BEING A “RADICAL” IS A MORAL IMPERATIVE WHEN OPPOSING GENOCIDE IS CLASSIFIED AS “RADICAL”

This New Protest Movement Is Driving Empire Managers Out Of Their Sadistic Minds, Which Means It’s Working And Must Continue.

The dumbest thing we’re asked to believe about Biden is that a politician who’s been an enthusiastic Zionist and virulent warmonger throughout his entire way-too-long political career privately has deep moral qualms about the genocide he’s been unconditionally supporting in Gaza.

Every time we listen to the song Hind’s Hall we get more disdainful of all the worthless, vapid celebrity artists who are refusing to step up and do something real for once in their pathetic lives.

Israel supporters are such psychopathic warmongers that they’re currently shrieking their lungs out at Biden for making a purely symbolic face-saving statement that he won’t give Israel the weapons to annihilate Rafah, despite the fact that he has already given Israel all the weapons it would need to annihilate Rafah.

The Washington Post reported the other day that “the Israeli military has enough weapons supplied by the U.S. and other partners to conduct the Rafah operation if it chooses to cast aside U.S. objections,” citing an anonymous senior official from the Biden administration. This has since been confirmed by the Israeli military, who says it has enough weapons to proceed with its planned Rafah invasion and that those plans will move forward.

A new poll from Data for Progress and Zeteo has found that a majority of Democrats believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and that the police crackdown against anti-genocide protesters is wrong, which kind of makes you wonder why they’re still identifying as Democrats. If Biden supporters believe Biden is guilty of genocide, what does that say about Biden supporters?

The New York Times has been given a Pulitzer for its scandalously discredited, notoriously biased and widely–mocked Gaza coverage. The Pulitzer Prize Awards Ceremony is literally just a bunch of propagandists giving each other trophies for being good at propaganda. Receiving one should be taken as an insult by anyone with a conscience.

House Democrats rescued Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday from Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene’s initiative to oust him over his support for the massive World War 3 spending bill. This was the first time in American history that a minority from either party has ever intervened to stop the majority party from removing their own speaker, because Democrats just love war that much.

And Republicans are even crazier, with GOP lawmakers promoting a bill to send college protesters to Gaza in the House and another separate bill in the Senate to have them put on a no-fly list as “terrorists”.

This new protest movement is driving empire managers out of their already crazy minds, which means it’s working and must continue. When opposing genocide is seen as radical, radicalism becomes a moral imperative.

To top it all off we’re still not out of the nuclear brinkmanship woods with Ukraine, and in fact it’s getting more dangerous.

Because of reckless comments from London approving the use of British weapons to attack Russian territory, Moscow has formally warned that if this happens it could directly attack British military installations in Ukraine.

Russia has also announced that it will be holding drills to simulate the use of tactical nukes in response to repeated assertions from French president Emmanuel Macron that sending NATO troops into Ukraine to fight Russia directly is an option that’s still on the table. Belarus, where nuclear weapons were recently deployed by Moscow, has announced that it will also be conducting drills to test its readiness for nuclear warfare.

Obviously direct hot warfare between NATO and Russia is an absolute nightmare scenario that must be avoided at all cost for the sake of every organism on this planet, and we are already way too close to it.

We’ve got to turn things around and stop this maniacal empire before it gets us all killed.

CNN PAINTS PEACE PROTESTS AS HATE RALLIES AS THEY ARE VIOLENTLY SUPPRESSED

As Peace Activists Occupied Common Spaces On Campuses, Some In Corporate Media Very Clearly Took Sides, Portraying Student Protesters As Violent, Hateful And/Or Stupid.

CNN offered some of the most striking of these characterizations.

CNN‘s Dana Bash blames the peace movement for “destruction, violence and hate on college campuses across the country.”

Dana Bash stared gravely into the camera and launched into a segment on “destruction, violence and hate on college campuses across the country.” Her voice dripping with hostility toward the protests, she reported:

“Many of these protests started peacefully with legitimate questions about the war, but in many cases, they lost the plot. They’re calling for a ceasefire. Well, there was a ceasefire on October 6, the day before Hamas terrorists brutally murdered more than a thousand people inside Israel and took hundreds more as hostages. This hour, I’ll speak to an American Israeli family whose son is still held captive by Hamas since that horrifying day, that brought us to this moment. You don’t hear the pro-Palestinian protesters talking about that. We will.”

