Levka on Nostr: #genocide #OccupiedPalestine "We stand here today, as Americans who are fed up with ...

#genocide #OccupiedPalestine

"We stand here today, as Americans who are fed up with the way the United States government has spent our tax dollars. While several programs across housing, education, and healthcare are gutted, our politicians think the better use of that money should be going towards killing children, massacring families, and leveling churches, schools and hospitals. Instead of taking care of our veterans, we are sending more of our soldiers to fight a population of civilians, putting them in the crosshairs of Israel’s indiscriminate bombing, and giving them a lifetime of PTSD that our government will refuse to treat.

I lost 43 family members in the last 20 months of this genocide. 43. Growing up in a Catholic private school, I only had 38 classmates. I lost the equivalent of an entire graduating class worth of family members, people that I never got a chance to meet because of Israel’s inhumane and illegal blockade on Gaza. These were men, women and children who had promising careers and bright futures. Teachers, doctors, dentists, students. They weren’t soldiers, or fighters, or terrorists — but painting them as such, and telling you that they were human shields for such, has manufactured consent for their murders.

One of my cousins, Abdul Rahman, was shot and killed because he was trying to collect rainwater. Another cousin, Mazen, was shot and killed for trying to visit his home, which he had been forcibly displaced from. And perhaps most heartbreaking of all, my 12 year old cousin Sally was sniped in the head, and died while her father apologized to her for not being able to save her. I don’t know how to comprehend the fact that it was my tax dollars, and my paycheck, that was used to pay for the bombs and bullets that destroyed my cousins’ lives."

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/14/charging-the-us-government-with-genocide-before-the-inter-american-commission-on-human-rights/