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Hard work pays off for East Palestine’s John Conkle – SalemNews.net

Posted By on March 21, 2024

Teresa Sprowls, center, accepts a plaque in recognition of her continued employment of Columbiana County Board of Developmental Disabilities client John Conkle at Sprinklz on Top restaurant in East Palestine. Pictured are CCBDD Support and Service Administrator Caitlin Cole, CCBDD Reach 4 More Engagement Specialist Paul Anthony, Sprowls, Conkle, and CCBDD Assistant Superintendent Josh Martin. (Submitted photo)

EAST PALESTINE The admiration in his voice is quite evident as Josh Martin, assistant superintendent of the Columbiana County Board of Developmental Disabilities, talks about East Palestine resident John Conkle.

John is probably just one of a handful of developmental disabilities clients throughout the state of Ohio who was able to purchase his own home, said Martin. There are a number of clients who have become homeowners through bequests and legacies, but very seldom do you hear of one who actually earns the money to purchase his own home.

Conkle and his roommate of 30 years Gary Needham, who is also a CCBDD client, were able to purchase their East Palestine home in 2008, after years and years of hard work and working extra shifts.

I have known John since I first started with CCBDD as a service and Sspport administrator 21 years ago, Martin noted. He was one of my very first clients. When we were operating the sheltered workshops, John was one of the top earning employees. He would work five days each week at the workshop. Then, John would look to pick up a couple of extra days at local businesses.

Conkle has been working as a dishwasher at the Sprinklz on Top restaurant for almost four years. Prior to that he worked at a local car detailing business.

I came here so that I could make more money, said Conkle, who turned 62 last month. I like to work and to be around people. Everyone is very nice to me here.

Sprinklz on Top owner Teresa Sprowls appreciates Conkles hard work and his upbeat attitude.

John is truly a ray of sunshine. He is extremely helpful, willing to do anything that is asked of him. If he sees that something needs done, he goes ahead and does it. He doesnt have to be told, said Sprowls. John works five days a week. He loves working the early shift. He is super- duper fantastic.

Sprinklz on Top is located at 78 N. Market St. in East Palestine.

Caitlin Cole, Conkles SSA from the CCBDD echoed Sprowls comments, saying, John is such a hard worker. His positivity shines through into his work and his interaction with the other staff members and the customers. He is a person who truly loves coming to work.

For many years, Conkle was a stalwart on the Columbiana County Special Olympics basketball team.

John was a pretty good hoopster, said Martin. He could rebound and put the ball in the basket.

It was due to Conkles intense work program that the CCBDD initiated a remote support program for their clients.

John was working so many hours at various businesses, that whenever anyone from our office tried to stop by to check on him, he wouldnt be at home. Many times, he wouldnt be home when the SSAs came to visit. We had no idea when he would be home, said Martin. That became our impetus to utilize a remote support system that made it possible for John to let us know whenever he needed something. It also allows us to check in with him on a regular basis.

Martin summed up John Conkle quite succinctly when he said, John is a perfect example of what hard work can achieve, if you have a goal, and are willing to work toward it.

Conkle originally worked with Opportunities for Ohioans with Disabilities and Blue Sky Employment LLC for placement at Sprinklz on Top.

Teresa is a caring person, who truly considers her employees here at Sprinklz on Top to be part of her family, said CCBDD Reach 4 More Employment Engagement Specialist Paul Anthony. Coupled with Johns diligence and work ethic, this makes a fantastic situation for one of our clients.

Businesses or individuals desiring more information on Reach 4 More can contact Anthony via email at p.anthony@ccbdd.net. Their website is http://www.reach4more.org.

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Who is Mohammad Mustafa, the new prime minister of the Palestinian Authority? – NPR

Posted By on March 21, 2024

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (left) poses with Mohammad Mustafa, the former deputy prime minister and the chairman of the Palestine Investment Fund, after the latter was appointed as new prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, in Ramallah, West Bank, on Thursday. Palestinian Presidency/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (left) poses with Mohammad Mustafa, the former deputy prime minister and the chairman of the Palestine Investment Fund, after the latter was appointed as new prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, in Ramallah, West Bank, on Thursday.

TEL AVIV, Israel Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister of the Palestinian Authority and has tasked him with forming a new government.

Mohammad Mustafa is taking over the role in a move seen as an attempt to appease U.S. demands for reform so that the Palestinian Authority could govern Gaza in a postwar era.

The development is unlikely to please Palestinians, however, who have long expressed discontent with the Palestinian Authority's leadership, especially as the 88-year-old Abbas remains president.

"Overall, it's pretty meaningless. Because it's not going to change anything, for Palestinians internally or with regard to the relationship between the Palestinian Authority and Israel," said Joel Beinin, the Donald J. McLachlan professor of history and professor of Middle East history, emeritus, at Stanford University.

The almost 70-year-old Mustafa has been a senior economic affairs adviser to Abbas since 2005.

He previously served as the national economy minister and the deputy prime minister for the Palestinian Authority. He has been the chairman of the Palestine Investment Fund since 2009.

Mustafa also has ties to the United States. He received a master's degree and a Ph.D. at Washington, D.C.'s George Washington University. He previously worked for the World Bank as well.

Given Mustafa's longtime connection to Abbas, he is widely seen as a loyalist to the president.

"Mohammad Mustafa is a person who has been part of the authority in his capacity as an adviser to Mahmoud Abbas for years. So this is not injecting new blood, not injecting younger blood, because he's 70 years old. It's not gonna fix the reputation of the authority among Palestinians," Beinin said.

