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**Israeli snipers ‘shoot Palestinians for sport’**
>Eyewitness accounts reveal Israeli snipers are systematically targeting unarmed civilians, including children, using tactics that point to deliberate genocidal intent and a chilling policy of terror designed to annihilate a people, not just wage war.
Yesterday members of the Downtown Berrigan Collective, based in #Ithaca, NY, and other upstate peace activists went to the #Syracuse Federal Building to demand access to the offices of our US Senators Schumer and Gillibrand in order to exercise our right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. We wished to impress upon them the urgency of cutting off offensive weapons for Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples. When we were denied access we staged a sit-in in the security checkpoint area of the building. We were eventually dragged out of the building by Federal Marshals, and we continued our action outside the doors. One of us, Ellen Grady, was arrested by the Federal Department of Homeland Security Police.
The Senate will vote this week on blocking $20 billion in weapons to Israel.
Here is our statement:
**No More Weapons to Israel! Stop Arming Genocide!**
Israel has repeatedly and systematically targeted civilians in Gaza using US-supplied weapons, destroying civilian infrastructure including homes, schools and universities, hospitals, mosques and churches, and temporary shelters in so-called "safe zones" in Gaza. In addition, Israel's deliberate use of starvation as a weapon of war, alongside its denial of water, electricity, and medical supplies, constitute grave violations of international humanitarian law. Now, expanding its relentless bombardment, it has killed more than 2,400 Lebanese people, carrying out massacres and mass forced displacement in Lebanon, and dragging the entire region into full-blown war.
It is against US law to send a single weapon to any country grossly violating human rights. 61% of Americans say they want to cut off weapons to Israel. Our tax dollars must not be used for another illegal, immoral weapon giveaway to Israel!
For the first time in U.S. history, there will be a vote in Congress to block weapons to Israel. Senators Bernie Sanders (VT), Peter Welch (VT), Jeff Merkley (OR), and Brian Schatz (HI) have introduced Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to stop a $20 billion weapons shipment approved by the Biden administration.
We have come to the James M. Hanley Federal Building today to urge, even implore, New York's US Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to support the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval that would block the sale of offensive U.S. weaponry to Israel. The vote on these resolutions is imminent. The JRD is the only mechanism available to Congress to prevent these arms sales and we believe it is the Senators' legal and moral imperative to support and vote for the resolutions.
#uspol #Palestine #SavePalestine
The Electronic Intifada is hosting a livestream today.
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>It’s been 293 days since the International Court of Justice in The Hague ordered Israel to halt all killing and other genocidal acts against the Palestinian people.
>And it was 177 days ago that the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, two of the Israeli leaders directly responsible for the genocide.
>But Israel is only accelerating its extermination of Palestinians through continued bombing and starvation and expanding its attack on Lebanon, while the ICC has failed to issue any arrest warrants.
>After the news brief from Nora Barrows-Friedman, we’ll talk to Craig Mokhiber about why all paths to accountability for Israel appear to be blocked. We’ll also discuss what a second Trump administration might mean for Palestinians.
>Mokhiber is the senior human rights official who resigned from the UN more than a year ago over the world body’s inaction to halt the genocide.
Refaat Alareer (1979-2023), murdered by Israel and Biden-Harris (and you):
In atonement, will you contact your Senators to tell them to support the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval on Arms Sales to Israel?
They're literally a Steiner.
If you feel like doing something constructive with your time, please call your Senators tomorrow to tell them to vote for the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval on Arms Sales to Israel. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121
Thanks, but no: I'm not a fan of Hamas or Iran, like you are.
I actually care about people even if they're Jewish, unlike you antisemites.
Well, yes, Bernie Sanders is an antisemite, so that checks out.
cnn.com/2024/04/28/politics/sa…
'“I’m Jewish, all right? My father’s family was wiped out by Hitler. Antisemitism is a disgusting and vile form of bigotry which has killed millions of people,” Sanders, Independent from Vermont, said Sunday. “I would hope that every American condemns antisemitism. We condemn Islamophobia and all forms of bigotry.” '