Class Struggle Education Workers Protest D.O.E. Attempt to Ban Opposition to U.S./Israel War

Down with the Gag Order Against NYC Teachers!

By Class Struggle Education Workers/UFT

Almost immediately after Israel launched its massive bombing campaign against Gaza in response to the breakout attack by Islamist Hamas fighters, followed by their indefensible killing of several hundred Israeli Jews in nearby communities, Israel’s imperialist backers went on the warpath to squelch opposition to the unfolding Zionist slaughter. In various European countries Palestinian solidarity demonstrations were repeatedly banned outright. In the United States the repressive campaign was directed at universities in particular, where support for the Palestinians is widespread, but also against K-12 schools. Any and all protests against Israel’s mass murder were labeled anti-Semitic, including those by anti-Zionist Jewish groups. The drive to shut down opposition to U.S. president Joe Biden’s emphatic support for, and arming of, Israel intensified as people could see how the Zionist militarists’ bombing and subsequent ground invasion of Gaza amounted to a genocidal assault against the entire Palestinian population... Read more at Class Struggle Education Workers.

Submitted December 02, 2023 at 03:39PM by a_indabronx https://ift.tt/YsBaJei