The White House's National Security Council said it welcomed the appointment of Mustafa as prime minister, according to spokesperson Adrienne Watson.

"We urge the formation of a reform cabinet as soon as possible," Watson said in a statement. "The United States will be looking for this new government to deliver on policies and implementation of credible and far-reaching reforms. A reformed Palestinian Authority is essential to delivering results for the Palestinian people and establishing the conditions for stability in both the West Bank and Gaza."

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands prior to a meeting at the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Nov. 30, 2023. Saul Loeb/AP hide caption

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands prior to a meeting at the presidential compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Nov. 30, 2023.

The Palestinian Authority was created as part of the Oslo Accords, a set of agreements signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1990s.

It was given control over pieces of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian Authority went on to lose control of Gaza to Hamas after fighting in 2007 and now controls only about 40% of the occupied West Bank. The rest of the West Bank is in Israeli hands.

A majority of Palestinians are still not supportive of this governmental body. A recent study from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that nearly 60% of Palestinians want the Palestinian Authority dissolved and that 88% want Abbas to resign.

"People are generally disgusted with the Palestinian Authority. It has very little respectability in the West Bank and even less in the Gaza Strip, among other reasons, because they have done absolutely nothing in response to Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip after Oct. 7. But even long before that, they had lost credibility," Beinin said.

Palestinians spoke to NPR about their discontent with their leadership in the West Bank in late February. Citizens there said the Palestinian Authority needs to make changes to care for its citizens in Palestinian territories something that they say the government has failed to do, including not even addressing the basic needs of the population.

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shake hands, marking the signing of the peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians, as U.S. President Bill Clinton looks on, in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13, 1993. Ron Edmonds/AP hide caption

Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat shake hands, marking the signing of the peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians, as U.S. President Bill Clinton looks on, in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 13, 1993.

Now-former Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, who announced that he was tendering the resignation of his cabinet last month, has remained on hand to serve as a caretaker to the government.

In his announcement of the appointment, Abbas asked Mustafa to create plans to reunite the administration of the West Bank and Gaza, reform the government and address corruption.

While the White House has expressed support for Mustafa's appointment, Beinin noted it's unlikely to be enough to ever get Israel's current government on board to support a Palestinian Authority-controlled Gaza.

"I'm sorry to say this, but President Biden is delusional in imagining that that can happen under the current Israeli government," he said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected Palestinian Authority control of Gaza after the war, saying that civilian governance should be given to local leaders.

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Ramy Youssef on the First Israel-Palestine Joke He Wrote After 10/7 – Vulture

Posted By on March 21, 2024

More Feelings is out March 23 on HBO. Listen to the full conversation on Vultures Good One podcast on April 2.

Illustration: Agns Ricart

Ramy Youssef has been writing comedy about Israel and Palestine for years. Before October 7, he was touring an hourlong set that included a story about going home with a woman and finding she had an Israeli flag on the wall. Im horny, so Im trying to justify it, he says. This is the Star of David. Thats their logo. Its just Jewish Big. PostOctober 7, he didnt have to throw everything out and start over, but he knew hed need to write about it after friends started reaching out.

October 10th, I get a call from a guy I know, starts a joke ten minutes into Youssefs new special, More Feelings. Yo, bro, where you at with Hamas? Youssef is defiant: Where Im at? Are we fucking? His tone turns serious. You think any of us like what happened? he says. We hate seeing people die. It made me cry. The audience interrupts him, breaking into applause. Youssef returns to the conversation with his friend: You know me. You think Im Hamas? Bro, Im a Taliban guy.

Was this the first joke you came up with after October 7?That joke was the first thing that came out of a set soon after. I would start by saying, Im not sure were supposed to be here. Ive been depressed. This has been really hard. I would address the Jewish folks in the room, too: Listen, I know you also have had a really hard time. Theres so much generational trauma. Were all sorting through a lot of feelings. Its why my stand-up has always been called Feelings, because this is a space to do that. And then Id talk about this phone call I had with a friend and get into that joke.

At a certain point, it became clear that I could just get into the joke part of it. Part of that too was because I started to use the proceeds of the show to donate to humanitarian aid that was going into Gaza, so people understood that context coming into the show. Then very quickly I would get into the joke.

What can you tell me about the October 10 phone call?The truth is that call is many calls. Its a few people who were close to me and people who werent. I had to have a little bit of grace for people who, whatever their backstory is, all of a sudden on October 7 went, Huh? Whats going on over there? And then they asked these questions that were shocking. It made me feel like when I was a kid and I had to explain to people that I wasnt a terrorist, as if my faith and where I come from meant I have this proximate agreement to violence.

I know a lot of people in my life who would say, Man, I dont need to deal with that. I fully understand that point of view. But I had that little extra thing in me thats probably from my parents, who are really gracious. My dad was a hotel manager, and his whole thing was You got to make people feel good. You have to take care of people. So I just say, Okay, Im feeling upset. Im feeling wild that I even have to explain this to you. But also, I have the space to talk about it. And with the hope that that could be an offering.

How do you make those feelings funny? It just made me laugh because its a hilarious position to be in. Its like, Ive known you my whole life And lets be real: Whats really the bottom of the question? The bottom of the question is You think I might like this? You think theres a chance I think terrorisms cool? And then it becomes a really funny setup for a joke where theres this idea that Im going to tell you, Hey, no. Im super-peaceful. The joke is set up that way and then takes the other turn, which is just classic comedy.