By Bash’s logic, once a ceasefire is broken, no one can ever call for it to be reinstated—even as the death toll in Gaza nears 35,000. But her claim that there was a ceasefire until Hamas broke it on October 7^th is little more than Israeli propaganda: Hundreds of Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the year preceding October 7^th.

“They didn’t let me get to class using the main entrance!” complains Eli Tsives in one of several videos he posted of confrontations with anti-war demonstrators. “Instead they forced me to walk around. Shame on these people!”

Bash continued:

“Now protesting the way the Israeli government, the Israeli prime minister, is prosecuting the retaliatory war against Hamas is one thing. Making Jewish students feel unsafe at their own schools is unacceptable, and it is happening way too much right now.”

As evidence of this lack of safety, Bash pointed to UCLA student Eli Tsives, who posted a video of himself confronting motionless antiwar protesters physically standing in his way on campus. “This is our school, and they’re not letting me walk in,” he claims in the clip. Bash ominously described this as “hearkening back to the 1930s in Europe.”

Bash was presumably referring to the rise of the Nazis and their increasing restrictions on Jews prior to World War II. But while Tsives’ clip suggests protesters are keeping him off UCLA campus, they’re in fact blocking him from their encampment—where many Jewish students were present. Jewish Voice for Peace is one of its lead groups.

So it’s clearly not Tsives’ Jewishness that the protesters object to. But Tsives was not just any Jewish student; a UCLA drama student and former intern at the pro-Israel group Stand With Us, he had been a visible face of the counter-protests, repeatedly posting videos of himself confronting peaceful antiwar protesters. He has shown up to the encampment wearing a holster of pepper spray.

One earlier video he made showing himself being denied entry to the encampment included text on screen claiming misleadingly that protestors objected to his Jewishness: “They prevented us, Jewish students, from entering public land!” (“You can kiss your jobs goodbye, this is going to go viral on social media,” he tells the protesters.) He also proudly posted his multiple interviews on Fox News, which was as eager as Bash to help him promote his false narrative of antisemitism.

“Security and [campus police] both retreated as pro-Israel counter-protesters and other groups attacked protesters in the encampment,” UCLA’s student paper reported.

UCLA protesters had good reason to keep counter-protesters out of their encampment, as those counter-protesters had become increasingly hostile. This aggression culminated in a violent attack on the encampment on April 30

Late that night, a pro-Israel mob of at least 200 tried to storm the student encampment, punching, kicking, throwing bricks and other objects, spraying pepper spray and mace, trying to tear down plywood barricades and launching fireworks into the crowd. As many as 25 injuries have been reported, including four student journalists for the university newspaper who were assaulted by goons as they attempted to leave the scene.

Campus security stood by as the attacks went on; when the university finally called in police support, the officers who arrived waited over an hour to intervene.

LEARN WHY THE AMERICAN REGIME & THE MEDIA ARE CALLING STUDENT PROTESTERS ANTISEMITES

One Reason They’ve Created A Controversy Over Student Protests Because They Want You To Think About Anything Other Than Israel’s Genocide In Gaza.

To understand the current headline-dominating furor over the protests taking place on college campuses against the war in Gaza, think about the death toll of each. As of the time of writing, more than thirty-four thousand Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza, almost certainly a massive undercount. On American campuses, that figure is zero.

It’s this cosmically vast discrepancy in terms of “harm” and “safety” that more than anything explains the absurd and ongoing freakout over college students protesting the war on Gaza — one that would be laughable if it weren’t so menacing.

Columbia University administrators have been hauled before Congress and pressured to crack down on faculty and students over their speech. The Anti-Defamation League’s Jonathan Greenblatt has called for the National Guard to be sicced on protesters at Columbia — one of several figures to do so, including several American senators — knowing full well that the last time that happened, at Kent State in 1970, four students were killed. Supporters of Israel’s war, including the Israeli government itself, have hysterically labeled the protests — overwhelmingly comprised of students sitting in place and talking, sometimes dancing, often featuring large numbers of Jewish students — “terrorism,” “pogroms,” “riots,” and “mobs” seeking to destroy the country and that have led Jews to flee its borders.

