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We lost so many people during [this] war,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At MCA Bay Area, Darwish said there are programs supporting refugees and community members who have been affected by the war or have family members in war zones, including services like financial assistance, social services, counseling, and mental health services for local Muslims. The goal, he said, is to get people back on their feet and empower them to become self-sustainable after periods of hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Samer Darwish, president of Bay Area’s Muslim Community Association (MCA Bay Area)\"]“This Ramadan, in light of the situation in the Middle East, the community is very emotional. Palestine is on their minds every day, every minute.”[/pullquote]During Ramadan, MCA Bay Area will be hosting Iftars at sunset for the community to break their fast from Monday to Thursday. 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But \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6696507/palestinian-death-toll-gaza-israel-hamas/\">the scale of the death toll and destruction in Gaza since Oct. 7\u003c/a> has been the worst in recent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/12/uk-places-sanctions-on-israeli-settlers-for-forcing-palestinians-from-their-land\">Attacks on Palestinians have also been perpetrated by Israeli settlers in other parts of the region\u003c/a>, including the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our heart bleeds for our brothers and sisters in Gaza and other parts of Palestine that are suffering and being attacked,” said Athar Siddiqee, chairman of the board of South Bay Islamic Association (SBIA). A Silicon Valley executive, Siddiqee has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Ramadan is a time for physical and spiritual cleansing, Siddiqee said a big part of the spirit of the holy month is community and charity work. And for Muslims, he said, it’s a requirement to donate a percentage of our earnings to charity every year during Ramadan, as the spiritual reward is believed to be multiplied immensely during this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Athar Siddiqee, chairman of the board of South Bay Islamic Association (SBIA)\"]“Our heart bleeds for our brothers and sisters in Gaza and other parts of Palestine that are suffering and being attacked.”[/pullquote]SBIA, along with many other Muslim community associations in the Bay Area, has been helping to raise funds for both international and local causes. 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"content": "\u003cp>Approximately 180 Jewish community members and students at UC Berkeley gathered on campus Monday to protest what they said were university failures to adhere to its campus access policies as well as the handling of recent claims of discrimination and harassment on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mostly mellow march follows months of high tensions between students following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel and Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza. It also comes on top of “dozens” of claims of discrimination from people identifying as Jewish or Muslim in the campus community made since Oct. 7, according to campus officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jewish students have had to avoid harassment, have had to walk in a creek, avoid classes out of fear of going through [Sather] Gate,” said Noah Cohen, a third-year law student at UC Berkeley who helped lead the march on Monday. He and other students are seeking for the university to enforce policies around blocking the gate, a landmark on the university’s south side that spans Strawberry Creek and connects Sproul Plaza to the rest of campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly four weeks, members of Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine have placed caution tape and erected a sign at the gate calling attention to the more than 29,000 Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli air strikes and other violence since Oct. 7, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sign covers the central opening of the gate, but two side walkways remain open. University officials confirmed to KQED that the group never fully blocked the thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In no way are we against free speech or protests, but we are against the university permitting violating those policies when it comes at the expense of Jewish students,” Cohen said, arguing that the group violated policies against blocking the gate and playing loud noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration did previously violate university protest rules against affixing a sign directly to the gate and amplifying sound, according to UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof. But by Monday, the sign was no longer affixed to the gate, and the noise issue had been resolved, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the university also maintains a policy to prioritize avoiding conflict in the course of nonviolent civil disobedience rather than emphasizing enforcement of campus rules, which arose following student protests in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the policy and practice that we follow with every group that engages with nonviolent protest,” Mogulof said. “We have been making efforts to end those aspects of the nonviolent protest at Sather Gate that violate those restrictions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand near each other in front of an ornate gateway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewish UC Berkeley students, faculty and community members stand in lines in front of Sather Gate on Monday. The group attempted to block foot traffic to protest what they said were ongoing blockages by pro-Palestinian protesters, stating that the university had not been enforcing its policy of keeping the path clear. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Ethan Katz, director of the UC-Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, addressed the crowd after a bagel brunch in front of Zellerbach Playhouse before protesters started the silent march at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC-Berkeley Jewish students and our allies insist that this campus be a safe and harassment-free environment for all of us,” Hannah Schlachter, a student at the Haas School of Business who organized the march, said in an email after the event ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Sather Gate, pro-Palestinian students held a banner that read, “Today is the first day of Ramadan. Israel and the U.S. are starving 2.2. million. Gazans have nothing to break their fast with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banan Abdelrahman, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, was holding the sign with fellow supporters on Monday. She said the group’s goal is to draw attention to ongoing violence against Palestinians and to put pressure on campus officials to divest from companies like BlackRock, which invests in weapons producers like Lockheed Martin and Boeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both sides of the gate are freely open. A full blockade is what’s in Gaza, where you don’t let anything in. This is not a blockade,” Abdelrahman told KQED. “We make sure the sides are open to make sure our community is able to pass through and walk freely and is ADA compliant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A sign blocks passage through an ornate gateway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large pro-Palestine banner held by students blocks the central entrance to Sather Gate on the Berkeley campus on Monday. The banner reads, ‘Today is the first day of Ramadan. Israel and the U.S. are starving 2.2. million. Gazans have nothing to break their fast with.’ Walkways through the gate on either side of the banner remain open. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Things escalated on Feb. 26 when a group of pro-Palestinian students protested a talk by Israeli attorney and former Israeli Defense Forces member Ran Bar-Yoshafat. Students opposing the speaking event criticized Bar-Yoshafat for promoting violence against Palestinians and for spreading “propaganda,” the student newspaper \u003cem>The Daily Californian\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='gaza']But the event was shut down before Bar-Yoshafat spoke. Nearly 200 protesters crowded the entrances of Zellerbach Playhouse, where the talk was set to take place after being moved at the last minute from Wheeler Hall. The university sent out a WarnMe notification to the entire campus community about the protest activity. It has subsequently opened up a criminal investigation into the protest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This university has a long history of commitment to and support for nonviolent political protest that respects the First Amendment rights of others,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote to the campus community on March 4. “That is not what occurred on Feb. 26. It was not peaceful civil disobedience. We condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message didn’t appease some students, regardless of whether they were protesting or supporting the event on Feb. 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Repeatedly, she said she was concerned and dismayed, but nothing has happened,” Cohen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof said the campus administration is “aware and is concerned about rising tensions on campus.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978967\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978967\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED.jpg\" alt='A person stands in an outdoor setting in front of a large group of people holding a sign that reads \"Jews Against Genocide in Palestine\".' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-22-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley resident Laurie Winestock holds a sign stating her support for Palestine as Jewish UC Berkeley students, faculty and community members rally on campus on Monday. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian student groups were invited to speak with Chancellor Christ on Monday. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly four weeks, members of Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine have placed caution tape and erected a sign at the gate calling attention to the more than 29,000 Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli air strikes and other violence since Oct. 7, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sign covers the central opening of the gate, but two side walkways remain open. University officials confirmed to KQED that the group never fully blocked the thoroughfare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In no way are we against free speech or protests, but we are against the university permitting violating those policies when it comes at the expense of Jewish students,” Cohen said, arguing that the group violated policies against blocking the gate and playing loud noise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration did previously violate university protest rules against affixing a sign directly to the gate and amplifying sound, according to UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof. But by Monday, the sign was no longer affixed to the gate, and the noise issue had been resolved, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, the university also maintains a policy to prioritize avoiding conflict in the course of nonviolent civil disobedience rather than emphasizing enforcement of campus rules, which arose following student protests in 2008.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is the policy and practice that we follow with every group that engages with nonviolent protest,” Mogulof said. “We have been making efforts to end those aspects of the nonviolent protest at Sather Gate that violate those restrictions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people stand near each other in front of an ornate gateway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jewish UC Berkeley students, faculty and community members stand in lines in front of Sather Gate on Monday. The group attempted to block foot traffic to protest what they said were ongoing blockages by pro-Palestinian protesters, stating that the university had not been enforcing its policy of keeping the path clear. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Ethan Katz, director of the UC-Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies, addressed the crowd after a bagel brunch in front of Zellerbach Playhouse before protesters started the silent march at noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“UC-Berkeley Jewish students and our allies insist that this campus be a safe and harassment-free environment for all of us,” Hannah Schlachter, a student at the Haas School of Business who organized the march, said in an email after the event ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over at Sather Gate, pro-Palestinian students held a banner that read, “Today is the first day of Ramadan. Israel and the U.S. are starving 2.2. million. Gazans have nothing to break their fast with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banan Abdelrahman, a graduate student at UC Berkeley, was holding the sign with fellow supporters on Monday. She said the group’s goal is to draw attention to ongoing violence against Palestinians and to put pressure on campus officials to divest from companies like BlackRock, which invests in weapons producers like Lockheed Martin and Boeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both sides of the gate are freely open. A full blockade is what’s in Gaza, where you don’t let anything in. This is not a blockade,” Abdelrahman told KQED. “We make sure the sides are open to make sure our community is able to pass through and walk freely and is ADA compliant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11978960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11978960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A sign blocks passage through an ornate gateway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240311-JEWISHPROTEST-JY-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A large pro-Palestine banner held by students blocks the central entrance to Sather Gate on the Berkeley campus on Monday. The banner reads, ‘Today is the first day of Ramadan. Israel and the U.S. are starving 2.2. million. Gazans have nothing to break their fast with.’ Walkways through the gate on either side of the banner remain open. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Things escalated on Feb. 26 when a group of pro-Palestinian students protested a talk by Israeli attorney and former Israeli Defense Forces member Ran Bar-Yoshafat. Students opposing the speaking event criticized Bar-Yoshafat for promoting violence against Palestinians and for spreading “propaganda,” the student newspaper \u003cem>The Daily Californian\u003c/em> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alyssa Milano first became an activist more than 30 years ago. But she tells the story of her eureka moment like it was yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the late 1980s, when she starred in the sitcom \u003cem>Who’s the Boss?, \u003c/em>one of her fans was a \u003ca href=\"https://ryanwhite.hrsa.gov/livinghistory/\">teenager \u003c/a>named Ryan White, who was HIV positive. The two became friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alyssa Milano, actor and UNICEF National Ambassador\"]‘It was the first time I felt that my being an actor, being on TV, had a purpose that was bigger than I was.’