Israel’s deliberate policies of police brutality, racism, and abuses against Palestinians have been going on since 1947. In 2018, Israel passed a law legalizing segregation between the Jewish majority and everyone else. This law imposes apartheid in Israel and the Occupied Territories. This law also denies full citizenship to the Palestinians born and living in Israel.
In the 1980s, apartheid in South Africa, created international and domestic opposition. The United Nations ordered international economic sanctions, including arms embargoes on South Africa. In 1986, Congress passed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act, which imposed our economic sanctions on South Africa.
America and its politicians, in both parties, have done nothing to counter Israeli apartheid, anti-humane policies and practices and genocide against the Palestinian people. Why?
In the 2024 election cycle, the pro-Israel lobbying group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) donated $41M to Republican and Democratic members of the House and Senate. Even our Doug LaMalfa received and accepted $10,000 of this money (opensecrets.org). This pro-Israel lobby is buying support for Israel, no matter what they do, justified or not. The politicians accepting AIPAC funds don’t care that Israel’s genocide program has killed 60,000+ and injured 145,870+ Palestinians in Gaza (pbs.org).
The shameful truth is that we are supporting Israel’s policies and violence towards Palestinians and their genocide by our unwavering support of Israel. In fiscal year 2024, we gave Israel $12.5 billion: $6.8 billion in military aid and $5.7 billion for missile defense. President Trump has approved nearly $12 billion in military sales to Israel.
Our military funding to Israel makes LaMalfa and us also guilty of genocide. We are now no different than the Nazis. Is that who we are?
Tom Laurent
July 30, 2025
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Hamas brought this on the Palestinians, not Israel. October 7th was the worst and deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, which you conveniently fail to mention. You do however twist your facts to equate Americans to Nazis. Israels “segregation” has everything to do with their safety and protection from continuous antisemitism from people like you. Try using the truth next time and maybe ask yourself which side of this would Adolph Hitler be on…. Israels or Hamas ?
Those are a lot of propaganda talking points you’ve got there. Just curious – have you done ANY independent research about the history of Palestine? Personally, I knew nothing about that area until I did a deep-dive and checked many different websites, books, resources.
Perhaps you are not aware that “Israel” has slaughtered nearly 62,000 Palestinians, which includes at least 18,430 children. ..and those are just the confirmed deaths. Apparently there are many more bodies still under the rubble. Further, 240 have now died of starvation thanks to Israel intentionally blocking food and water from getting in. 107 of those were little kids and babies.
I’m guessing you don’t know that a stand-down was ordered for 7 October? And did you see that Israel did a ‘Hannibal Directive’ during that music festival, meaning that they killed a bunch of their own people? The ‘babies in ovens’ and ‘beheaded babies’ have been debunked – those claims were completely fabricated. But please do not take my word for it… research yourself instead of being duped by whatever propaganda media source you’re using.
There is so very much more to this story than the script American media is putting out there.