One particularly histrionic war supporter has claimed in the Times of Israel that what’s happening on campuses “is 1938,” meaning Kristallnacht, when Nazis rampaged through Jewish neighborhoods lynching people and destroying homes, places of worship, and businesses. The result has been a wave of repression on campuses, with universities calling local police to arrest and detain their own students and faculty, many of them Jewish, for the crime of physically being on their own schools’ campuses, ending in-person classes, and barring them from physically returning, to the point of even erecting plywood barricades.

Meanwhile, what has been happening over in Gaza during this same week, as student protesters were being vilified and arrested for trying to make Israel’s military campaign in the territory end?

At Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, Palestinians have uncovered a series of mass graves that have revealed more than three hundred dead Palestinians and counting, some of them with their hands tied, while a different mass grave was dug up at the ruins of Al-Shifa hospital where nearly four hundred bodies were exhumed. At the same time, the famine Israel has deliberately engineered continues to spread as both UN aid workers and the EU’s top foreign policy official report there has been “very little significant change” in terms of humanitarian aid coming in and that its entry is still “being hindered” by Israel.

Earlier this week, an Israeli airstrike killed twenty-two people largely from one extended family as they slept, eighteen of them children. Before that, strikes on two homes killed nine people, including six kids, while a man lost his entire family, including his wife, kids, and grandkids, when Israel bombed his family home before that. And before that, five kids were among the eleven Palestinians killed by a spate of attacks on Rafah, meant to be the “safe zone” that 1.5 million displaced Palestinians have been corralled into.

At one point, fifty-four Palestinians were killed over one twenty-four-hour period, the same one in which Yale University had sixty people on its campus arrested because “the situation was no longer safe.” On the same day that the chair of Columbia’s board of trustees declared there was a “moral crisis on our campus” and called the behavior of protesters “unacceptable,” UNICEF’s spokesperson announced that two-thirds of all houses in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed by the Israeli military.

While the war’s cheerleaders and school administrators register their concern over the menace of students camping — or, even more horrifying, of their students being unable to hear chirping birds while listening to John Cage’s four-and-a-half-minute-long silent composition — UN experts last week warned Gaza may be the victim of “scholasticide,” with 80 percent of the territory’s schools damaged or destroyed. All the while, the “apocalyptic” Israeli plans to invade Rafah, in the words of one refugee agency head — and which even the American state department admits it’s not possible to safely evacuate — are set to happen “very soon,” even as Israeli forces continue bombing and shelling the famine-stricken north.

Keeping in mind this small sampling of the death and destruction going on in Gaza right now, any reasonable person might ask: How on Earth is it possible that anyone could be most concerned about some students sitting around in makeshift camps and occasionally saying some impolite or stupid things in American colleges?

To ask the question is to answer it. Over the past six months, Israel’s response to Hamas’s incursion in October has been so disproportionate, indiscriminate, and savage that the war and its backers have not only lost any moral high ground they might have had, they’ve lost the American public as a whole.

With the war now deeply unpopular, and only losing more hearts and minds every day as Americans watch the list of Israeli atrocities pile up and up, its supporters have decided their only recourse is to simply gin up a controversy to draw the media and politicians’ attention away from what has been widely declared a genocide in Gaza, while simultaneously making themselves, the supporters of this crime, out to be the real victims.

This is why we’ve now seen several unseemly, often embarrassing attempts by the war’s supporters to manufacture victimhood at the hands of the nonviolent protesters. Columbia professor Shai Davidai — criticized across the political spectrum for his alarm over watching an Islamic prayer — unsuccessfully tried to force an altercation with the very protesters he said were Nazis who made him fear for his life. One woman filmed herself walking into the middle of an encampment, declaring that she was Jewish and demanding “Doxx me,” only for no one to pay her the slightest attention. Another claimed she had been “stabbed in the eye,” only for video footage to show what had actually happened: a protester waving a Palestinian flag happened to poke her in the eye with the end of a flagstick as he walked past.

And it’s worked. The “stabbed in the eye” story has been uncritically reported far and wide. Outlets like the New York Times and CNN have made the campus protests front-page news, while comparatively burying reporting on the Israeli atrocities mentioned above. The political urgency around conditioning American aid to Israel has evaporated, as politicians instead call for alarming measures like siccing the National Guard on students (while throwing more military aid to Israel to carry out more atrocities).

