⚠️ HAPPENING NOW AT NYC'S GRAND CENTRAL STATION: THOUSANDS OF JEWS AND ALLIES HOLD AN EMERGENCY SIT-IN, DEMANDING A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA. WE'RE TAKING OVER THE GRAND CONCOURSE. WE'RE REFUSING TO ALLOW A GENOCIDE BE CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAMES. CEASEFIRE NOW! NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE! ⚠️
Breaking: Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg is interrupting President Biden demanding a CEASEFIRE NOW. She is speaking on behalf of thousands of American Jews who say Not In Our Name! We refuse to allow a genocide be carried out in our names.
Ceasefire Now to save lives!
This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.
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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of American Jews are holding a sit-in at Congress — and we won’t leave until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. As thousands of U.S. Jews protest outside, over 350 are inside, including two dozen rabbis, holding prayerful resistance.
⚠️ HAPPENING NOW AT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY: Hundreds of Jews and allies are holding an emergency sit-in, taking over the island to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. We refuse to allow a genocide to be carried out in our names. Ceasefire now to save lives! Never again for anyone! ⚠️
The footage of Israeli soldiers torturing and humiliating detained Palestinian men in Gaza is horrific.
We’ve seen terrible images like this from genocides throughout history. We know what this leads to. Never again means never again for anyone.
The footage of Israeli soldiers torturing Palestinian men in the West Bank is horrific. The Israeli military has brutally abused Palestinian prisoners for decades.
As the Israeli military wages a genocidal war in Gaza, its soldiers are no longer hiding this abuse from the public.
Breaking:
@hrw
has confirmed—based on verified video & witness accounts—that Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza & Lebanon. White phosphorus causes excruciating burns—causing lifelong suffering—& can set homes afire. Its use in populated areas is unlawful
We, descendants of Holocaust survivors, call on the world on this Holocaust Remembrance Day to join us in working to end the Israeli government’s genocide against the Palestinian people, enabled and supported by the US government.
We’re deeply disturbed by reports of the Israeli military carrying out field executions of Palestinians as well as horrific images of Palestinians, including children, detained under atrocious conditions in Al-Yarmouk Stadium.
This is day 80 of the Israeli government’s genocide
500 Jews and allies took over the Statue of Liberty in a sit-in to demand
@POTUS
call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
After shutting down Grand Central Station, we took over the Statue of Liberty — because we won't be silent while the Israeli military wages a genocidal war in our name!
Thousands are sitting in at Grand Central Station demanding a
#CeasefireNOW
.
In just two weeks, more than 7,000 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis were killed. Right now, Israeli warplanes are flattening entire neighborhoods in Gaza. This is what the US government is supporting.
BREAKING: 1,500 Jews, Palestinians, rabbis, imams, pastors, parents, and elected officials for a ceasefire are risking arrest at the Manhattan Bridge.
We represent the majority of people in the US. 66% of Americans and 80% of Democrats want the bombing of Gaza to stop.
The Israeli government may have just declared war, but its war on Palestinians started over 75 years ago. Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence.
Read our statement:
In a huge win for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, one of the world's largest pension funds, announced it divested almost half a billion from Israel Bonds. Norway’s pension fund divested the entirety of their Israel Bond holdings. 🧵
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands are shutting down the Manhattan Bridge on the busiest travel day of the year, refusing to leave until Biden calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
We will make business as usual impossible until the US stops funding and fueling a genocide.
"I also think that as a Jewish person, I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life. They never tell you, that oh by the way, there were people there. They make it seem like it was just sitting there, oh the f*cking door’s open!" -Seth Rogen
The Israeli military is bombing Rafah, the most densely populated area in the world, while Americans watch the Super Bowl. This is intentional. This is genocide.
We're demanding the world watching the
#superbowl
turn their eyes to
#Rafah
.
#alleyesongaza
#CeasefireNOW
JEWS SAY: STOP THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS!
Over two-thousand Jews protested in front of the offices and homes of elected officials in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, Indiana, Florida, and Los Angeles to demand action to prevent the genocide of Palestinians.
"I am here on behalf of hundreds of thousands of American Jews who say: Not in our name! Ceasefire now! Let Gaza live!"
-Elena Stein of JVP outside the UN in a demonstration organized by
@lsarsour
#CeasefireNow
#LetGazaLive
BREAKING: Hours before the annual White House Hanukkah party, 18 Jewish elders chain themselves to the White House gates demanding
@POTUS
stop funding and arming the genocide in Gaza.
Follow
@JewishElders
for more
For 75 years, the Israeli government has illegally occupied Palestinian land and ethnically cleansed their communities.
Now, Gaza is facing genocide with full support from the U.S. and we're here as Jews to refuse complicity and say never again, for anyone.
