It is our responsibility to highlight the contradictions and blatant participation in apartheid and genocidal practices both at home and overseas. The complacency and support City Council has shown in regards to Israel, a state that has been ethnically cleansing Palestinians since 1948, receiving over $3 billion a year in military aid for their illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, is a travesty.
A day after the press conference, I have found little press covering this conference in a positive way. I did, however, find this article from Vice News. "When I asked US Congressman Jerrold Nadler at a pro-Israel rally on Monday whether our government bears any culpability for the mounting civilian death toll in Gaza, he called me an "ass" and stormed away."
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