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Not Welcome: Jewish & Palestinian Activists Protest Netanyahu’s Address to Congress
www.democracynow.orgSome 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.
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.
He wants people to think it is though, and uses Israel’s propaganda machine to get them to
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.
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.
I didn’t say it won’t change, I am saying it is highly unlikely to change. Reality vs pollyanna.