Hey @RepDwightEvans…in case you weren’t aware, there are thousands of Philadelphians that have mobilized for a ceasefire in Gaza whose votes you’ll need if you want to be re-elected next year. Sign onto H.Res.786 or lose your job!
https://t.co/s4Dxd2IFzI
The expression “scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds” has never been more applicable. Some of the most ignorant, bloodthirsty people I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying something. A whole lot of young people are realizing liberals are no less dangerous than conservatives
if they did this to the israeli hostage posters (which the israeli govt has refused to negotiate on receiving for 10 days now) there would understandably be chaos. palestinian lives are not seen as anything but collateral damage to a lot of americans.
No, actually it's simple:
- Israel is a Western settler-colonialist project founded on the mass ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians.
- US imperialism uses Israel as a military outpost in resource-rich West Asia.
- Israel has illegally occupied Palestinian land for decades and will never allow Palestinians to create a state of their own.
- Palestinians living under Israeli control are subjected to a brutal apartheid regime, as even Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch now admit.
- Another 6 million Palestinians are registered as refugees with the UN, and Israel denies them their legal right to return to their homeland.
- Palestinians have a right under international law to armed resistance against Israeli colonialism, as stated clearly in UN General Assembly resolution 35/35, among others.
- Israel's government has become increasingly far-right, racist, and eliminationist, and current members of the ruling coalition include literal fascist parties who want to commit genocide against Palestinians. That's what they are trying to do now, while hoping to once again ethnically cleanse the Palestinians who survive, forcing them out of Gaza into Egypt.
- The majority of the world, including almost all of the Global South (with a few exceptions), supports the Palestinian national-liberation struggle. Israel is supported by the United States and its proxies. But Washington uses its veto in the UN Security Council to prevent any international action against Israel's constant crimes against humanity.
Philly CPUSA and @YCLPHILLY member Collin connecting the siege on Gaza to our own city’s painful and shameful history of violent repression. We are separated by miles but we’re united in struggle for dignity and freedom.
The Western powers killed a UN Security Council resolution that proposed a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza
The resolution was proposed by Russia
5 countries voted for the ceasefire:
🇨🇳 China
🇬🇦 Gabon
🇲🇿 Mozambique
🇷🇺 Russia
🇦🇪 UAE
4 voted against:
🇲🇫 France
🇯🇵 Japan
🇬🇧 UK
🇺🇲 US
6 abstained:
🇦🇱 Albania
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇪🇨 Ecuador
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇲🇹 Malta
🇨🇭 Switzerland
Source: https://t.co/kCFVEJxrq0
After decades of occupation, bombing, settler terror & killing kids w/ impunity, Israel flips the script w/ uncritical media in tow, creating genocidal bloodlust to green light their crimes. We’ve learned nothing from the Iraq war. The blood is on so many hands. We won’t forget.
The US lied about Iraq
The US lied about Libya
The US lied about Syria
The US lied about Kuwait
The US lied about Afghanistan
…
The US and Israel are lying about Gaza. No babies were beheaded and no women were raped. They want to justify the genocide happening now in Gaza.
Disinformation about the ongoing Gaza offensive and the devastating Israeli non-stop bombardment is flooding the news.
Mainstream media has become a mouthpiece for the far-right Israeli government, uncritically spreading dangerous and racist fake news to demonize the Palestinian struggle. Here are some of many examples of the absurd headlines that have been debunked.
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The @nytimes use of red scare tactics against peace organizations is a shameful attempt to push a new Cold War with China and divert necessary funding for workers needs to the war machine. It must be hard to see our struggles on the ground from their 52-story midtown highrise HQ.
As many of you know, one of our community members was brutalized by Philadelphia police on the last day of our protest. The Philadelphia YCL is in contact with them and is prepared to support them in attaining justice going forward. Please consider donating to their Venmo below.
Thank you to Senator Saval and others for amplifying our demand that the @AmRevMuseum to rescind their invitation to the hate group Moms For Liberty. Over the past few weeks we’ve been alerting Philadelphians about this dangerous group. But we want to make another point…🧵1/8
21% of children in Philly have asthma, which is more than double the national average. With the AQI at unhealthy levels, @PHLschools must consider closing schools until we’re able to ensure the air quality is safe for our students.
“Why would you look to your oppressor to be your liberator?”
MaryLouise Patterson on how anti-racism attracted her father, William L Patterson, to join the Communist Party USA.
If the DNC wins another 4 years, thousands will be killed in the global south and at the southern border, plus LGBTQ genocide will continue.
If the GOP win, all of the above (but worse) + more overt racism and militarism.
These are your choices.