(COLUMBUS, OH – 10/08/2023) — This deadly violence must stop. The only way to permanently stop the violence is to end the occupation. Hundreds of Palestinian civilians are killed every year and millions more men, women, and children are subject to systemic, racist oppression.
Since President Biden took office, human rights organizations warned that the administration’s refusal to hold the radical, far-right Israeli apartheid government accountable for its escalating human rights violations was emboldening more abuses. Yesterday, amid a government shutdown, President Biden approved $8 Billion in military aid to Israel from our tax dollars.
In just the past few years, the Israeli government has used American taxpayer dollars to blow up a local office of the Associated Press, murder a Palestinian-American journalist in broad daylight, leave a beaten and gagged elderly Palestinian-American for dead, expand illegal settlements, enable wanton settler violence, desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque, and kill hundreds of Palestinian civilians, including many children.
Now the Israeli government is once again bombing Palestinian civilians in Gaza who have already spent 15 years living under an economic siege, cut off from their own people and the rest of the world. Indiscriminately bombing residential towers, ambulances and Palestinian civilians in Gaza only adds to the tragic loss of life and creates new barriers to a long-lasting solution. There is nowhere for Palestinian civilians to seek shelter.
If the international community offers the Palestinian people a true path to freedom, justice and a dignified life, peace and stability can inevitably follow.
The world cannot return to a status quo in which Israeli human rights abuses continually increase, Palestinian rights decrease, and Palestinian men, women, and children die without any public notice until a war breaks out.
We call on the United States to intervene to end this violence before more innocent people die, stop aiding and abetting the occupation, and start applying the values of universal human rights to all victims of oppression, no matter their nationality, religion, or skin color.
The occupation is driving the violence, and it is long past time for the United States to bring this violence to an end by demanding an end to the occupation. Only justice for all will once again allow everyone to peacefully coexist in a land that so many hold dear.
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Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 4:00 PM | Students for Justice in Palestine at OSU’s Rally at the Ohio Statehouse
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