"Let Gaza Live": 50 Jewish Activists Arrested Protesting Schumer & Gillibrand for Arming Israel
Some 200 activists with Jewish Voice for Peace protested at the Manhattan offices of New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand on Friday to denounce their votes against halting arms shipments to Israel. Banging pots and pans to highlight Israel's starvation of Palestinians, the activists chanted "Stop starving Gaza!" and "Never again for anyone!" JVP says 50 Jewish New Yorkers were arrested by police. Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman and Charina Nadura covered the protest.
Earlier this week, the Senate voted 70-27 against a measure introduced by Vermont's Bernie Sanders to block $675 million in additional U.S. arms sales to Israel. Both Schumer and Gillibrand voted no. At least 159 Palestinians in Gaza have starved to death amid Israel's ongoing siege blocking most humanitarian aid from entering the territory.
Chris Hedges: The Gaza Riviera
Israeli society cheers on the Gaza slaughterhouse and sees in genocide not a crime, but a utopian fantasy.
Israel’s Final Solution for Gaza: Starvation as a Weapon of Mass Destruction, w/ Mosab Abu Toha
Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer and poet Mosab Abu Toha joins Rania Khalek on Dispatches to discuss Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza. From the mass famine unfolding across the Strip to his own brutal detainment by Israeli forces, Mosab shares what it means to survive genocide and to bear witness to it in real time. They also explore the Western world’s complicity, the dehumanization of Palestinians in media and politics, and the role of art, poetry, and truth-telling in the face of extermination.
