Understanding how we got to this horrific moment in history — the US giving unconditional support and funding for the Israeli government to massacre Palestinians — requires a commitment to clarity about how we got here.

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The total and expanding devastation in Gaza is a result of Zionism. Zionism, in the words of its founders, is an explicitly “colonial” ideology.

Last night, the Israeli military carpet-bombed Gaza, killing at least 404 people, including many children, and injuring over 562 in its renewed attacks in one of the deadliest single-day tolls since the start of the Israeli military's 15-month-long genocide against Palestinians. At the same time, the Israeli military launched a sweeping assault across the occupied West Bank, terrorizing and detaining Palestinians while causing widespread destruction. 🧵 Since the beginning of the ceasefire, the Israeli military has already killed at least 150 Palestinians in Gaza, including aid workers, continuously breaking the ceasefire.

Last night, Palestinian journalists reported Israeli airstrikes targeting dozens of schools, tents, mosques, and apartments all at once, using more than 100 war planes. In Gaza City, Palestinian Hani Mahmoud told Al-Jazeera, “as of now, there is not a single safe place across Gaza. People are dying inside their homes, they’re dying inside public facilities, and they’re dying inside schools they’ve turned to for shelter.”

The Israeli military is still killing Palestinians in Gaza — and the US government continues to use our tax dollars to fund it. Mainstream media would like you to believe that Palestinians in Gaza are “returning to normal” following 15 months of genocide. This couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Free Mahmoud Khalil! There is no other way to put it: Mahmoud Khalil’s illegal detention at the hands of the Trump administration is horrific.

DHS agents ripped Mahmoud Khalil from his home, threatening his immigration status, and detaining him, solely because of his political beliefs. This is a clear attempt by President Trump to silence dissent, chill speech, and attack our freedoms. Ideas are not illegal, and there is no “controversial speech” exception to the First Amendment. Our right to free speech includes advocacy for Palestine. We will not be intimidated. We will not be stopped. We will fight until Mahmoud Khalil is free. We will fight until Palestine is free.

Last night the Jewish holiday of Purim began, where we celebrate and honor the courage it takes to resist state violence and empire. We stand in solidarity with Palestinians who face increased violence on Purim, while already enduring the Israeli government’s genocide and occupation. Since March 2nd, the Israeli military has deliberately blocked all aid from entering Gaza, a repeated war crime. The over 2 million Palestinians living in Gaza are spending the holy month of Ramadan starving and deprived of basic needs like shelter, medicine, and electricity.

Today marks what would have been the 84th birthday of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, whose words continue to resonate across generations and borders. Darwish’s writing captured the pain of displacement, the struggle for justice, and a profound longing for home, while weaving images of nature—anemones, lapis lazuli, gazelles, and olives. His poetry inspired generations, blending personal longing with political resistance.

HAPPENING NOW: Police arrested hundreds of protestors including Jewish elders, descendants of Holocaust survivors, and students, dragging them out of a sit-in at Trump Tower by their arms and legs.

Jews say: Free Mahmoud, Free Palestine!
On Saturday, ICE agents abducted Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil from his home. This is the first attempt by the administration to put into practice Trump’s Executive Order which promises to revoke the visas of students protesting against Israel’s genocide of Gaza as part of a so-called crackdown on antisemitism.

BREAKING: Hundreds of U.S. Jews and friends are taking over the Trump Tower to say: Come for one, face us all. On Saturday, ICE agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist, recent graduate of Columbia University and U.S. permanent resident as he returned home from an Iftar with his wife, who is 8 months pregnant.

Palestinians in Gaza are facing severe thirst, disease, and starvation after the Israeli government abruptly cut off all electricity to Gaza two days ago. The Israeli military has not allowed any humanitarian aid into Gaza for 9 days. 🧵 The blackout drastically reduced clean water from Gaza’s only functioning desalination plant and forced a wastewater treatment plant to stop working . The power cuts came on the eighth day of the Israeli military’s renewed blockade of humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza all while Palestinians are observing Ramadan.

On March 8, DHS agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a U.S. permanent resident and student activist for Palestinian rights, from his New York apartment. Mahmoud was targeted for his political speech and activism in support of Palestinian freedom and for an end to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. 🧵 Mahmoud is currently being held in an ICE facility, reportedly already moved out of New York, and could face imminent deportation. His wife, a U.S. citizen, is eight months pregnant.

Food. Water. Medicine. Electricity. Tents and blankets. Two days ago the Israeli government announced it was blocking all humanitarian aid into Gaza — a horrific collective punishment on Palestinian families across Gaza during the month of Ramadan. According to international law, collective punishment is a war crime. 🧵

Photo: @majdi_fathi All through the ceasefire that began on January 15th, the Israeli military continually violated its terms, killing at least 118 Palestinians in Gaza and wounding 490.

