*Thousands of protesters plan to demand a “citizen’s arrest” of Netanyahu for committing crimes against humanity.* by Souzan Naser, Truthout, July 23, 2024 https://truthout.org/articles/netanyahus-speech-to-congress-is-a-desperate-ploy-to-rally-support-for-genocide/ . . . Rather than holding Netanyahu accountable, top U.S. lawmakers like House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) have given him carte blanche to justify the genocide. It comes as no surprise that their invitation has ushered in a wave of condemnation.
Millions across the world have been out in the streets for months protesting the genocide, the largest mobilization for Palestinian rights in history. Karim Khan, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, is pursuing a warrant to arrest Netanyahu for war crimes. ... . . . Beyond boycotting or protesting Netanyahu’s speech, if members of Congress want to truly get serious about stopping the genocide and ending the racist Israeli state’s illegal occupation and colonization of Palestinian land, they must withdraw their votes of financial, military and diplomatic support, and urge their colleagues to do the same. ... . . . It is clear that Israel is intent on depopulating Gaza. And despite international outrage, the U.S. remains devoted to supporting the assault, which, of course, is very much in line with its own bloody history — one built on the mass genocide of Black and Indigenous people. ... . . . To disrupt the status quo and expose the injustices both in the U.S. and apartheid Israel, people are organizing en masse. In my hometown of Chicago, the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), of which I am a member, has been out in the streets with the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine every weekend since the genocide began. We demand that the U.S. force Israel to stop the genocide by ending weapons transfers and all aid to the Zionist state. Israel cannot continue its crimes, occupation and colonization without U.S. funds and weapons, and we will continue to demand an end to our country’s role in supporting this genocide that Netanyahu and his far right government is perpetrating. . . . On July 24, USPCN will be joining the Palestinian Youth Movement, U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and a dozen other convening organizations, along with thousands of protesters to gather in front of the U.S. Capitol and demand a “citizen’s arrest” of Netanyahu for committing crimes against humanity. ... . . . Netanyahu last spoke in front of Congress in 2015. Since then, there has been a significant shift in the way people globally talk and think about the occupation of Palestine. Israel and its U.S. patron have been exposed internationally like never before, and much of the world now openly describes Israel as an apartheid, racist state. . . . Clearly, support for Israel has waned and the apartheid state is increasingly aware of its own fragility. And while Israel and its allies in the U.S. government don’t want our grievances to be heard, we will turn the temperature up at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), which is scheduled to take place on the week of August 19 in Chicago. The genocide in Gaza will be a focal point for the Coalition to March on the DNC, of which USPCN is a leading member, and for tens of thousands of people that we expect to be there to protest Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Antony Blinken, and the rest of the Democrats who are complicit in the genocide. . . . The scale of the protests against Netanyahu being planned for July 24 and for the DNC in August are proof that ours is a strong and energized movement. Regardless of who is on the Democratic ticket come August, we will be out in the streets with our unchanged demands, because we know that the U.S. will continue to pour money into the apartheid state until we make it impossible for them to do so. # # # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31287): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31287 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107519014/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
