On Tuesday, over two hundred of Senator Murray’s Jewish constituents and other people of conscience held a Passover seder in the streets in front of the Federal Building where Senator Patty Murray has offices.
Why? Because on Tuesday, Senator Murray voted yes on a supplemental appropriations bill that includes $17 billion in additional military funding and weapons to the Israeli government. We, the organizers of Jewish Voice for Peace Seattle, are calling on Senator Murray to listen to her constituents and take action towards a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
That’s why on Tuesday, instead of celebrating the Jewish holiday of Passover around our tables at home, we mobilized hundreds of Senator Murray’s constituents, ages two months to 79 years old, for a “Seder in the Streets.” We collectively painted a 30-foot diameter mural in front of Senator Murray’s office, which reads “No Funds For Genocide: Let Gaza Live.”
Two months ago, we felt a small glimpse of hope, as Senator Murray boldly proclaimed on the Senate floor that “the collective punishment in Gaza has got to stop” and called for a ceasefire in Gaza. This statement came on the heels of the “Flour Massacre,” in which Israeli troops fired on crowds of Palestinians gathered to collect flour in the southwest of Gaza City, killing at least 112 people and injuring at least 760. This statement also came after months of sustained pressure by the Palestinian-led anti-war movement, with thousands of constituents in the streets and so many of us risking arrest, and tens of thousands calling and writing to Senator Murray daily, begging her to take action toward a ceasefire. When we heard her words, we felt a breath of hope. We felt that she had finally heard us.
At the time, Senator Murray insisted that any US aid to Israel was subject to the Leahy Law, which prevents aid to foreign military units suspected of committing gross human rights violations. Now she has the chance to show us she means what she says. If Senator Murray is not all talk, she’ll vote ‘no’ on this Israel aid package and refuse US complicity in genocide. If she’s smoke and mirrors, she’ll continue to push the package through, betraying the overwhelming majority of her constituents and Democrats as a whole who support a permanent ceasefire.
As Senator Murray recognized in her February 29 ceasefire speech, the death toll in Gaza has reached over 34,000 Palestinians, with many more bodies under the rubble. The Israeli government is starving Palestinians, and medical care is nonexistent due to Israeli targeting of hospitals and destruction of infrastructure across Gaza.
“There are more than 150,000 pregnant and lactating women in harm’s way. Doctors who had worked on the ground in Gaza spoke to me about performing emergency C-sections, on rubble, or in tents—without anesthesia—and women bleeding out because they couldn’t get medical care,” Senator Murray said.
It seemed Senator Murray recognized the multiple human rights atrocities committed by the Israeli military. But now, we don’t have a lot of evidence that Murray will stand by what she’s said. Why would she vote yes to send $17 billion to the Israeli military when she admitted they were enacting collective punishment against Palestinians? We know that pro-Israel PACs are amongst Senator Murray’s top donors. Between 2019 and 2024 Murray received $119,450 from her third-highest donor, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) alone, and she has received over $680,000 from Pro-Israel PACs throughout her career. Just before her February 29 speech calling for a ceasefire, she ushered the very bill to the Senate that is now back for a vote, and on Tuesday she voted yes on the procedural vote to move the bill forward.
One thing we do know is that voters won’t forget how Senator Murray handled the decision to send $17 billion to Israel even as it commits genocide in Gaza. As polling has shown, the majority of Americans support a permanent ceasefire, an overwhelming majority of Democrats support a permanent ceasefire, including a majority of Jewish Democrats. Nearly 10% of Washington Democrats statewide and 16% in the 7th District voted uncommitted statewide in the presidential primary, signaling their support for a change in US policy towards Israel. If Senator Murray continues to push funding for the ongoing genocide in Gaza forward, voters won’t forget in the the presidential race in 2024, and they won’t forget when Murray is up for reelection, either.
Ross Kirshenbaum is an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace, a musician and transit operator.
Hila Keller is an organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace.
So you’re protesting actions Sen. Murray has already taken, which cannot be ‘undone.’
silly Children!
don’t they even
Know it CANNOT
be “genocide” unless
EVERYONE AGREES On The TERM?
only Then
can we Attempt
to put a STOP to This
Mass Murdering Genocidal Mania.
but, Seriously?
Well Done! it’s
like a Breaking
Wave over USA
better Late
than Never.
Two things get you the title of President Pro Tempore: being in office a long time and doing what The Party tells you to do.
