Every child deserves to dream of flying—of soaring above the clouds, unburdened by fear.

On November 2nd, @activestills reported how, “amid ongoing Israeli attacks on Khan Yunis and continued displacement, children sought refuge on a large hill where army vehicles were once stationed in Hamad Town… They traveled from distant areas to escape the atmosphere of war, finding a place to play and have fun after a year of being unable to visit amusement parks.”🧵 This week, a Palestinian NGO in Gaza released a new study revealing that 96% of children in Gaza, enduring the horrors of war, believe their death is imminent due to the immense trauma they have experienced. Almost half of the Palestinians killed by the Israeli military in Gaza are under 18 years old.

The trauma Palestinian children endure is entirely caused by the Israeli government, rooted in its settler-colonial agenda of seizing Palestinian land and erasing the Palestinian people.

All people have the right to bodily autonomy: to choose whether to have children and to raise families in safe, supportive communities. Yet right now, as the Israeli military is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Palestinian families are losing this fundamental right.🧵 The Israeli military’s ruthless bombing campaign is forcing pregnant women in Gaza to face unimaginable horrors as hospitals are decimated, prenatal care is obliterated, and women are killed before and after pregnancy because seeking medical help has become a deadly risk.

Two weeks ago, Dr. Areej Hijazi, an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Emirati Hospital in Rafah, wrote in Mondoweiss how, “in many cases, pregnant women who need to undergo a cesarean section are refusing to stay in the hospital even overnight because hospitals and their surroundings have been repeatedly targeted by Israeli aggression. Many chose to attempt to recover in overcrowded schools that lack basic living necessities out of fear for their lives.”

Over 400 days into the U.S-backed, Israeli genocide of Palestinians, none of us pictured we’d be here. So if you’re feeling hopeless or uncertain about how we move forward together once Trump takes office — you’re not alone. 🧵 That’s why we’re gathering in one week to understand the shifting terrain, get clear on strategy, and get organized for the next phase of the work.

The place to do that is the quarterly JVP Virtual Mass Meeting on Thursday, December 19 from 7:30-9pm ET. Register at jvp.org/massmembermeet…

“How is it possible we are alive until now?” — journalist Eman Shanti in her last post before an Israeli airstrike killed her, her husband Helmi, and their three children Alma, Omar, and Bilal. This morning, the Israeli military targeted an apartment building where Palestinians in Gaza’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood were sheltering.

This past weekend, the Assad regime fell to opposition forces, after ruling for 50 brutal years, and nearly 14 years of civil war fueled by a number of different foreign countries including Russia, Iran, the US, Turkey, Israel, numerous Gulf states and more. The Israeli military responded to the fall of the Assad regime by invading and seizing part of Syria’s Golan Heights in violation of its 1974 agreement with the Syrian government, following its illegal annexation of Syrian land during the 1967 war. During the first Trump administration, the United States recognized Israel's sovereignty over the Golan — a move that Biden refused to reverse.

37 years ago today in the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza, Palestinians initiated the First Intifada, a period from 1987-1993 of popular resistance against the Israeli government’s occupation. The word intifada, which literally translates to “shaking off,” is widely used to describe uprisings and protests for liberation. When people call for an intifada, they are calling for an end to Israeli oppression of Palestinians – they’re calling for freedom. The First Intifada rapidly spread across Gaza, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. Palestinians rose up against Israeli military occupation in all sectors of civil society, and they used a wide variety of tactics: From economic and work strikes, to boycotts, to setting up secret schools, to tax resistance, to demonstrations, to slingshots and throwing stones and even to running their own time zones. While the Intifada emerged spontaneously, quickly local committees were organized to support the popular resistance. The uprisings lasted for nearly six years, and hold deep significance in the history of the Palestinian struggle.

The same Christian Nationalists and racists behind Project 2025 have a plan for the Palestine solidarity movement — and all progressive movements. And it's on all of us to stop it. 🧵 The same people behind Project 2025 recently published Project Esther, a guide to repressing and criminalizing the Palestine Movement, as a way to fast-track authoritarian fascism in the US.

They say they only need 12-24 months. Under Trump, that clock starts now.

BREAKING: BDS Movement Win

BDS works! Sabra, a long-time target of the BDS movement, has been dropped by one of its parent companies, the Strauss Group. Sabra, which mass produces culturally appropriated hummus and other Arab foods, has been a BDS target for years due to profits from its sales being used to support the Israeli military. There have been many successful local campaigns to remove it from the shelves of stores across the world. Sabra’s sales in the US suffered a massive blow following intensified boycotts in 2023 and 2024 during the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza.

Last week, a settler tried to damage a Palestinian family’s olive trees in the village of Shi’b al Batim in Masafer Yatta. When Palestinians called the police for assistance, more settlers and Israeli soldiers arrived. While Israeli soldiers stormed the family’s house, a police officer arrested one Palestinian man.

The settlers faced no consequences. While so many elements of this story — the harassment of Palestinians on their land, the coordination between Israeli settlers and police, the destruction of Palestinian agriculture — are harrowing, none of it is unusual.

Nowhere is safe. We know where this leads—this is a death march.

https://twitter.com/MosabAbuToha/status/1864257832922599794

On October 5, 2024, the Israeli military launched the largest set of mass displacement orders in North Gaza since October 2023, forcing 400,000 Palestinians to either leave or die.

Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.