[/pullquote]“He asked me if I would go on TV and give him a kiss to show that you couldn’t get AIDS from casual contact,” Milano recalls. She agreed and kissed White on Phil Donahue’s national talk show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the first time I felt that my being an actor, being on TV, had a purpose that was bigger than I was,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, she’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/bio/alyssa-milano\">championed\u003c/a> many causes, including reproductive rights, gun reform and the #MeToo movement. Over time, she learned the good and bad of having both a high profile and a sense of purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Milano, a UNICEF National Ambassador, used her social media platform to \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyg6ricyfam/\">share\u003c/a> the NGO’s messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the backlash was swift. “I felt like every time I posted from this place of peace, I was either a terrorist sympathizer, or I did not fight strong enough for the oppression of the Palestinian people,” Milano explains. She says, while social media is a powerful tool for activism, “There’s no way to not be exposed to the vitriol” you get in return.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Celebrities are amplifiers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Oscar-winning actor and \u003cem>Thelma & Louise\u003c/em> star Susan Sarandon describes her lifelong activism as something that’s ingrained in her being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a personality flaw,” she laughs, “I mean, when I was little, I thought that my dolls all came alive at midnight, and I rotated their dresses so one doll didn’t have all the nice dresses all the time. Anything that’s unfair always really hurt me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarandon has been voicing her support for Palestinians for many years, so she says she was “shocked” when she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/22/1214833761/melissa-barrera-susan-sarandon-israel-gaza\">dropped\u003c/a> by United Talent Agency (UTA) for a speech she gave at a rally calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says her words were taken out of context. Nonetheless, she issued a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C0VdJBjuTFa/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">statement\u003c/a> on social media apologizing if she offended anyone. UTA declined NPR’s request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarandon says that while the “isolation from my tribe” has been “painful,” she will continue lending her voice to calls for a cease-fire. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Medea Benjamin, co-founder, CODEPINK\"]‘We’ve been walking these halls for three months, and nobody pays attention to us, especially the Congress people. But having her with us brings out the media, and we get the Congress people themselves.’[/pullquote]Sarandon recently attended a protest calling for a cease-fire on Capitol Hill organized by \u003ca href=\"https://www.codepink.org/\">CODEPINK\u003c/a>. The feminist group alerted the press she was coming. \u003cem>NBC\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Al Jazeera\u003c/em> and other outlets showed up. CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin says Sarandon’s presence was a game changer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been walking these halls for three months, and nobody pays attention to us, especially the Congress people. But having her with us brings out the media, and we get the Congress people themselves,” she gushes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all of the Congress people. Sarandon met with Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Cori Bush. But Ritchie Torres refused to see her. Sarandon told reporters she suspected that’s because he receives money from the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC. On social media, Torres says Sarandon trafficked in “anti-Semitic victim blaming.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the harsh repercussions that can result, some artists are still using their star power to call for a cease-fire. Fans of \u003cem>Euphoria\u003c/em> actor Hunter Schafer learned that she and dozens of anti-war protesters were arrested earlier this week in the lobby of NBC’s headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, timed to President Biden’s interview on \u003cem>Late Night with Seth Meyers\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schafer’s arrest was covered by numerous media outlets, including the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hunter-schafer-arrest-protest-israel-gaza-biden-seth-myers-e1cd343fae8d02dbd322dfa7ebec4775\">\u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>,\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2024/02/28/hunter-schafer-arrested-anti-zionism-israel-hamas-war-rally/72772198007/\">\u003cem>USA Today\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-02-28/hunter-schafer-euphoria-arrest-in-cease-fire-30-rock-jvp\">\u003cem>The Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, \u003c/em>amplifying the cease-fire message.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>But backlash can be swift\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Will and Grace \u003c/em>star Debra Messing is one of several celebrities who’ve been outspoken in their support of Israel. Others include actors Michael Rapaport and Amy Schumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the March for Israel \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJPA_gww57Q\">rally\u003c/a> in Washington, D.C., last November, Messing told the crowd of some 300,000 people, “We will pray for the success of the IDF in a war Israel did not start and did not want but a war Israel will win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Messing also traveled to Israel and met with family members of hostages held by Hamas and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C1V0PoQxVCa/\">posted\u003c/a> videos of those visits on social media. 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Equally troubling, he says, was the “silence” from individuals and organizations after the Hamas attacks. He points to the Writers Guild of America \u003ca href=\"https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/wga-israel-attack-open-letter-1235756946/\">waiting\u003c/a> more than two weeks to comment on the atrocity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think a lot of Jews in the entertainment community felt abandoned, not just by their silence, but by their condemnation,” Ingel says.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong> ‘Taking a stand’ vs. ‘Nag, Nag, Nag’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At the storied March on Washington in 1963, the late activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/US/video/archival-video-harry-belafonte-speaks-march-washington-1963-45832971\">told the crowd\u003c/a> that he believed artists “revealed” society to itself. Sometimes, that means revealing things that are hard to hear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Fonda has done that often throughout her life. In 1973, speaking to KQED about the Vietnam War, she asked, “What business have we to try and exterminate a people?” Fonda was insistent, “My father fought against people in the Second World War who were trying to exterminate a people. I don’t think today we should repudiate everything that our fathers fought against.”[aside postID=news_11969701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Queer-Palestinian-Artists_2-1020x659.jpg']Fonda was widely criticized for things she said about U.S. troops in Vietnam. But her antiwar stance resonated with millions of people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We often see celebrities getting a lot of backlash for their activism when they speak out about foreign policy,” says Sarah King, an assistant professor of History at the University of South Carolina-Aiken who has studied celebrity activism \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pech.12458\">during\u003c/a> the Vietnam War.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The backlash appears to be especially degrading toward women, King says. She notes that Fonda’s activism was described more harshly than her fellow actor Donald Sutherland’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is discussed as taking a stand, whereas Jane Fonda is described in much more negative terms,” King notes. “\u003cem>Nag, Nag, Nag,”\u003c/em> read the headline of a 1971 \u003cem>Life\u003c/em> magazine \u003ca href=\"https://www.life.com/page/29/?p=0\">article\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Should artists speak out?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We live in a time … where celebrity voices matter more than most,” says Rania Batrice, who spearheaded the Artists4Ceasefire \u003ca href=\"https://www.artists4ceasefire.org/\">letter\u003c/a> addressed to President Biden and signed by more than 300 people, including Jon Stewart, Jordan Peele, Bella Hadid, Dua Lipa, Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, the letter cites the tens of thousands of dead and injured, “numbers that any person of conscience knows are catastrophic,” it says. “We believe all life is sacred, no matter faith or ethnicity and we condemn the killing of Palestinian and Israeli civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batrice says many of the artists were discouraged from signing the letter by their agents or publicists, and those who did face pushback from friends and others in the entertainment industry.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rania Batrice, activist and leader in creating the Artists4Ceasefire letter]‘I also am incredibly grateful for those artists who stepped up despite having all of these voices in their ears telling them not to do it.’[/pullquote]Still, Batrice believes if they have a platform, they should use it to help those who need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I sort of have this expectation that people will step up and utilize their privilege,” Batrice says, “I also am incredibly grateful for those artists who stepped up despite having all of these voices in their ears telling them not to do it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Actor Melissa Barrera has vowed to continue her activism. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne day in October 2023, Rolla Alaydi woke up in her home in Pacific Grove, outside Monterey — and found that overnight, she had become responsible for the lives of 21 members of her family in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because for them, I’m the only one in the U.S.,” Alaydi said. “I’m their only hope for them to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi’s four younger brothers and their families — with 13 children between them — are currently in Gaza, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">Israeli forces have bombarded for nearly five months now\u003c/a>. Since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Israel’s siege on Gaza has resulted in a Palestinian \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-79-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem\">death toll topping 28,000 and over 68,000 wounded\u003c/a>, according to Gazan health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those who have survived so far, their lives have been forever altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been completely uprooted, with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-79-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem\">75% of Gaza’s population displaced\u003c/a>. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225250933/gaza-rafah-tents-shortage\">a quarter of Gazans do not have a home\u003c/a> to return to after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.conflict-damage.org/\">estimated 54% to 66% of buildings\u003c/a> in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed, according to researchers from Oregon State University and City University of New York. These buildings include Alaydi’s family home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1067px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in a graduate gown and standing next to a flag with red, white, black and green.\" width=\"1067\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01.jpg 1067w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi graduates from the \u003cem>University\u003c/em> of the \u003cem>Incarnate Word\u003c/em> in 2016. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Israel’s military assault on Gaza began, Alaydi’s family has been displaced multiple times, she said. First, they were forced to flee their family home in North Gaza where they all lived — where one of her brothers planted olive trees, where another planned on opening his own law firm for his community — when it was destroyed by artillery. In the desperate rush, they were unable to grab any documentation like passports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225250933/gaza-rafah-tents-shortage\"> the family is living in a tent in South Gaza\u003c/a> near Rafah’s Crossing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/14/1231310479/rafah-cease-fire-gaza-israel-hamas-cairo\">An area at the border of Gaza and Egypt, which has recently been under attack by Israeli authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are not killed by a missile, the starvation is hunting them,” Alaydi said — along with disease because of the unsanitary conditions in such camps. “Death is chasing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1581px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two small children look at the tool and can in their hands.\" width=\"1581\" height=\"1129\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut.jpg 1581w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1581px) 100vw, 1581px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ola and Hayah, the nieces of Rolla Alaydi, in Gaza in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Do whatever it takes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alaydi is not alone. Around the wider Bay Area, the state and around the globe, the Palestinian diaspora is scrambling to find legal options to help their families in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when family members aren’t U.S. citizens — as Alaydi’s aren’t — one of those options is through immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi herself was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza, and has lived in California for six years after coming to the United States as a Master’s student in Texas. Now, she is currently working with an attorney with hopes of securing \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole\">humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for her family. This temporary emergency immigration status allows certain family members to enter the U.S., and while the legal help she’s receiving is pro-bono, Alaydi is also privately fundraising to cover costs such as filing fees and travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1152px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A small child with a cartoon embroidered on their grey shirt looks up on a beach.\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-1097x1536.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ola, the niece of Rolla Alaydi, in Gaza in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The minute I put my head in the pillow, I just see their faces,” Alaydi said through tears. “And they are just calling me for help and [to] rescue them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Alaydi’s brothers, Musbah, is diabetic and has gone without access to insulin for months now, she said. Her youngest brother Hammam, age 26, was diagnosed with stage one cancer before Israel’s attacks on Gaza began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammam resisted leaving Gaza at first, Alaydi said, telling her he was going to die. And then, changing his mind, he left Alaydi a voice message one day: “‘Do whatever it takes,” he told her. “I want to get out from Gaza. I want to live. Life is precious.