For those of us who have been watching a livestreamed genocide in Gaza—and years of apartheid and occupation across all of Palestine—what’s happening in Minneapolis is not unfamiliar.
The same tactics are being applied, the same technologies are in use, the same hate speech is in play, and the same profiteers are enabling and encouraging these atrocities.
In Minneapolis, a military force occupies the city, violating people’s basic rights and attempting to destroy the social fabric of the city. ICE has erected militarized checkpoints and is kidnapping people from their homes, disappearing them from the streets, arresting them at their places of work, and incarcerating them without due process or probable cause. Masked agents are killing protestors, deploying chemical weapons, and carrying out violence against civilians, medics and journalists.
The government is targeting observers and has labeled anyone standing against the occupation a t******t, without proof or legal standing, in a desperate attempt to justify its horrific actions.
These are all tactics that the Israeli government has been using against Palestinians for decades.
The Israeli military and ICE are using the same tactics and technologies, supplied by the same companies, and spewing the same hate speech to carry out their assaults. And the funding comes from the exact same source: The US government.
From Minneapolis to Gaza, from Chicago to the occupied West Bank, the US government is using our tax dollars to carry out and enable state-sanctioned violence. We refuse to live in a society that profits off death, racism, and genocide. Just as speaking the truth about the Israeli military’s genocide of Palestinians is a moral obligation, so too is standing up against ICE killing and disappearing people in the US.
We refuse these authoritarian and violent actions wherever they take place
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