As tends to happen when authorities respond heavy-handedly to protests, Columbia and others’ arrests of students is already backfiring, bringing them negative publicity and inspiring similar, larger, and more militant protests to spring up in solidarity and outrage. But as the campus standoffs take up more headlines, don’t forget what this is all really about: trying to get us to talk about something, anything, other than the ongoing mass murder in Gaza that the American regime could stop at any moment.

WHITE HOUSE STAFFERS TRY TO GIVE BIDEN A LESSON IN HUMANITY

On November 13th, Dozens Of President Biden’s Employees Held A Vigil Outside The White House Calling For A Lasting Cease-Fire In Gaza To Protest His Near Total Support For Israel’s Crimes.

His support, in weapons and words, of Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza was the cause of their protest.

Protesters wore sunglasses and masks to hide their identities in fear of losing their administration jobs; indeed destroying their government careers.

Their protest was the most visible pushback from government workers to Biden’s grotesque involvement enabling the destruction of Gaza and its 2.3 million beleaguered Palestinians.

In November, over 700 political appointees sent Biden a letter demanding he support an immediate, permanent cease-fire to stop the killing, and resume humanitarian aid. Earlier this month over 40 White House interns sent Biden a letter condemning Israel’s genocidal response to the October 7^th attack and imploring Biden to support a permanent cease-fire.

Did you read those letters from political appointees and lowly interns, Mr. President? Did you peer through the White House windows to view people, with more courage and decency than you could imagine, beseeching you to end the madness of your war policies?

Along with those hundreds of courageous government workers, the whole world, save for the leaders of America and Israel, are pondering when President Biden will reclaim his humanity.

SOME ISRAELIS ARE PROTESTING AGAINST THEIR GOVERNMENT’S WAR WITH GAZA

Did The American Media Tell You? Widespread Anger Has Erupted Against The Israeli Government Across Occupied Jerusalem And Tel Aviv- Amid Israel’s Ongoing Bombardment On Gaza.

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv and occupied Jerusalem on Saturday, as criticism intensifies against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a result of his government’s brutal response, following the October 7^th attacks and its handling of the ensuing hostage crisis.

The attacks by Hamas led to more than 1,400 people killed- with 240 more taken hostage, according to Israeli forces.

Israel’s devastating air, ground and sea bombardment followed by a ground invasion of Gaza, has killed nearly 9,500 Palestinians. according to the Palestinian health ministry.

In Tel Aviv, several thousand protesters took to the streets on Saturday evening, including relatives and friends of some of the hostages, chanting: “Bring them home now”.

Meanwhile, in occupied Jerusalem, hundreds came together outside Netanyahu’s residence with more explicit calls for his resignation.

Waving blue and white Israeli flags and chanting “Jail now!”, a crowd in the hundreds pushed through police barriers around Netanyahu’s residence in occupied Jerusalem.

The protest, which coincided with a poll showing more than three quarters of Israelis believe Netanyahu should resign, underlined the growing public fury at their political and security leaders.

The premier, who has led Israel for nearly 16 of the past 27 years, is still fighting three corruption cases in court.

The nine months leading up to October 7^th saw mass protests over his far-right government’s controversial judicial reforms.

Additionally, Netanyahu’s attempts to circumvent Palestinian territory have reported to reaffirm his government’s longstanding policies of violence, expulsions, and settlement expansion in Palestinian territory.

ORGANIZERS CLAIM HALF A MILLION PROTESTERS IN THE TENTH WEEK OF THE BIGGEST PROTESTS IN ISRAELI HISTORY

Armed With Banners And Flags, Israeli Demonstrators Turned Out In Droves For The Tenth Week To Decry The Netanyahu-Led Government’s Judicial Coup.

Israelis took to the streets for the tenth week straight in the largest demonstration in the country’s history on Saturday, with organizers claiming as many as 500,000 pro-democracy protesters in attendance nationwide.

A record 50,000 Israelis rallied in Haifa – according to police estimates –while at least 8,000 demonstrated in the southern city of Be’er Sheva, which is considered a Likud stronghold. Opposition leader Yair Lapid told the crowd there that Israel “is facing the greatest crisis in its history.

“A wave of terrorism is hitting us, our economy is crashing, money is escaping the country. Iran just signed yesterday a new agreement with Saudi Arabia. But the only thing this government cares about is crushing Israeli democracy,” he said.