It is morally unjust for the Israeli government to label the 12,000 lost Palestinian lives as terrorists. Thousands of whom were children. Every minute we wait to take urgent action, more civilians are being killed.
Ceasefire now!
Israeli member of Parliament Yair Lapid says:
"The majority of the 12,000 dead Palestinians were terrorists."
That means he's calling children terrorists. Babies. As other leaders says doctors, journalists, and UN workers are Hamas.
Let us be clear: The atrocities committed by the Israeli military in al-Shifa hospital are the direct result of the US government’s continued support. 🧵
The Israeli military has killed more Palestinian children in the past two weeks than in all previous military offensives in Gaza in the last 17 years combined. 🧵
Support South Africa's case charging Israel with genocide against Palestinians at the World Court. Urge the Biden administration to stop undermining the international community’s attempts to hold the Israeli government accountable for its mass atrocities.
HAPPENING NOW: Secret service are arresting 18 Jewish elders who chained themselves to the White House gates before the
@POTUS
Hanukkah Party. They are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
Follow
@JewishElders
for more
BREAKING: Palestinian youth, descendants of Holocaust survivors, doctors, and climate activists disrupt the biggest fundraiser in the history of the Democratic Party at NYC’s iconic Radio City Music Hall calling on
@POTUS
to Stop Arming Israel
Every single one of these deaths was preventable. 2913 children. When we say Never Again—for anyone, this is who we mean. Never Again is right now.
5/5 source: Gaza Ministry of Health
While 500 Jews, rabbis, and descendants of Holocaust survivors chant “Let Gaza live” and get arrested inside, a crowd of 10k sings outside.
We won’t stop until our demands of a ceasefire are met!
We demand a ceasefire now to save lives. To stop a genocide. The Israeli military has already erased 47 Palestinian families from Gaza’s population registry; all members of the family, from all generations, are dead. These are their children. This is loss beyond measure.
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The U.S. is also responsible for the horror in Gaza. 80% of the bombs that the Israeli military drops on Gaza, that are used to kill these children, are American-made. We are called on to do everything we can to stop this genocide.
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The Israeli military just bombed Al-Ahli hospital, where refugees in Gaza were sheltering after being displaced. Over 500 people killed in an instant.
These atrocities must stop. This is genocide.
CEASEFIRE NOW!
“The scene is too horrific to even film” a journalist in strip right now.
Israel just bombed Angelica’s hospital. Killing hundreds in one second. The same hospital that homeless Palestinians were at.
Can you imagine these are refugees too? They’re slaughtering refugees.
To students everywhere who are using their voices and platforms to organize, protest, and stand up for an end to the ongoing genocide in Palestine: We see your strength, we are moved by your courage, and we stand in solidarity with each of you.
As anti-Zionist Jews, we’re doing everything we can to stop the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza and stand in solidarity with Palestinians struggling for their freedom. We all have a part to play when it comes to ending Israeli apartheid and oppression. 🧵
Israeli government officials express their genocidal intentions loud and clear.
Anything but a call for a ceasefire is an endorsement of this violence.
More from Haaretz:
Today, 500 Jews were arrested and 10k took to the streets to support and to demand a ceasefire and an end to Palestinian genocide.
We shut down congress to draw mass attention to the U.S. complicity in Israel's ongoing oppression of Palestinians. But our work isn't done. 🧵
Today, more than ever, Jewish Voice for Peace stands with
@Ilhan
under nearly constant attack by far right politicians and not defended nearly enough by fellow Democrats. Show her support NOW.
#IStandWithIlhan
#StandWithIlhan
ALL OUT TO PROTEST CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE THIS WEEK!
The past tells us that Israeli state atrocities against Palestinians only stop once there is a sufficient mass outcry from the international community. We need to bring our fullest force to D.C.
24 hours later in Jabaliya refugee camp, another attack, another Israeli bombing. The US govt. funds the weapons used by the Israeli military as it bombs refugees who have nowhere to go, no way to seek shelter. We will not be complicit. We will not be silent.
Ceasefire now!
The Israeli military just destroyed an entire neighborhood in Gaza in an instant. In the Jabaliya refugee camp, Israeli airstrikes killed 400 Palestinians, and hundreds more are still missing under the rubble.
As we continue to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and fight for a future where everyone is free and equal and safe, we refuse to forget these children's lives. We will always affirm that every life is precious.
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Last week, we were able to chip at the Western media’s wall of silence that surrounds Palestinians sharing their experiences and calling for their liberation. The cracks in the narrative are showing —we must keep pushing, until Palestinians are FREE.
CEASEFIRE NOW!
We honor the life of Aaron Bushnell, who joins a small number of political activists and protestors who chose the act of self-immolation as their final act of solidarity with the causes they believed in and atrocities they fought.
