There Is No Neutral in the Face of Genocide

As Israel escalates its genocidal siege of Gaza, cutting off food, water, electricity, fuel, leveling whole neighborhoods, mass murdering thousands of Palestinians, including hundreds of children, making hundreds of thousands homeless, and preparing for an invasion to commit even worse crimes—fully backed by the U.S. and supposedly “justified” as retaliation for Hamas’ barbaric attacks on Israelis (including many civilians)—it is urgent that people stand up against this.

Protests opposing U.S.-backed slaughter of Palestinians by Israel need to grow and spread and shake the entire world. Seriously, how can you stand on the sidelines when millions of innocent people are being starved, terrorized, bombed, and driven from their homes? When you hear the bloodlust from the Zionists, the Nazi language they use to describe the Palestinians as “animals,” how can you not do everything in your power to stop the genocide that is unfolding in front of your eyes? How can the Zionist (and Hamas) logic that “our suffering justifies your suffering” not tear every moral fiber in your body apart and make you scream NO! And how you can you not want to look into a way out of this madness?

It was with this stand that the revcoms went to a big pro-Palestinian demonstration this past Saturday in Los Angeles.

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NYC Revolution Bookstore Programs Show Deep Hunger to Understand Roots of Israeli War on Gaza and What to Do About It

The military actions by Hamas on October 7 and Israel’s vicious and genocidal, pounding response against the Palestinian people have shaken people across the world. There is a deep hungering to understand what is happening, why and what can people do to support the people in Gaza, to have impact and to take a stand against this ongoing, and now heightened, slaughter of the Palestinians by Israel. In less than a week, on Tuesday, October 10, and the Saturday following, Revolution Books (RB) in Harlem, New York City, called two events to get into this. At both events, there was a deep desire to come together with others to engage reality and put real questions on the table, struggle for clarity and gain a deeper understanding of reality.

Both events drew lively, engaged audiences of people—a mix of people who were new to RB and newly awakened by events in the world, people from the RB community, and activists in social justice movements including the Stop Mass Incarceration movement and people in the movement for revolution. The audience at both events included students from New York University (NYU) and Columbia. Some of the Columbia students who came on Tuesday were attracted by the controversy the Revolution Club was part of that same day—between the Zionists and supporters of the Palestinians. Some artists and musicians from other countries were there. A couple of Black professionals who had attended a recent RB fund raising salon were there. Others found out through RB emails or social media. One woman was there because she called RB to find out if there were any programs or discussions about the current situation planned. Most people at both events stayed to have extensive informal discussion.

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