حرية لفلسطين
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He is one of the politicians responsible for funding the current genocide. Also voted to censure Rep. Tlaib for speaking up for Palestine
Sitting member in US congress.
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Bradley Schneider voted in favor of sending billions of dollars in military aid to Israel, ensuring the Israeli government can continue to commit genocide against Palestinians.
He also voted in favor of H.R. 6090, which threatens to censor political speech critical of Israel on college campuses under the guise of addressing antisemitism. The ACLU has warned this bill could pressure colleges and universities to restrict student and faculty speech critical of the Israeli government and its military operations out of fear of the college losing federal funding.
Voted yes on House Resolution no 888, which reaffirms Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish ethnostate, as well as declaring any calls to dismantle the apartheid state of Israel as "antisemitic." Also voted to censure Rep. Tlaib for speaking up for Palestine
In 2020, Brad Schneider took $22450 from pro-Israel PACs such as AIPAC. Brad Schneider also took $137521 from pro-Israel individuals.
SourceIn 2022, Brad Schneider took $35200 from pro-Israel PACs such as AIPAC. Brad Schneider also took $86335 from pro-Israel individuals.
SourceIn 2024, Brad Schneider took $17500 from pro-Israel PACs such as AIPAC. Brad Schneider also took $405744 from pro-Israel individuals.
SourceThey cosponsored HR987: the "Prime Minister Golda Meir Commemorative Coin Act", which called for the treasury to mint coins commemorating Golda Meir, former Prime Minister of Israel, and pass proceeds on to American Friends of Kiryat Sanz Laniado Hospital Inc. Golda Meir was a signatory of the Israeli Declaration of Independence in 1948, and is famous for coining the phrase "There was no such thing as Palestinians" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_was_no_such_thing_as_Palestinians) This bill was introduced while hospitals in Gaza were being raided and bombed (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68330579).
SourceThey cosponsored HR1777: United States-Israel Future of Warfare Act of 2023
SourceThey cosponsored HR2454: United States-Israel PTSD Collaborative Research Act
SourceThey sponsored HR2531: the "United States-Israel Anti-Tunnel Cooperation Extension Act", which aims to extend the duration of US-Israel military cooperation.
SourceThey sponsored HR2748: the "Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021", that aims to normalize Arab-Israeli relations and strengthen the Abraham Accords, which is an agreement between the apartheid state of Israel and some of the world’s most autocratic dictatorships.
SourceThey cosponsored HR3099: the "Special Envoy for the Abraham Accords Act", which aims to strengthen Arab-Israeli normalization.
SourceThey cosponsored HR3266: the "Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act", a racist bill that implies that 1. children in the OPT are being taught to enact violence against Zionists 2. UNRWA is complicit by being the organization that distributes these textbooks (for education of children),
SourceThey cosponsored HR3792: the "U.S.-Israel Partnership and Abraham Accords Enhancement Act of 2023", which will - allow the Department of Defense (DOD) to give more weapons to Israel - continue the "Development of indigenous energy resources" (http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=(title:22%20section:2151d%20edition:prelim) i.e. extracting oil from Palestine - allow Israel to use grants to support nuclear technologies - create U.S. diplomatic efforts to oppose the International Criminal Court's investigations against US and Israel. - discriminate countries' Middle East Regional Cooperation grants based on their participation in the Abraham Accords
SourceThey cosponsored HR3907: the "United States-Israel International Development Cooperation Act of 2023", which doubles funding to Israel for agricultural projects, and possibly settlement expansion.
SourceThey cosponsored HR5918: Operation Swords of Iron Iron Dome Supplemental Appropriations Act
SourceThey voted for HR5933: Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions (DETERRENT) Act
SourceThey voted for HR5961: No Funds for Iranian Terrorism Act
SourceThey cosponsored HR6578: Commission to Study Acts of Antisemitism in the United States Act
SourceThey cosponsored HR6618: ARMAS Act of 2023
SourceThey cosponsored HR7866: United States-Israel Anti-Tunnel Cooperation Extension Act
SourceThey cosponsored HR7914: Accountability for Terrorist Perpetrators of October 7th Act
SourceThey cosponsored HRES311: Encouraging the expansion and strengthening of the Abraham Accords to urge other nations to normalize relations with Israel and ensure that existing agreements reap tangible security and economic benefits for the citizens of those countries and all peoples in the region.