What makes you think she’d listen to you?
“On Tuesday, over two hundred of Senator Murray’s Jewish constituents and other people of conscience held a Passover seder in the streets in front of the Federal Building where Senator Patty Murray has offices.”
So, the same little group of persons continues to say the same things. Senator Murray continues to ignore them. This is news because … ?
Also, when referring to military aid to Israel, you might want to mention the recent Iranian missile attack upon Israel, which a coalition of American, British, French, and Israeli units defeated. (Unless you’ve decided to shove all such inconvenient facts down the Memory Hole…)
@2: Did Hamas commit “genocide” in Israel on 10/7?
Or, before you can try to answer, must you first receive unanimous assent from the relevant Board of Dictionarians?
@3
ever since
‘Citizens United’
Billionaires’ve Written
the Script. What make you
think centrists Dems are any different?
Can’t wait to see how these particular protestors are discredited as antisemitic. It’s a real challenge when the protestors themselves are Jewish but the MIC and American global hegemony depend on it so I’m sure someone will find a way
@3
ever since
‘Citizens United’
Billionaires’ve Written
the Script. What make you
think centrists Dems are any different?
@7
wtf?
apologies
you know what works? screaming “Zionist Warmonger” at American politicians. An Irish gal did that to Pelosi yesterday in Dublin and today she said Netanyahu should resign.
He hasn’t, and it didn’t stop the arms package, but it’s a start.
@7
I don’t think they’re different.
My question though is why would the writers of this rant expect the senator, or anyone else, to be swayed by their little protests?
@9
It’s funny how folks are so hot on getting Netanyahu out of office, but have nothing to say about removing Hamas from power.
Tiffany Smiley would have handled this so much better.
@11 exactly what I was thinking. I wonder if they are out in the street holding their breath and stomping their feet as well.
@6 Are African Americans who vote for Trump supporting white supremacy?
nyt:
‘A Good Day
for World Peace’:
Biden Signs Aid Bill
for Ukraine and Israel
oops.
there goes
another 500
student Walkabouts.
This Thing is WAY BIGGER
than they ever couldda Imagined.
Sayonara,
Smokin’
Joe
Welcome
To the 1,000
Year trumpfy
Dynasty putting
The Nasty back where
it Belongs: in the Whitehouse
looks like
booboo’s gon-
na Hafta Go, too.
EXELLENTO
@10
HAMAS oughtta
be Gone — & wouldn’t
BE There were it not for BooBoo’s
coddling of HAMAS; & then IGNORING
REPEATED WARNINGS of Terrorist ‘activity’
and didn’t even Up the border guards. where’re
the Demands for bibi to Vacate the fucking Premises?
HAMAS IS a Terroris Organinzation
slightly maybe more concerned
with the Plight of Palestinians
than with Israelis but Damn
little daylight between
the two. they’re FAR
from Helping the
now-Refugees
whose Homes
bibi’s destroyed
their Rain of Terror has abated
Israel’s
CONTINUES.
@13: “there goes
another 500
student Walkabouts.”
You’re aware that most high school students can’t vote, right?
11: Catalina, as usual, wins the thread. I really hope progressives watched and learned from last weekend’s state Republican convention on what happens when you put “purity” above all.
@15: there was a state republican convention last weekend?
speaking of
clueless authoritarian
Reactionaries – but I repeat myself
nyt:
‘Go Back to Class!’
[fascist] House Speaker (R)
Tells Columbia Students as Unrest Spreads
Speaker Mike Johnson invoked the possibility of bringing in the National Guard. The police arrested protesters at the University of Texas at Austin.
Police officers and university administrators continued to clash with pro-Palestinian protesters on Wednesday, arresting students, removing encampments and threatening academic consequences at a growing number of campuses from coast to coast.
Tense scenes continued to spread at American universities as House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared at Columbia,
Speaking for the first time about the protests at American universities, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Wednesday characterized them in a statement as “horrific” and reminiscent of events at German universities in the years before the Holocaust.
Mr. Johnson [speaker of the House] (R) said Jewish students at Columbia had told him of “heinous acts of bigotry,” and he called for Dr. Shafik to resign “if she cannot immediately bring order to the chaos.”
[who’s a widdle
Fascist?]
The speaker said there could be an appropriate time for the National Guard to be called in, and that Congress should consider revoke federal funding if universities can’t keep the protests under control.