How did you approach the non-joke part of the joke, when you allow yourself to get claps? Did you think, This is worth it because then it really sets up the joke? Or, This is worth it because I want to say this?Its both. Its funny because its sincere in my mind. I have room for all these feelings, and I want to talk to you about it. But also, Fuck you, you know? There is nothing on earth that isnt sitting in some crazy duality. And thats my relationship with my friends. Its my relationship with my audience. Its what makes it funny.

Was the punch line always Taliban?We piloted other groups. We tried Boko Haram, but their brand isnt strong enough to really get the pop or the laugh you want.

Wait, really?No, no, no. It was always Taliban.

I wouldnt put it past any comedian.Yeah, youre sitting with six guys and being like, Well, yeah, what group should it be? Thats not the kind of joke you can workshop with a bunch of Arabs, though, because at a certain point someone non-Arab shows up and goes, What are you guys talking about? The joke in and of itself creates the problem youre trying to avoid.

What do you think the role of the comedian is in a situation like this?Jon Stewart came to one of the tapings. When I first met him, I told him I remembered when I was in high school feeling that the only voice that cared about me on TV was this Jewish comedian from New Jersey. We present incredibly differently in so many ways, but I feel a kinship to the idea that theres something worthy in processing absurdity by sitting in it. And Jon did that so well.

That said, as traditional media continues to disintegrate into being so unfocused, so biased, so disingenuous in describing what is happening, theres this weird thing of Well, maybe I can get my truth from the comedians because theyre the real philosophers. Part of the design of the joke were talking about is I go out of my way to say, Yeah, no. Im also not going to do that.

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We Have to Start Thinking in Terms of Decolonization – The Intercept

Posted By on March 21, 2024

As the official death toll in Gaza passes 31,000 people, including more than 13,000 children, the Israeli state is continuing its mass-killing operations in the besieged strip. The U.N. secretary-general is warning that famine is spreading in Gaza, and Tel Aviv remains defiantly committed to its distinctly offensive war of collective punishment.

While the Biden administration is growing more vocal in its public calls for a pause in Israeli military actions, it has also made clear it has imposed no red lines over military action. The Netanyahu government maintains it will escalate its attacks in Rafah, even as the White House is calling for Israeli officials to consider a smaller-scale operation to target Hamas fighters and leadership.

This week on Intercepted, Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu discusses the disconnect between the rhetoric of Western leaders and the predictable results of their sustained military backing of Israel. Buttu also analyzes the political debates within Palestine and the role of Hamas and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbass Fatah party, and the thousands of arrests of Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7. She also discusses the significance of Palestinian resistance leader Marwan Barghouti, who is currently serving multiple life terms in an Israeli prison but whose freedom Hamas says it is committed to winning in a future exchange of captives. Barghouti, who is often characterized as Palestines Nelson Mandela, was reportedly beaten in prison this week.

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Biden and other Democrats forced to adapt to pro-Palestinian protests – The Washington Post

Posted By on March 21, 2024

Early this month, protesters confronted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at a Brooklyn theater, demanding that she call the Israel-Gaza war a genocide.

The next day, protesters shouting Cease-fire now! and Let Gaza live! interrupted the Senate primary victory speech of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), forcing him to cut short his ebullient remarks.

And before the annual State of the Union address, protesters wearing black shirts blaring Bidens legacy = genocide and carrying oversized banners locked arms to shut down a swath of Pennsylvania Avenue forcing President Bidens motorcade to take an alternate route to the Capitol to avoid the demonstration.

Ever since Hamass deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel and Israels military response, protesters calling for an immediate cease-fire and an end to the war in Gaza have become a hallmark of Democratic events, with demonstrators confronting everyone from Biden and Vice President Harris to Cabinet secretaries and members of Congress.

Protesters gathered in front of the White House ahead of President Bidens State of the Union speech on March 7. (Video: Amber Ferguson/The Washington Post)

The sustained and ubiquitous nature of the protests has distracted from the message that Democrats are hoping to send and highlighted a key vulnerability that Democrats fear could hurt them in the November election.

The persistence of these is really striking, and thats probably why its really making it a headache for anyone in a position of authority at this point, and its the Democrats right now, said Dave Clark, professor of political science of Binghamton University. So many times these things are difficult to sustain, from an organizational standpoint and they drift off into nothingness, and they have not done that. They really have been sustained since the October 7th attack.

Particularly ominous for Biden and other Democrats is not just the fact of the protesters and near-constant disruptions, but what it could portend in November: Many of the protesters have emerged from the ranks of their liberal base, including young voters. In last months Democratic primary election in Michigan, which has a large Arab American population, more than 100,000 voters chose Uncommitted a pointed signal intended to convey they were unhappy with Bidens Israel-Gaza war policies.

A March Fox News poll, for instance, asked registered voters whether they approved or disapproved of how Biden was handling the war. Overall, among Democrats, a narrow 52 percent majority approved and 44 percent disapproved much worse than his overall approval rating among Democrats, 81 percent of whom approved of how he was doing as president.

And a January AP-NORC poll found 63 percent of Democrats saying the military response from Israel in the Gaza Strip has gone too far, compared to 24 percent who said it has been about right and 9 percent who said Israel has not gone far enough.

Some Democrats are also growing anxious about the partys convention this summer in Chicago and the prospect of mass protests interfering with the four-day event. Demonstrators always gather outside Democratic and Republican conventions, but party rank-and-file have quietly expressed concern about major disruptions this year, particularly related to Israel and Gaza. The convention will have enhanced security because it is designated as a national security special event, and organizers say they are confident they can balance First Amendment activity and safety concerns.

