BREAKING: Rep. DeGette gets heated with a constituent pressing her on why she voted to send bombs to Israel:
"If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me"
DeGette, who's 68, is facing a primary challenge from @MelatKirosCO.
At long last, the world is paying attention to the alarming, horrific rise in Israeli settler violence against defenceless Palestinian children, women, and men across the West Bank.
Countless families have been brutally forced out of their homes.
A new report from the West Bank Protection Consortium (WBPC), led by NRC, documents the endless suffering of families forced to flee.
Based on interviews with 233 displaced households, the report highlights the dramatic increase in enforced displacement since October 2023. Families lose access to their own land and grazing areas that sustained their livelihoods. They end up in substandard and unsafe shelters, and continue to face threats of further displacement.
The report documents that:
🔴95% of families say settler violence is what forces them to leave their homes and communities
🔴86% say their living conditions are worse than before displacement
🔴84% have lost access to the land and resources they previously depended on
🔴Nearly half fear they could be displaced again within the next six months
🔴Only 6% believe they will be able to return home within the next year
The settler violence, insecurity, loss of land access and the expansion of settlements that forced families to flee now prevents them from returning.
This is a protection crisis with long-term consequences for families, communities, and for any future prospects for peace.
These findings should alarm governments that have invested millions of Euros in humanitarian assistance and community resilience in the West Bank. Schools, shelters, water systems, livestock support, and other donor-funded projects have repeatedly been damaged, confiscated, demolished or abandoned as communities are displaced.
This situation will not be improved by the issuing of yet more international “expressions of concern.”
States must use all available diplomatic, political, legal and economic measures to help prevent further forcible transfer, ensure accountability for violence against civilians, protect humanitarian and donor-funded infrastructure, and uphold international law, including ending the occupation.
Most importantly, Palestinian families should be able to live safely on their land, free from violence, coercion and the threat of displacement.
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@timburchett Is this about the conservative trolls that showed up to get a reaction from black students and now the trolls are complaining about the reaction they were going for?
No. You’re mistaken on this, and the majority of Tennessee stands firmly in support of TSU and its students' right to be free from harassment by those seeking attention without fulfilling even the basic requirements to conduct their stunt on campus. Permits are not optional; they are mandatory, which wouldn’t have been a problem if they were present for genuine civil engagement.
@timburchett Get my name out of your mouth with that "MOST." I'm disgusted by your policies and not caring what your constituents want...thanks for the town halls, chump.
We knew it, but seeing the data laid out – it's still shocking: higher taxes for most, deep cuts to Medicaid & SNAP—all to fund tax breaks for the top 1%.
It's difficult to fully grasp the scale of the con being perpetrated on Americans right now by the Trump administration.