On Jan 6, white nationalists at the Capitol displayed Israeli flags AND signs of genocidal antisemitism.
Why? Support for Israel is NOT support for Jewish safety.
Antisemitic Zionists are common in right-wing movements — the sources of the most tangible threats to Jewish lives.
Many white nationalists both hate Jews and love Israel.
Depending on their specific ideology, they may admire Israel as a model ethnic supremacist state, share its Islamophobic and anti-Arab views, and/or want Jews to be corralled in their own state far away from the US.
Read this excellent article by @BenLorber8 to learn more about antisemitic, Zionist white nationalists and their worldview, which gravely harms Palestinians, Jews, Muslims, and people of color.
Antisemitic, Zionist white nationalists support the exact injustices JVP and the movement for Palestinian freedom oppose.
Unlike Zionist orgs, we’re consistent in our condemnation of EVERY plank of these platforms as we fight for safety and freedom for Jews AND Palestinians.
We work to hold the Israeli government accountable for its oppression of Palestinians AND dismantle antisemitism — at the same time. Join us.
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Time is running out to save Hisham, who is barely responsive and suffering from severe kidney failure after 140 days (4.5 months) of hunger strike.
We demand the immediate release of Hisham as well as all Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.
Despite detaining him since October 2020, Israeli authorities have never charged Hisham abu Hawwash with a crime or allowed him to stand trial. His original detention order was for 6 months, but they have successively renewed it and can do so as many more times as they please.
For prisoners, hunger strikes are the last and only available form of resistance; though the process is grueling and potentially life-threatening, it is also a reclamation of control over their bodies, and a testament to Israel’s failure to suppress their struggle for freedom.
Naftali Bennett announced yesterday that he plans to double the number of Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights this year.
The Golan gets less attention because it viewed as de-facto Israeli territory within Israel but the region has its own history of expulsion and violence.
During the 1967 war, almost 130,000 Syrians were expelled from their homes in the Golan Heights. A number of them waited on the other side of the Syrian border, believing they would be able to return home.
Still to this day, many Golan residents live as refugees in Syria.
The Israeli government officially annexed the Golan in 1981. This led to mass repression of the remaining Syrian Druze community and the beginning of Israeli settlement construction.
The move was condemned by the U.N. and the Golan was not recognized as Israeli by any country.
Like many other settler-colonies, Israeli society has a long legacy of co-opting native culture and downplaying or disavowing foreign — in this case, diaspora Jewish — culture. This simultaneous cultural theft and disavowal is an attempt to “self-indigenize.”
Through cultural appropriation and "self-indigenization," settlers make themselves (and the rest of the world) believe they belong on the land that birthed the indigenous culture, even as they ethnically cleanse the actual indigenous people from it.
For example, through posts sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, Miss Universe contestants have showcased their engagement with Palestinian food, clothing, and dance traditions — but they've called this culture, and the land and people from which it originated, “Israeli.”
November marks four years since the launch of our Deadly Exchange campaign! Four years of protesting and preventing top-ranking US police, ICE, and FBI officials from training with Israeli forces. Four years of painstaking research. Four years of actions. And four years of wins!
From legislative victories in Durham and New Orleans, to pressure campaigns in New England, to a recent campus win at Tufts, the Deadly Exchange campaign has grown through powerful coalitions and our belief that safety comes from investing in communities — not militarized police.
In 2018, Durham, NC became the first city in the United States to ban police exchanges with the Israeli military. This was followed up by wins in Vermont and Northampton, MA where local coalitions and JVP members used public pressure to successfully demand cancelled participation
@google and @amazon's cloud services strengthen the Israeli government's military occupation and apartheid rule, helping it surveil Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and inflict violence.
So, this #CyberMonday, Palestinians are giving them terrible reviews.
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These reviews, based on real Palestinian stories, show the devastating impact that @google and @amazon's cloud services have on Palestinians’ lives — from false criminalization, to home destruction and forced displacement, to restricted movement and access to basic necessities.
And @google and @amazon signed their $1 billion Project Nimbus contract RIGHT AFTER the Israeli military bombed Gaza relentlessly in May — at a time when the whole world was talking about Israeli apartheid, occupation, and violence against Palestinians.