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CUFI is the largest pro-Israel organization in the US, boasting over 8 million members (more than all American Jews combined).
But for the second year in a row, Israel is starving Palestinians on Eid al-Adha while continuing to commit genocide against them.
The Israeli government is using starvation as a tool of genocide, and deliberately manufacturing conditions meant to bring about the destruction of the Palestinian people.
The routes to aid distribution centers mirror Israeli military raid paths, revealing a militarized infrastructure designed not to deliver aid, but to enforce displacement and control over the Palestinian population.
Starving Palestinians, forced to wait for hours in the sun outside an aid facility near al-Mawasi in Rafah after walking an average of 9.3 miles , finally surged inside after relentless delays and invasive surveillance and security checks—not just in search of food, but in an attempt to survive., Apparently, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a US-funded, Swiss-registered operation led by a former US Marine set up to bypass established NGOs and UN agencies—lost control of the facility and fled.
While not new, these attacks are a major escalation in the Israeli government's plans of ethnic cleansing. For the past 19 months, the Israeli military has been executing a planned genocide through bombing homes and critical infrastructure, targeting hospitals, assassinating journalists, and enacting a military siege that prevents Palestinians in Gaza from accessing food, water, aid or fuel.
We were thrilled to host speakers including Dr. Angela Davis, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, author Naomi Klein, lawyer Noura Erakat, BDS Movement co-founder Omar Barghouti, Congresswoman Cori Bush and Rabbi Ariana Katz of the Hinenu Baltimore synagogue, along with movement leaders and rabbis from all over the country.
We are overjoyed to offer our congratulations to Palestinian writer, poet, and truth-teller Mosab Abu Toha. Mosab won the Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles he wrote documenting the Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza for the New Yorker.
Zionism, in the words of its 19th century European founders, is an explicitly “colonial” political ideology that claims Jewish safety from antisemitic persecution requires a Jewish-only nation-state. 
Rabbi Rosen writes, “As the Jewish community prepares to observe Passover this year, I’m thinking a great deal about the centrality of children to the Exodus story we tell around the seder table. In particular, I’m struck that this narrative from the Torah begins with a terrifying description of atrocities committed against children. Among other things, the Exodus story drives home the tragically familiar truth that children are not mere casualties of wartime atrocities, but are actually targeted by state violence.
We are outside Federal Plaza to say: Stop arming Israel. End Israel's genocide in Gaza. Free political prisoners held by ICE. Stop the attacks on immigrants, trans people, and students.
On October 17 2023, @GhassanAbuSitt1 delivered a press conference following a massacre by the Israeli military in the courtyard of Al-Ahli hospital that killed over 471 Palestinians.
No food, water, fuel, or aid has entered in over a month, and conditions worsen each day, as Palestinians are pushed into smaller and smaller areas within Gaza.
This year is unlike any other. We cannot feast while there is famine. This Passover, we gather not to celebrate, but to demand and dream of liberation for all.
Right now, the Israeli military is carpet-bombing Gaza and using starvation as a weapon of war as it continues to kill Palestinians with impunity. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is attacking our movements, detaining and abducting those who have spoken out for Palestinian rights.