Community leaders and activists gathered outside the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building to demand that the U.S. stop sending funds to Israel. A group of protestors marched holding signs reading “Help end genocide act now!!” and “Stop U.S. military aid to Israel.” Speakers described more than 22 months of intensive bombing and siege in Gaza and urged the U.S. government and local elected officials to end material and political support for Israeli actions. Speakers also called on media organizations to expose those complicit in alleged crimes and warned that silence equals complicity.
For more than 22 months, Israel has subjected Gaza to some of the most intensive bombing and siege ever inflicted on a civilian population. The group called on the U.S. government to halt funding for the Israeli military and for local elected officials to do their parts in ending U.S. material and political support for Israeli crimes, Ajluni said. They also called on media organizations to fulfill their public interest function by highlighting and challenging those directly and indirectly complicit in crimes against humanity in Palestine.
Silence on this matter, especially on the part of those with the power to stop Israel's siege and starvation, is tantamount to complicity, Ajluni said. Ajluni also read a message from State Assemblymember Alex Lee: The genocide and war crimes inflicted on Gaza by the war regime of Israel is horrendous. Celeste Walker, district director for Assemblymember Ash Kalra, read a statement on his behalf, calling the war in Gaza the greatest brutalization of children that any generation has seen.
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