In the central city of Netanya, hundreds of red-clad ‘handmaids’ held a silent vigil as large crowds gathered. Leading the city’s protesters in chants of “We are all Ami Eshed,” former Labor leader Amram Mitzna voiced solidarity with the dismissed Tel Aviv district commander, who was ousted from his post on Thursday by Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai under pressure from National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir over his lenient policy toward protesters.

Moshe Karadi, Israel’s former police chief, warned against Ben-Gvir’s hold on Israel’s law enforcement agency while speaking at the main Tel Aviv demonstration.

“Israel is facing a danger it has not faced since the 1948 War of Independence,” he said, adding that the Ben-Gvir, “a convicted felon, is enacting a hostile takeover of the police and trying to turn it into a private militia to serve his political purposes.”

In a dramatic live address on Saturday night, Shabtai said he “made a mistake” by dismissing Eshed, adding that he regretted the “judgement, timing and manner” of his decision. He said that he would “accept” Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miari’s decision to freeze the decision. Eshed, meanwhile, was met with constant cheers of “Ami, Ami” as he walked through crowds of Tel Aviv protesters on Saturday night.

Protesters in Tel Aviv’s central demonstration were ultimately able to circumvent police barricades to block the city’s busiest highway from both directions, though crowds were notably thinner than in previous battles for control over the symbolic Ayalon Highway.

‘I’M GLAD MY CHILDREN LIVE IN THE U.S.’

High-tech worker Uri Stern, who was dressed as Moses holding the Ten Commandments, said he joined the Tel Aviv protest “hoping we can make a change.”

Another high-tech employee present at the main Tel Aviv demonstration, 36-year-old Naama, echoed his sentiment. “I’m not going anywhere,” she explained, holding a sign which read “This is my home” in Hebrew. “I’m not interested in foreign passports. I’m here to be part of the struggle.”

Shlomo Perets, a draft refuser also demonstrating at the main Tel Aviv protest, weighed in on the impact of the widespread protest movement. He said that the current political situation could additionally lead to more Israelis rejecting their mandatory military service.

“I feel that with Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, more people will refuse to serve,” Perets explained. “For me it was not easy to do, but I never regretted it. Need to remember military prison for soldiers is nothing compared to where Palestinians are sent.”

Farther north, in the central city of Netanya, 64-year-old protester Lili Tenneshe said she was participating in her first demonstration “to show people I care that we are losing our country.”

“It was hard for me to come in a wheelchair but some friends agreed to bring me,” she said. “What’s happening here is awful. I don’t want to live in a dictatorship. My two kids live in the U.S. This is the first time I’ve been glad that they do.”

POLICE DETAIN HAARETZ JOURNALIST OVER ‘THREATS’

Police on Saturday detained Haaretz journalist Uri Misgav outside his home as he left for the protest in Tel Aviv, asking him whether he intended to act violently against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Officers told him they had received complaints about a tweet by him suggesting that Netanyahu cancel his upcoming trip to Berlin. He was released after several minutes.

The main organizers behind the massive demonstrations across Israel’s major cities announced another day of action on Thursday, meant to “escalate the resistance” to the government’s judicial coup. For the previous two weeks, the protest movement held a “day of resisting dictatorship” and a “day of disruption,” where protesters blocked major roads and clashed with police.

OVER 35,000 RALLY FOR PALESTINE IN WASHINGTON ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

That National March For Palestine, Was The Largest Protest Against American Foreign Policy In The Nation’s Capital In Decades.

Standing atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Nuha Maharoof peered over the crowd at the National March for Palestine on Saturday. To her left, she saw a man on the ledge set off red and green smoke grenades, signifying the colors of the Palestinian flag. She described the cinematic moment “like a scene from a movie, every head in the crowd turned to the sky to watch the colors dissipate.” She pulled out her phone and captured the iconic moment, saying her heart filled with hope for Palestine. The image has since gone viral. She had learned of the protest the day before from social media posts and decided to go with her friends.

The scene at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC was a sharp contrast to the one six months ago when Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill in an attempted insurrection. Vexed by white supremacy at home and settler colonial foreign policy abroad, Muslim, Palestinian, and progressive groups launched a wide coalition of support in solidarity with Palestine.

