“Why focus on this now when there are so many other issues in our city” no one is saying this in good faith. The same people saying this are also attacking us for defending universal preschool or for trying to stop ICE kidnappings. Everything is happening at once, we can and we must do it all

Constantly we are told by our city, state, and federal govt that we don’t have the money for schools, parks, housing, healthcare. While we sent Israel over $31B in the last 2 years alone. But the federal govt will not end its complicity and redistribute resources without massive pressure from below

Israel killed 24 children yesterday in strikes on Gaza. Their bombs and equipment are coming from ports and factories in US cities. Palestinians in Portland have lost family members in the genocide. To dismiss this as a foreign policy issue that doesn’t involve city officials is ignorant at best

Watch what is happening in NYC right now with the moderate Democrats, Trump, and billionaires all attacking Mamdani.

That is what is going to happen here.

Y'all are going to align yourselves directly with Donald Trump and we're going to make you own it.

“Athletes for the Palestinian national teams in multiple sports have been killed by Israel, yet most of the sporting world appears to be totally fine entering into competition with Israeli teams as if everything were normal.”

- Jesse Joseph, US Olympic trial runner