The president, a staunch supporter of Israel, supports a temporary cease-fire in Gaza in exchange for the release of hostages still being held by Hamas. He has also become increasingly critical of Israeli leaders for not allowing more aid into Gaza, where more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and hundreds of thousands more are at risk of famine.

Protesters have a host of demands, including a permanent cease-fire and an end of U.S. military support to Israel. In an interview with MSNBC earlier this month, Biden said, Im never going to leave Israel. The defense of Israel is still critical, so theres no red line Im going to cut off all weapons.

But the Democratic Party in recent days has been taking a tougher line on the Israeli government. On Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States and a close ally of Israel delivered a dramatic speech on the floor of the Senate, calling for the Israeli government to hold new elections to avoid becoming an international pariah under the leadership of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing cabinet.

The White House and the Biden campaign have sought to minimize disruptions at the presidents public events, especially since pro-Palestinian protesters interrupted Biden and Harris numerous times at a January rally focused on abortion rights in Virginia, according to five people who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private deliberations.

Neither the White House nor the Biden campaign has held an event with the president that is open to the general public since Biden launched his reelection effort last April, though a White House spokesman said there have been no procedural changes for events with the president since he took office.

For Bidens campaign rallies, all attendees must be invited and are required to show their invitations as they enter, the five people said. The presidents other campaign events have been surprise stops, largely at local restaurants, where people do not have notice. The campaign has kept the location of Bidens events tightly held.

The White House has also briefed Cabinet secretaries on how to handle any disruptions they encounter while out in the country, including stressing the importance of the First Amendment, the people said.

President Biden was interrupted by a protester shouting genocide Joe and Free Palestine while speaking in Atlanta on March 9. (Video: The Washington Post)

That has not fully succeeded: A protester interrupted the president during a March 9 rally in Atlanta, shouting Genocide Joe and Free Palestine, as he was quickly carried out by security. Look, thank you, Biden said. Look, I dont resent I dont resent I dont resent his passion. Theres a lot of Palestinians who are being unfairly victimized.

Aides and allies of the president have praised him for keeping his cool in the face of demonstrations, especially compared to former president and presumptive 2024 Republican nominee Donald Trump, who has often berated protesters. But while Trump has encountered sporadic climate protesters this year, he has not faced significant demonstrations from pro-Palestinian activists.

While Donald Trump encourages violence against both protesters and reporters at his rallies, the President is a fierce defender of the First Amendment and believes everyone should be treated with dignity and respect, Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for Bidens campaign, said in a statement.

During a March 8 stop in Phoenix, Harriss motorcade passed by dozens of protesters yelling Genocide Joe and Butcher Biden as they held signs that read Save Gaza and Free Palestine. Inside the event, a protester began shouting in the middle of her remarks on reproductive freedoms, but was eventually drowned out by attendees chanting, MVP! MVP! referring to Madam Vice President before the demonstrator was removed from the event.

The next day, as she prepared for remarks at a campaign event at a local high school in North Las Vegas, an aide handed Harris a notecard with bullet points on what to say if she encountered more Gaza war protesters. She looked it over before taking the stage where she was again interrupted by a protester.

Okay, everyone has a chance to speak, Harris said, as the protester was swiftly removed. Right now, Im speaking.

The protesters are even directing their ire at progressive Democrats, including some like Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Ocasio-Cortez, both of whom signed an October resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire.

Earlier this month, a few hundred protesters rallied outside the MadSoul Music and Arts Festival, hosted by Frost in Orlando, as they demanded an end to U.S. aid to Israel and called for a free Palestine. Frost took the stage at the festival which included remarks from young liberal Democrats to address protesters directly, noting that he is also alarmed by Israels actions and is calling for a cease-fire.

Last fall, activists occupied the office of Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), another progressive lawmaker who at the time had not signed onto the cease-fire resolution, but did so shortly thereafter.

Khanna, who met with the protesters, said he respected them for being passionate about a moral point of view. And before the Michigan primary last month where the Israel-Gaza war was a key source of tension within the Democratic base he served as an emissary for the Biden campaign, traveling to that state to meet with Arab American leaders, students and fellow progressives.

Its a wake-up call to the Democratic Party if elected officials are fearful to go on college campuses, Khanna said. We need to be out on college campuses, and the reality is we are the party thats in power. The last thing young people want to hear is, Well, the other guy is worse. That doesnt do anything to inspire young people. They want to hear about how were going to have a more just foreign policy.

Other Democrats similarly say they respect activism and freedom of speech, and thus welcome what they view as healthy debate even if protesters sometimes distract from the intended message of an event.

It isnt something I tend to see as scary, Sen. Tina Smith (D-Minn.) said. Its part of the democratic process.

She added: Activists who are part of the big Democratic Party coalition are looking to speak to and to reach out to leaders who they believe are going to listen to them.

Despite protesters calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, Biden and many other Democrats are, on the whole, more aligned with the position of the pro-Palestinian protesters than Trump and his fellow Republicans are. In a recent interview on Fox News, Trump said Israel has to finish the problem in Gaza.

But appealing to the party in power is only natural, said Democrats and experts who study protests.

Joe Biden is currently serving as the President of the United States of America. Not only does he occupy the most powerful office in the world, he is arguably the man that is most capable of changing outcomes in Palestine behind Benjamin Netanyahu himself, Vincent Bevins, author of If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution, wrote in response to emailed questions. He added: If you believe that the United States is helping an ally to carry out atrocities and war crimes, I think it is easy to understand why you would target the commander in chief.