–by Annie Karni, Jonathan Wolfe, David Goodman and Lola Fadulu
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/24/us/columbia-protests-mike-johnson
Reactionaries
will NOT Tolerate
‘spoilt children!’ Demanding
Accountability / Humanity from Lawmakers
powder keg
meet your
Maker
Jewish solidarity for Palestinian Liberation is a beautiful thing.
I don’t disagree, xina dear.
But wouldn’t it be great if we were free of all the nonsense that is the Abrahamic religions?
@19: Yeah, all two hundred of them. The same two hundred persons mentioned every other time the Stranger has given free ad space to this meaningless little group.
That’s a tiny number when compared to the Seattle area’s Jewish population. Compared to the state, it’s nothing, which is why Senator Murray continues to ignore them. As she has every other time the Stranger has given free ad space to this meaningless little group.
@20 indeed. A world with no religion would be the best world.
@21 There are 10 MILLION Christian Zionists in the United States. That is the more than the entire number of Jews in this country. Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism. Zionism is just another apartheid, colonial, white supremacist, hate based, fantasy laden system of oppression and dehumanization.
@22: “There are 10 MILLION Christian Zionists in the United States.”
So, your point is this little group, for whom the Stranger routinely provides free advertising space, is far less relevant than even their tiny numbers suggest?
“…apartheid, colonial, white supremacist, hate based, fantasy laden system of oppression and dehumanization.”
(International Hard-Left Buzzword) Bingo!
Now, for the bonus round, please remember to include “imperialist,” “undemocratic,” and (for the double bonus), “revanchist.”
“It makes no difference whatever whether they laugh at us or revile us … whether they represent us as clowns or criminals; the main thing is that they mention us, that they concern themselves with us again and again …”
When you go full Weimar, it matters not what the agenda is – you’re still Weimar.
@24. You, like most of the other far right Republicans who are all falling in line with this purely ceremonial posturing towards Israel, are all merely projecting the public antisemitism they have espoused for years on the “Progressive” left, students and people of character who are exercising their fundamental rights as American to free speech, expression, and petition of their government. You cannot and will not wipe the slate by projecting on to the opposition your greatest sins.
The fact that you make such an awkward and tasteless display while using terms like House Jew makes it clear that you don’t have anyone’s interest in mind but those who are paying you to parrot the nonsense that the current Israeli administration in alliance with the global far right movement enhanced by the propaganda of Russia and those in league with Bannon and Roger Stone, is so blatantly transparent and disgusting to see. But I should expect no less from a weak minded coward with the character of a flea as yourself and the ilk that post here ad nauseum regularly to try to obfuscate their own hideous prejudice and likely the sins your very recent ancestors committed against the Jews, as did all Europeans, and the great stain of shame that you cannot escape from that legacy.
You fools are all trying to discredit these well meaning and inexorably Jewish protestors as all antisemitic and in league with Hamas, using the same exact playbook as the far right propagandist took against the well-meaning BLM movement which started with a very simple premise, to stop police brutality against black folks and minorities. To value all life at the same level. To treat people as you would be treated. Equal justice under the law. As Passover reminds us and are written in the halls of the Jefferson Memorial, commerce between master and slave is despotism in any form, and nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate that these people are to be free.
The claim is that protestors need to be jailed and are fascists, and for what? Surely there are extremists in league with the protestors who hate Jews and who have very well made university campuses unsafe for them, but these are not those folks. And by lobbing them all into the same group, by refusing to use your brain to think critically, you show yourself to fold in the slightest breeze to the fascist boots on your chest and to stomp on others who above all in good faith simply wish to stop permitting the most heinous abuses and travesties of human rights against any people, anywhere, 10/7 with the rape and murder of women and children, and beyond which continues today.
There is no victimization or singled out people who are given moral license to continually commit these errors and sins in our name, in their name, or to appropriate the great legacy of the Abrahamic religions throughout time by obscuring their fundamental truths. You cannot be a Christian by simply wearing it as a badge. Christ spoke against the authorities and had nowhere to lay his head, and his followers had to count the cost of such service by being prepared to do the same. And the current administration in Israel has used Hamas as a foil to divide and conquer the Palestinian opposition, and are guilty of cultivating this situation as much as any other actor. And all actors continue to beat the war drums and drop bombs and missiles and provoke a greater conflict that will leave no one of any race or religion unscarred from the aftereffects.
