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Washington, D.C. | Educators for Palestine is deeply disappointed with the decision of the National Education Association’s Board of Directors to nullify the majority vote to “Drop the ADL” at its recent convention. 
These attacks are far from isolated incidents; they are a key part of the Israeli government’s policy of de facto annexation. The Israeli military both enables and relies on settlers to carry out violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, like home demolitions and land grabs, in order to further the Israeli government’s goals of ethnic cleansing and total occupation.
Over 30 nations gathered in Bogota this week, including Algeria, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Chile, China, Cuba, Djibouti, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Mexico, Namibia, Nicaragua, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Qatar, Turkey, Slovenia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Uruguay, and Venezuela.
The Handala convoy includes @huwaidaarraf, co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement and original Gaza flotilla organizer; American labor leader @Shut_downAmazon, known for co-founding the Amazon Labor Union; Canadian primary care physician @yipengGe ; Bob Suberi, a Jewish US-Israeli veteran; and Jacob Berger, a Jewish Swiss actor among other international activists.
For Palestinians who are already being starved and systematically denied shelter from the heat, the sea is a lifeline both as a source of fresh food and as relief from the suffocating heat.
Over the past 20 months, the Israeli military has rapidly escalated its campaign of ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank, hand in hand with Israeli settler violence—displacing, killing, and erasing Palestinian communities at the fastest pace in decades.
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.