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rolla Alaydi\"]‘The minute I put my head in the pillow, I just see their faces’[/pullquote]Nightmares and guilt eat at her, said Alaydi — when she checks the news, when she sleeps, when she eats a meal in the knowledge that her family in Gaza barely gets one meal a day. The stress, she said, has driven her to the emergency room three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just miss them,” Alaydi said. “I just want to be with them and just give them a big, warm hug and just to hold them — like they are going to be okay and they will survive this, and I will see them, Inshallah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt his fear to my bones’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like Alaydi, San Francisco resident Mama Ganuush — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">an African Palestinian advocate and drag artist \u003c/a>— also has multiple extended family members still trapped in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include the surviving family of their cousin Mohamed, who Ganuush said \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/21/idf-executed-palestinian-men-in-front-of-their-families-un-confirms\">was killed during a mid-December Israeli attack on a residential neighborhood\u003c/a>. Watching Al Jazeera coverage of the attack, Ganuush said they glimpsed their cousin’s face, “thrown dead between dead bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='Two hands hold an earring with a circular element with the word \"Palestine\" written on it.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush holds their Palestinian coin earring at their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt his fear to my bones,” Ganuush said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush has been writing testimonies about these family members, about their lives and deaths, to various courts — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973881/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland\">the United States case in Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/01/gaza-icj-ruling-offers-hope-protection-civilians-enduring-apocalyptic#:~:text=The%20ICJ%20found%20it%20plausible,under%20siege%20in%20Gaza%2C%20and\">the United Nations’ International Court of Justice\u003c/a> — to advocate for a cease-fire in Gaza and detail potential war crimes committed by the Israeli government. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218927939/un-general-assembly-gaza-israel-resolution-cease-fire-us\">Despite U.S. opposition\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218927939/un-general-assembly-gaza-israel-resolution-cease-fire-us\">U.N. voted for a cease-fire on Dec. 12.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to Mohamed, Ganuush said their words were intended to show that their cousin had “a whole life”: His college years in Arizona and his long-standing desire to start his own family. But it is “exhausting” work, Ganuush said, “[writing] down the details for the U.N, or for someone to help his wife … and his children get out of Gaza because of what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t need to explain to people that he’s a human by telling them these stories,” Ganuush said through sobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Ganuush is also working with an attorney to help Mohamed’s widow — who is suffering from her own injuries, with almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227388681/gaza-largest-hospital-collapse-doctors-without-borders-nasser\">no medical infrastructure left to aid her\u003c/a> — and her children make it out of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Out of the danger zone’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many Palestinian Americans who \u003ci>do \u003c/i>have citizenship have also struggled to leave Gaza. This situation prompted San Francisco lawyer Ghassan Shamieh to sue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966303/san-francisco-law-firm-sues-biden-administration-in-push-to-immediately-evacuate-palestinian-americans-stuck-in-gaza\">the Biden administration in November for violating the civil rights of its citizens\u003c/a>, saying the government failed to quickly evacuate Palestinian Americans from Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit was ultimately withdrawn after Shamieh’s clients — whose situation had prompted the lawsuit — could leave the region and reach the U.S. One client remains in Egypt to care for her now-orphaned nieces and nephews, who are not U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974267\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds a megaphone with stickers including the Palestinian flag on it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush holds a megaphone they use during protests in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, this lawsuit was just one example of lawyers across the country organizing together on this issue. \u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/page/immigration/\">Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians\u003c/a> is a national collaboration of over a hundred volunteer attorneys working on outreach, immigration and humanitarian options for Palestinians and U.S. citizens with family in Gaza, headquartered out of the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of attorneys started looking towards each other to say, ‘Okay, we have decades and decades and decades of this experience,’” said Los Angeles-based Ban Al-Wardi, one of these volunteer attorneys. “Not just with the Palestinian community, but with so many Arab and Muslim communities” who have experienced war, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the U.S.-based fight for people trapped in Gaza has a special precedent, Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians coordinator Amria Ahmed said — because the formation of Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians itself was modeled off a similar collaboration aiding Afghans in 2021 called \u003ca href=\"https://www.projectanar.org/\">Project ANAR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 200 legal professionals answered Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians’ original call for volunteers back in November, Ahmed said — bringing over 200 clients and their extended families with them. The requests for help come from the U.S., Gaza, or countries where Gazans fled, such as Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said that many of the calls to the group come from community members “trying to understand how to get their family out of the danger zone as fast as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Always been a hurdle’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether a Palestinian is a U.S. citizen or not, one of the greatest barriers they’ll face in being able to physically leave Gaza is the need for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-border-authority-says-rafah-crossing-open-only-listed-egyptians-foreigners-2023-11-06/\">their names to be on a list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gazans are now unable to go to Jerusalem’s embassy and are exiting through \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1210897789/rafah-crossing-gaza-egypt-israel-hamas-war\">Rafah’s crossing, which borders Egypt\u003c/a>, Al-Wardi said. And in order for a Palestinian in Gaza to leave the area, they must have their name added to a crossing’s list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “getting permission from the Israeli government to exit from any area within the Palestinian territories has always been a hurdle, and a barrier for people to have freedom of movement,” Al-Wardi said. (\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-egypt-wall-07a40fddeaf9dbc82c2a33e1f1614419\">Recent satellite images show that Egypt is now building a wall\u003c/a> after Israel’s attack on Rafah.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. State Department, the Egyptian government and the Israeli government are all involved in adding a name to the list, San Francisco lawyer Shamieh said. But “because there are so many different parties who are involved,” he said, “it’s difficult to really get to the bottom of who really is responsible for this evacuation list.” (\u003ca href=\"https://mytravel.state.gov/s/crisis-intake\">The U.S. government previously did have a crisis intake form\u003c/a>, which has since been taken down.)\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg?ver=1698969062\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966268\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a beard and wearing a suit speaks at a bank of microphones in front of a large building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Ghassan J. Shamieh announces the filing of a lawsuit against the Biden administration to ensure the safe evacuation of US citizens from the Gaza Strip in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said some U.S. citizens \u003ci>have \u003c/i>been able to cross into Egypt. But those who have not, she said, have received little help from the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials told her that the U.S. can only suggest that names be added to the list, Ahmed said. “That’s very perplexing,” she said: “The government of the United States of America, saying that its hands are tied with respect to their own U.S. citizens being able to leave the war zone of Gaza to enter into Egypt safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Egypt and Israel are two countries that are not hostile countries to the U.S. They are allies and friends,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-arms-hamas-bypass-congress-1dc77f20aac4a797df6a2338b677da4f#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20For%20the,Gaza%20under%20increasing%20international%20criticism.\">adding that the U.S. also provides millions of dollars in funds to Israel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/us/politics/egypt-biden-military-aid.html#:~:text=Prioritizing%20U.S.%20national%20security%20interests,of%20the%20country's%20repressive%20policies.\">Egypt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the group’s U.S. citizen clients was stuck in Gaza for two months, Ahmed said — because although his wife and daughters were on the crossing list, he wasn’t. “That’s not something that any American should accept,” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Seeing disparate treatment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Palestinian Americans with family in Gaza who aren’t U.S. citizens, exploring family immigration visas is one avenue. However, the application process has a long backlog. Sometimes, the U.S. citizen will be required to travel to Egypt to meet their Palestinian family in person, Ahmed said — that is if that family member can even make it across the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another route is humanitarian parole — which Shamieh describes as a “long, expensive process” — when a person outside the U.S. requests to be brought into the country on special humanitarian grounds such as a medical emergency. Often, these are family-based petitions, “which can be rather quick if the relationship [to the U.S. citizen] is close enough,” Shamieh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco lawyer Ghassan Shamieh\"]‘Immigration attorneys across the country are saddened because, again, we’re seeing disparate treatment’[/pullquote]Then there’s the possibility of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status\u003c/a> (TPS): A designation from the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security for certain foreign countries “due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely.” According to the U.S. government, these conditions include “Ongoing armed conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This status allows people to stay in the United States for an extended period of time, with a work permit and social security — meaning they would not be considered undocumented. And TPS, Shamieh said, is based on the United States’s own list of countries that “they add and remove as they see fit” — nations whose residents have “suffered from natural disasters to an extent that is unimaginable, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/temporary-protected-status-designated-country-haiti\">Haiti\u003c/a>,” he noted. “Or if there is extreme civil unrest, like in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/afghanistan\">Afghanistan when the Taliban took ove\u003c/a>r — or in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ukraine\">Ukraine when the war broke out.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after months, Israel began its military campaign against Gaza, no such program — through TPS or otherwise — has been created for Gazans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigration attorneys across the country are saddened because, again, we’re seeing disparate treatment,” Shamieh said: “From not just American citizens by our government, but disparate treatment for different nationalities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11972100 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_7300-1020x680.jpeg']He notes that when Russia invaded Ukraine, “the [U.S.] government was very quick to adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine\">Uniting for Ukraine\u003c/a>” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/uniting-for-ukraine/frequently-asked-questions-about-uniting-for-ukraine\">a temporary parole program \u003c/a>that is available in addition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/TPS-Ukraine\">the now-extended TPS option for Ukrainians\u003c/a>. But for Gazans, “we are not seeing that equal level of treatment,” Shamieh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed, Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians coordinator, said that Arab American lawyers have held individual meetings with members of the Biden administration and learned that officials would not, in fact, designate Palestinians for TPS and have instead opted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/biden-order-shields-palestinians-deportation\">defer the deportation of 6,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> in the United States for 18 months, as announced Feb. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers who make up Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians say they are now lobbying the U.S. government to create a program similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine\">Uniting for Ukraine\u003c/a> for people in Gaza. Ahmed said that to her group, the violence Gazans are facing — “violence that’s been called ethnic cleansing,” she said — is a “clear-cut example of a case where it merits a TPS designation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it could be done for one nationality, why can’t it be done for another?” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“I feel like my politicians failed me.”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">Seeking assistance from politicians\u003c/a> has been another way to get their family’s plight recognized. San Francisco’s Mama Ganuush reached out to California Sen. Alex Padilla’s office seeking help for their extended family trapped in Gaza or a statement supporting a cease-fire. Padilla replied with an email saying he “strongly support[ed] Israel’s right to defend itself and the Administration’s swift action to provide support for our ally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush also contacted Nancy Pelosi’s office for assistance. After an initial response stating that her representatives would reach out to the state department about possibly getting their family’s names onto the Rafah crossing list, Ganuush said they hadn’t heard anything back since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mama Ganuush\"]‘They just want to escape the killing — until they’re able to go back safely’[/pullquote]“I feel like my politicians failed me,” Ganuush said, referring to the fact that the California officials, as well as the Biden administration, have shown \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/20/1225748334/biden-netanyahu-two-state-solution-2024#:~:text=Biden's%20commitment%20to%20Israel%20has,left%20some%201%2C200%20Israelis%20dead.