I commend my fellow Texans (TEXAS FIGHT!) whose eyes are all upon you. You hypocrites and weak minded cowards who stomp out free speech and liberty by castigating all as the bad apples. You cannot see the forest for the trees. Or you will not. But the mighty in spirit shall prevail and will remain unintimidated. It is the fear of losing power funded by billionaires to keep the trillions in arms flowing that will heat our planet for every salvo dropped and destroy our collective brethren, the foxes in their dens, and the albatrosses around our necks, as we ever more devalue life and invite our mutual destruction in the name of false righteousness. And the great flood will come and sweep away your ivory towers on your shores and bring you to your knees to beg for mercy when the great might of creation holds you accountable for your sins in this life and the next.
May God have mercy on you all. You know not what you do. But I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever. And for all those who cry out in fear in the night, who cannot find solace or comfort, whose trauma will bleed for generations, my heart breaks for you and I pray for us all to find wisdom and humanity in the days and months and years to come. We must be better than this, for we have all of history to see the consequences of repeating the same mistakes of the past and refusing to learn from them.
He who prayeth best, loveth best
All things both great and small
For the dear God who loveth us
He made loveth all
@VanGoethe I continue to be amazed at how people look at the protests and view them as fires to be extinguished rather than a sign of the problems with our foreign policy.
It has always been young people who have been the driving force for change against morally unjust policies.
From protests against Vietnam to South African Apartheid to gun violence, they have made their voices known and the world is better for it.
This generation is no different, and I respect them for it.
–Raj; Houston
April 24
more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/chicago-dnc-antiwar-protests.html#commentsContainer
@27
welcome back
speaking of
albatrosses
oh
and
Watchout
for wormmy
who’ll baitchya
& baitchya & baitchya
till them Longhorns comealong Home
and then be baffled
(and Overjoyed)
when your
Wrath is
Finally
up.
@28: “It has always been young people who have been the driving force for change against morally unjust policies.”
Just ask “Mother” Jones!
@29: Thanks for the compliment! Yes, indeed you have failed miserably to answer my simple and obvious questions, e.g.:
Did Hamas commit “genocide” (by your definition, whatever it is) in Israel on 10/7? Yes or no?
If you cannot give a simple yes or no answer, why should we care what you say about genocide?
and
right
on Cue
the master
baiter returns
fuck off
tentsores
back to your
genocidal glee
for the Death of Palestine
[did I not use
the Term
well?]
@18 there it is! Saw you coming all the way back at #6. “House Jews” though, wow, that exceeded even my expectations.
@31: Aw, did your ‘clever’ attempt to inoculate yourself from well-earned criticism just suffer the exact same immediate fate as every other attempt you’ve ever made at being clever?
Why does this keep happening?
You just don’t understand.
“did I not use
the Term
well?”
No one can have any idea. You neither provide your definition, nor do you use it to answer simple and obvious questions, so it’s impossible for anyone to say.
Thanks for my (gleeful) laughs.
speaking of
your Gleefulness
during a Genocide:
“KILL ALL ARABS”:
THE FEDS ARE INVESTIGATING
UMASS AMHERST FOR ANTI-PALESTINIAN BIAS
The Department of Education is probing claims that the school discriminated against Palestinian and Arab students amid Israel’s war on Gaza.
THE DEPARTMENT OF Education’s Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into the University of Massachusetts Amherst in response to a complaint that alleges that the school took months to address the harassment of Palestinian and Arab students.
In the previously unreported civil rights complaint, 18 students said that they have “been the target of extreme anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab harassment and discrimination by fellow UMass students, including receiving racial slurs, death threats and in one instance, actually being assaulted.”
The result, the students said, was a hostile environment for all Arab and Palestinian students, those perceived to be Palestinian, and their allies on campus.
