Not Welcome: Jewish & Palestinian Activists Protest Netanyahu’s Address to Congress
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Some 400 Jewish activists, including over a dozen rabbis, were arrested Tuesday during a sit-in inside the Capitol to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress and demand an immediate U.S. weapons embargo on Israel. “It is absolutely shameful that congressional leadership has invited a war criminal, who is currently leading a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, to address a joint session of Congress,” says Beth Miller, political director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action. Lawmakers have rolled out a “blood-soaked red carpet to a war criminal” by inviting Benjamin Netanyahu, adds Palestinian American organizer Linda Sarsour, co-founder of the Muslim advocacy group MPower Action. Tuesday’s civil disobedience protest was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. We are also joined by Noa Grayevsky, member of Jewish Voice for Peace-Portland, who joined the protest and whose cousin’s close friend was taken hostage on October 7.
  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    391·
    5 个月前

    I don’t understand how Netanyahu gets so much support in the U.S. Not anymore.

    Like, who is supporting him? It’s not really trumpsters or religious groups anymore, right? Is it just inertia?

    • enkers@sh.itjust.works
      241·
      5 个月前

      Arms manufacturers bribe lobby politicians to send tax dollars to Israel via weapons shipments. It’s mostly about money.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        131·
        5 个月前

        Yeah well that only goes so far. See: Ukraine, who need all the weapons they can get but are still facing opposition.

        • enkers@sh.itjust.works
          112·
          5 个月前

          I think boomers are also a bit more unconditionally supportive of the state of Israel for some reason as well. Perhaps (and this is my speculation) they were more propagandized than younger people whom have better access to global communication and cultural exchange, and were therefore more Arabophobic on average.

          Also, Israel is the US’s military foothold in the middle east, so it’s there as power projection to the oil-rich countries in the vicinity.

          • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
            31·
            5 个月前

            Anti Netanyahu is not the same thing as anti Israel.

            Its like saying you’re anti American for supporting some controversial US politician, though TBH we don’t have a good equivalent to him.

            • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
              4·
              5 个月前

              Anti Netanyahu is not the same thing as anti Israel.

              He wants people to think it is though, and uses Israel’s propaganda machine to get them to

            • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
              2·
              5 个月前

              Perhaps this is true but if he leaves office, the genocide will continue apace. It may ebb but it will always be center to Israel’s project. There is a lot of internal conflict in Israel and fascism is boiling over.

              • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
                2·
                5 个月前

                This is like saying the US will never change either.

                Leaders can change the direction of the country, especially when a good chunk of the population is clearly unhappy with what they’re doing.

        • ilmagico@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 个月前

          Ah but if you send them too many weapons, they might actually defeat russia! and then they won’t need arms anymore

        • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
          1·
          5 个月前

          Israel is a proven long-term customer. Ukraine will only keep producing money if the war continues