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.

• from the Illinois Green Party

The Green Party has long stood in solidarity with the struggle for justice and liberation in Palestine. While the arrest of 2024 Green Party Presidential contender Jill Stein has been national news, Greens across the country (including in Illinois) have been joining rallies, marches, teach-ins, and encampments calling for an immediate ceasefire and the end of the current assault on Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands.

Despite local Zionists trying to spread false rumors that we have canceled this action, we have not.  See you on Tuesday!

By now it’s pretty clear that the Democratic Party is not going to stand up against genocide. Locally, it’s been months and we’re still waiting on a ceasefire resolution from City Council. And even worse, a Democratic-led County of Monroe has the nerve to fly a genocidal flag in front of the building.

Hey Y'all! Michael Dublin here. I want to give big props to JVP and other protesters who shut down a Raleigh street in an effort to get the incumbent US Representative, Deborah Ross, to ask for a Congressional cease-fire resolution to stop the slaughter of Palestinians by Zionist Israeli Forces.

On Thursday, February 22 upwards of 3,000 people gathered and marched in midtown Manhattan to show the popular opposition to the American Israel Public Affairs Council  (AIPAC). The march started at the north end of Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, marched down 2nd Avenue, to 45 Street - blocking traffic for most of the way, then up 3rd Avenue to 49th Street where we demonstrated in from of AIPAC's Manhattan office. It was cold, yet the crowd was vibrant.

• February 19, 2024 E-Digest of the Green Party of Pima County (GPPC)

GPPC Statement

“Anyone supporting U.S./Israeli GENOCIDE of Palestinians is automatically disqualified from holding or running for office.”

Jaylani Hussein of CAIR Minnesota leads Abandon Biden protest (Image: Screenshot from WCCO)

Black voters feel trapped in the duopoly but other groups are giving a master class in political courage. The Abandon Biden campaign shows the way.

Face the Nation Host Margaret Brennan: Thasin, you did change your mind on the president. Why?

Thasin: I was a champion for Joe Biden until October 7. I feel he disowned us, disenfranchised us, with his stance on Gaza.

Brennan: What do you mean by that?