Among the most chilling allegations involves a student yelling “kill all Arabs” at fellow students protesting Israel’s war on Gaza.
more disturbingly
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/24/umass-amherst-palestine-protests-harassment/
gosh
are there
any tS readers
in proximity whom
might shout such horrific chants?
and speaking to
your continued Dedication
& Support for nutnyahoo’s little War
on an Imprisoned, Starving, & Massacred populace
BIDEN’S
INDIFFERENCE
TO PALESTINIAN LIVES IS
SENDING THE MIDDLE EAST INTO THE ABYSS
The U.S.
dedication to
Israel’s war of annihilation has
created a tornado of instability and danger.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/24/intercepted-biden-israel-middle-east-war/
WWIII’s
right around
the Corner & its
Cheerleaders could
not BE any more Gleeful
and speaking to
your continued Dedication
& Support for nutnyahoo’s little War
on an Imprisoned, Starving, & Massacred populace
BIDEN’S
INDIFFERENCE
TO PALESTINIAN LIVES IS
SENDING THE MIDDLE EAST INTO THE ABYSS
The U.S.
dedication to
Israel’s war of annihilation has
created a tornado of instability and danger.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/24/intercepted-biden-israel-middle-east-war/
WWIII’s
right around
the Corner & its
Cheerleaders could
not BE any more Gleeful
but
I repeat
myself. again.
apologies. again.
Um, misguided Jewish people can support antisemitic groups and policies just as easily as misguided Black people like Sen. Tim Scott can support racist groups and policies.
During the Passover seder, Jews express the yearning to return to Jerusalem. They have been doing this EVERY SINGLE YEAR since before Roman times. Celebrating Passover and believing that Israel is a “settler colonial project” are not compatible ideas. Believing that one can be “anti-Zionist” without being antisemitic also doesn’t make any sense. And, finally, it includes acknowledging the death of tens of thousands of Egyptians in order to achieve liberation from slavery and oppression. So an understanding of Pesach means understanding and accepting—though certainly not liking or celebrating, which is clearly stated during the seder—death and loss that comes from war and liberation. Where exactly is the understanding of these things in the protests currently happening?
@34, etc.: The very personal, often combative nature of the pro-Palestinian protesters, especially in traditional Jewish places like New York City, has added another wrinkle to the right of dissent.
Abusing the word “genocide” adds heat but no light to this situation, which is just one of the reasons I’ve opposed abuse of that word. You’ve done everything you can here to abuse that word, to claim that anyone who disagrees with you supports genocide, massacre, etc. It’s behavior like yours which creates the very environment you’re now decrying.
(Do you think no one notices when you constantly throw your term “genocide” at Israel, whilst sneering at the actual, recognized definition — but then you can’t ever say whether Hamas committed genocide in Israel? Do that enough times, and you give credence to those who would dismiss you as an anti-Semite.)
I’d bet $100 that you didn’t end your Seder by saying “Next year in Jerusalem”.
(At the conclusion of every actual Seder are the words “Next year in Jerusalem”).
@38 tensorna, if everyone would just ignore kristofarian’s practically unreadable doggerel, it would finally go away. As soon as I see the looney toons line spacing and random capitalization that epitomizes one of its posts, I scroll by as fast as I can.
@40: I’m merely using kristo’ to exemplify the Stranger’s irresponsible abuses of the word “genocide,” the Stranger’s obsessive focus on certain events faraway from Seattle, and the Stranger’s refusal to admit these current events have a very long and complex history. He’s proven very useful to me in those ways.
and Jews can
and Do support
Genocide even if
it takes a Court 1/2
a War to Recognize
bibi’s Gambit to keep
Outta Jail’s been hard
on Jews everywhere &
the Protests’ll only Grow
in Volume and miguided
attempts to quell what bibi
calls ‘Horrific’
[my irony meter
just busted LOL]
and pointing
at ALL protests
as Anti-Israel when
in Fact they’re Anti-Genocide
will only Serve
to Inflame the
conflagration
meanwhile bibi shields
himself Behind
Hamas*
*When Israel is saying, “International law does not apply to us because we have a well-founded military objective and military necessity,” they are pretending that this military necessity takes precedence over everything.
That is not the case.
That is not the case.
–Agnès Callamard, Amnesty
International’s secretary general
oodles More:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/25/agnes_callamard_gaza_war_israel_palestine
“and Jews can
and Do support
Genocide even if
it takes a Court 1/2
a War to Recognize”
What court has recognized this? (Amnesty International is not a court of law.)
Did Hamas commit genocide in Israel on 10/7? Yes or no? If you can’t be bothered to answer that question, why should anyone believe you care about genocide?
