Yesterday, masses of @amazon and @google workers led protests in 4 cities, demanding both companies end their contracts with Israel.
These workers risked their jobs to stop Google and Amazon from profiting from Israeli apartheid and using workers’ labor to harm Palestinians. 🧵
Worker-led #NoTechForApartheid protests in SF, Seattle, Durham, and NYC drew crowds of up to 300, rallying community members who came out in solidarity with Palestinians and the workers themselves.
Workers don't want to build technology that powers Israeli apartheid.
So they bravely put their jobs and safety on the line to stop @google and @amazon from using their labor to help the Israeli government and military surveil, oppress, and inflict violence on Palestinians.
Workers make their companies run, so their growing, united opposition to @amazon and @google’s complicity in Israeli oppression and violence has serious power.
The action in Durham — where Google recently opened a new office — was a spontaneous, rapid-response mobilization led by workers who were inspired to be part of this exciting wave of direct actions.
The Israeli government has abandoned all pretenses for its goal of ethnically cleansing of all Palestinians from their land, accelerating its genocide in Gaza and engineering the largest land theft in the occupied West Bank in over thirty years.
Last week, war criminal and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu promised the Israeli military would expand its genocidal assault to achieve the Israeli military’s “permanent maintenance of the territory [of Gaza],” a pledge of mass death, expulsion and total land theft.
Netanyahu also made the terrifying promise that the “final stage” of the Israeli government’s genocide will be the implementation of Trump’s plan for “voluntary migration” and “selling Gaza.”
Yesterday, Palestinians located the bodies of 15 aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza. One week after two ambulances were directly shot at by the Israeli military, the bodies of these Red Crescent workers were finally found handcuffed and crushed under their ambulances, concealed in a mass grave.🧵
The @PalestineRCS recovered the bodies of eight medics, six civil defense workers, and one UN employee, all killed when the Israeli military opened fire on them in Rafah while they were en route to provide first aid. A spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza said that each retrieved body was riddled with around 20 gunshots from the Israeli military. A ninth PCRS medic is still missing.
This is the deadliest attack on Red Cross or Red Crescent workers worldwide in nearly a decade. The medics killed by the Israeli military are Mustafa Khafaja, Ezz El-Din Shaat, Saleh Muammar, Refaat Radwan, Muhammad Bahloul, Ashraf Abu Libda, Muhammad Al-Hila, and Raed Al-Sharif.
Project Esther is here. Students and faculty at universities across the country are being targeted by ICE for deportation due to their support for Palestine under the guise of fighting antisemitism. The Trump regime is pulling funding to blackmail universities into complying with authoritarian restrictions on free speech and curriculum.
The JVP Academic Advisory Council’s report on Project Esther argues that, “The architects of Project Esther aren't interested in fighting antisemitism, even in this moment of rising white nationalism – instead, they're building a machine to crush dissent by any means necessary.”
And this is only the beginning. As Project Esther, a policy proposal designed by the far-Right think tank the Heritage Foundation, reveals, the attacks on the Palestine movement are only a blueprint. The Trump regime, under the false pretext of combatting antisemitism, will then proceed to dismantle the entire progressive left.
Yesterday, we watched in horror and disgust as newly released footage showed masked ICE agents surrounding a terrified Rumeysa, a PhD student at Tufts University, handcuffing her on the street and taking her away.
Like previous abductions of people without US citizenship who expressed support for Palestine, Rumeysa’s lawyer was unable to locate her for several hours.
The Israeli military is committing genocide against Palestinians at the fastest rate since October 2023. Since the Israeli government violated the ceasefire nearly a week ago, the Israeli military has killed nearly 700 Palestinians, including at least 400 women and children.🧵
Last week, the Israeli military invaded Rafah and retook the Netzarim Corridor, dividing Gaza and further displacing Palestinians, massacring fleeing families, and targeting the injured. Evacuation notices and so-called humanitarian zones mask further Israeli bombardment. Yesterday, Israeli warplanes bombed Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, killing at least five Palestinians and injuring many more.
The Israeli military has blocked all humanitarian aid to Gaza for 22 days, longer than the October 2023 siege. With no food, medicine, water, or fuel allowed in, @UNWRA reports Palestinians have enough flour for only four more days.
“They ordered all of us, men and women, to take off our clothes and to continue walking, ordering us to only look forward. I was walking naked between the tanks, not even wearing underwear. An Israeli soldier spit in my face. I forced myself not to react as I knew they would break every bone in my body if I did” — A Palestinian man recounting his evacuation through Salah al-Din Street, Gaza
Sexual, reproductive, and gender-based violence occurs in almost all wars and genocides, and Gaza is no exception. Torture and humiliation is a tool of repressive regimes to punish and try to destroy the spirit of anyone who challenges their oppression. A new report from the UN titled “More Than a Human Can Bear” shares harrowing accounts of sexual, reproductive, and other forms of gender-based violence committed by Israeli forces and settlers against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank since October 2023.
The report details a variety of abhorrent practices by the Israeli military and settlers against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank: the military targeting of Palestinian women and girls, military attacks on sexual and reproductive healthcare facilities, starvation as a form of reproductive violence, sexual harassment and shaming of Palestinian women, filming and photographing of sexual acts against Palestinian men and boys, sexual violence during checkpoints and evacuations and more.