13/n Thread

“As we speak, against explicit and repeated warnings from President #Biden, #Israel is attacking #Rafa for over a million #Palestinians have sought Refuge.

“That situation will only accelerate the crisis that Mrs #McCain and others in the humanitarian world have talked about and that is FAMINE IS IMMINENT IN GAZA!

“and God knows how many children are already dying of #malnutrition.

“Mr President the fact of the matter is that some 67% of Americans according to recent polls support the United States calling for a ceasefire and 60% oppose sending more #weapons to #Israel.”

Bernie Sanders 5/8/2024

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestinians #StopTheWar #Ceasefire #CeaseFireNow #StudentProtests #StopFundundingThisWar #BernieSandersernie #WarCrimes

13/n Thread

https://youtu.be/hH6tG5oluuI?si=Kgx_-tDk7bnYfMzA&t=311

12/n Thread

“Mr President when we talk about college campuses -- and I understand that this is the discussion here tonight -- I want everyone to know that there are no protests on the college campuses in Gaza nobody is feeling discomfort.

“You know why?

“Because, EVERY ONE OF THE 12 UNIVERSITIES IN GAZA HAG BEEN BOMBED AND DESTROYED! “

Bernie Sanders 5/8/2024

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestinians #StopTheWar #Ceasefire #CeaseFireNow #StudentProtests #StopFundundingThisWar #BernieSandersernie #WarCrimes

12/n Thread

https://youtu.be/hH6tG5oluuI?si=Kgx_-tDk7bnYfMzA&t=311

11/n Thread

“The American people and protesters are outrage that the civilian infrastructure of Gaza has been devastated with approximately 60% of water and sanitation facilities damaged or destroyed and electricity almost entirely shut off. Raw waste is now seeping into the streets throughout Gaza - because waist, water systems have been destroyed.

“The American people and American doctors -- I have talked to! -- who were in Gaza are shocked that the Health Care system of Gaza has been systematically destroyed with 26 hospitals knocked out of service and more than 400 healthcare workers killed.”

Bernie Sanders 5/8/2024

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestinians #StopTheWar #Ceasefire #CeaseFireNow #Protests #StopFundundingThisWar #BernieSandersernie #WarCrimes

11/n Thread

https://youtu.be/hH6tG5oluuI?si=Kgx_-tDk7bnYfMzA&t=311

10/n Thread

“#Protesters and the majority of the American people are outraged that 1.8 million people -- 80% of the of the population of Gaza have been forced out of their homes --

“80%! -- Forced out of their homes! . . . . and sent to overcrowded and dangerous locations.

“Protesters, and the American people in general, are deeply concerned about the destruction of over
200,000 housing units -- Destroyed! Leaving more than a million people in Gaza homeless.

“The American people,and protesters, are deeply worried concerned about what happens to these people in the future -

“They got no home!

“Where do they go?

“How do they live?”

Bernie Sanders 5/8/2024

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestinians #StopTheWar #Ceasefire #CeaseFireNow #Protests #StopFundundingThisWar #BernieSandersernie #WarCrimes

10/n Thread

https://youtu.be/hH6tG5oluuI?si=Kgx_-tDk7bnYfMzA&t=311

9/n Thread

“I certainly do not believe nor do a strong majority of the American people believe that the
right-wing extremists Netanyahu government has the right to wage an unprecedented all out war against the Palestinian people

“What these protests [#StudentProtests] are largely about and what public opinion is showing is outrage that since October 7th, the #Netanyahu government has killed more than 34,000 Palestinians and injured more than 78,000 -- 70% of whom are women and children -- that is over 5% of the 2.2 million people living in Gaza. That, Mr President is what the vast majority of people in this country
who are protesting are talking about.”

Bernie Sanders 5/8/2024

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestinians #StopTheWar #Ceasefire #CeaseFireNow #Protests #StopFundundingThisWar #BernieSandersernie

9/n Thread

https://youtu.be/hH6tG5oluuI?si=Kgx_-tDk7bnYfMzA&t=311

8/n Thread

Bernie Sanders on the floor of the Senate 5/8/2024
Timestamp 5:09

“October 7th, 2023, #Hamas, a terrorist organization began this war with an attack on #Israel over 1,200 innocent men, women and children and took over 200 people captive – many of whom are still in captivity tonight.

“I think all of us believe and I know that all of us believe that this horrific attack must be unequivocally condemned and I believe that all of us understand that Israel HAD the right to defend itself against Hamas.”

Bernie Sanders 5/8/2024

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestinians #StopTheWar #Ceasefire #CeaseFireNow #StopFundundingThisWar #BernieSanders

8/n Thread
https://youtu.be/hH6tG5oluuI?si=Kgx_-tDk7bnYfMzA&t=311

7/n Thread

Student “It's insulting – to the memory of every child that has been murdered in the course of this #genocide with the full complicity of the United States, of #JoeBiden and of people like #PaulAlivisatos and his cops that he sicks on us in the middle of the night. They are #hypocrites. They are #cowards. And the blood of #Gaza's kids is on their hands too.

“The difference between them and us is that we know that and we reckon with it because we have a duty to them. Will they hide from that truth?

“They won't even admit that a single university has been bombed”

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestinians #StopTheWar #Ceasefire #CeaseFireNow #StopFundundingThisWar

7/n Thread

https://universeodon.com/@raph@social.coop/112407009388764532

6/n Thread

Reporter: Are you a student?

Student: “Yes I am a PhD student.”

Reporter: If you face discipline – what then?

Student: “It doesn't matter. There are things that matter more than my academic future. Certainly every one of those children that is being #murdered, #starved, #maimed, whose parents are having to choose – do I let this kid starve first or that one? This is such an ugly reality of such great magnitude that to even think – to really entertain questions what might happen if Paul [Alivisatos, president U Chicago] puts me on a leave of absence is ridiculous and it's insulting – to the memory of every child that has been murdered in the course of this #genocide with the full complicity of the United States, of #JoeBiden and of people like #PaulAlivisatos and his cops that he sicks on us in the middle of the night.”

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestinians #StopTheWar #Ceasefire #CeaseFireNow #StopFundundingThisWar

6/n Thread

https://universeodon.com/@raph@social.coop/112407009388764532

5/n Thread

Reporter: Do you know if there are next steps here?

“The next step is a simple one – what ever form it takes, which is to continue fighting with every breath we have, with everything we have for the people of Gaza because the blood of those is on our hands. It is on all of our hands whether we like it or not – if we are US Citizens, if we're U Chicago students. We are implicated in this horror that is being visited with total impunity because the US Security vetoes

[the United States vetoes every resolution condemning the atrocities of Israel in the #SecurityCouncil of the #UnitedNations and blocks every sanction that would be applied to the State of #Israel for crimes against humanity. ]

#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #atrocities #Palestinians #StopTheWar #Ceasefire #CeaseFireNow #StopFundundingThisWar

5/n Thread

https://universeodon.com/@raph@social.coop/112407009388764532