Despite Israel’s massacre in Gaza, the Biden administration has approved the sale of $735 million in precision-guided bombs to Israel, enabling it to continue massacring Palestinian families in Gaza and elsewhere with precision.
Since 1948, the U.S. has provided Israel with military funding and other aid worth $146 billion, bankrolling its ongoing Nakba against the Indigenous Palestinian people. The U.S. still gives $3.8 billion annually to Israel in military funding.
All this funding for apartheid, and the trillions of other dollars spent on the military-security-industrial complex over the years, could have gone a long way in lifting millions in the U.S.–particularly Black and Indigenous communities–out of poverty, creating sustainable jobs, and providing better education and healthcare to millions.
Palestinians stand with the Movement for Black Lives and other justice movements in their struggles for racial, social, economic, gender, and climate justice.