\">mostly unwavering support for the Israeli military during the siege and that repeated calls for a cease-fire in the Middle East have not been met.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a cease-fire were to take place, Ganuush stressed that their family would not necessarily “need to leave Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to just go home or have safety and have some sort of source of food for their children,” Ganuush said. “They just want to escape the killing — until they’re able to go back safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Bay Area’s Rolla Alaydi, her role as the eldest sibling drives her to continue fighting for the lives of her loved ones in Gaza. “[I’m] going to do whatever it takes just to save their lives and save the lives of my little nieces and nephews,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The lawyers] are very, very supportive, very dedicated people. The only thing that I’m fearing [is the] time … Time is very important. And I’m afraid. My family will survive today, but I don’t know if they’re going to survive tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ne day in October 2023, Rolla Alaydi woke up in her home in Pacific Grove, outside Monterey — and found that overnight, she had become responsible for the lives of 21 members of her family in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because for them, I’m the only one in the U.S.,” Alaydi said. “I’m their only hope for them to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi’s four younger brothers and their families — with 13 children between them — are currently in Gaza, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">Israeli forces have bombarded for nearly five months now\u003c/a>. Since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Israel’s siege on Gaza has resulted in a Palestinian \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-79-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem\">death toll topping 28,000 and over 68,000 wounded\u003c/a>, according to Gazan health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those who have survived so far, their lives have been forever altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been completely uprooted, with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-79-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem\">75% of Gaza’s population displaced\u003c/a>. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225250933/gaza-rafah-tents-shortage\">a quarter of Gazans do not have a home\u003c/a> to return to after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.conflict-damage.org/\">estimated 54% to 66% of buildings\u003c/a> in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed, according to researchers from Oregon State University and City University of New York. These buildings include Alaydi’s family home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1067px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in a graduate gown and standing next to a flag with red, white, black and green.\" width=\"1067\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01.jpg 1067w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi graduates from the \u003cem>University\u003c/em> of the \u003cem>Incarnate Word\u003c/em> in 2016. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Israel’s military assault on Gaza began, Alaydi’s family has been displaced multiple times, she said. First, they were forced to flee their family home in North Gaza where they all lived — where one of her brothers planted olive trees, where another planned on opening his own law firm for his community — when it was destroyed by artillery. In the desperate rush, they were unable to grab any documentation like passports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225250933/gaza-rafah-tents-shortage\"> the family is living in a tent in South Gaza\u003c/a> near Rafah’s Crossing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/14/1231310479/rafah-cease-fire-gaza-israel-hamas-cairo\">An area at the border of Gaza and Egypt, which has recently been under attack by Israeli authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are not killed by a missile, the starvation is hunting them,” Alaydi said — along with disease because of the unsanitary conditions in such camps. “Death is chasing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1581px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two small children look at the tool and can in their hands.\" width=\"1581\" height=\"1129\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut.jpg 1581w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1581px) 100vw, 1581px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ola and Hayah, the nieces of Rolla Alaydi, in Gaza in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Do whatever it takes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alaydi is not alone. Around the wider Bay Area, the state and around the globe, the Palestinian diaspora is scrambling to find legal options to help their families in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when family members aren’t U.S. citizens — as Alaydi’s aren’t — one of those options is through immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi herself was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza, and has lived in California for six years after coming to the United States as a Master’s student in Texas. Now, she is currently working with an attorney with hopes of securing \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole\">humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for her family. This temporary emergency immigration status allows certain family members to enter the U.S., and while the legal help she’s receiving is pro-bono, Alaydi is also privately fundraising to cover costs such as filing fees and travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1152px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A small child with a cartoon embroidered on their grey shirt looks up on a beach.\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-1097x1536.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ola, the niece of Rolla Alaydi, in Gaza in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The minute I put my head in the pillow, I just see their faces,” Alaydi said through tears. “And they are just calling me for help and [to] rescue them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Alaydi’s brothers, Musbah, is diabetic and has gone without access to insulin for months now, she said. Her youngest brother Hammam, age 26, was diagnosed with stage one cancer before Israel’s attacks on Gaza began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammam resisted leaving Gaza at first, Alaydi said, telling her he was going to die. And then, changing his mind, he left Alaydi a voice message one day: “‘Do whatever it takes,” he told her. “I want to get out from Gaza. I want to live. Life is precious.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nightmares and guilt eat at her, said Alaydi — when she checks the news, when she sleeps, when she eats a meal in the knowledge that her family in Gaza barely gets one meal a day. The stress, she said, has driven her to the emergency room three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just miss them,” Alaydi said. “I just want to be with them and just give them a big, warm hug and just to hold them — like they are going to be okay and they will survive this, and I will see them, Inshallah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt his fear to my bones’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like Alaydi, San Francisco resident Mama Ganuush — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">an African Palestinian advocate and drag artist \u003c/a>— also has multiple extended family members still trapped in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include the surviving family of their cousin Mohamed, who Ganuush said \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/21/idf-executed-palestinian-men-in-front-of-their-families-un-confirms\">was killed during a mid-December Israeli attack on a residential neighborhood\u003c/a>. Watching Al Jazeera coverage of the attack, Ganuush said they glimpsed their cousin’s face, “thrown dead between dead bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='Two hands hold an earring with a circular element with the word \"Palestine\" written on it.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush holds their Palestinian coin earring at their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt his fear to my bones,” Ganuush said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush has been writing testimonies about these family members, about their lives and deaths, to various courts — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973881/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland\">the United States case in Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/01/gaza-icj-ruling-offers-hope-protection-civilians-enduring-apocalyptic#:~:text=The%20ICJ%20found%20it%20plausible,under%20siege%20in%20Gaza%2C%20and\">the United Nations’ International Court of Justice\u003c/a> — to advocate for a cease-fire in Gaza and detail potential war crimes committed by the Israeli government. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218927939/un-general-assembly-gaza-israel-resolution-cease-fire-us\">Despite U.S. opposition\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218927939/un-general-assembly-gaza-israel-resolution-cease-fire-us\">U.N. voted for a cease-fire on Dec. 12.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to Mohamed, Ganuush said their words were intended to show that their cousin had “a whole life”: His college years in Arizona and his long-standing desire to start his own family. But it is “exhausting” work, Ganuush said, “[writing] down the details for the U.N, or for someone to help his wife … and his children get out of Gaza because of what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t need to explain to people that he’s a human by telling them these stories,” Ganuush said through sobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Ganuush is also working with an attorney to help Mohamed’s widow — who is suffering from her own injuries, with almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227388681/gaza-largest-hospital-collapse-doctors-without-borders-nasser\">no medical infrastructure left to aid her\u003c/a> — and her children make it out of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Out of the danger zone’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many Palestinian Americans who \u003ci>do \u003c/i>have citizenship have also struggled to leave Gaza. This situation prompted San Francisco lawyer Ghassan Shamieh to sue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966303/san-francisco-law-firm-sues-biden-administration-in-push-to-immediately-evacuate-palestinian-americans-stuck-in-gaza\">the Biden administration in November for violating the civil rights of its citizens\u003c/a>, saying the government failed to quickly evacuate Palestinian Americans from Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit was ultimately withdrawn after Shamieh’s clients — whose situation had prompted the lawsuit — could leave the region and reach the U.S. One client remains in Egypt to care for her now-orphaned nieces and nephews, who are not U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974267\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds a megaphone with stickers including the Palestinian flag on it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush holds a megaphone they use during protests in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, this lawsuit was just one example of lawyers across the country organizing together on this issue. \u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/page/immigration/\">Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians\u003c/a> is a national collaboration of over a hundred volunteer attorneys working on outreach, immigration and humanitarian options for Palestinians and U.S. citizens with family in Gaza, headquartered out of the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of attorneys started looking towards each other to say, ‘Okay, we have decades and decades and decades of this experience,’” said Los Angeles-based Ban Al-Wardi, one of these volunteer attorneys. “Not just with the Palestinian community, but with so many Arab and Muslim communities” who have experienced war, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the U.S.-based fight for people trapped in Gaza has a special precedent, Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians coordinator Amria Ahmed said — because the formation of Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians itself was modeled off a similar collaboration aiding Afghans in 2021 called \u003ca href=\"https://www.projectanar.org/\">Project ANAR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 200 legal professionals answered Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians’ original call for volunteers back in November, Ahmed said — bringing over 200 clients and their extended families with them. The requests for help come from the U.S., Gaza, or countries where Gazans fled, such as Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said that many of the calls to the group come from community members “trying to understand how to get their family out of the danger zone as fast as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Always been a hurdle’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether a Palestinian is a U.S. citizen or not, one of the greatest barriers they’ll face in being able to physically leave Gaza is the need for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-border-authority-says-rafah-crossing-open-only-listed-egyptians-foreigners-2023-11-06/\">their names to be on a list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gazans are now unable to go to Jerusalem’s embassy and are exiting through \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1210897789/rafah-crossing-gaza-egypt-israel-hamas-war\">Rafah’s crossing, which borders Egypt\u003c/a>, Al-Wardi said. And in order for a Palestinian in Gaza to leave the area, they must have their name added to a crossing’s list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “getting permission from the Israeli government to exit from any area within the Palestinian territories has always been a hurdle, and a barrier for people to have freedom of movement,” Al-Wardi said. (\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-egypt-wall-07a40fddeaf9dbc82c2a33e1f1614419\">Recent satellite images show that Egypt is now building a wall\u003c/a> after Israel’s attack on Rafah.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. State Department, the Egyptian government and the Israeli government are all involved in adding a name to the list, San Francisco lawyer Shamieh said. But “because there are so many different parties who are involved,” he said, “it’s difficult to really get to the bottom of who really is responsible for this evacuation list.” (\u003ca href=\"https://mytravel.state.gov/s/crisis-intake\">The U.S. government previously did have a crisis intake form\u003c/a>, which has since been taken down.)\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg?ver=1698969062\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966268\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a beard and wearing a suit speaks at a bank of microphones in front of a large building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Ghassan J. Shamieh announces the filing of a lawsuit against the Biden administration to ensure the safe evacuation of US citizens from the Gaza Strip in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said some U.S. citizens \u003ci>have \u003c/i>been able to cross into Egypt. But those who have not, she said, have received little help from the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials told her that the U.S. can only suggest that names be added to the list, Ahmed said. “That’s very perplexing,” she said: “The government of the United States of America, saying that its hands are tied with respect to their own U.S. citizens being able to leave the war zone of Gaza to enter into Egypt safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Egypt and Israel are two countries that are not hostile countries to the U.S. They are allies and friends,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-arms-hamas-bypass-congress-1dc77f20aac4a797df6a2338b677da4f#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20For%20the,Gaza%20under%20increasing%20international%20criticism.