For the past 20 months, people in Los Angeles have shut down freeways, walked out of schools, marched peacefully, interrupted politicians, closed major streets, and organized educational events to try to stop the genocide in Gaza.
For the past 77 years, since the ‘Nakba’ on May 15th, 1948, the powerful Western countries have helped to empower Israel to occupy Palestine. This 77-year colonial occupation is now aiming for its “Final Solution,” which is to “level all of Gaza” as they did with Rafah, according to Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, back in May.
Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, using religion as a land deed, resembles the early days of U.S. expansion using Manifest Destiny to remove the indigenous population of North America and replace it with European white settlers to build a “new world.” This is the blueprint of the colonial project of Zionism outlined at their founding conference in 1897, as the New York Times has reported multiple times.