We oppose our money being used to fund Israeli aggression: US lawmaker
US Congresswoman Cori Bush has made an appeal for Americans to support the liberation of Palestine in the face of increased Israeli aggression.
“The fight for Black lives and the fight for Palestinian liberation are interconnected,” Bush, an African-American Representative for Missouri's 1st congressional district, said on Twitter on Friday.
At least 139 Palestinians, including 39 children and 22 women, have been killed and about 1,000 others injured in Gaza in the Israeli regime's onslaught against Gaza that began on Monday.
The United States dramatically deepened its involvement in the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Wednesday, with President Joe Biden offering his unconditional support for the Israeli regime.
“Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory,” Biden told reporters, after days of staying quiet.
Rep. Bush said that the progressive movement in the United States opposed American tax money being used to fund Israeli aggression against the oppressed people of Palestine.
“We oppose our money going to fund militarized policing, occupation, and systems of violent oppression and trauma,” she noted. “We are anti-war. We are anti-occupation. And we are anti-apartheid. Period,” she added.
The fight for Black lives and the fight for Palestinian liberation are interconnected.
— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@RepCori) May 13, 2021
We oppose our money going to fund militarized policing, occupation, and systems of violent oppression and trauma.
We are anti-war. We are anti-occupation. And we are anti-apartheid. Period. pic.twitter.com/DO42FEre0W
Other progressive lawmakers have also sounded the alarm as the Israeli regime continues to unleash an unbridled campaign of terror on Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip.
Senator Bernie Sanders called on the Biden administration and fellow lawmakers to “no longer be apologists for the right-wing Netanyahu government and its undemocratic and racist behavior”
In a New York Times op-ed, the Independent senator from Vermont urged Washington to recognize the human rights of Palestinians.
“For years we have seen a deepening Israeli occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem (al-Quds) and a continuing blockade on Gaza that make life increasingly intolerable for Palestinians. In Gaza, which has about two million inhabitants, 70 percent of young people are unemployed and have little hope for the future,” he wrote.
Tensions escalated during the holy fasting month of Ramadan after the Israeli regime stepped up its land theft schemes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem al-Quds followed by a heavy-handed crackdown against Palestinian worshipers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
The resistance front in the Gaza Strip has put up a formidable defense, retaliating by launching hundreds of rockets into the occupied territories.
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