\">adding that the U.S. also provides millions of dollars in funds to Israel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/us/politics/egypt-biden-military-aid.html#:~:text=Prioritizing%20U.S.%20national%20security%20interests,of%20the%20country's%20repressive%20policies.\">Egypt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the group’s U.S. citizen clients was stuck in Gaza for two months, Ahmed said — because although his wife and daughters were on the crossing list, he wasn’t. “That’s not something that any American should accept,” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Seeing disparate treatment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Palestinian Americans with family in Gaza who aren’t U.S. citizens, exploring family immigration visas is one avenue. However, the application process has a long backlog. Sometimes, the U.S. citizen will be required to travel to Egypt to meet their Palestinian family in person, Ahmed said — that is if that family member can even make it across the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another route is humanitarian parole — which Shamieh describes as a “long, expensive process” — when a person outside the U.S. requests to be brought into the country on special humanitarian grounds such as a medical emergency. Often, these are family-based petitions, “which can be rather quick if the relationship [to the U.S. citizen] is close enough,” Shamieh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then there’s the possibility of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status\u003c/a> (TPS): A designation from the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security for certain foreign countries “due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely.” According to the U.S. government, these conditions include “Ongoing armed conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This status allows people to stay in the United States for an extended period of time, with a work permit and social security — meaning they would not be considered undocumented. And TPS, Shamieh said, is based on the United States’s own list of countries that “they add and remove as they see fit” — nations whose residents have “suffered from natural disasters to an extent that is unimaginable, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/temporary-protected-status-designated-country-haiti\">Haiti\u003c/a>,” he noted. “Or if there is extreme civil unrest, like in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/afghanistan\">Afghanistan when the Taliban took ove\u003c/a>r — or in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ukraine\">Ukraine when the war broke out.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after months, Israel began its military campaign against Gaza, no such program — through TPS or otherwise — has been created for Gazans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigration attorneys across the country are saddened because, again, we’re seeing disparate treatment,” Shamieh said: “From not just American citizens by our government, but disparate treatment for different nationalities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He notes that when Russia invaded Ukraine, “the [U.S.] government was very quick to adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine\">Uniting for Ukraine\u003c/a>” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/uniting-for-ukraine/frequently-asked-questions-about-uniting-for-ukraine\">a temporary parole program \u003c/a>that is available in addition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/TPS-Ukraine\">the now-extended TPS option for Ukrainians\u003c/a>. But for Gazans, “we are not seeing that equal level of treatment,” Shamieh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed, Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians coordinator, said that Arab American lawyers have held individual meetings with members of the Biden administration and learned that officials would not, in fact, designate Palestinians for TPS and have instead opted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/biden-order-shields-palestinians-deportation\">defer the deportation of 6,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> in the United States for 18 months, as announced Feb. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers who make up Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians say they are now lobbying the U.S. government to create a program similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine\">Uniting for Ukraine\u003c/a> for people in Gaza. Ahmed said that to her group, the violence Gazans are facing — “violence that’s been called ethnic cleansing,” she said — is a “clear-cut example of a case where it merits a TPS designation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it could be done for one nationality, why can’t it be done for another?” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“I feel like my politicians failed me.”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">Seeking assistance from politicians\u003c/a> has been another way to get their family’s plight recognized. San Francisco’s Mama Ganuush reached out to California Sen. Alex Padilla’s office seeking help for their extended family trapped in Gaza or a statement supporting a cease-fire. Padilla replied with an email saying he “strongly support[ed] Israel’s right to defend itself and the Administration’s swift action to provide support for our ally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush also contacted Nancy Pelosi’s office for assistance. After an initial response stating that her representatives would reach out to the state department about possibly getting their family’s names onto the Rafah crossing list, Ganuush said they hadn’t heard anything back since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Some say that the war has forced them to “come out as Palestinian” to the Bay Area LGBTQ+ community.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">KQED’s Nisa Khan talks to us about how Palestinian artists are pushing San Francisco’s queer community to stand up for Palestine. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"card card--enclosed grey\">\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC9299926012\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">‘This Is Resistance’: Queer Palestinian Artists and Activists in the Bay Area Are Speaking Out\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra and Welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. Mama Ganuush is a drag performer based in the Castro. They’re also Palestinian, but they haven’t always felt like that part of their identity has been supported by the larger queer community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush: \u003c/strong>I feel like the conversation is owned by white mainstream gays Ryan Murphy, for instance, and others. People of color like Billy Porter who have signed pro-Israeli support statements. And I was extremely, honestly hurt, appalled, angry, but at the same time extremely disappointed in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>These days. They’re working desperately to help their family in Gaza get out, and they’re using their art to speak out and push the larger queer community in San Francisco to stand up for all marginalized people, including Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush: \u003c/strong>I feel like the Palestinian issue is a queer issue, and because as a queer community, they stand up for marginalized people. We always stand up facing oppression from authoritarian systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, I talk with KQED audience engagement reporter Nisa Khan about how queer Palestinian artists are using their art to protest Israel’s siege of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>Artists have been doing a lot of demonstrations, a lot of art. I think one of the biggest protests recently was at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Eight artists painted and draped over pro-Palestine messages over their own work. That’s just some of the ways that artists have been kind of trying to get their institutions to make a statement on Palestine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>There was recently a petition for queer artist or Palestine petitions, where a bunch of artists, you know, across the country, like 200 plus a lot of like famous drag queens were reciting on to it. And then here in Castro, we had a lot of like, queer and trans activists marching down Castro or like blocking highways on Monday for President’s Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush: \u003c/strong>I want to introduce another form of Palestinian resistance through art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>So Mama Ganuush is an Afghan Palestinian drag artist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush: \u003c/strong>My parents were both displaced from Palestine, so we had to grow up in Egypt as refugees. So I grew up in Cairo. Currently, Palestinian art forms that we preserve our culture, indigenous culture with this embroidery. It’s a deep okay, which is our dance. It’s singing, it’s food and cooking, but also drag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>One thing about Mama Ganuush’s drag is that it’s very Palestinian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush: \u003c/strong>Through my drag art, I want to show. What does it mean to to be a queer, drag Palestinian artist? I performed with a Palestinian flag. My drag is inspired by sex workers that I used to interview, and trans folks for Human Rights Watch that has been abused by police brutality in Egypt before becoming a refugee and coming to San Francisco, an asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>There, like a bearded drag artist. They have these big gowns, pearl jewelry, and then sometimes their performance, they’re lip syncing to to Arabic songs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush: \u003c/strong>And then I was able to perform for the first time on a resistance song for Julia Beatriz. It’s called a hero that call him, which means justice is my weapon and I will resist. It’s a song that was done by Julia Boutrous, who is a Lebanese singer who’s very pro-Palestine for the people of Gaza two years ago when they bombed Gaza. So we’ll see now he won’t go and. And then that moment I realized that I was like, I am a Palestinian drag queen. This is resistance on some.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I imagine, like many folks here in the diaspora, they’re constantly checking in and and worried about what’s happening back home. What do they tell you about what the last few months have been like for them on that end?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>I think in the past few months they’ve just been like between kind of their very, very like passionate activism. They’re just wracked with terror and panic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush: \u003c/strong>Israel killed members of my family the past six weeks. I literally check on the, Ministry of Health names that they show about that people. And I check for my family’s last names to see if they’re alive or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>Mama Ganuush’s family is from Gaza, and they have extended family currently in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush: \u003c/strong>I sometimes ask, my partner to check my WhatsApp groups, or ask a friend of mine because I cannot read like I just can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Have artists like Mama Ganuush, Nisa, felt supported by the queer community more broadly in San Francisco over the last few months, would you say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>I think at the beginning, I think a lot of people just didn’t think they needed to make a statement. And I think, that was kind of something that a lot of like artists like mom and kind of been have been trying to prompt people on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush: \u003c/strong>Is a lot of strong gay voices in the community that every pro-Israel that has been unfortunately, the sentiment across Scott Wiener, I cross Rafael Mendelson, my my district representative, who are both of them are gay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>They say often, like, I feel like I’ve been let down by my representatives in California. And they say, like, I feel guilty because I voted for Biden and I voted for an administration does not like, you know, supporting a, war on my extended family members and the place I’m from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>What about other queer Palestinian artists? Is that something that you’ve heard from them as well, that they they don’t quite feel that support from the queer community here in the Bay?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>So, yeah, I spoke to Palestinian DJ Zaheer Suboh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zaheer Suboh: \u003c/strong>I am a queer Palestinian, DJ in the San Francisco Bay area. I lived in Falasteen from 1999 till about 2008, so about ten years from the ages of 6 to 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>One thing that I suppose says is that often, like, people are like, oh, why would you, support Palestine? These Hamas agents would want to kill you. So while you’re fighting, right, they’re Palestinians. This is being said to him. And he’s just like, But I’m also Palestinian. Like, these are not identities I can split.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zaheer Suboh: \u003c/strong>And that’s really upsetting because they don’t really consider that queer Palestinians actually exist. They’re not really taking into consideration that we are fighting a battle on both fronts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>For queer Palestinians, the response to Israel’s war has brought up another big issue. Pink washing. According to,Sa’ed Atshan, an associate professor of peace and conflict studies at Swarthmore College, it’s when supporters of the right wing Israeli state draw attention to Israel’s purportedly advanced record on LGBTQ rights as a way of detracting from and justifying Israel’s assault on Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>One big example of pink washing that got a lot of attention happened last November, after an Israeli soldier posted a photo of himself standing over the rubble in Gaza while holding a pride flag. 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And I was extremely, honestly hurt, appalled, angry, but at the same time extremely disappointed in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>These days. They’re working desperately to help their family in Gaza get out, and they’re using their art to speak out and push the larger queer community in San Francisco to stand up for all marginalized people, including Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mama Ganuush: \u003c/strong>I feel like the Palestinian issue is a queer issue, and because as a queer community, they stand up for marginalized people. We always stand up facing oppression from authoritarian systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, I talk with KQED audience engagement reporter Nisa Khan about how queer Palestinian artists are using their art to protest Israel’s siege of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nisa Khan: \u003c/strong>Artists have been doing a lot of demonstrations, a lot of art. