Israel has been rocked by an explosion of protests in recent weeks, with trade unions staging a general strike on September 2 and an estimated 750,000 Israelis taking to the streets on September 7 to demand a hostage deal with Hamas.
'We were standing, visible to the army, just standing around not doing anything. Nothing was happening. I heard two shots,' says a fellow protester who also attended the demonstration where Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed.
We spoke with Uncommitted movement cofounder Abbas Alawieh about the movement’s accomplishments at the DNC, the disaster of a Trump presidency for Palestine, and Uncommitted’s vision to change the Democratic Party’s support for slaughter in Gaza.
In addition to a press conference with foreign media, Netanyahu dispatched his confidant Ron Dermer to US media to address the hostage negotiations, as the PM is anxious about increasing U.S. media attention on the hostage families' criticism of him.
US policies strengthen Benjamin Netanyahu – whose political preference in the short term is an open-ended war, not a deal. Netanyahu is a loose cannon, which Kamala Harris should have no interest in reloading 10 weeks out from an election.
The NAACP calls on President Biden to draw the 'red line' and indefinitely end the shipment of weapons and artillery to the state of Israel. It is one thing to call for a ceasefire, it is another to take measures necessary towards liberation for all.
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“I can no longer in good conscience represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza,” Greenberg Call, 27, wrote in her resignation letter. She attended Jewish day school....
"Nothing about this project is in alignment with Biden's climate and environmental justice goals," said one campaigner.
An all-too-rare organization of Israeli Palestinians and Jews works for an unfantastical solution to the enduring conflict. What sets Standing Together apart is the realism that informs their strategy, politically marginal as that realism now may be.
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