Following a communications blackout in #gaza over 7,000 Palestinian lives lost and over a million more displaced, hundreds of Jewish Americans were arrested at #GrandCentral Station in what may be the biggest mass civil disobedience NYC has seen in two decades #CeaseFire#CeaseFireNow images via JVPNY on IG https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy67JZoAcsI/
I can't take any credit since I didn't even haul my ass out to any of this, but I am very pleased to be living in a place where, when Joe "Genocide" Biden came today, he was protested at the airport, protested at the rural farm he went to, protested by thousands outside his swanky fundraiser in downtown #Minneapolis...
... and even protested inside his swanky fundraiser, too. Local rabbi Jessica Rosenberg managed to get inside and demand a #ceasefire to Biden's face.
It's not enough, but sometimes it's still important that at a minimum, we demonstrate to the world that we do not agree with and do not respect the brutality of our rulers.
This is a short video of the rabbi's interruption of Biden, from Jewish Voice for Peace. #Gaza#Palestine
This is such an important article. I hope people read it.
There is a ceasefire proposal in front of Hamas, one drafted by Arab nations, and Hamas is rejecting it. It would rather see the war continue and the Gazans hurt or killed, rather than provide a reprieve.
Maybe that's because Hamas leadership isn't in Gaza. They live elsewhere, in other countries far away from the fighting, and yet on the ground, Hamas runs Gaza.
What Israel should or should not do, or how it should conduct the war is absolutely a question on the table, but fundamentally a ceasefire must be two ways, a ceasefire from both sides, and if Hamas does not accept one for the sake of the Palestinian people, then it's they should should be attacked by the media.
Gaza must be freed from Hamas so the people there can live full lives, and for the possibility of peace.
there are D.C. scum calling #StudentSpring "pro-HAMAS protests". the minute anybody in the #Biden admin parrots that shit, all bets are off with #Democrats.
so all liberals on here screaming #VoteBlue no matter who, y'all better get your asses in gear and tell every single person in the White House to drop that shit immediately.
am not some magical Cassandra. i have +30 years experience with the treachery of Democrats against antiwar activists.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling "for an immediate #ceasefire" in #Gaza — "tied to the release" of hostages held by #Hamas.
Après avoir poussé les Palestiniens à se réfugier dans le sud de la bande de Gaza, Israël lance l'offensive sur Rafah, où 1,3 million de civils palestiniens ont trouvé refuge. #Rafah#Israël#Gaza#CessezLeFeu#CeaseFire#CeasefireNOW
Today, movements, organizations and activists - #Jews and #Arabs - have published a joint declaration for #peace, calling (among other things) for a #ceasefire and negotiations for a political agreement.
Please help to share the declaration to make the voice of local activists heard and known!
"There are no winners in war. Only peace will bring security."
The president of #Barnard College lost a faculty-wide vote of no confidence on Tuesday, as criticism mounts over the school’s response to a pro- #Palestine 🇵🇸 encampment
It is the first no confidence vote against a president in the college’s history.
More than 800,000 people marched in London today in support of Palestine, possibly the biggest demonstration in the city ever -- all with one message: #ceasefire now!
#Israel has now dropped the equivalent of 150% as many tons of explosives on #Gaza as the US dropped in atomic bombs on #Hiroshima. I am sure you have seen the photos of what that did to Hiroshima.
25,000 tons of explosives on Gaza means 70 TONS of explosives dropped for EACH & EVERY square km of Gaza. Or 180 tons/sq mi.
It would be like dropping 8500 TONS of explosives across every inch of #SanFrancisco.
Gallup: Only 22.5% of Democrats now support military aid for #Israel, 83% want a permanent #ceasefire. And only 41% of Republicans want military aid for Israel, and 58% want a permanent ceasefire.
It also separately shows 68% of Americans are paying attn to this issue. #uspol
Pro-peace demonstrators march with a banner and broken heart signs calling for a ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza during a protest in Tel Aviv on December 9, 2023 [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]
Stern statement from Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Jordan yesterday, after his trip to Rafah. Anyone who respects human rights & wants to know what's happening in Israel-Palestine should read this in its entirety.
HCHR calls for Member States to press urgently for an immediate #CeaseFire
"the complete siege now lasting over one month has made it an agony for residents in Gaza...to survive. All forms of #CollectivePunishment must come to an end."
"The bitter reality for us, Palestinians in Gaza, is that we are alone, beleaguered, under siege, and are seen as undesirables even by some of those who are supposed to be our brethren. Forty-five days of barbaric massacres have claimed the lives of more than 14,000 people, including more than 6,000 children and 3,500 women."
“In memory of the murdered and for the sake of the living, we must act together – Jews and Arabs – for the release of the kidnapped and captives, for the end of the war, for the end of the occupation and the conflict, for peace.”
Ceasefire and peace negations based on mutual recognition
If you're demanding a #ceasefire in #Gaza but not calling for #ReleaseGazaHostages & demanding #BringThemHome & #HamasSurrender then you are not working for peace. You are working for the enemies of democracy & decency, and the destruction of all you claim to hold dear.