This year, as Palestinians in Gaza continue to endure 14 months of US-backed Israeli genocide, standing in international solidarity with Palestinians is more crucial than ever. The international community has met this horrifying political movement with unprecedented solidarity with Palestinians in their struggle against genocide, for freedom, self-determination, and the right of return. We stand with them.

On this day, Indigenous people and allies confront the settler-colonial narratives of “Thanksgiving,” observing it instead as a National Day of Mourning. The whitewashed story of unity with the Wampanoag people—who have long lived in southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island—obscures the true history and ongoing violence against Indigenous life.🧵 Today and every day, we contemplate parallels between the colonization of Turtle Island and Palestine. Supporting Palestinians’ right to return and right to self-determination in their homeland goes hand in hand with supporting Indigenous people’s demand for #LandBack —for restoration of Indigenous sovereignty and stewardship, and respect for their deep connection to and knowledge of their lands.

The devastating loss of Palestinian life to Israeli AI technology is made more chilling by the fact that, this September, the Israeli government signed the first global "safety" AI treaty, the Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence.

https://twitter.com/TamamBeitJirja/status/1858774271411015767

The treaty claims to be a legal framework governing AI systems to mitigate risks to human rights, democracy, and the rule of law—but the Israeli military is using AI to do precisely the opposite.

The Asian American Foundation (TAAF) was founded by Asian American billionaires during the rise of the Stop Asian Hate movement. Their mission is to foster a safer and more inclusive future for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Now, they’re facing backlash for their longstanding partnership with The Anti-Defamation League.

via @18millionrising and @jvplive The ADL’s main priority isn’t the safety of Jews or anyone, it’s shielding the genocidal state of Israel from accountability at all costs. The ADL peacocks as an organization whose purpose is to keep Jews safe. Instead, they use their political power, along with Zionist rhetoric, as a forceful tool against any organization or person that does not support the state of Israel.

The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is one of the oldest and largest organizations behind the theft of Palestinian land and the support of segregated, Jewish-only settlements on this stolen land. 🧵 Now, the JNF seems to be fueling and providing cover for genocide of Palestinians — all by claiming to do so in the name of Jewish safety.

The US government refuses to hold the Israeli government accountable — again — and instead is choosing to enable the mass starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Thirty-one days ago, the Biden administration issued the Israeli government an official ultimatum: end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza by November 12th, or face consequences. The Israeli government didn’t.

Yesterday, the far-right Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced that he ordered preparations to annex the occupied West Bank, boasting that 2025 will be “the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.” Judea and Samaria is how the Israeli state refers to the West Bank, in an attempt to claim religious ownership over the land by connecting it to the Jewish bible. The Israeli government has been systemically eroding Palestinian governance over the occupied West Bank through military violence, the destruction of homes and settlement expansion in the three decades since the Oslo Accords, which ostensibly granted Palestinian control over the occupied West Bank but instead served to obscure the realities of Israeli apartheid and occupation and eradicate popular resistance. Now, the Israeli government is making explicit its end-goal of full colonization, which is the only logical conclusion of Zionism.

The Israeli military is escalating its targeting of Palestinian families in Masafer Yatta. In September, the Israeli military declared one of Masafer Yatta’s villages, Umm al-Khair, a closed military zone. This means Palestinian residents will be subject to even more demolitions and violence from Israeli forces. Now, Jewish supremacist settlers are using their illegal outpost — “Avigail” — to continue stealing Palestinian land.

While millions of Americans cast their ballots, our tax dollars continue to fund the eradication of Palestinians from North Gaza. From Gaza to Lebanon, the US is enabling the Israeli military to inflict a litany of atrocities across the entire region. On Friday, the heads of 15 humanitarian organizations issued the grave warning that the entire population of North Gaza is at “imminent risk of dying.” And news of the ongoing atrocities coming out of Gaza only emphasize the myriad of ways the US is allowing the Israeli military to carry out genocide.

In the past year, the Israeli military killed more than 180 media workers in Gaza and at least eight in Lebanon. Now, the Israeli government is attempting to preemptively justify the assassination of the few remaining journalists in North Gaza, who are documenting the Israeli military’s horrific campaign of extermination. This is just the latest tactic in the Israeli government’s wider strategy of systematic attacks on the media to cover up its war crimes. 🧵 Last week, the Israeli government designated six journalists as members of Hamas in order to lay the groundwork for justifying the Israeli military’s potential assassinations. These six journalists–Anas Al Jamal, Hossam Shabat, Talal Aruki, Alaa Salama, Ismail Abu Omar, and Ashraf Saraj–report from the frontlines, and they risk everything to document Israeli war crimes. And now, the Israeli government has placed a target on their backs.

The student movement for a liberated Palestine isn’t going anywhere! And as they stand with their Palestinian peers, Jewish students are bravely demonstrating that their Judaism is inseparable from their in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We stand with them.

To honor the Jewish festival of Sukkot, hundreds of JVP students and other Jewish student groups across the country erected Gaza Solidarity Sukkahs on their campuses. Inside the beautifully decorated, hand-made Sukkahs, Jewish students gathered in prayer and protest as the Israeli government continues to invoke Judaism to fuel its genocide.🧵 Students built Sukkahs on at least 22 campuses. Almost half were forcibly dismantled by university police and staff, and in some cases destroyed by pro-genocide agitators. In destroying students’ Gaza Solidarity Sukkahs, universities confirmed their primary goal of silencing support for Palestinian freedom, even at the expense of Jewish practice.