During Hanukkah, a coalition of settler groups funded by the state of Israel held a conference to discuss a “practical” plan to build the first settlements in Gaza, all while the Israeli government is actively waging a genocidal war on Palestinians.
THIS is ethnic cleansing.
Keep your eyes on the occupied West Bank. The Israeli government is counting on the West Bank falling out of the international spotlight, but we won’t let that happen. 🧵
Israeli military is currently bulldozing the civilian infrastructure in Tulkarem refugee camp, just like it did in Jenin refugee camp four weeks ago, just like it did to all of Gaza, just like it did to the Palestinian towns and cities in 1948.
This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.
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Every single one of these deaths was preventable. And all were made possible by U.S. complicity in the Israeli military's genocide of Palestinians.
Enough. CEASEFIRE NOW!
GAZA UPDATE: There is no update to the number of Palestinian fatalities today as Israeli forces are besieging hospitals and cut telecommunications.
The current number of Palestinian child fatalities in Gaza is unknown.
There are only two days left before the Israeli government resumes its genocidal onslaught on the people of Gaza – with US funding and weapons.
We are taking over the Manhattan Bridge in the biggest civil disobedience in NYC since the Iraq war to demand: Permanent ceasefire NOW
We’re here to say: not in our names, and never again. And we’ll continue our civil disobedience until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, or until they force us to leave.
The Israeli military just destroyed an entire neighborhood in Gaza in an instant. In the Jabaliya refugee camp, Israeli airstrikes killed 400 Palestinians, and hundreds more are still missing under the rubble.
🚨 Early reports indicate a new massacre of Palestinians in
#Gaza
's Jabaliya refugee camp.
Jabaliya is the largest refugee camp in Palestine.
It was established in 1948 to house some 35,000 Palestinians expelled from Yaffa and other villages in southern Palestine.
Forced migration is ethnic cleansing: the Israeli government uses terms like “voluntary emigration” to refer to their genocidal policy, but their efforts to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland is as intentional now as it was 75 years ago during the Nakba. 🧵
“Do you want your kids to grow up defending the side of the oppressors?”
Jews around the world must contemplate this question, which Mariam Afifi asked the Israeli officer who arrested her last night.
JVP is building Jewish community beyond Zionism. Join us.
#SaveSheikhJarrah
Those attacking Glazer are making his point for him. He wants to apply the lessons of the Holocaust to the horrors that “confront us in the present,” while his detractors want nothing more than to avert our attention from the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians.
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
This Taylor Swift stan took a stand in solidarity with Palestinians!
Today 2 years ago, the 19yo Israeli girl behind
@LegitTayUpdates
was released from prison after refusing to join the Israeli military.
During her 2-month sentence, she still gave her updates from the inside.
Yesterday, the Israeli military bombed one of UNRWA’s aid distribution centers, killing at least six people. These attacks are deliberate and they are war crimes. 🧵
To argue that Angela Davis is unworthy of a civil rights award is beyond shameful. And to dance around the fact that it’s due to her outspoken support of Palestinian rights makes it outrageous.
BREAKING: Thousands of Jews and allies are taking over the AIPAC HQ in NYC during the workday. With over 30,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, we demand our electeds stop answering to a far-Right group and start listening to their constituents.
#DumpAIPAC
now!
We are devastated to be marking 150 days of genocide.
As of today, 30,631 people, including 12,000 children, have been murdered by the Israeli military.
We will always bear witness. We will never forget. Ceasefire NOW!
Looks like some anti-Zionist Jews corrected billboards as an act of solidarity with UC Berkeley law students under attack for their support of Palestinian freedom. Thank you to those who bravely wrote the truth in the dead of night ✊
We're devastated by the news of the over 100 bomb threats called into synagogues this weekend.
These violent threats coincide with numerous bad faith attacks trying to pit Jews against our Black, Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian community members and neighbors. We reject this.
"Palestinian people live in a state of permanent refugeehood and displacement. This, too, is a refugee crisis, and they, too, deserve freedom and dignity."
@Ilhan
with an oped today
@washingtonpost
We can no longer keep track of the number of Palestinians murdered by the Israeli regime in the last 48 hours alone. As the death toll climbs—at least 8 killed since Monday—remember this carnage is funded by US tax dollars. *Now* is the time to channel our rage into action…
Zionist orgs like JewBelong & others that support the Israeli government’s propaganda, work to dehumanize Palestinians and justify the Israeli government's attacks on Palestinians. We know the truth, and we know that the ongoing genocide of Palestinians can never be justified.
More testimony continues to surface detailing US-backed Israeli war crimes. Last week, an anonymous Israeli doctor released a devastating letter detailing the conditions at Sde Teiman, an Israeli concentration camp currently holding over 800 Palestinians from Gaza. 🧵
BREAKING: In the midst of a massive bombarding onslaught on Gaza, hundreds of Jews and friends are taking over Grand Central Station in a historic sit-in calling for a ceasefire. Come join now! The location of this demonstration is the main concourse at Grand Central Station.
