For those in the US indignant about Trump but indifferent about genocide in Gaza - you will not find your way out of this crisis w/o dealing with the latter. These systems are connected - you cannot defeat fascism at home while committing genocide. #Thread #Gaza #LosAngeles
The US has consistently used the ICJ as a political cover to deny a genocide in Gaza yet, as you know, Trump denounced a "white genocide" in S Africa and Biden accused the RSF of genocide in the Sudan- there were no judicial proceedings for either. https://www.aljazeera.com/news...
The Biden admin used its veto 5 times & the Trump admin used it once to undermine global support for a ceasefire. The US has threatened the UK and France from recognizing a Palestinian state to allow Israel to continue to expand colonial settlements https://www.middleeastmonitor....
The US assails the UK for imposing individual sanctions over Israel's most far right officials, while imposing its own sanctions on four ICC judges and the ICC Prosecutor for doing their jobs. https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
The Biden admin provided Israel with $17.9 billion bw October 2023-2024 alone, the Obama admin increased annual aid from $3 to 3.8 billion in a 10-year MOU- this is US policy, not a partisan one. https://www.cfr.org/article/us...
Three days after his much-celebrated filibuster in defense of US democracy, Sen Cory Booker voted to continue arms shipment to Israel. This won't work. He is pouring kerosene on the source of fire that now consumes the US. #lightbox class="text-blue-500 hover:underline" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.reddit.com/r/Vaush...
The fact that we can demonstrate how the US is a source of the genocide in Gaza & still have folks insist it is "over there" or worse, lament US authoritarianism & support Israel in one breath, shows that American Zionism is ideological and beyond reason.
The fact that children in Gaza are burned alive while Congress legislates "Free Palestine" as antisemitic speech *should* make apparent that the USG is a primary source of harm. Yet, millions of Americans pivot to innocence as they insist, we should focus on what matters "here"