Jessie Stoolman

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES NOW! This attack on Mahmoud is an attack on free speech and other fundamental democratic rights in this country. jewishvoiceforpeace.org/actions/

"Khalil’s arrest is an act of anti-Palestinian racism intended to silence the Palestine solidarity movement...but this lawless abuse of power and political repression is a threat to all Americans." @RepRashida leads colleagues in demanding the Trump admin #FreeMahmoudKhalil

This morning, seven U.S.rabbis and Israeli activists were arrested by Israeli police at the Gaza border as part of a delegation of thirty rabbis and other peace activists with Rabbis for Ceasefire who were attemping to bring food supplies into Gaza through the Erez crossing.

since the US and Israel won't stop murdering people, it is time for the world to commit to sanctioning both. Send the US nothing. No oil. No pharmaceuticals or medical equipment. No plastics, electronics, or supplies. Sanction the US ***now***

Wow! @timkaine tears apart Biden's Houthi strategy: "The defense of other nations' commercial ships, in no way, and it is not even close; that's not self-defense... And the president cannot make it self-defense by calling another nation a partner... that's laughable."

Rep. Tlaib: "I was proud today to walk in and pull a Democratic ballot and vote uncommitted...when 74% of Democrats in Michigan support a ceasefire yet President Biden is not hearing us, this is the way we can use our democracy to say 'listen to Michigan'"

A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.

LISTEN TO MICHIGAN!

The U.S. and the State of Israel are starving babies. No more weapons for Israel! act.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/.../no-more-we…... Demand the Biden Administration reinstate UNRWA funding! jewishvoiceforpeace.org/.../tell-congr…

Only yesterday, 7 children died of hunger in Northern Gaza. They were starved to death.

Excellent thread. Take a look.

A vote for Biden is a vote for genocide

The Canadian doctor who was suspended from U of O for being pro Palestine went to Gaza 💜

🚨Breaking: UN experts confirmed Palestinian women and girls in Israeli detention face sexual assault, including strip searches by male soldiers. Some were raped, others threatened with sexual violence. shar.es/agrGDE

I love Michigan - where I was born, raised, and learned that there is no liberation without the liberation of Palestine. Please join me in urging Michigan to tell Genocide Joe not in our name by voting uncommitted! listentomichigan.com

Tell me which is “weaponizing the Holocaust” 1) people making comparisons between the Holocaust and instances of ongoing racist genocide, demanding we stop them 2) colonial states invoking the Holocaust to justify/enable ongoing racist genocide and silence those who oppose it

Take action to stop the genocide in Palestine! docs.google.com/document/d/14V…

Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante. x.com/bob30031583/st… Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished and outraged by the fact that those who represent the descendants of a people who were persecuted for centuries for religious or racial reasons... That the descendants of this people who are today the decision-makers of the State of Israel, that they could not only colonize an entire people, partly drive them out of their land and seek to expel them for good... But also, after the massacre of October 7, engaged in a real massive slaughter on the populations of Gaza and continue, incessantly, hitting civilians, women, and children. And to see the silence of the world, the silence of the United States, protectors of Israel, the silence of the Arab states, the silence of the European states who claim to be defenders of culture, humanity, human rights. I think we are living through a horrible tragedy because we are also powerless in the face of this thing that is unleashing. At least, I say: bear witness! The only thing that remains if we cannot resist concretely is to testify. Let's resist in our minds, let's not be fooled, let's not forget, let's have the courage to face things head-on."

The House just passed this blatantly unconstitutional legislation by voice vote. Congress enables Israeli apartheid not only through military funding, but also by actively working to silence, intimidate, and censor individuals who speak out for Palestinian rights here at home.