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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Here's something we can support, The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a case with the ICC against 1,000 Israeli soldiers for war crimes in Gaza.

https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/perpetrators/hind-rajab-foundation-files-historic-icc-complaint-against-1000-israeli-soldiers-for-war-crimes-in-gaza

I think they might could use our help. Please read the article and join me in making a contribution. https://buy.stripe.com/cN228hbY5g7jaM84gg

Here's something else:

There are those inside Israel who stand for justice and humanity, made up of committed Israelis and Palestinians working together to protect the Palestinians. We need to give them all the support we can. They are taking huge risks.

Work on the Ground: Transforming Lives in Israel-Palestine — American Friends of Combatants for Peace

https://www.afcfp.org

CfP’s Solidarity in Action Campaign: https://drove.com/.2Mcf

For factual information:

https://www.btselem.org

Teach-in Network educating for justice

https://teachinnetwork.org

Gush Shalom has been on the side of peace for many years:

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/index_en.html

New Israel Fund

NIF.org

ANERA

https://www.anera.org/

ADALAH

https://www.adalahjusticeproject.org/defend

Christian organisations:

FOSNA

https://www.fosna.org

SABEEL

https://sabeel.org

https://paxchristiusa.org/

Jewish organisations:

JVP

https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org

If now now

https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org

These are only some of the courageous groups working for justice in Palestine. They all need y/our support now, perhaps more than ever. How can we allow this to continue?

And we can vote for third-party candidates. Anything else is a waste of your time/our vote.

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Elizabeth's avatar

Thanks for the list of organizations. I already give to some of them, and I'll look at them and consider adding some.

I'm going to push back on voting third party. Bibi is Trump's good friend. He wants Trump to win. There's even a theory that he's expanding the war to make it harder for Kamala to win. Why should we go out of our way to help Bibi? Vote for Kamala and upset Bibi.

And then harass her unmercifully.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

The problem is Kamala shows no signs of breaking from Biden’s Israel policy. That’s why I’m voting for Jill Stein. I wasn’t going to vote for Biden if the genocide didn’t stop and I sure as hell won’t vote for Kamala after they rigged the primary

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Elizabeth's avatar

I usually have nothing against voting third party. I voted for Ralph Nader, I think twice. And I think Jill Stein. Maybe others too. I've reached an age where it starts to blur together a bit.

But this Donald creature scares me like none of the other evil Repugs. He's threatening to sic the army on us when we demonstrate! And saying we never need to vote again. And I think he means it. This isn't about liking Kamala (I did sort of used to like her - I'm a fellow Bay Area girl, and have watched her career a long time, and she has been kind of appealing, even if I never actually liked her politics exactly). It's about being terrified of that other guy. And about not wanting Bibi to get what he wants.

I'm not trying to tell people what to do, just trying to explain my reasoning.

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Curtis Josue's avatar

Thanks Elizabeth, I understand that because not too long ago I was thinking the same thing, that Donald Trump is so horrible and Kamala will at least be better on pretty much everything compared to him. I’m still making up my mind but I’m just pissed off at the Democratic Party in general right now. I’m pissed they rigged the primaries for Joe Biden despite a vast majority of us saying we don’t want him as our candidate, and the refusal to do anything different with Israel is the icing on the cake. Despite those two issues I genuinely like the direction and some of the rhetoric that Dems are taking, and I do like Tim Walz as VP. I could see a world where I do vote for Kamala in this election but idk.

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Istvan Kash's avatar

She has repeatedly shown who she is. She is willing to lose this election to Trump over her support for Israeli aggression. Her husband is a Zionist who immediately travelled the country to tamp down on university campus protests and labeling them as anti-Semitic. Third party voting is something that has been hardwired into our thinking as a vote to manifest the worse of two evils. It is a last act of protest.

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