“There is nothing antisemitic about fighting for people’s right to live,” says Jewish Voice for Peace organizer Elena Stein, who on Monday joined hundreds of protesters arrested to block entrances to the New York Stock Exchange.
We discuss the historic mass protest, which called for an Israeli arms embargo and an end to war profiteering by companies like Raytheon and Lockheed Martin. “We are filled with horror beyond words and are attempting to embody just an ounce of that refusal,” Stein says of the moral urgency of protesting Israel’s actions in the Middle East, which she describes as a “war of extermination … done with U.S. cover.” She says JVP chose the stock exchange in order to draw attention to the role of U.S. financial and corporate interests in arming the Israeli military
Iran’s proxy militant/terrorist groups aren’t going to stop killing Israelis if Israel stops receiving weapons, instead they’ll launch 10s of thousands of rockets and ballistic missiles at Israeli population centers unhindered because there won’t be an Iron Dome to intercept them, or precision guided bombs to destroy terrorist weapons stockpiles.
These people have lost the plot and are useful idiots working for Russian and Iranian interests.
Everything would have been fine if 1. Israel had been made in Germany like it should have been and or 2. Israel would stop using bulldozers to steal Palestinian land. Oct 7th was reprisal attacks for Israel’s continued genocide and stealing of land. End of story.
Iran didn’t even come into the picture recently until Israel started bombing Lebanon.
Get your facts straight.