Right Now:
@CynthiaNixon
leads a candlelight vigil in front of the White House as we close out day one of the hunger strike for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
Join us and take action now:
This is the largest civil disobedience NYC has seen since the Iraq war. There are only two days left before the Israeli government resumes its genocidal onslaught against the people of Gaza - funded and fueled by the US. Netanyahu has said "We will come back to annihilate them."
As we approach Passover—a celebration of freedom—the Israeli military is beating Palestinians inside Al Aqsa mosque and blockading Palestinian cities across the occupied West Bank.
The contradiction speaks volumes. Liberation cannot come at the cost of another people’s freedom.
Pleads for help can be heard from several mosques in Jerusalem. Minarets are calling on people to rally and help those wounded inside Al-Aqsa Compound. According to the Red Crescent, Israeli forces are currently preventing medics from entering the scene.
EMERGENCY: The Israeli military just cut all cell service and internet access to Gaza and has begun its most violent bombing campaign yet.
We fear these could be the first steps to the Israeli military’s ground invasion of Gaza.
The Israeli military is carrying out its biggest strikes since the start of its war on Gaza right now, all the lights and communications are knocked out, we are likely to soon find out about the biggest massacres we've seen yet.
Today, we took out a full-page ad in the New York Times, calling on Biden to facilitate an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and stop sending the Israeli military more weapons.
We're calling for a ceasefire — and bringing our message to 740,000 print subscribers.
The Israeli military has committed another massacre of Palestinians seeking aid, murdering at least 40 people.
These attacks have become a near-daily occurrence and the US is complicit in every single one.
Ceasefire NOW. End US aid to Israel's military NOW.
Yesterday, the Israeli military bombed one of UNRWA’s aid distribution centers, killing at least six people. These attacks are deliberate and they are war crimes. 🧵
Thank you to Israelis of conscience like Maya who would rather serve multiple stints in military jail than be drafted into the Israeli army. She chooses to embrace Palestinians rather than de-humanize them.
@IsraelSocialTV
We
#standwithIlhan
and appreciate her response to the impact of word choices but it isn’t really about words here, it’s about all of our abilities to critique
@aipac
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Some bombing images purported to be from Ukraine are actually from Palestine.
If these images are moving us to action and sympathy for Ukraine — and provoking the US to impose aggressive sanctions on Russia — they should do the same for Palestine and Israel, respectively.
Social media users are sharing a photo of a fiery explosion with false claims it shows Russia’s 2022 attack on Ukraine. It actually shows Israeli air strikes in Gaza in 2021. Here are the facts.
Fixed it for you,
@nytimes
.
Shireen Abu Akleh dedicated her life to exposing Israeli military violence in a hostile, biased media landscape that reports Israel’s lies as facts and erases Palestinians’ truths — now, including the truth of her own assassination.
Do. Better. NOW.
"The Israeli government and US government are justifying massive atrocities, and doing so in the names of us and our beloved families. When we say never again, it includes Palestinians, and it means right now."
- JVP ED
@StefanieLFox
Make no mistake: the Israeli government is using genocidal rhetoric against Palestinians. We as Jews know all too well how dangerous this rhetoric is, the way in which the unthinkable becomes acceptable when we deny people their humanity.
Solidarity with Hallel Rabin, who began a 25-day sentence in military prison yesterday for refusing to join the Israeli army due to its oppression of Palestinians. This is her third period of incarceration since August.
SHUT IT DOWN: 67% of voters want a
#CeasefireNOW
. President Biden has refused to listen to the people and continues to use our taxpayer dollars to fund genocide, border violence & deportation instead of healthcare, housing & education.
No business as usual!
#StateOfTheUnion
Yes. Elon Musk is a racist, antisemitic defender of white supremacy who is attacking the ADL because they’re a Jewish group.
AND
Yes. The ADL is a racist, anti-Palestinian organization with a well-documented history of collusion with cops and attacking progressives.
These atrocities are carried out with full support from the U.S. government. With their aid, the Israeli military is carrying out a genocide and the destruction of Palestinian life and culture.
We cannot stop demanding an end to this horror. Palestinians will not be erased.
The ancient Saint Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza, a significant historical site dating back to 425 AD, has reportedly been struck by Israeli airstrikes. The church bears the name of Saint Porphyrius, the bishop renowned for introducing Christianity to Gaza during his tenure…
As the Israeli military plunged Gaza into darkness last night, thousands took over NYC's Grand Central Station, staging an emergency sit-in during rush hour to demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to the Israeli government's bombing of Gaza.