Biden and Trump Facilitated This Genocide — We Must Build an Alternative from the Whole Rotten System

A powerful people’s movement has emerged in every corner of the country and all around the world, united to demand: Free Palestine! Israel and the United States have money and military might on their side, but it is absolutely clear that the people of the world stand with Palestine. With mass mobilizations like Saturday’s we can use our strength in numbers to help force the Israeli and U.S. war machine to back down.

Only the people’s movement can accomplish this, because the first instinct of both Democrat and Republican politicians is to compete to prove which of the two supports Israel’s ruthless violence against Palestinians the most. 

While the U.S. government neglects the poor and working class of this country at a time when it’s becoming harder and harder just to pay rent or go to the grocery store, the Biden administration is requesting $105 billion to fuel the aggression against Palestinians, continue funding the proxy war in Ukraine and escalate towards war with China. This is in addition to the annual $3.8 billion the U.S. sends to fund Israeli apartheid in “normal” periods. And the Republicans support this war funding just as much or demand even more!

Every cent invested in the U.S. war machine is money that can be used for housing, healthcare, education, public infrastructure and ongoing environmental catastrophes – amongst many other basic needs. Instead, U.S. weapons manufacturing corporations grow even richer off the contractors to arm the Israeli war machine.

The PSL and our socialist presidential campaign is not afraid to say without reservation that the Palestinian people deserve the right to live in their land, free and in peace. The only path to peace is to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine from the river to the sea.