Dear Senator Warren,
We, the undersigned former staffers of the Warren for President campaign, write this letter while mourning the Palestinian and Israeli lives that have been lost in the past 13 days. We were horrified by the Hamas attack on October 7, and we are devastated for those who are dying as the Israeli army continues to commit unconscionable horrors in Gaza. Through our grief, we implore you to take action. You must demand an immediate ceasefire in Palestine and the return of Israeli hostages, and take concrete steps to end Israeli occupation. A child is killed every 15 minutes in Gaza — if you continue to be silent, you are complicit in this genocide.
In its attacks against Palestinians in Gaza, Israel has demonstrated a brazen disregard for human life — with some officials going as far as to make their genocidal intent public — and has broken international law repeatedly. Both the United Nations and the World Health Organization are calling for aid for the Palestinians trapped under rubble, without electricity, without food, without water. Major humanitarian organizations such as Doctors Without Borders and human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch agree: the two million people in Gaza — half of whom are children — are experiencing collective punishment, and all people of conscience must call loudly and vociferously for a ceasefire.
Since October 7th, Israel has:
- Withheld access to water, food, electricity, and fuel, which constitutes collective punishment;
- Limited freedom of speech by preventing outside journalists from entering Gaza and cutting internet amidst an air siege on Gaza;
- Used white phosphorus on civilians, a serious violation of international humanitarian law;
- Forced displacement of an estimated 1.1 million Palestinians in Northern Gaza;
- Bombed Palestinians fleeing along the declared evacuation route in Northern Gaza;
- Bombed hospitals and ambulances;
- Refused to create a humanitarian corridor to provide food, water, and medicine to reach Gaza for 10 days during bombardment;
- Killed entire bloodlines, wiping over 20 families from Gaza’s civil records.
The United States cannot continue to give a blank check to the increasingly fascist Israeli government to commit war crimes and to continue to enforce the brutal apartheid, settler-colonial regime that has led to the devastating violence we are witnessing now. We are not alone in this point of view — across the country, tens of thousands of protestors, including your own constituents and supporters, are mourning, marching, and coming together to demand an end to Israeli oppression and violence.
We spent months, some of us years, fighting for you because we believed you shared our dream for the world to be a place in which every human being can live in dignity. Your lack of moral clarity in the face of the genocide of Palestinians is a direct contradiction of the values your campaign stood for. One of your last calls to action for us at the end of your presidential campaign was to “always choose to fight righteous fights.” We call on you to live up to your own words by demanding an immediate ceasefire, advocating for de-escalation, and addressing the root causes of the violence of the past 13 days — 75 years of brutal apartheid and occupation.
As former staffers who admire you for your courage and your willingness to challenge powerful entities for the common good, we implore you to take the following actions immediately:
- Publicly call for an immediate ceasefire, put pressure on your colleagues and the Biden Administration to do the same, and introduce a ceasefire resolution in the Senate similar to the resolution introduced by Congresswoman Cori Bush;
- Advocate for de-escalation in the region, including demanding that Hamas release all hostages, Israel release over 1,200 detainees — 99% of whom are Palestinians — being held without charge, and that the US end unconditional military aid to Israel;
- Condemn Israeli violations of international law and call for independent investigations of human rights violations in Gaza.
Long term, we call on you to take the following actions:
- Demand that the Israeli government lift the military siege on Gaza, which has made it uninhabitable;
- Investigate whether Israel’s war on Gaza violates the Leahy Law, prohibiting U.S. military aid from funding foreign military units implicated in the commission of gross violations of human rights;
- Oppose U.S. aid that funds the imprisonment and torture of Palestinian children, theft and demolition of Palestinian homes and property, and annexation of Palestinian land;
- Oppose federal tax breaks for donations to settler organizations that actively fund the ongoing dispossession and expulsion of Palestinians;
- Demand that the Israeli government end settlement expansion and return land to dispossessed Palestinian families in the West Bank;
- Support Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
Ultimately, the only path to true freedom and safety for Israelis and Palestinians is immediate de-escalation and ending the occupation that led to this current nightmare. We can achieve a just peace only when Palestinians are free in their homeland and we recognize that the safety of the Jewish people — in Israel and around the world — is not predicated on the suffering of the Palestinian people.
Dream Big, Fight Hard,
Warren Alumni for Peace and Justice
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