Jim Messina, who ran Barack Obamas 2012 reelection campaign, said every incumbent president faces protests and said President George W. Bush arguably dealt with the largest demonstrations during his 2004 reelection campaign by anti-Iraq war groups, and he went on to win. He added that Bidens operation does not need to start ramping up to large-scale events at this point in the year.

It wouldnt make sense to have big rallies, he said. You have big rallies when you want to turn people out, get people to volunteer.

This year, the campaign has held at least 60 in-person events with as many surrogates across battleground states. And in the run-up to the Michigan primary, a number of high-profile Democratic officials including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Biden campaign co-chair Mitch Landrieu appeared in the state, as well as some officials who disagreed with Biden on the outlines of a cease-fire.

Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.), a Jewish lawmaker who has called for an immediate and permanent cease-fire, visited the University of Michigan for the Biden campaign shortly before that states primary.

We were prepared for anything, Jacobs said. But it was actually a very in-depth and respectful conversation where the young people really wanted advice on how to talk to their friends who were skeptical of voting for Biden. I actually think its a good thing that there are so many people who believe that coming out and making their voices heard is likely to get policy to change.

The war in Gaza is not the only issue that has attracted demonstrators and activists. Climate change protesters, too, have regularly interrupted both Democratic and Republican events this campaign cycle. Earlier this month, a climate protester confronted Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) at Harvard University, where he was speaking to a study group.

Stevie OHanlon, communications director for the Sunrise Movement, a group of young people advocating for action on climate change, said her group has intentionally protested both Democrats and Republicans.

One goal is to make climate change an urgent issue in the 2024 election, and to push politicians of all parties to talk about it, she said. And climate, as well as abortion, is one issue where Democrats do really well compared to Republicans, but the reality is we need to raise the bar for all politicians.

But others warn that the disruptions also could have real political costs.

The biggest challenge is that the more protesters are in the news and in the public view, it makes the president look ineffective, Clark said. Even if his policies are indeed effective, it creates the appearance that theyre not because some of his own partisans and supporters are the ones complaining about his policies.

Sabrina Rodriguez in Arizona, Georgia and Nevada and Emily Guskin in Washington contributed to this report.

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A Statement From Jewish Americans Opposing AIPAC – The Nation

Posted By on March 21, 2024

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We will support candidates who are opposed by AIPAC, and who are advocates for peace and a new, just US policy toward Israel/Palestine.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) is welcomed to the stage by American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) President Michael Tuchin during the committees annual policy summit Grand Hyatt on June 05, 2023, in Washington, D.C.

For decades, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (or AIPAC) has been the most powerful wing of the Israel lobby in the United States. Until recently, it enjoyed almost total support from politicians in both major political parties.

In the past few years, though, attitudes within the Democratic Party towards Israel, Palestine, and AIPAC itself have begun to shift dramatically, threatening AIPACs lobbying power. In response, AIPAC has begun aggressively intervening in Democratic primary elections, spending vast sums of money to defeat political candidates who might oppose the policies of the Israeli government. AIPAC recently boasted that it was dollar for dollar, the largest contributor to candidates in the 2022 midterm elections, and it has plans to spend even more money in 2024.

Much of AIPACs power and legitimacy derives from the idea that it broadly represents the views of American Jews. But Jews have never been a monolith, and, in the wake of Israels unrelenting assault on Gaza, more and more Jewish Americans are speaking up in favor of a different kind of politics.

The following open letter is a clear example of this. It has been signed by prominent Jewish Americans from every walk of life, all of whom have decided to publicly repudiate both AIPACs unconditional embrace of the Israeli government and its attempts to crush the nascent movement within the Democratic Party for a new approach to Israel and Palestine.

The text of the letter follows.

We are Jewish Americans who have varying perspectives. Weve come together to highlight and oppose the unprecedented and damaging role of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its allied groups in US elections, especially within Democratic Party primaries. We recognize that the purpose of AIPACs interventions in electoral politics is to defeat any critics of Israeli government policy and to support candidates who vow unwavering loyalty to Israel, thereby ensuring the United States continuing support for all that Israel does, regardless of its violence and illegality.

Given that Israel is so isolated internationally that it could not continue its inhumane treatment of the Palestinians without US political and military support, AIPAC is an essential link in the chain that holds in place the unbearable tragedy of Israel/Palestine. In the coming US elections, we need to break that chain in order to help free the people of Israel/Palestine to pursue peaceful coexistence.

In the same 2021-22 election cycle in which AIPAC endorsed Republican extremists and dozens of Congress members whod voted against certifying Bidens victory over Trump, AIPACs network raised millions from Trump donors and spent the money inside Democratic primaries against progressives, mostly candidates of color. AIPAC is now vowing to spend even more millions in the 2024 Democratic primaries, targeting specific Democrats in Congressinitially all legislators of colorwhove advocated for a Gaza cease-fire, a position supported by the vast majority of Democratic voters. AIPACs election spending increasingly works to defeat candidates who criticize Israels racist policies.

In contrast to AIPAC, we are American Jews who believe that US support for foreign governments should only be extended to those that respect the full human and civil rights, and right to self-determination, of all people. We oppose all forms of racism and bigotry, including antisemitismand we support the historic alliance in our country of Jewish Americans with African Americans and other people of color in the cause of civil rights and equal justice.