@43. Hamas obviously committed genocide on 10/7 in what they believed and justified as a military guerilla campaign because reasons. They were targeting Jews. Meanwhile, the IDF and Israeli response, mass graves and starving children and unchecked settler violence and land theft, had also been a continuous genocide, unquestionably, no matter how much you need to placate your cognitive dissonance with just war reasons. Why can’t you admit that? It is the height of groupthink to hold the opposition to the highest standards of scrutiny and pedantry for the permissive acts of the ingroup. That’s the point. And these are not the acts of a collective worldwide ethnic group, but an extremist element that has taken power unjustly, enabled the perpetrators to commit 10/7, and obfuscated their crimes with this copout of weaponized antisemitism. Their actions speak for themselves, no matter how picture perfect your apologism for fitting the square peg of their actions into the round hole of anything but genocide. The IDF is targeting innocent Gazans indiscriminately and because they feel moral license to do so. Aid convoys, anyone who moves, even aid drops are deadly. You have too much pride invested in this petty competition of right and wrong to see how transparent your double standard is and how quickly you flip the switch to sociopath when shown blatant evidence that challenges your dehumanizing lack of empathy. As if your pitifully sad tent comment didn’t reveal your true character.
I used to get pissed at your comments tensor, but now I find you a pitiable person lost in your own shame. Hopefully you can give your kids the attention you clearly lacked from whoever raised you to seek out this perpetual spinning of your wheels in the mud of your own brain droppings. Peace out.
https://youtu.be/UZ3EDTYZTOU?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/2X-2d4COiKs?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/wjKQQpPVifY?feature=shared
There are four lights
https://youtu.be/rVHR0UPHERQ?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/7y2dBhj8sOM?feature=shared
https://youtu.be/77IT3owbpIA?feature=shared
And these are not the acts of a collective worldwide ethnic group, but an extremist element that has taken power unjustly
@37 “Believing that one can be “anti-Zionist” without being antisemitic also doesn’t make any sense.”
If, as you claim, perpetual occupation of the Holy Land, regardless of how this is accomplished or who is hurt in the process, is an indispensable core tenet of Judaism then everyone should be antisemitic. I don’t believe that to be the case, however, much like I don’t believe that conversion or death to infidels is an indispensable core tenet of Islam. Zealots within each religion give their fellow believers a bad name.
@27, @44, etc.: Well, Garb, so you have created another account. Given you were bounced from here after some exceptionally bitter personal attacks and taunting against your fellow commenters, you really shouldn’t start your return by lecturing others here on how to behave. Indeed, you probably shouldn’t have created a new account as quickly as you did; I really believe you need more time off from here. At least you’ve admitted Hamas’ actions in Israel met all the requirements for genocide given in the Genocide Convention, even though you balked at admitting why they did it, and refused to consider the implications thereof.
The protesters are actively making matters worse, by recklessly throwing the word “genocide” at Israel, by carefully refusing even to consider if Hamas committed genocide in Israel on 10/7, and by carefully refusing to consider what the long-term implications might be if Hamas did so. Their call for ceasefire is really just a demand for the non-solution of a return to status quo ante bellum, a state which, Hamas has assured everyone, will lead to another 10/7. Anyone who leads Israel’s government will reject this as unacceptable, and so the protesters have locked themselves into a dead-end position. I doubt they will experience anything they’ll enjoy.
Again, I strongly advocate you take a lot more time off from here, worry not about anyone else’s behavior here, but rather to consider your own past behavior here, and why it got you banned from here.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000009393031/aid-groups-gaza-israel.html?smid=url-share
@50. Take your own advice. You will never silence me.
Tensor, you don’t care about my well being. You are a coward whose response to being challenged is to self victimize and censor words and truths and righteous anger that stems from injustice that you can’t handle.
You think banning my account and censoring my free speech and silencing my artistic expression and all the thousands of posts and videos and songs and parts of myself I have shared with this community in good times and bad times will protect you from the truth? You think you actually care about me or anyone who is suffering by your feckless attempts to snuff out what you can’t handle? Go ahead. You can’t conquer my spirit or take away everything I have said and done. Your cowardice proves you have no place here other than to serve as a talking points android parroting propaganda and never challenging yourself to see beyond your own myopia.
I have never hidden who I am or what I stand for. And you will succeed it removing me from my community where I have established myself, warts and all. But I will be better. Still I rise.
https://www.patriciarobertsmiller.com/2024/04/25/laws-of-history/
Here’s another from my favorite professor who I took classes from right there in Parlin where I saw kids get assaulted by police for exercising their constitutional rights to petition, assembly, and free speech in a peaceful protest.