote on directly blocking weapons from being sent to Israel through Senator Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) six Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRD).
Congress has not authorized the US military to engage in the Israeli government’s expanding regional war, as required by the Constitution. We’re sending a letter to @POTUS requiring a detailed account of US involvement with Israeli forces in Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and Syria.
In November the US Senate will vote on blocking President Biden’s proposed $20 billion weapons giveaway to Israel.
It will be the first-ever vote in Congress in US history to block weapons to Israel.
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The same person who voted down every single ceasefire resolution and recognition of a Palestinian state is the same person telling us that Francesca Albanese is unfit bc of her reports on Israel being an apartheid regime.
"You were the happiest and most optimistic and frivolous person in the platoon. We saw it for the first time in Gaza, when you unauthorizedly burnt a house just to lift the atmosphere."
Another insane excerpt from the funeral of terrorist settler-soldier Shuva'el Ben Natan.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Turning the conversation about Palestine into a question of "manners" or "tough interviews" is "bullshit" because "The topic is apartheid. Apartheid is the topic."