Therefore, we strongly oppose AIPACs attempts to dominate Democratic primary elections. We call on Democratic candidates to not accept AIPAC network funding, and demand that the Democratic leadership not allow Republican funders to use that network to deform Democratic primary elections. We will support candidates who are opposed by AIPAC, and who are advocates for peace and a new, just US policy toward Israel/Palestine.

Signed by:

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Adam Gold, Senior Strategist, Working Families Party

Adam Shatz, London Review of Books

Alan Levine, Civil rights lawyer

Alan Minsky, Executive Director, Progressive Democrats of America

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Stand with Palestine: March on the Democratic National Convention battles for permits – Fight Back! Newspaper

Posted By on March 21, 2024

Chicago, IL The fight to get permits to march on the Democratic National Convention is heating up. On August 19 to the 22, the Democratic National Convention (DNC) comes Chicago. The massive movement against the genocide in Gaza is preparing to march to the United Center where the convention will be held.

The Coalition to March on the DNC has raised the slogans, Stand with Palestine! End U.S. aid to Israel!

Since the start of 2024, groups from the coalition have attempted to secure permits to march. Four applications by different organizations for different march routes and days of the convention have all been rejected.

On Monday, March 18, two of the organizations appeared before the Chicago Department of Administrative Hearings to appeal the denial of their permit applications, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and the Anti-War Committee (AWC).

Before going into the hearing, the coalition held a press conference featuring those two groups, along with others.

Emcee Hatem Abudayyeh, national chair of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) said, Tens of thousands of Palestinians not just from Chicago, not just from the Midwest are already making plans to be here in August. It will be historic.

Abudayyeh is speaking from experience about the dimensions of the mobilizations in August. USPCN is part of the leadership of the Coalition for Justice in Palestine in Chicago. The coalition has held mass mobilizations weekly since October, and many of the marches had 10,000, 15,000 and even 25,000 people just from the Chicago area!

Coalition demands city recognize the right to protest

John Metz of AWC said, The Anti-War Committee filed a permit to march in protest during the Democratic National Convention this August. We seek to exercise our First Amendment rights to demand within sight and sound of our political leaders that they end their support for the genocidal siege on Gaza. The Chicago Department of Transportation rejected our application, instead proposing that we relocate our protest four miles away, well beyond the sight of any convention delegates. By doing so, CDOT has sent a clear message: They stand with the political elites in Washington and against the people of Chicago. Today we're asking the Department of Administrative Hearings to do the right thing and reverse CDOTs unjust and undemocratic decision.

Olan Mijana spoke on behalf of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR), the lead organization in the coalition. Mijana stated, Black and brown people in Chicago have shown overwhelmingly we stand with the Palestinian people. The ceasefire [in Gaza] ordinance our city adopted had the support of Black and brown members of the city council. And Black and brown people have taken to the streets in mass numbers in support of the Palestinian resistance.

1968: The whole world was watching

Liz Rathburn, a student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, spoke for SDS. In 1968 the DNC came to Chicago, as our government murdered hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese people. SDS mobilized thousands of young people into the streets of Chicago and forced the whole world to see that the people of the U.S. stood with the people of Vietnam. In 1968 the racist mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, denied people a permit to march, they marched regardless and were met with brutal police repression. The Chicago Police Department (CPD) would love a repeat of 1968, where they can brutalize protesters without consequence. They just got tens of millions from the federal government to do just that.

The coalition explained that the movement demands a permit to protect the rights of everyone from the danger of police violence, or infiltration of the coalition by undercover CPD to entrap young people, as happened at the protests against NATO when they held their summit in Chicago in 2012.

If the city refuses to recognize the democratic rights of the movement, Abudayyeh said the march would happen Permit or not.

Hearing a kangaroo court

Dod McColgan, a co-chair of CAARPR reported after the seven-hou- long day of hearings. According to Brian Gallardo, the assistant commissioner of Public Way Permitting for CDOT, both permits were denied on the basis of issues of insufficient CPD resources, traffic management and access to emergency services on Ashland Avenue.

Asked about what departments gave input, Gallardo admitted he consulted only with CPD to make this decision.

McColgan also noted that after questioning, Gallardo admitted that the Secret Service is creating a security perimeter which hasnt yet been determined, but it will be within a few blocks of the United Center. This was also part of the basis of denying the permits to march near the convention.

McColgan continued, Our attorney attempted to ask about First Amendment considerations in deciding the alternate route, and Judge Dennis Fleming sustained an objection, saying that, The First Amendment is irrelevant!

McColgan noted with incredulity, The city believes that the First Amendment is irrelevant to our right to protest!

Gabriella Shemash, a deputy chief of CPD in the area around the United Center was called as a witness. Noting one of the several inconsistencies in her testimony, McColgan revealed, They claimed that marching on Ashland Avenue would be unsafe due to the disruption of access to emergency services in the Medical District. The same deputy who testified today permitted an action we were part of on May Day 2023 to march on one side of Ashland Avenue, which directly conflicts with her testimony today.

Deputy Corporation Counsel Christine Hake then attempted after the city rested its case to introduce a third reason to deny the permit. The application by the AWC is duplicative of the application previously submitted and denied by CAARPR because Joe Iosbaker is a member of both organizations.

McColgan remarked about the absurdity of this. These are entirely separate organizations in a coalition. So any two organizations that share any one member would have their applications considered duplicative if they were submitted separately.