Over 35,000 protesters converged in Washington DC this Memorial Day weekend for The National March for Palestine, the largest nationwide protest against American foreign policy in decades. More than 100 buses arrived at the Lincoln Memorial from as far away as Minneapolis, Minnesota and Dallas, Texas. Organized in less than one week, the event unfurled the potential for Muslim American and Palestinian activists to lead antiwar mobilizations. The program was spearheaded by American Muslims for Palestine and the American Council of Muslim Organizations. The groups urged sanctions on Israel in the wake of its recent 11 day bombing campaign in Gaza where over 66 children were killed, including 11 who were recovering from trauma of previous Israeli government attacks.

This unprecedented gathering on Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial was a clear sign to President Joe Biden, his administration, and to Israel that public opinion in the United States is shifting, and people of conscience demand a tangible solution for Palestinians who have endured decades of dehumanization, marginalization, and subjugation.

The rally and march were a collective condemnation of two weeks of Israeli indiscriminate bombing of Palestinian civilians including children and destruction of infrastructure including homes, schools and clinics. The storming and attacking of Masjid Al-Aqsa, the third holiest site for Muslims, during the holy month of Ramadan, and expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem was the catalyst that awakened a sleeping giant worldwide demanding President Biden take bold steps which he failed to deliver.

People from all demographics and professions came together to show support to the Palestinian diaspora in America and their families who have experienced colonial annexation of their land and racism. Partners of the National March for Palestine included the American Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), Muslim American Society (MAS), ICNA Council for Social Jusice, Muslim Ummah of North America (MUNA), Majlis Ash-Shura: Islamic Leadership Council of New York, Turkish American National Steering Committee (TASC) and Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM). Jewish Voice for Peace, Veterans for Peace, MPower Change, United National Antiwar Coalition, Progressive Democrats of America, Our Revolution National, National Lawyers Guild, and Honor the Earth, and endorsed along with over 130 organizations.

The American Council of Muslim Organizations and American Muslims for Palestine have demanded the placement of an arms embargo on Israel, the cancellation of the America-Israel free trade agreement, a shut down of ‘charitable’ organizations supporting Israeli war crimes, and a ban on the import of products from Israel’s illegal colonies. The groups also sought to end weapons transfer to Israel, objecting to gross violations of human rights with American weapons and violations of the Foreign Assistance Act and Arms Export Control Act.

The National March for Palestine was the culmination of weeks of organizing protests in solidarity with Palestine, building on the 73 year resistance campaign to the Nakba. While Israel’s bombing campaigns and military strikes are not new, the wave of Palestinian solidarity has ignited a tsunami wave of youth activism, fresh from the surge of Black Lives Matter and climate mobilizations. As members of the National March for Palestine organizing committee, we sensed the urgency of a nationwide grassroots mobilization stemming from campaigns in support of Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza.

Jinan Deena, who led organizing for more than 100 march volunteers and is the National Organizer at American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said, “There’s a lot of behind the scenes work that people don’t see. But the renewed energy I get is from seeing all those faces out in the crowd. People want to help. They want to be there and shout for Palestine. It brings tears to my eyes and it makes me know that the work I do is not in vain. And so that is why I wake up the next day, sore and tired, and get up and do it again. Because the work doesn’t stop. Not until we achieve full liberation.”

Overwhelming majority of attendees on Saturday came to show support for Palestinians and to uphold the universal principles of justice and human rights. The crowd was very disciplined and it was obvious that they were deeply disappointed and infuriated by the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians sanctioned by America and other allies. People of all religious and non-religious background were present, and it was impressive to see that there were no symbols, signs and slogans of hate or antisemitism. The main focus was on Palestine and its right to exist in peace and dignity. There were many small group gatherings in the rally that spoke out on the killings of 67 Palestinian children including three Israeli children.

Secretary General of the American Council of Muslim Organizations, Oussama Jammal said, “The clear diversity of the many thousands who participated in last Saturday’s march sends a strong message that Al-Aqsa Mosque goes beyond Palestine, it belongs to all Muslims around the world. It was obvious this time around in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that Israel could not play the usual innocent victim. Major news agencies are breaking the silence and reporting the ugly reality of a long deceiving Israeli propaganda. More importantly, the young generations of Muslims and non-Muslims, Palestinians and non-Palestinians are in the forefront of activism for Palestine.”

Anthony Lorenzo Green, who is core organizer for Black Lives Matter DC, riveted the crowd, saying “I’m not just an ally. I am a comrade. Our struggles are connected.” He recognized past solidarity of Palestinian activists at Black Lives Matter speeches in years past.