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> A federal judge in Oakland on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the Biden administration is complicit in genocide against residents in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs in the case sought to block the U.S. government from providing military aid to Israel, arguing in court last Friday that doing so was in violation of international and domestic genocide laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge ultimately sided with attorneys for the U.S. government, who argued that the courts lack authority over certain political decisions made by Congress and the executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 4 p.m. Friday (Jan. 26)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCrowds of at least 200 people protested outside an Oakland federal courthouse on Friday as attorneys gave arguments in a lawsuit seeking to stop U.S. aid for the Israeli government’s attacks on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights, representing Palestinians in the U.S. and abroad, filed the \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2023/11/Complaint_DCI-Pal-v-Biden_ww.pdf\">lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> in November. They are \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2023/11/PI%20Motion_w.pdf\">seeking a court order (PDF)\u003c/a> to stop U.S. military aid to Israel, arguing it is fueling a genocide against Palestinian people and urging the Biden administration to pursue a cease-fire. On Dec. 8, the federal government responded with a motion to dismiss the case, saying the court had no oversight on foreign policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s single-day hearing laid out arguments from Palestinians and U.S. officials. Plaintiffs argued that by aiding Israel’s military operations in Gaza, the U.S. government has violated international law codified in the 1948 Genocide Convention, as well as the U.S. Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11964576,news_11972100,forum_2010101904469 label='More on Israel & Gaza']Plaintiffs had seven witnesses call in, including a doctor currently based in Gaza. “Every single one of the testimonies that we heard was gut-wrenching,” Diala Shamas, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White said he would take a hard look at the arguments and evidence and is expected to deliver a decision in the coming weeks. “The question of what he can do is what he’s sitting with,” Shamas said, adding that they are hopeful he will “issue some kind of order to stop the genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice, however, argued that the court does not have authority over international policy decisions made by the president and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the court’s role to sit in judgment of U.S. foreign policy decisions concerning the conflict in Gaza or to assess whether Israel has transgressed limits imposed by international law,” Biden’s defense attorneys wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2024/01/64_1-12-24_Govt-reply-MTD_w.pdf\">a court brief (PDF)\u003c/a> this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a concern Judge White had also expressed in the days leading up to the hearing. He questioned what authority the courts have in foreign policy decisions typically decided by other branches of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/26/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland/240126-gazalawsuit-02-bl/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973925\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"a large sign hangs from a courthouse building that reads 'we charge Biden with genocide'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold a sign that says, ‘We Charge Biden With Genocide’ outside of the US District Court in Oakland on Jan. 26, 2024, during a court hearing to urge the White House to withdraw US support for Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, when an attack led by Hamas killed about 1,200 Israelis, more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s counterattacks, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian author Laila El-Haddad said in court testimony on Friday that she has lost more than 85 family members in Gaza air strikes and other attacks from Israel in the last 16 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel has displaced or is starving the surviving family members, and they are having trouble just trying to survive at this point,” El-Haddad said. “It’s consumed every aspect of my life. It’s been a living nightmare, figuratively and literally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s hearing brought a packed courtroom, and a digital livestream of the proceedings, capped at 1,000 people, quickly reached capacity. Hundreds who were turned away from the courthouse painted phrases like “no bombs” and “Biden complicit in genocide” on the streets outside the federal building in downtown Oakland, while other supporters of the lawsuit handed out coffee and snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Friday morning, the U.N.’s International Court of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/26/un-court-orders-israel-to-ensure-acts-of-genocide-are-not-committed-in-gaza\">ordered Israel to prevent death, destruction and acts of genocide in Gaza\u003c/a>. However, the court did not order an end to Israel’s military offensive. Shamas of CCR said that the ruling and Friday’s effort in Oakland to stop the genocide are in “parallel postures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ICJ was looking at this plausibility threshold to issue what they call provisional measures in those contexts to stop immediate harms,” she said. “That’s what we are asking the judge here to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the Biden administration has continued to fund weapons for Israel and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/30/biden-administration-bypasses-congress-on-weapon-sales-to-israel\">bypassed\u003c/a> congressional approval to do so. And in December, the U.S. vetoed a U.N. resolution to order a cease-fire for both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/26/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland/240126-gazalawsuit-06-bl/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973924\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973924\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"a group of demonstrators hold signs outside a court building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside of the US District Court in Oakland. 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He questioned what authority the courts have in foreign policy decisions typically decided by other branches of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/26/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland/240126-gazalawsuit-02-bl/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973925\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"a large sign hangs from a courthouse building that reads 'we charge Biden with genocide'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold a sign that says, ‘We Charge Biden With Genocide’ outside of the US District Court in Oakland on Jan. 26, 2024, during a court hearing to urge the White House to withdraw US support for Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, when an attack led by Hamas killed about 1,200 Israelis, more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s counterattacks, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian author Laila El-Haddad said in court testimony on Friday that she has lost more than 85 family members in Gaza air strikes and other attacks from Israel in the last 16 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel has displaced or is starving the surviving family members, and they are having trouble just trying to survive at this point,” El-Haddad said. “It’s consumed every aspect of my life. It’s been a living nightmare, figuratively and literally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s hearing brought a packed courtroom, and a digital livestream of the proceedings, capped at 1,000 people, quickly reached capacity. Hundreds who were turned away from the courthouse painted phrases like “no bombs” and “Biden complicit in genocide” on the streets outside the federal building in downtown Oakland, while other supporters of the lawsuit handed out coffee and snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Friday morning, the U.N.’s International Court of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/26/un-court-orders-israel-to-ensure-acts-of-genocide-are-not-committed-in-gaza\">ordered Israel to prevent death, destruction and acts of genocide in Gaza\u003c/a>. However, the court did not order an end to Israel’s military offensive. Shamas of CCR said that the ruling and Friday’s effort in Oakland to stop the genocide are in “parallel postures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ICJ was looking at this plausibility threshold to issue what they call provisional measures in those contexts to stop immediate harms,” she said. “That’s what we are asking the judge here to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the Biden administration has continued to fund weapons for Israel and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/30/biden-administration-bypasses-congress-on-weapon-sales-to-israel\">bypassed\u003c/a> congressional approval to do so. 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Many were turned away from the courtroom after it reached capacity. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mike Zerelli, who has several family members currently in Gaza, was outside the courthouse on Friday morning waving a Palestinian flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are struggling to survive. My brother’s home was totally bombed. His father had a farm there in the north of Gaza that’s totally gone,” Zerelli told KQED. “They have been moving from the U.N. school shelter and they were bombed out of that. Water and food is extremely hard to get. 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"content": "\u003cp>Vice President Kamala Harris’ push to rally voters in San José around support for reproductive rights ran headlong into protests Monday, demanding an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris\"]‘Let me say, in a real democracy, everyone has a right to have their voice heard. The President and I are working on that every single day.’[/pullquote]At times, protest chants of “cease-fire now” broke out during the rally, interrupting Harris’ speech at least four times. Outside, dozens of protesters lined up along King Road and Alum Rock Avenue, waving signs outside Mexican Heritage Plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let me say, in a real democracy, everyone has a right to have their voice heard,” Harris told the crowd after protests broke out inside, adding “We all want this conflict to end as soon as possible and the president and I are working on that every single day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The colliding forces at the Harris rally exposed a key election year challenge for Democrats: many of the younger, progressive voters who the party hopes to win over with a platform of protecting abortion rights are deeply dissatisfied with the Biden administration’s support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974090\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974090\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt='Dozens of protesters with signs calling for a \"cease-fire.\"' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seema Badar (center) and others chant ‘cease-fire now’ outside of Mexican Heritage Plaza in San José, where Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to speak on Jan. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Holding signs and banners bearing “Free Palestine” and “End U.S. Aid to Israel,” members from the Council on American-Islamic Relations joined a coalition of multi-faith, multiracial organizations with other supporters to demand a permanent cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allie Felker said she was invited to the Harris event for her work advocating for prenatal care to prevent stillbirths.\u003cbr>\n[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Allie Felker, advocate who attended the event\"]‘I can’t come here and advocate for reproductive justice without also standing with Palestine, standing with the women and children of Gaza …’[/pullquote]But less than three minutes into Harris’ on-stage conversation with actress and activist Sophia Bush, Felker stood up and joined in calls for a cease-fire. Felker told KQED she was motivated by the risks to pregnant women caused by the Israeli invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t come here and advocate for reproductive justice without also standing with Palestine, standing with the women and children of Gaza and saying that the reproductive justice we’re seeking in this country needs to also be equated with what’s happening in Gaza,” Felker told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris’ stop in San José was a part of her nationwide “Fight for Reproductive Freedoms” tour. Democrats are hoping to continue their run of electoral success on the issue of reproductive rights after the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that overturned a constitutional right to an abortion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974147\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974147\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A protestor holds up a Palestinian flag in red, black, white and green colors inside an event where the Vice President was speaking in San Jose.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240129-KAMALA-HARRIS-SAN-JOSE-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters interrupted Vice President Kamala Harris during an event at Mexican Heritage Plaza in San José to demand a cease-fire in Gaza on Jan. 29, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>More than 500 people lined up around the plaza for a chance to hear from the vice president. Dozens more were turned away at the door after the theater was filled to capacity. Supporters of the vice president chanted “M-V-P” (Madam Vice President) and “Four more years!” to drown out the pro-cease-fire protests. [aside postID=news_11973881 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-13-BL-1020x680.jpg'] “She’s a woman, specifically, who can speak to this,” said Vanessa Grijalva, a board member with the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley. “We’ve had so many men speak on women’s health and our bodies and things like that, so I think it’s just important for her to come out here … and it’s so important for us people of color to come out and to rock the vote this year and for her doing that in our community, it just highlights the importance of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the court overturned Roe v. Wade, ballot measures to protect abortion rights have passed in states from California to Kansas, and Democrats were able to use the issue to blunt Republican gains in the 2022 midterm elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue has also galvanized the young voters Biden and Harris will need to keep the White House. \u003ca href=\"https://news.gallup.com/poll/246206/abortion-trends-age.aspx\">Polling by Gallup shows\u003c/a> that the share of voters under age 30 who identify as “pro-choice” has risen to 64%, while the share of those young voters identifying as “pro-life” has fallen to 29%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, Harris warned that state protections in liberal areas of the country might not withstand Republican victories at the ballot box. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Zahra Billoo, executive director, CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area office\"]‘So long as President Biden and Vice President Harris ignore that call [for a cease-fire] they are complicit in genocide, but they are also demonstrating their disconnect with the electorate.’[/pullquote]“If these folks have their way and they’ve already articulated as part of their agenda, they’ll get a national ban,” she said. “So let’s understand, none of us can afford to sit back and say, ‘Thank God we’re in California.