Anti-War Committee Chicago

BUILDING AN ANTI-IMPERIALIST ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT.

END US AID TO ISRAEL
Going back to its origins in the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the State of Israel has always functioned as an imperial outpost in the Middle East. The Zionist colony could not continue its displacement and extermination of the Palestinian people -- nor could it routinely attack its neighbors with impunity -- without constant financial and military backing from the United States. The Biden administration has the ability to stop the bloodshed in Gaza at any time, but it has instead given Netanyahu a blank check and complete diplomatic cover. We know that the murder and destruction will continue, in one form or another, until this material support comes to an end.

STOP THE GENOCIDE ON GAZA
As Israeli officials make clear through their own declarations, the ongoing siege is meant to wipe Gaza off the map. A generation after transforming Gaza into a walled-off concentration camp, the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) now cuts off food, water and fuel; carpet-bombs residential quarters, hospitals, even schools; guns down unarmed civilians fleeing to designated "safe zones"; and targets doctors, teachers and journalists for assassination. The vast majority of the dead and injured have been women and children. We join peace-loving people from around the world in demanding an immediate and unconditional end to this genocidal siege.

FREE PALESTINE
We stand in complete solidarity with the Palestinian liberation movement. As an indigenous population facing a violent colonial occupation, the Palestinian people have the right under international law to resist their occupiers by any means necessary. Without compromise and without reservation, we support Palestinian resistance in all its forms in the struggle for a Free Palestine.

FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA
Externally imposed solutions to the conflict, most notably the so-called "two-state solution", were always a betrayal of Palestinian aspirations. By encouraging widespread settlement beyond the 1967 borders, the US and Israel have now made these half-measures all but impossible to implement. We call for the complete liberation of Palestine, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, and we uphold the Palestinian people's right to determine their own future course.