Tag: genocide

November 5, 2025

Lawsuit Charges That California Law Illegally Muzzles Students and Teachers on Palestine

The new law conflates criticism of Zionism with antisemitism and punishes educators for teaching truthful information. Beginning January 1, 2026, teachers in California classrooms will be looking over their shoulders to avoid running afoul of a frightening new “antisemitism” law. On October 7, despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups, teachers’ unions, and education advocates, Gov. Gavin… Read more »

October 18, 2025

Trump Admits Complicity in Genocide

In his speech to the Knesset, Trump told Netanyahu: “We make the best weapons in the world, and we’ve got a lot of them. And we’ve given a lot to Israel … [And] you used them well.” As Donald Trump congratulates Israel for its conduct of the genocide in Gaza, he should be charged with aiding… Read more »

October 7, 2025

The Effects of US-Israel Bond are ‘Etched Into the Mass Graves of Gaza,’ International Legal Complaint Says

As the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza exceeds 67,000 and famine has reached the “catastrophic” phase, thousands of taxpayers across the country have united with Palestinian-Americans to file an international legal complaint against the U.S. government for funding Israel’s genocide in Gaza.  An initial petition was filed in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights… Read more »

July 14, 2025

Ex-UN Special Rapporteur Says Francesca Albanese Deserves Nobel Prize, Not US Sanctions

The US is punishing UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her scathing reports on Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The day after Donald Trump welcomed indicted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the United States for the third time in less than six months, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio imposed sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur on Occupied… Read more »

April 22, 2025

Orbán Faces ICC Investigation After Refusing to Arrest Netanyahu in Hungary

As a party to the ICC’s Rome Statute, Hungary is obliged to arrest suspected war criminals and send them to The Hague. In a shameless attempt to undermine international accountability for accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Hungarian President Viktor Orbán graciously hosted the architect of Israel’s 18-month genocide in Gaza on April… Read more »

April 15, 2025

Appalled at Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn to the UN for Redress

With no recourse in U.S. courts or Congress, the Taxpayers Against Genocide movement pivots to the UN Human Rights Council. Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza, filed an unprecedented report with the UN Human… Read more »

April 2, 2025

Mahmoud Khalil’s Attorney: “This Is the McCarthy Era All Over Again”

The US government is weaponizing antisemitism as an excuse to kidnap and deport even lawful permanent residents. A federal judge in New Jersey will soon issue a ruling on where the deportation case of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student who led the student encampment at Columbia University last year, can be litigated. On March 8,… Read more »

January 3, 2025

“We Have to Act”: Taxpayers Suing Congressmembers for Funding Genocide Speak Out

Plaintiff Tarik Kanaana says the lawsuit “has given people something to rally behind and a renewed sense of hope.” On December 19, more than 500 federal taxpayers from 10 northern California counties filed an unprecedented class-action lawsuit against their congressional representatives. Seth Donnelly et. al. v. Mike Thompson, and Jared Huffman charges that the defendants — two… Read more »