We fund Israel so much more than any other state. Imagine if all that money went towards public infrastructure in the US instead

And not just at the national level. In February, Republican San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond posted a video on social media saying that one of the things that concerns him about, “how people are just able to walk across the border and get here,” is fentanyl. The implication is that migrants crossing in remote parts of the border are bringing drugs with them.

But data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies show the vast majority of fentanyl comes through legal ports of entry. And the people bringing it into the country are native born Americans.

Approximately 80% of people prosecuted and convicted of federal drug trafficking offenses were U.S. citizens, according to Tara McGrath, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California.

• American citizens smuggle more fentanyl into the US than migrants, data show

The more international pressure the better. Of course, it really comes down to US military support for the genocide

The evangelicals are already voting for trump

The Democratic party’s disregard for Palestinian voices is costing them a significant amount of support from voters in key states

Hundreds of thousands of committed Democratic voters, hundreds of delegates, and the majority of the country are in support of a permanent ceasefire

The transfer of weapons and ammunition to Israel may constitute serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian laws and risk State complicity in international crimes, possibly including genocide, UN experts said today, reiterating their demand to stop transfers immediately.

“These companies, by sending weapons, parts, components, and ammunition to Israeli forces, risk being complicit in serious violations of international human rights and international humanitarian laws,” the experts said. This risk is heightened by the recent decision from the International Court of Justice ordering Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah, having recognised genocide as a plausible risk, as well as the request filed by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court seeking arrest warrants for Israeli leaders on allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity. “In this context, continuing arms transfers to Israel may be seen as knowingly providing assistance for operations that contravene international human rights and international humanitarian laws and may result in profit from such assistance.”

• States and companies must end arms transfers to Israel immediately or risk responsibility for human rights violations: UN experts

Sending Israel military aid explicitly for uses that must abide by International Law, such as to protection from Iran for example, that is conditional military aid. The Biden Administration is not doing that, they know full well that the unconditional military aid sent to Israel is being used for the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Saying that they support a ceasefire while simultaneously supplying unconditional military aid to a nation engaging in genocide, while it might provide some plausible deniability, is still a violation of international law and morally representable

If a state is committing an ongoing genocide, and another state routinely sends weapons to that state, they are militarily supporting that genocide. That is the reality on the ground, regardless of the rhetoric from the Biden Administration. Ending that unconditional military support is what is required to stop supporting that genocide and abide by International Law

Five Palestine Action activists have been jailed for at least a year each for taking direct action against Israel’s war crimes.

The activists had occupied a weapons factory in Glasgow belonging to French arms firm Thales.

The company has a contract with Elbit Systems, which produces 85 per cent of drones used by the Israel Defence Forces.

From the article

The premise of your idea, is wrong. Iran is threatening to retaliate unless Israel agrees to a ceasefire

And as you also mentioned, this has been going on for many, many months. And the context, the immediate context anyway, is a very simple one here, which is that Hezbollah has made clear, Lebanon has made clear, as other — as Iran has made clear, that as soon as there’s a ceasefire in Gaza, all of these support fronts will stop pretty much instantly. So this is the context, and in the meantime, people are just waiting for the response.

• https://www.democracynow.org/2024/8/13/karim_makdisi_iran_israel_lebanon_gaza

Yeah dude, that’s why the anti-apartheid protests and BDS movement in the United States were so unsuccessful and not effective when it came to South Africa

This is nonviolent civil disobedience to protect the financial support of an ongoing genocide. Acting like this isn’t a valid form of protest or that the BDS movement have “no idea what’s involved” when putting pressure on corporations and institutions to Divest is ridiculous.

These kind of protests do put pressure and bring the issue to the forefront of the local and state administrative bodies. The BDS movement was successful in the divestment of Apartheid South Africa, this isn’t too different

“Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue,” King wrote. “It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored.”

• MLK Jr. on the nature of nonviolent protests

Local and state governments absolutely have a say through their investments to Israel. It’s just as important to pressure them for divestment as the federal government and corporations on the BDS list.

Not only are state and local lawmakers more accessible to constituents than federal lawmakers, but local investment portfolios also hold billions of dollars in funding to Israel sourced from the everyday taxes of community members. State and local governments across the U.S. hold more than $4 trillion in all investments in their investment portfolios. At least $1.6 billion in Israel Bonds is held between state governments, municipal governments, and public pension funds nationwide. Those investment dollars come from every individual, household, and business within the municipal or state borders that pay property taxes, income taxes, and sales taxes, making them some of the most representative pools of dollars invested on behalf of the public. Saper says that campaigns targeting the investment of these local dollars “invite people to reckon with how implicated we are here at home with the atrocities we are witnessing abroad.”

• https://truthout.org/articles/state-and-local-efforts-to-divest-from-israel-are-gaining-steam/

The uncommitted movement in Michigan, a battleground state, absolutely does. This is the time

Yes, although I do find that the penal labor in the Federation prisons are a bit concerning for a utopia

Anyone that’s cracked open a history book knows what this is. People with foreign policy experience knows what’s up.

That much is true

10 Myths of Israel

British Mandate Period:

The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948

Palestinian Arab Congress advocating for Unified State 1928

1929 Riots from Forward and 972Mag

Shaw Commission

Peel Commission Report and Memorandum of the Arab Higher Committee 1937

1936-1939 Revolt from JVL, Britannica, MEE

Irgun and Lehi activity

1948 to 1967:

Plan Dalet and Declassified Massacres

Arab League advocating for unified state 1948

1967 war Declassified

Israel Martial Law and Defence (Emergency) Regulations practiced in the occupied territories after 1967

How the US became the ally of Israel

Occupation:

Occupation and 50 years of dispossession

Palestinians lack civil rights

Palestinian Prisoners in Israel and Military Court

1st Intifada AJ, Haaretz, PBS

History of peace process

2nd Intifada AJ and Haaretz

Gaza Blockade is Occupation

No freedom of movement

Hamas founding charter and Revised charter 2017

Gaza March for Return Protest

Arab Israelis are not equal including Education (2001 report)

Apartheid

Water control

Settler Violence

Torture and Abuse in Interrogations

Child abuse of Palestinian prisoners

Human Shields including Children (2013 Report)

AWRAD Gaza War Poll

PCPSR Public Opinion Poll Dec 2023

One State Solution, Foreign Affairs archived here

River to the Sea History, as Transfer

Genocide:

ICJ Ruling archived here

Experts on Genocide at US Court on the issue

800+ Legal Scholars on International Law and Genocide on whether it amounts to genocide

Is What’s Happening in Gaza a Genocide? Experts Weigh In

Law for Palestine Releases Database with 500+ Instances of Israeli Incitement to Genocide

GDF has a pretty good video on it imo

It’s like they keep getting concentrated into smaller and smaller areas under the pretense of security, hmm…

Back at it again.

Can the US stop bombing civilians?

Or a One-state solution

This isn’t about Jewish people or the Jewish faith. This is about Zionism and settler colonialism

Get this antisemitic bullshit out of here. The state of Israel doesn’t even represent all Israelis, and not remotely all Jewish people. There have been prominent Jewish people that have been anti-zionist all the way back since the 1920s to present day