SourceThey cosponsored HRES771: Standing with Israel as it defends itself against the barbaric war launched by Hamas and other terrorists.
SourceThey voted for HRES845: Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.
SourceThey voted for HRES1143: Condemning Iran’s unprecedented drone and missile attack on Israel.
SourceThey voted for HRES1160: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8034) making emergency supplemental appropriations to respond to the situation in Israel and for related expenses for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8035) making emergency supplemental appropriations to respond to the situation in Ukraine and for related expenses for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8036) making emergency supplemental appropriations for assistance for the Indo-Pacific region and for related expenses for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8038) to authorize the President to impose certain sanctions with respect to Russia and Iran, and for other purposes; and providing for the concurrence by the House in the Senate amendment to H.R. 815, with an amendment.
Sourcewashingtonpost.com
🔒Distorting 'From the River to the Sea':
The purposeful distortion of the phrase "from the river to the sea" as a call for terrorism, genocide, and the expulsion of Jewish people constitutes a malicious act of disinformation designed to diminish the Palestinian struggle for human rights and self-determination. This inflammatory misrepresentation willfully misconstrues the fundamental meaning behind the expression as a vision of comprehensive freedom and dignity for all people living between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea.
Contrary to these slanderous accusations, the invocation of "from the river to the sea" represents an emancipatory ideal - the aspiration that all inhabitants of historic Palestine, regardless of ethnicity or faith, may one day live in peace, justice and equality. It articulates the hope that oppression, discrimination, and subjugation will be dismantled, giving way to a society where neither colonial dispossession nor segregation determine the fates and rights of any of its peoples.
To falsely conflate this uplifting prospect with genocide is an unconscionable act of propaganda that seeks to demonize the perfectly justifiable demands of the Palestinian people. It paints their yearning to overcome Israel's racist apartheid laws, draconian military occupation, and systemic oppression as somehow tantamount to the very injustices they continue to resist after decades of dehumanizing persecution.
Those crying "genocide" at this call for universal liberties are engaging in a cynical form of projection, perhaps of their own heinous beliefs and views as evidenced in the Likud party’s charter, where they claim ‘from the river to the sea, there will only be Israeli sovereignty’ - accusing their vulnerable victims of desiring the very atrocities that have been perpetrated against them.
Under Zionist occupation, it is the Palestinian people who have endured ethnic cleansing, massacres, land confiscation, and institutionalized discrimination under Israel's regime of supremacy. Their invocations of freedom "from the river to the sea" represent an end to such crimes against humanity, not their perpetration.
This wilful smear is an act of complicity in the continued denial of Palestinian humanity, identity, and rights. It is a shameless tactic to discredit the justness and beauty of their anti-colonial and anti-racist strivings by painting a venerable cause as something untenable and malevolent. In reality, it is those perpetuating occupation, apartheid, and displacement of the indigenous Palestinian people who are advancing the true forces of oppression and ethnic supremacy in the region.
To insist that this emancipatory vision equates to the expulsion of Jewish citizens is also a vicious deception that reinforces a paradigm of segregation and discrimination. The river to the sea idiom seeks the liberation of all peoples within historic Palestine - liberation that is fundamentally incompatible with any form of ethnic expulsion or supremacy.
Instead, it imagines a society where one's ethno-religious identity neither precludes their equality nor human and civil rights, regardless of whether they are Palestinians, Israelis, Jews, Muslims, Christians or any other component of the diverse populace.
At its core, the river to the sea idiom gives a powerful voice to the universal yearning to dismantle all forms of racist oppression, institutionalized discrimination and denial of inalienable human rights.
To brand this righteous civic ideal as genocidal or an affront to Jewish existence is a crass attempt to invert reality and defame those demanding justice, freedom and pluralistic coexistence for all the people of the land. It is a bad-faith rhetorical strategy designed to perpetuate a status quo of subjugation and ethnic domination by falsely portraying the victims as aggressors and oppressors.
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