Anti-Israel demos heating up across US after Nuseirat carnage
Anti-Israel demonstrations across the United States have taken a new turn and are pushing forward with irresistible momentum after the occupying regime launched a merciless foray into the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central part of the Gaza Strip at the weekend.
Israeli military vehicles advanced into areas in the east and northwest of the Nuseirat refugee camp on Saturday morning amid the regime’s heavy artillery bombardment of the coastal enclave, claiming the lives of at least 274 Palestinian civilians and wounding 698 others.
Thousands of demonstrators surrounded the perimeter of the White House in a sea of fabric later in the day, saying they were drawing a red line for US President Joe Biden and calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.
The demonstrators — many of whom had arrived on buses from more than two dozen cities — marched to chants of “Free Palestine!” while holding signs that said “Genocide is our red line” and “Israel bombs, your taxes pay.”
The protest came after Biden said last month that he would suspend delivery of weapons to Israel if it went into population centers in Rafah.
However, the White House denied that Israel had crossed Biden’s “red line” with its barbaric campaign in the refugee camp, infuriating Saturday’s demonstrators.
“If Joe Biden’s red line was a fiction … and it was designed to make us become quiet, instead of that, we are going to become louder,” said Brian Becker, a leader of the ANSWER Coalition, one of the organizers of the march. “Only we can be the red line against genocide.”
In a related development, US riot police confronted pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) on Monday and arrested a number of participants after forming a skirmish line and facing off with protesters who stood behind barricades.
On the same day, a group of protesters gathered in front of the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco and called for an end to attacks on Gaza as they held banners that read “Zionism Kills.”
More than eight months into the Israeli genocide, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.
At least 37,164 Palestinians have since October 7, 2023 been killed in the besieged territory, most of them women and
children.