This reasoning poses real problems for First Amendment rights as the city cannot review the member rules for any organization before granting a permit. This is spitting in the face of the First Amendment of the right to protest and the right to resist!

Coalition prepares legal fight and pressure campaign

Finally, McColgan made two announcements that the coalition will probably have to take this case to a federal level; and that the coalition will launch a pressure campaign on CDOT and on Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson.

The testimony today makes it clear that the Secret Service determination of a security zone is at the heart of these denials.

Were asking Mayor Johnsons administration, elected officials across the country, all the organizations in the peoples movements, and all those who respect the right to protest to stand with us in the fight for this permit.

McColgan concluded, Either way were marching. Theres no stopping the masses who plan to protest the genocide in Gaza.

Breaking development: Judge Fleming released his decisions upholding the CDOT denial of permits for both marches.

#ChicagoIL #IL #PeoplesStruggles #DNC2024 #CAARPR #AntiWarMovement #International #MiddleEast #Palestine #SDS #ChicagoAWC #USPCN #Featured

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Palestine’s Only Route to Statehood Is Peace – Foreign Policy

Posted By on March 21, 2024

The path to Palestinian statehood has been crushed beneath an avalanche of bombs, bullets, smoke, and fire. After Hamas is destroyed Israel must retain security control over Gaza to ensure that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel, a requirement that contradicts the demand for Palestinian sovereignty, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus office said in a prepared statement in January.

What little hard-earned trust there was between Israelis and Palestinians has been shattered both by the slaughter of civilians by Hamas in Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on Oct. 7, 2023the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaustand the subsequent war between Hamas and Israel. More than 30,000 Palestinians have now died, the majority of whom were civilians. Violent resistance has failed Palestiniansand empowered extremists in Israel.

In the Israeli collective psyche, Oct. 7 was a tremendous violation because of the sneak nature of the attack, the dismembering and burning of corpses, the use of systemic rape as a weapon of war, and the targeting of civilians including children in kibbutzim and attendees at a music festival. There is little appetite for peace with the perpetuators.

In Gaza, meanwhile, Israel is carrying out a brutal and unremitting war that has buried countless children under rubble and seen the destruction of more than half of all houses as well as libraries, court houses, hospitals, and all of the territorys universities. Many Palestinians view the Israeli military offensive as an attempted genocide. The greater part of the Palestinian political spectrum, including both Fatah and Hamas, broadly support the South African case in the International Court of Justice.

Yet there is little hope of real victory for either side. Even today, parts of Gaza remain under Hamas control, and the top figurehead commanders inside Gaza who oversaw the planning and execution of the Al-Aqsa FloodYahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deifhave not been captured or killed. The Hamas political leadership outside Palestine is, for the most part, also still at largetop Hamas political bureau members Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Meshal, and Mousa Abu Marzook are still alive, while Saleh Al-Arouri was assassinated by Israel in Beirut on Jan. 2.

Both sides have hardened against a two-state solution. In a Jan. 16 interview, Meshal dismissed the possibility of a two-state solution and said the Oct. 7 assault on Israel proved that liberating Palestine from the river to the sea is a realistic idea. In November, another Hamas political bureau member Ghazi Hammad pledged that Hamas would repeat October 7 again and again until they achieved their goalsthe total destruction of Israel and a Palestinian state throughout the entirety of the land.

Strategically, this makes no sense. While occupied people have a right to violently resist military occupation, for relatively disempowered people, trying to assert their cause through advocacy and negotiation is a much more fruitful domain than violence because it relies on force of argument rather than military might.

The Palestinian case for self-determinationlike any stateless peopleis bulletproof, even if Palestinians themselves are not. The principle of self-determination is enshrined in the U.N. Charter, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Palestinians have an inalienable right to rule themselves in the land on which they live.

The trouble is that Hamas demands go far beyond demanding self-governance. What they and Palestinian anti-Zionists demand is the right to extinguish their neighbors self-governance, and conquer their neighbors territory. Its the same right that Israeli extremists claim as they prepare new settlements on the West Bankand even dream of seizing land in Gaza.

This overarching narrative of Palestinian resistance against the existence of any kind of Israel or Zionism has been deeply embedded into the cause since the start of the conflictand has produced little but tragedy for Palestinians. Since before 1948, the use of force to resist Zionist presence in the land was normalized and glorified. Muslim leaders such as the Grand Mufti Haj Amin Al-Husseini refused to permit the establishment of any kind of Jewish state at the heart of the Arab world on what they held to be Islamic land. This absolute rejectionism fueled the anti-Zionist pogroms of the 1920s and 1930s, and spurred the Arab Palestinian factions to try to extinguish the newly created state of Israel in 1947 to 1948.

It was only in the 1990s that the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) renounced the strategy of violence, recognized Israel, and switched toward a strategy of diplomacy and negotiation. But this did not last very long. After the failure to agree upon a negotiated two-state solution at Camp David, Yasser Arafat gave his blessing to armed groups including Hamas to initiate a Second Intifada, perhaps as an attempt to achieve greater negotiating leverage and further Israeli concessions. Hamas takeover of Gaza and their war against Israel is simply a continuation of this long history of anti-Zionism.

Of course, this approach has failed to achieve both Hamas objective of eradicating Israel, and also failed to grant Palestinians any kind of state. So why is this?

Reliance on violence fuels a cycle of violence. This cycle of violence has led to severe Israeli retaliation, exacerbating the suffering of civilians and leading to deep humanitarian crises, cruelly visible in Gaza today. The use of violence has sabotaged the Palestinian cause on the international stage. Violent tactics have frequently been used to justify the delegitimization of Palestinians, and serve as an excuse to prolong the occupation of the Palestinian Territories by Israel. Horrific acts such as those of Oct. 7 alienate potential allies and supporters, particularly in the Western world.