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the ongoing war in Gaza has proven costly to the Biden administration among young voters. A Gallup poll from December found that 50% of Americans under 35 believe the U.S. is giving “too much” support to Israel — compared to 21% who believe the country is lending “too little” support to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So long as President Biden and Vice President Harris ignore that call [for a cease-fire], they are complicit in genocide, but they are also demonstrating their disconnect with the electorate,” said Zahra Billoo, executive director of CAIR’s San Francisco Bay Area office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/msolomon\">Molly Solomon\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Bay Area health care workers rallied outside the San Leandro facility of military contractor L3Harris on Wednesday. About 200 nurses, pediatricians, psychiatrists and other doctors and activists gathered to protest what they call “war profiteering” by the company, which has provided surveillance technologies to Israel for years and whose components are used in missiles, warplanes and tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here today in front of L3Harris because we know with certainty that they are complicit in mass civilian casualties,” said Dr. Nida Bajwa, a family medicine doctor at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters pointed to “joint direct attack munitions,” or JDAMs, which Boeing manufactures with components from L3Harris. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/israel-opt-us-made-munitions-killed-43-civilians-in-two-documented-israeli-air-strikes-in-gaza-new-investigation/\">December report from Amnesty International\u003c/a>, these weapons were linked to “two deadly, unlawful air strikes on homes full of civilians” in Gaza on Oct. 10 and Oct. 22 that killed 43 people, including 19 children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973553\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Healthcare workers rally in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health care workers rally in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joint direct attack munitions are essentially an upgrade that converts unguided “dumb” bombs into precision-guided “smart” bombs. Protesters said this technology is being used to target hospitals and other vital civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L3Harris did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Jess Ghannam, clinical professor of psychiatry, UCSF\"]‘We stand against the destruction of any health care facility, any hospital, the killing of any doctor, any nurse. For me, it’s personal because my colleagues, my friends, my peers have been killed in Gaza.’[/pullquote]“We stand against the destruction of any health care facility, any hospital, the killing of any doctor, any nurse,” said Jess Ghannam, a Palestinian American clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF who has worked in Gaza for decades. “For me, it’s personal because my colleagues, my friends, my peers have been killed in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, at least 300 health care workers have died as a result of Israeli strikes in Gaza, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-68\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. A shortage of medical supplies has left doctors to perform surgeries and amputations without anesthesia or adequate sanitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mothers in Gaza are being forced to choose between risking their lives going to an already overwhelmed health care system or giving birth in the streets amidst rubble,” said Dr. Saba Ali, a pediatrician at UCSF. “In hospitals, mothers are undergoing cesarean sections without anesthesia, and at times without electricity. Some are being \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145677\">discharged as early as three hours after giving birth\u003c/a> because health care facilities don’t have enough beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Jess Ghannam speaks at a rally of healthcare workers in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jess Ghannam speaks at a rally of health care workers in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In northern Gaza, seven out of 24 hospitals remain partially functional, and in southern Gaza, seven of 12 hospitals are partially functional, according to the World Health Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside L3Harris, protesters painted the sidewalk with the words “war profiteer.” A \u003ca href=\"https://www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2023-12/LHX_InvestorDay_ExecutivePresentations_Final.pdf\">Dec. 12 report\u003c/a> for L3Harris investors stated that there was “increased demand for missiles driven by Ukraine (and) Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A 2,000-pound bomb, somehow smart, dropped in the most densely populated area on the planet,” Ghannam said. “L3Harris has blood on its hands, it’s complicit, it’s culpable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Rally-goers raise their fists in support of Gaza in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rallygoers raise their fists in support of Gaza in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the entrance to the facility, protesters hung banners that read “Stop Bombing Hospitals” and “Genocide Manufactured Here.” On a clothesline hung light blue scrubs, each printed with the name of a health care worker who died in Gaza. Between protesters speaking, they played audio clips of doctors in Gaza that described hospital walls shaking from nearby bombardment, airstrikes on hospitals killing patients and doctors and an operating room ceiling collapsing after an explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said 200 employees left the facility by early afternoon, and operations were halted for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The names of healthcare workers killed in Gaza are printed on scrubs hung in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The names of health care workers killed in Gaza are printed on scrubs hung in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In another protest on Wednesday, nearly 50 students rallied at a meeting of UC regents at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco, calling on the university system to divest from companies they say are profiting from the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11972100,news_11971593,forum_2010101904469\"]Yara Kaadan, political director for Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Davis, said her campus has financial contracts with RTX (formerly Raytheon Technologies), which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want this academic institution to invest its money in the community and education, not through war or the occupation of anybody in the Global South or the Middle East,” Kaadan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaadan also said the coalition was protesting \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/jan24/jointacadaudit.pdf\">item J3 on the UC Board of Regents’ agenda\u003c/a>, which she said, “seeks to ban any department or organization under UC jurisdiction from releasing any political statements that quote-unquote, go against UC values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think this is a huge violation of the First Amendment,” Kaadan said. “\u003cb>\u003c/b>People should be allowed to have political discourse within the system and have political agreements that don’t always align with the people who are in charge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC regents did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Madi Bolaños contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Bay Area health care workers rallied outside the San Leandro facility of military contractor L3Harris on Wednesday. About 200 nurses, pediatricians, psychiatrists and other doctors and activists gathered to protest what they call “war profiteering” by the company, which has provided surveillance technologies to Israel for years and whose components are used in missiles, warplanes and tanks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here today in front of L3Harris because we know with certainty that they are complicit in mass civilian casualties,” said Dr. Nida Bajwa, a family medicine doctor at San Francisco General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters pointed to “joint direct attack munitions,” or JDAMs, which Boeing manufactures with components from L3Harris. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/12/israel-opt-us-made-munitions-killed-43-civilians-in-two-documented-israeli-air-strikes-in-gaza-new-investigation/\">December report from Amnesty International\u003c/a>, these weapons were linked to “two deadly, unlawful air strikes on homes full of civilians” in Gaza on Oct. 10 and Oct. 22 that killed 43 people, including 19 children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973553\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Healthcare workers rally in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health care workers rally in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Joint direct attack munitions are essentially an upgrade that converts unguided “dumb” bombs into precision-guided “smart” bombs. Protesters said this technology is being used to target hospitals and other vital civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>L3Harris did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“We stand against the destruction of any health care facility, any hospital, the killing of any doctor, any nurse,” said Jess Ghannam, a Palestinian American clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF who has worked in Gaza for decades. “For me, it’s personal because my colleagues, my friends, my peers have been killed in Gaza.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, at least 300 health care workers have died as a result of Israeli strikes in Gaza, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ochaopt.org/content/hostilities-gaza-strip-and-israel-reported-impact-day-68\">according to the United Nations\u003c/a>. A shortage of medical supplies has left doctors to perform surgeries and amputations without anesthesia or adequate sanitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mothers in Gaza are being forced to choose between risking their lives going to an already overwhelmed health care system or giving birth in the streets amidst rubble,” said Dr. Saba Ali, a pediatrician at UCSF. “In hospitals, mothers are undergoing cesarean sections without anesthesia, and at times without electricity. Some are being \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145677\">discharged as early as three hours after giving birth\u003c/a> because health care facilities don’t have enough beds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973554\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Jess Ghannam speaks at a rally of healthcare workers in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-07-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jess Ghannam speaks at a rally of health care workers in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In northern Gaza, seven out of 24 hospitals remain partially functional, and in southern Gaza, seven of 12 hospitals are partially functional, according to the World Health Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside L3Harris, protesters painted the sidewalk with the words “war profiteer.” A \u003ca href=\"https://www.l3harris.com/sites/default/files/2023-12/LHX_InvestorDay_ExecutivePresentations_Final.pdf\">Dec. 12 report\u003c/a> for L3Harris investors stated that there was “increased demand for missiles driven by Ukraine (and) Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A 2,000-pound bomb, somehow smart, dropped in the most densely populated area on the planet,” Ghannam said. “L3Harris has blood on its hands, it’s complicit, it’s culpable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973555\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973555\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Rally-goers raise their fists in support of Gaza in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rallygoers raise their fists in support of Gaza in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the entrance to the facility, protesters hung banners that read “Stop Bombing Hospitals” and “Genocide Manufactured Here.” On a clothesline hung light blue scrubs, each printed with the name of a health care worker who died in Gaza. Between protesters speaking, they played audio clips of doctors in Gaza that described hospital walls shaking from nearby bombardment, airstrikes on hospitals killing patients and doctors and an operating room ceiling collapsing after an explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protest organizers said 200 employees left the facility by early afternoon, and operations were halted for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973556\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973556\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"The names of healthcare workers killed in Gaza are printed on scrubs hung in front of the L3 Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240124-HEALTCARE-GAZA-RALLY-MD-09-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The names of health care workers killed in Gaza are printed on scrubs hung in front of the L3Harris office in San Leandro on Jan. 24, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In another protest on Wednesday, nearly 50 students rallied at a meeting of UC regents at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco, calling on the university system to divest from companies they say are profiting from the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">View the full episode transcript.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza in an 8–3 vote, making it the largest city in the country to do so. San Francisco trails other cities in the Bay Area like Richmond and Oakland who’ve passed similar resolutions \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">meant to put pressure on Israel and the Biden administration.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC7406415152\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. San Francisco is now the biggest city in the country to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a trend of local governments hoping to put pressure on Israel and on the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hilary Ronen: \u003c/strong>And if enough of us speak out, President Biden will have to listen. And there is no doubt in my mind that without the weapons, money and backing of the United States, the far right government in Israel will not be able to continue its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, San Francisco’s ceasefire resolution and what impact it could have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So resolutions are different from, you know, laws that a city may pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sydney Johnson is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>It’s essentially a way for a local government or, you know, a city metro area to basically take an official position on something. And they’re usually more symbolic and will take effect immediately. And the city passes resolutions pretty often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Typically they do focus on local issues, but ones like the cease fire resolution aren’t unheard of either. In 2022, for example, the city passed a resolution supporting protests against the Iranian government and the country’s leadership for human rights abuses. So there is some precedent to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>When was this idea of a cease fire resolution first introduced?