Jews organizing toward Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism
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In July, Israeli authorities revoked the licenses of 6 Palestinian schools for curriculums they claimed “incited against the state.” Schools were only given permission to operate if their lessons were modified. Schools that adopt Israeli-approved textbooks will get extra funds.
1 week before school starts in Masafer Yatta: 
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. 
As Leslie noted in a speech to the Palestinian queer women’s group Aswat in 2007, nations from the US to Israel “use the experiences of women, of gays, of transgenders as pretexts for imperialist war” even as they support anti-LGBT policies and nations that serve their interests.
Pegasus sypware enables the Israeli dirty tech giant NSO full access to targeted devices and data without the user clicking any malware. The rise of dangerous technology like Pegasus spyware marks the exportation of Palestinian mass surveillance to global civil society.
Along with 100s of other workers, Ariel Koren has spent over a year organizing against Google’s $1.2B contract with the Israeli government and military, which helps them surveil Palestinians, expand illegal settlements, and inflict violence on Palestinians under occupation.
Staring down the barrel of “administrative detention,” or indefinite incarceration by Israel without due process, Khalil Awawdeh courageously decided to join a long legacy of Palestinian hunger strikers, many of whom successfully achieved their freedom. 
Last week, the Israeli military's bombs in Gaza killed 48 Palestinians, including 16 children.
While many Jews have heard the narratives that Zionists “made the desert bloom” and settled on a “land without a people,” these are actually colonial myths used to justify the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people and violent takeover of Palestinian land and resources. 
Since the blockade began in 2007, the Israeli military waged 4 wars in Gaza. In the last war in 2021, the Israeli military killed 278 Palestinians.
As anti-Zionist Jews, we oppose Joe Biden's visit to occupied Palestinian land.
Last July, we celebrated when the Palestine solidarity movement convinced @benandjerrys to end sales in illegal Israeli settlements. 
The parallels between the colonization of Turtle Island and Palestine include land theft.
In 2015, at the age of 13, Israeli forces raided Ahmad’s Jerusalem neighborhood. Ahmad witnessed them shoot and kill his cousin before being run over by an Israeli car. Video showed Ahmad laying in a pool of his own blood while Israeli settlers shouted, “Die, son of a bitch!”
For prisoners, hunger strikes are the last and only available form of resistance.
2,400 Palestinians face imminent homelessness in Masafer Yatta after an Israeli high court ruling last month. If this forced expulsion goes through, it will be the largest since 1967.
Testimonies reveal a pattern: parents were forced to hospitalize their children. They were told their children had died, but the bodies were withheld and death certificates never issued. Some were given to Ashkenazi parents, and some were used for medical experiments.