Reject Netanyahu, Reject Zionism

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More than 9 months into the genocide, Congress displayed its complicity in war crimes by welcoming Israeli war criminal Netanyahu to D.C. on July 24, 2024. 

Netanyahu, leader of an apartheid state, has been the facilitator of the deaths and forced displacement of an estimated 186,000 Palestinians [1]. This is only possible with the ongoing support of the U.S. government via billions of dollars in weapons, military contracts, and aid sent directly to Israel. 

As the settler colonial project Israel infiltrates our communities with the racist, supremacist Zionist ideology, it also uses tactics for surveillance, systemic violence, and repression:

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is a pro-Israel lobbying group that pays billions of dollars to politicians who are defenders of the apartheid state, weaving their Zionist agenda into city policies and contracts, including the erasure of the Palestinian genocide. [2].

Israel has a history of providing militarized support and training to local U.S. police, including in Atlanta where Stop Cop City protesters were met with deadly force and in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed [3,4]. 

Graphic with teal and green background text. Header: “Reject the Normalization of Zionism”. Below green box black text: “By continuing to work with Israel, the U.S. normalizes increased police brutality, militarization, surveillance, and repression in addition to spending $3.8 billion a year on Israel. In April, the house approved $26 billion in additional emergency aid to Israel. These billions of taxpayer dollars could have been for keeping people sheltered fed and educated yet that money is funding a genocide with over 180,000 Palestinians killed thus far.” Bottom black and red image of Biden and Netanyahu. Black and red image of Netanyahu.

Over the past 9 months, millions of people – people of conscience from across race, gender, age; in the U.S., in Asia, Africa, Europe, and beyond, have taken to the streets to call for Palestinian liberation [6, 7].

  • A coalition of 7 labor unions representing 6 million people called on the Biden administration to “immediately halt all military aid to Israel” [8].
  • The International Court of Justice declared that any nation to support the illegal apartheid state of Israel violates international law [9]. 
  • 7 in 10 likely voters support the U.S. calling for a permanent ceasefire and a de-escalation of violence in Gaza. [10]
  • 52% of Americans believe the U.S. should stop sending weapons to Israel. [11]

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Citations

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext 

[2] https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4744241-house-amendment-gaza-death-toll/ 

[3]  https://prismreports.org/2023/11/14/stop-cop-city-gilee-palestinian-genocide/ 

[4]https://peoplesworld.org/article/israeli-forces-trained-cops-in-restraint-techniques-at-minneapolis-conference/ 

[5] https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts 

[6] https://www.aa.com.tr/en/asia-pacific/pro-palestine-rally-in-tokyo-against-rafah-attack/3216870 

[7] https://www.africanews.com/2024/05/02/may-day-south-african-workers-march-in-support-of-palestinians//

[8]https://jacobin.com/2024/07/labor-unions-cease-fire-gaza 

[9]https://theintercept.com/2024/07/19/icj-ruling-palestine-israel-occupation-settlements/ 

[10]https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/5/8/support-for-a-permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza-increases-across-party-lines 

[11] https://cepr.net/press-release/poll-majority-of-americans-say-biden-should-halt-weapons-shipments-to-israel/

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