[1]Justice Democrats

John,

Over this past week, tens of thousands of people have rallied in cities
across the U.S. for a ceasefire. Hundreds of Jewish Americans have been
arrested while protesting to end the Israeli military’s unfolding genocide
against Palestinians, and thousands blocked entrances to the White House
on Monday calling for a ceasefire.

In Congress, I just joined 12 other Democrats to introduce the Ceasefire
Now Resolution, urging the Biden administration to call for an immediate
de-escalation and ceasefire in Israel and occupied Palestine, and to send
humanitarian aid and assistance to people under siege and trapped in Gaza.

The collective punishment of Palestinian civilians is a war crime, a moral
outrage, and an egregious violation of humanitarian law.

[ [link removed] ]Please sign on now to become a grassroots co-sponsor of the Ceasefire
Now Resolution.

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We need legislation that saves as many lives as possible, no matter one’s
faith or ethnicity. So I’m joining some of my colleagues and a growing
coalition of human rights advocates in calling for de-escalation,
ceasefire, and a strong humanitarian response that prevents more
devastating civilian casualties across the region.

The answer to war crimes is not war crimes.

Since Saturday October 7, Israel’s government has been dropping around a
thousand bombs a day on 2.2 million trapped Palestinians—over half of whom
are children. This includes white phosphorus bombs, an illegal incendiary
weapon that burns through skin down to the bone.

As of Monday, October 16, the UN and the WHO reported that 1 million
Palestinians have been displaced, and Israel’s military has targeted 111
medical facilities, killed 12 health care workers, and bombed 60
ambulances. Recent reports indicate hundreds have been killed in the
bombing of a hospital sheltering thousands of civilians.

Calling Palestinians “animals,” Israeli politicians have openly broadcast
their collective punishment of civilians. The Israeli government has cut
off water, food, fuel, medicine, and electricity to Gaza, while refusing
to accept Palestinian Americans from Gaza or to allow the delivery of
humanitarian aid into Gaza.

As Jewish group IfNotNow said while supporting the Ceasefire Now
Resolution: “Even as Biden allows Israel's genocide of Palestinians, we
will not allow more mass murder in our name.”

Unfortunately, many U.S. political leaders are supporting this violence
and calling to send more weapons to Israel’s military, while dehumanizing
and disregarding Palestinian civilians. The Biden administration, most of
Congress, and U.S. State Department officials have actively tried to
silence calls for de-escalation and a ceasefire.

The hate and racist rhetoric coming out of Washington D.C. is pushing
incendiary, hateful, and dehumanizing anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim
rhetoric that must be called out. A 6-year-old boy—Wadea Al-Fayoume—was
stabbed to death in Chicago for being Palestinian American.

My colleagues are trying to silence me, the only Palestinian American in
Congress, because I want the violence to stop—no matter whether it’s
toward Israelis or toward Palestinians. I cannot believe I have to beg our
country to value every human life, no matter their faith or ethnicity. We
cannot lose sight of the humanity in each other.

[ [link removed] ]Please sign if you agree: The U.S. government must urgently save
Palestinian, Israeli, and American civilian lives. We must bring Americans
in Israel and occupied Palestine safely home, and we must push Israel’s
government to stop the siege on Gaza and ensure humanitarian aid to Gaza.

SIGN NOW

Thank you for taking action.

Right now, we must keep showing massive public support for ending the
violence. And in the long-term, we must keep building the movement to end
the Israeli government’s apartheid system against Palestinians. Everyone
in the region deserves to live safely, in freedom and with equal rights.

In solidarity,

Rep. Rashida Tlaib


 




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