San Jose, CA – On Thursday, May 15, around 50 people gathered in downtown San Jose in front of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library to commemorate the 77th year of the ongoing Nakba.

Chants of “Free Palestine,” “BDS is our demand, no peace on stolen land” and “Stop bombing Gaza!” were heard throughout the streets of downtown.

Rise up and escalate BDS now! #Nakba77

The Nakba, meaning “catastrophe” in Arabic, has reached 77 years of mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians following the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Your action is needed now more than ever against Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people. 

The influence of apartheid Israel extends all over the world. Its supporters demand that anyone expressing anti-zionist viewpoints be ostracized, harassed, or arrested. Now, zionists have added demands that non-citizens speaking out against Israeli war crimes be deported from the U.S.

• Mahmoud Khalil was kidnapped from his Columbia University home, in the presence of his 8-month pregnant wife, by DHS/ICE agents on Saturday, March 8.

The issue with the actions taken by DHS, ICE and the US Government is a simple one. Armed agents of the state should not be kidnapping, arresting, detaining and/or attempting to deport legal residents of the United States for exercising their right to freedom of speech or political protest. It sets a dangerous precedent, one which would allow the US government to utilize armed agents to silence dissent and deny any resident, despite status, political freedom.

The Green Party of the United States condemns the proposal by President Trump to permanently displace Palestinians from Gaza and their homeland. For more than 70 years, Palestinians have sought the right to return to their homes after being displaced by Israel and other colonial powers.

Greens also condemn the United States for failing to arrest Israel President Netanyahu, an indicted war criminal, when he came to Washington, DC to meet with Trump. It called on Trump and Congress to make clear that the U.S. strongly opposes the ongoing efforts by Netanyahu to break the ceasefire.

November’s election led to the welcome political demise of Republican Marc Molinaro, a representative not of the people of his district, but of the military-industrial complex, of the billionaire class, of the foreign governments of Israel and Ukraine. I am glad to see the back of this vile politician who also stoked the fires of xenophobia for attempted political gain. 

WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United States said today that the Biden-Harris administration and Congress must use the recent killing of the leader of Hamas as an opportunity to secure a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon, starting with an immediate arms embargo on Israel.

“It's long past time for Biden and Harris to stand up to Prime Minister Netanyahu and stop sending bombs and funding to fuel the slaughter of so many civilians in Palestine and Lebanon," said Madelyn Hoffman, co-chair of the GPAX, the Green Party's Peace Action Committee.

The Green Party Peace Action Committee presented a webinar on October 14, Indigenous People’s Day, on the topic of ethnic cleansing, relating the historical forced displacement of native Americans to the current sufferings of Palestinians. Speakers discussed the history and practices of past ethnic cleansing in the Americas and comparable contemporary activity in Palestine.

GPAX invites you to join us to learn more about the destructive practice of ethnic cleansing, which persists to the present day in Palestine and is a major threat to world peace.

Today, October 7th 2024, marks one year since the Hamas attack on Israel that many consider to have sparked Israel’s US-backed genocidal campaign against Gaza that is now exploding into a regional war. But history did not begin on October 7th, 2023.

To understand the current situation, we must look back at least as far as 1948 to the Nakba, the brutal mass expulsion of indigenous Palestinians from their homes by Zionist paramilitaries and the newly formed state of Israel. While the world has been watching in horror for the past year as this genocidal rampage has cut short hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, that one year was preceded by generations of violence, occupation, displacement, dispossession, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing.

They're taking my tax dollars and killing people in Gaza.

We've killed over 14,000 children, 14,000 children.