Altaf Husain, who is a long time supporter of Palestinian rights and an academic focusing on immigrant and refugee rights recognized what he saw as, “a clear and growing intersection between the folks organizing around the world saying Black Lives Matter and those who are organizing around the world saying Palestine will be free.”

“Beyond respecting both movements, there are people who are now showing up saying they are genuinely part of both movements. And within the U.S. and Europe, these people increasingly represent a greater majority of young, non-Palestinians and non-Blacks, who a.) understand that our government is complicit in the continued persecution of Blacks in America and of Palestinians in the Occupied territories, and b.) who are demanding that our government do better. That’s heartening,” Husain said.

The National March for Palestine was built on years of coalition work and increased civic engagement within the activist scene. Ismahan Abdullahi, who served on the organizing committee for the march and is the director of the Muslim American Society-Public Affairs and Civic Engagement (MAS-PAC) noted how the conversation is shifting.

“People’s eyes are wide open. We, as a community, are demanding more from those in positions of power. You can no longer be ‘Progressive except Palestine.’ You can no longer claim to be against systemic racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, etc. without standing against the injustice faced by Palestinians. The landscape is shifting. Those who stand on the right side of history will be known,” Abdullahi said.

Dr. Osama Abuirshaid, Executive Director of American Muslims for Palestine, said in a statement, ”Millions of Americans around the country are joining to say that there must be an end to this ugly, immoral, and illegal status quo. We are here to assert that we cannot live another day under the status quo, which is one of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, occupation, violations of international law and the Palestinian people’s fundamental, inalienable rights to life of dignity, freedom, justice, and equality. It is unconscionable that the administration licensed a $735 million weapons sale to Israel last week despite the historic Congressional opposition in the aftermath of Israel’s cruel and deadly attack on civilians in the Gaza Strip.”

Speakers on Saturday’s rally included Haris Ansari, Hatem Bazian, Amani Barakat, Oussama Jammal, Halil Mutlu, Zeina Ashrawi Hutchinson, Mohammed Khader, Kayla Kelly, Harun Rashid, Mohamed Mohamed, Lisbeth Melendez Rivera, Maher Masisis, Fuad Foty, Tahani Saleh, Josh Ruebner, Anthony Lorenzo Green, Amer Zahr, Dana Abushanab, Laura Albast, Lina Shahid, Raya Hudhud, Nihad Awad, Phyllis Bennis, Mohsin Ansari, Ayman Hammous, Nouf Bazaz, Raja Abdulhaq, Lamis Deek, Osama Abu-Irshad, and Omar Suleiman.

Using the hashtag of #March4Palestine, short form content creator and Palestinian activist Mo Mustafa of Gen Z for Change catalyzed scores of protesters from his one million TikTok followers.

Maharoof, the student who captured the iconic shot of the protest, said she was “incredibly inspired” by the protest.

“We channeled the weight of our heavy hearts into our voices as we marched through the streets of Washington DC,” she added. “As I returned home from Saturday’s protest, I felt hopeful for the future of the Palestinian people – although there’s still so much to be done to ensure change is made, the energy of the thousands of protestors gave me hope that one day Palestine will be free.”

IS THE U.S. ABOUT TO EXPERIENCE ANOTHER CIVIL WAR? BLAME RUSSIA!

America’s Political Class Is Delusional And In Denial. They Claim The “Soul Of The Nation” Is At Stake. Does America Really Have A Soul Anymore?

As America heads into a torrid presidential election next week there are widespread fears of violence breaking out. Some pundits are even concerned that the violence could turn into a civil war.

It’s a perfect storm. Partisan hostilities are at boiling point. President Donald Trump and his Republican supporters are oozing with contempt for Democrat rival Joe Biden and his so-called “liberal” followers. The latter likewise despise Trump and his “deplorable” base.

The distortions speak of frenzied misapprehensions. The “soul of the nation” is at stake, so they claim. The most absurd distortion is Trump telling his base that Biden is a “socialist” who will unleash a Marxist revolution. It really demonstrates how misinformed Americans are and how dangerous ignorance can be. If only Americans really did have a genuine socialist choice to vote for then the country might find a way out of its collapsing state.