This is not to mention the internal Palestinian political landscape. The split between Hamas and the PLO over tactics, strategy, and goals has fragmented Palestinians. This has made it more challengingif not nigh on impossibleto present any kind of united front in negotiations with Israel and the international community.

The Israeli right has used Palestinian fragmentation as a way to prevent the development of a two-state solution. According to the Jerusalem Post, in 2019 Netanyahu admitted as much when he told a private meeting of his Likud party that bolstering Hamas was part of his strategy to help maintain a separation between the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Yet the use of peaceful protests and strategies has also faced significant challenges. Despite the moral and ethical superiority of nonviolent resistance, its effectiveness in the Palestinian context has been limited due to several factors. Peaceful protests often receive less media attention compared to violent conflicts simply because they are of lower impact and lack the visceral shock of terrorism.

This lack of visibility can limit the impact on the global stage, making it harder to garner any kind of recognition or negotiation leverage. While violence might isolate Palestinians on the world stage, the dramatic and attention-grabbing nature of violent attacks helps to bolster Hamas standing on the Palestinian street, where they are seen to be the ones doing somethinganythingto fight for the Palestinian cause.

Beyond this, peaceful protests have often been met with heavy-handed responses from Israeli security forcessuch as with the Great March of Return in 2018. This suppression not only risks the lives and well-being of protestors and also discourages participation from the broader population. Violent elements including Hamas have also infiltrated these movements, and turned efforts at peaceful protest into acts of aggression.

The ongoing occupation, the blockade of Gaza, and settlement expansions in the West Bank underpin a sense of desperation and frustration among Palestinians. As Frantz Fanon suggested in his anti-colonialist opus The Wretched of the Earth, violence sometimes can be viewed as a cathartic force and as a response to the systemic violence inflicted upon an occupied people by a process of colonization or military occupation, and thus as a means for an occupied or colonized people to reclaim their humanity and agency.

Additionally, Palestinian nonviolent campaigns have been blighted by the same tendency for maximalist demands as Hamas violent campaigns. The Boycotts, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement for example opposes Palestinians having dialogue with Israelis, in what they call anti-normalization, and makes maximalist demands about the right of return for all Palestinian refugees to Israel. By making maximalist demands that are never going to be met in a negotiation, nonviolent campaigns can doom themselves to failure through the perception that these demands are not serious or in good faith.

After this war, we must call for a new approach rooted in realism, a renewed commitment to coexistence, and the willingness for both sides to compromise. Both Israelis and Palestinians need to abandon maximalist demands and delegitimization to focus on pragmatic solutions, accepting the fact that neither side is going to disappear, or push one or the other into the sea.

Israelis and Palestinians must both accept that maximalist positionswhether its the complete destruction of Israel as a state or the denial of Palestinian statehood are unattainable, implausible, and only perpetuate the cycle of violence, hatred, and trauma. Moving beyond this demands a culture of coexistence, where both Israelis and Palestinians acknowledge each others right to live in peace and security. Education and public discourseon both sidesmust emphasize mutual respect, understanding, and the historical and emotional ties that both groups have to the land.

The focus must shift back to negotiating a pragmatic compromise that can satisfy the core needs of both sides. Palestinians and Israelis need to prepare to head back to the negotiating table and work out our differences. This involves working towards establishing a Palestinian state with agreed borders, preventing the takeover of this state by terrorist groups like Hamas. We need to establish a consensus on Jerusalems status, refugee rights, and an end to settlement expansion. On the Palestinian side, trust was lost in previous peace efforts due to settlement expansion. On the Israeli side, trust was lost due to continued violence, leading to a lack of faith in Palestinian leaderships ability to control extremism and provide security.

The international community, including regional powers and global organizations, must play a constructive role in mediating and supporting this process. This includes ensuring that any agreements reached are respected and providing economic and political support for peace initiatives. This pathway to peace is undoubtedly challenging and requires courage, vision, and perseverance. But its the only way toward a future in which two peoples can live side by side in peace, dignity, and safety.

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Hutsonville/Palestine starts off right with win over Red Hill – MaxPreps

Posted By on March 21, 2024

Hutsonville/Palestine gave their fans exactly what they wanted out of a home opener on Wednesday. Their pitcher stepped up to hand the Red Hill Salukis a 12-0 shutout. That result was just more of the same for these two, as Hutsonville/Palestine also won the last time the pair played back in April of 2022.

Hayden Monan was a major factor no matter where she played. On the mound, she didn't allow a single earned run and only two hits while striking out 11 over 4.2 innings pitched. Monan was also solid in the batter's box, scoring two runs and stealing two bases while getting on base in three of her four plate appearances.

In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Brynn Griffin, who scored two runs and stole two bases while getting on base in three of her four plate appearances. Another player making a difference was Addison McNair, who went 3-for-3 with four RBI and a run.

Red Hill's loss dropped their record down to 1-1.

Both teams will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. Hutsonville/Palestine will take on Marshall at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. Marshall will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each game than the last. As for Red Hill, they will head out on the road to challenge Webber at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. Webber hasn't scored more than one runs for three games straight, a trend the squad is eager to reverse.

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Pro-Palestine Protestors Force Cancellation of Houston Young Republican Event with Israeli Official – The Texan

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