Last week, the first stage of the ceasefire ended when the Israeli government unilaterally withdrew from the agreed-upon process. In addition to opening fire on Palestinians in Gaza, the Israeli military also violated the first phase of the ceasefire by refusing to withdraw from the Philadelphia corridor in the middle of Gaza.

Over the weekend Steve Bannon:

- Proclaimed support for Israel
- Did a sieg heil salute
- Issued threats against progressive American Jews.

Bannon and his actions epitomize what it means to be an antisemitic supporter of Israel in our government. Steve Bannon is a known white supremacists and antisemite. He is also a vocal supporter of the Israeli government and close collaborator with Trump and his authoritarian regime.

This past Monday, Israeli police forces raided two Palestinian-owned bookstores in East Jerusalem, including the Educational Bookshop, a long-time hub of Palestinian culture, and arrested the two co-owners, Mahmoud Muna and Ahmad Muna. Their crime? Selling books about Palestine. The Israeli government calls that “inciting violence.” Israeli police stormed into the bookstore, searching for books that contained Palestinian flags. Because the Educational Bookshop primarily sells books in English, the officers used google translate to find books that they could remove and use as an excuse to arrest the shop owners. In the end, they seized eight books, including a children’s coloring book.

Jews say NO to ethnic cleansing! We’re proud to see so many members of the JVP Rabbinical Council represented among the 350 rabbis who took out this full-page ad in the New York Times today, using their voices in this moment to oppose Trump’s plans for the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. This is a critical moment in history. As the US and Israeli governments push forward with plans for the forced removal of Palestinians from Gaza, Jewish voices must be clear and unwavering: We say no to ethnic cleansing and to genocide.

The Israeli government is using US tax dollars to carry out a mass ethnic cleansing campaign across the occupied West Bank. Since signing the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, Israeli forces have displaced almost 40,000 Palestinians from their homes. The majority of Jenin refugee camp’s 20,000 residents were forcibly displaced from their homes by the Israeli military.

On Tu Bishvat, the Jewish new year for trees, we stand with Palestinians against the Israeli government’s systematic destruction of their land. As anti-Zionist Jews, we mark this holiday by resisting Israeli apartheid and colonialism on Palestinian land on the lands we live on. 🧵 This week, Israeli bulldozers razed farmland and roads in Jenin, escalating devastation to levels unseen in over two decades in the occupied West Bank.

According to the Palestine Bureau’s agriculture census, 82.4% of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank own land used for agriculture, many of whom are dedicated cultivators, making this destruction especially devastating to their livelihoods and heritage. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians across Palestine rely on the fall olive harvest for their income, including more than 15% of working women.

The destruction of Palestinian homes, communities, and artwork is devastating.

And in spite of the repeated destruction, the message of Palestinians in Masafer Yatta remains true: Palestinians will not leave. Over the past few weeks the Israeli military ramped up their ongoing assaults on Masafer Yatta — a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank — working with Jewish supremacist settlers to burn and destroy homes and property and arrest anyone who dissents.

The Trump administration is launching an aggressive campaign to attack free speech. His first target? Universities where students have organized for Palestinian freedom. Trump is using Jewish safety and the specter of antisemitism as tools to silence calls for Palestinian liberation on campuses. Last week, President Trump signed several Executive Orders that were supposedly issued to address antisemitism, but do nothing for Jewish safety and instead clearly target the Palestine movement. One order lays the groundwork for deporting international students who have spoken up for Palestine.

Today, President Trump conducted his first meeting at the White House with a foreign leader. And it was with Israeli Prime Minister and war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. 🧵 Netanyahu faces multiple arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Many countries have pledged to carry out the ICC’s charges. Instead, the US is welcoming him with open arms, and threatening to sanction the ICC.

This is despicable, blatantly racist, and genocidal. For the past 15 months, the world has watched the Israeli military’s live-streamed genocide that these words uphold and defend.

It’s even more appalling that these declarations of genocidal intent come from a board member of the US Holocaust Memorial Council. Ensuring that Never Again means Never Again for Anyone requires calling out racism and bigotry whenever we see it, no matter where it comes from. As Jews committed to collective liberation, we hold our communities accountable as we work to build a future where everyone is safe and everyone is free.

All eyes on Jenin in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli military is now deploying the same tactics it used in Gaza.

Yesterday, the Israeli military blew up a residential street in the Jenin refugee camp, leveling up to 20 homes in the ad-Damj neighbourhood in a massive series of explosions. Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that the blasts were so powerful they were heard across the city and in surrounding towns.🧵 In just 31 days, the Israeli military has killed over 70 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, with the northern areas—Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas—bearing the brunt of the Israeli military’s deadly Operation Iron Wall. In the past week alone, the Israeli military killed 22 Palestinians, while Israeli settlers continue to escalate their takeover of Palestinian land through illegal settlement expansion and pogroms.