Then there is incendiary issue of the election’s legitimacy. Trump has already undermined the credibility of the ballot, calling it “rigged” and the “most corrupt ever”. So if he loses, as polls suggest, millions of his supporters won’t accept Biden as the next president. Trump has already threatened he won’t consent to a peaceful transfer of power.

And if Trump manages to pull off a surprise victory, there will be millions of Democrats who won’t accept his legitimacy, claiming that the incumbent suppressed mail-in votes and other high jinks.

Added to the sharp tensions is the anticipated confusion over final results. The tally of mail-in votes could take days to complete and each of the 50 states have different rules about when to close the counting. It is therefore possible that both candidates could simultaneously claim to be the winner citing different ways to compute the votes.

Still more alarming are reports that gun sales in the US are off the charts, with 17 million firearms having been bought so far this year – a record. Analysts point to the ongoing anxieties from months of street protests against police brutality and shooting of black people. Those tensions again fall along partisan lines, with Republicans accusing Democrats of fomenting protests. The antagonism has already led to deadly shootings.

Another factor boosting gun sales is the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump supporters in particular believe the pandemic is a cover for federal government quashing civil liberties. This has prompted armed militia to prepare for insurrection. The discovery of a plot by 13 militia members to kidnap and execute a Democrat governor is typical of the sinister underground networks in the U.S. which can be expected to react to a disputed election.

A civil war is thus not a far-fetched scenario. Or at least an eruption of massive gun violence among heavily armed factions or between these factions and law-enforcement agencies.

What is derisory, however, is the media effort to blame Russia for the chaos.

It is an article-of-faith among media networks and pundits that Russia is interfering in the U.S. election, in the same way, it is claimed (again without evidence) that Russia allegedly meddled in the 2016 election. Moscow has repeatedly dismissed these claims as ridiculous.

Former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats this week in an interview with CBS News took the false narrative up a sinister notch by linking alleged Russian interference with the anticipated post-election violence.

“The nightmare scenario is that on election night, people will draw conclusions or days after will draw conclusions that their candidate has been denied a victory and that public riots will result and violence might result from that,” said Coats. And he added that Russia is fomenting this violence.

“They’re [Russia] going after us. They’re the New England Patriots of messing with elections,” commented Coats using a corny football metaphor.

So there you have it. American politics and society is a mess from its own inherent problems. Those problems are in danger of exploding into large-scale violence, if not a civil war-like conflict. Yet American media and supposed “intelligence” figures are striving to lay the blame for this dystopia on Russia.

That’s why the U.S. is in such an irreversible mess. Because it is in denial about how bankrupt its supposed democracy has become. Instead of facing up to how Americans are living in an oppressive oligarchy that runs a puppet show every four years, the political class seeks distraction by scapegoating Russia and other “foreign enemies”.

America’s political class is delusional and in denial. That’s why they are facing terminal dysfunction. It is the antithesis of “democracy” because the politicians and media are never held to account by the people for the warmongering, poverty and inequality. That’s part of the perfect storm for violence in the U.S. Falsely, disingenuously blaming others for their own inherent disorder only makes for more disorder. It’s a downward spiral.

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JEWISH ACTIVISTS SHUT DOWN BIDEN HEADQUARTERS TO DEMAND THAT HE SKIP THE AIPAC CONFERENCE

They descended on Biden’s Philadelphia campaign office to demand that the presidential candidate skip the Zionists annual policy conference.

Jewish activists and their supporters descended on Joe Biden’s Philadelphia campaign office this morning to demand that the presidential candidate skip American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) annual policy conference. The protests come just weeks after the progressive groups MoveOn, Indivisible, and Working Families Party formed a coalition to encourage Democratic candidates to skip the event.

Earlier this week, Democratic front runner Bernie Sanders said he would not attend the AIPAC conference and accused the pro-Israel organization of providing a platform for bigotry. The lobbying group called Sanders’ decision “shameful.” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren also said she would skip it, but Biden has indicated that he’ll be attending.

occupation that strips Palestinians and Israelis of their dignity and freedom.”

IfNotNow has been live-tweeting the events, where a number of activists have been arrested over their civil disobedience.

Earlier this year, it had to apologize for a series of Facebook ads comparing Democratic lawmakers to the terror-group ISIS. After that debacle, Minnesota Rep. Betty McCollum referred to the organization as a “hate group.”

That is a very accurate description.

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