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>To San Francisco supervisors Dean Preston and Hilary Ronen, who are both Jewish, officially introduced their resolution to the full Board of Supervisors in early December. So by that time, the violence that started after the October 7th attacks had already been going on for almost two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>By the time they introduced the resolution, though, there was still plenty of controversy over it. At the same time, there was a little bit of a precedent for local governments to take this type of action, because places like Oakland and Richmond had already been taking those steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. So an idea like this is sort of gaining traction over the last few months. And in order to pass a cease fire resolution in San Francisco, it sort of had to go through some meetings, including one on Monday, where supervisors got to hear from the public, what was your sense of how people were feeling about this resolution, based on the public comment that you heard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>I would say that the majority of speakers who came on Monday were in support of the resolution. First of all, it was a five hour long item, with most of that being public comment from people in the community. I mean, dozens of people were lined up. It was a completely full, chamber. You know, it was a little chaotic at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of fear. I’m calling for some humility that after they’ve been after these. Me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Excuse me. Stop for a second. Let the man speak. When everyone is speaking, let them speak. If you disagree, put your hand like this. If you agree, wave your hands. Do not taunt people when they’re speaking. Go ahead. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>We heard boos. We heard cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Free Palestine and thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>They often had to pound the gavel to bring things back to order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>And this is if you can also do this. I’m going to recess the meeting and there won’t be a vote. So just chill out and let everybody speak. And then we’re going to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Regardless of where folks are standing. There was clearly just this palpable energy and people feeling really fired up about this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lara Kiswani: \u003c/strong>My name is Lara Kiswani, I’m the executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. I’m also the daughter of Palestinian refugees. And this is my daughter, Salma. Since I was last here, I learned that I lost 40 family members in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were many people who showed up talking about family members that they have who have died in the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>My name is Manal Alcala, San Francisco resident, born and raised in district eight. More than 100 members of my family have been killed in Gaza, and the rest joined the 2 million made homeless by our tax money and our unlimited military aid. I’m here as a family medicine doctor who has taken an oath to do no harm. We are witnessing a.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There was also a large group of doctors who showed up. Part of this do no harm coalition that have really been, just calling for more humanitarian aid and medical support in Gaza as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Should we tell you about Doctor Hammam, a law, a nephrologist who worked at Al-Shifa who said, this is not the medicine I thought I would be practicing? When asked why he continued to work at a hospital under threat, he replied and if I go, who treats my patients? And if I go, who treats my patients? Two weeks later, he was killed in an airstrike on Al-Shifa. How many more? How many more children? How many more doctors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Where the rub really came down was over the language that was going to be used, and sort of how the call for a cease fire would be portrayed, quite literally, line by line and in the resolution itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>As long as we’re here, there are three things that must be included in this outrageous resolution. Number one, lay out the atrocities and detail that have been committed by Hamas on October 7th. In detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were some opponents that said that the resolution didn’t go far enough to call out Hamas for its role and the attack on October 7th that killed around 1200 Israelis. Several people said that they didn’t feel safe for expressing their criticisms, and they wanted to see more language added to support Jewish and Israeli communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>This resolution is bringing out, it’s legitimizing. It’s making it okay to call for the destruction of Israel and, threats to Jews. And I please ask you to focus on keeping us safe here, everyone, and not legitimizing hate speech. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know part of the work of things like this is definitely in the language, and I want to ask you about that. But before we get into that, how did the supervisors who introduced this resolution talk about why do this at all in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>I think it’s a great question, first of all, because there were people who spoke up during public comment saying that San Francisco should be focused on our local issues. You know, we have a housing crisis. We have an overdose crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>The only consideration of a cease fire really is in the hands of Qatar, Egypt, Hamas and Israel. Not by this board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, why would we be focusing hours of our government’s attention, on something that’s maybe to some, not directly affecting our backyard. But in response to that, there were plenty of people who said, actually, this is affecting people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahsha Safaí: \u003c/strong>This is the most gut wrenching issue that I have dealt with on the Board of Supervisors. I have never received more calls, more emails, more people stopping me on the street, people grabbing me wherever I am to tell me how they feel about this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Supervisor Ahsha Safaí, you know, he pointed out that he was supporting the resolution because he hoped that it would simply allow members of the community who have lost loved ones or have direct experience with violence in the Middle East, to feel seen and heard by their local leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahsha Safaí: \u003c/strong>I can tell you, as the only person on this board that was born in that part of the world, and my life began with gunshots ringing outside every single night. This is deeply, deeply personal to me, and I have thought about nothing else more every single day since October the 7th. And so I know this resolution. Some people think it’s not going to do anything. It will allow some people in our communities to feel heard and seen for the very first time, because they feel as though they’re not seen in our city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, the U.S. government funds a lot of military aid in Israel, and that’s something that Hillary Ronen and other supervisors who supported this said that they hope it will send a message to the Biden administration to shift its approach and policies on the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>I believe we’re going to start something here today that’s going to take off across cities all over the United States. And if enough of us speak out, President Biden will have to listen. And there is no doubt in my mind that without the weapons, money and backing of the United States, the far right government in Israel will not be able to continue its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, the debate over how to word the ceasefire resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, Sydney, I mean, I know other Bay area cities have considered resolutions like this and and part of what has made some of them very difficult to pass are these debates around language, and how do we sort of come to a consensus on that? What did those debates look like in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So San Francisco definitely had those debates as well. And this resolution was met with plenty of controversy. So in San Francisco, the language debates did mirror somewhat what we saw in places like Oakland and Berkeley. It was proposed by two supervisors who wanted to make a pretty broad call for a cease fire. That initial version did mention things like the October 7th attacks, but it did not explicitly condemn Hamas for its role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So there was some discussion about including language to label Hamas as a U.S. designated terrorist organization, and, also to include language calling on Hamas to surrender. This was still an issue that other supervisors were unsure of as well. There were multiple supervisors who wanted to see that condemnation of Hamas included in the language. And so on Tuesday, board President Aaron Peskin introduced a handful of changes to try to court skeptical supervisors and reach a unanimous vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>We have not. Succeeded. Arguably, we have failed to use this as an opportunity to bring our people on both sides of this divide together. I came to work and met with several of you, and heard different things, and as president wanted to see if we could bring at least the 11 of us together in a single, statement. And, to that end. I am offering amendments that turn this into a one page resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>That included explicitly condemning Hamas for its attacks on October 7th, but also condemning the Netanyahu administration for the ongoing invasion and airstrikes. It calls on the Biden administration to pursue a cease fire as well, and a handful of other considerations. But there were still some supervisors who said it wasn’t enough and they didn’t reach that consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Why is that? For at least the supervisors who still decided that they weren’t on board with this? What were some of the things they said at the meeting on Tuesday about why they weren’t supporting the resolution?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>The supervisors who voted no against this, and there were three, said that they still support some of the intention behind what the resolution was holding, but that they just felt it didn’t go hard enough to condemn some of the violence that Hamas has played a role in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Dorsey: \u003c/strong>What haunts me as much as anything I have encountered in more than 20 years of working in this building, is hearing the orchestrated denialism about what happened on October 7th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, Dorsey in particular, he was saying that it could risk sending a message that terrorism works. And that was something that resonated with, some of the other supervisors as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Dorsey: \u003c/strong>But I am troubled that the pain of some people is being denied. I can’t in good conscience support this resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So what is the language that they ultimately landed on and how did supervisors ultimately vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So the final version condemns both Hamas and Netanyahu for the tens and thousands of deaths that have taken place in Israel and Gaza. It calls for release of all Israeli hostages, demands, an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza, and it condemns anti-Semitic, Anti-palestinian, Islamophobic rhetoric and attacks. The supervisors voted 8 to 3 for it to pass, with supervisors Dorsey, Stefani and Mandolin as the only no votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were so many cheers. The whole room just erupted. People were throwing scarves and papers in the air. It looked a little bit like a graduation. And yeah, there was just a lot of emotion. And there were, of course, people who were there who were upset to see this pass as well, feeling like they weren’t heard and represented by the language. But the vast majority of people that showed up on Tuesday were filling the halls of the chamber afterwards, cheering and supporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do we know anything about whether resolutions like these actually have an impact at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, I think that the war in Gaza is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our lifetime. And there are people here in our community that have fled that violence, that have family that is still in Israel and Gaza. And I think that resolutions like this do kind of show where San Franciscos heart and priorities are at that. You know, we are aware that there are these issues that we need to focus on locally. But this is one of those, you know, this is affecting people here, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>And I think that there is a lot to be said about taking a controversial stand like this. When you have a federal administration that is taking the opposite stance in some ways, and coming out and saying, you know, this is not where we’re going to stand, is is pretty tough to do. You know, I think we can only speculate, but, I think that is certainly the intention with resolutions like this is to send a message, take a stand and hope that it inspires some sort of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, Sydney, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you. That was Sydney Johnson, a reporter for KQED. This 25 minute conversation with Sydney was cut down and edited by me. Maria Esquinca is our producer. She scored this episode and added all the tape. We got some additional editing support from senior editor Alan Montecillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The rest of our podcast team here at KQED includes Jen Chien, our director of podcasts, Katie Sprenger, our podcast operations manager, Cesar Saldana, our podcast engagement producer, Maha Sanad, our podcast engagement intern, and Holly Kernan, our chief content officer. Music courtesy of the Audio Network. The Bay is a production of member supported KQED Public Media in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks so much for listening. Talk to you next week.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. San Francisco is now the biggest city in the country to pass a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, following a trend of local governments hoping to put pressure on Israel and on the Biden administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hilary Ronen: \u003c/strong>And if enough of us speak out, President Biden will have to listen. And there is no doubt in my mind that without the weapons, money and backing of the United States, the far right government in Israel will not be able to continue its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Today, San Francisco’s ceasefire resolution and what impact it could have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So resolutions are different from, you know, laws that a city may pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sydney Johnson is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>It’s essentially a way for a local government or, you know, a city metro area to basically take an official position on something. And they’re usually more symbolic and will take effect immediately. And the city passes resolutions pretty often.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Typically they do focus on local issues, but ones like the cease fire resolution aren’t unheard of either. In 2022, for example, the city passed a resolution supporting protests against the Iranian government and the country’s leadership for human rights abuses. So there is some precedent to this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>When was this idea of a cease fire resolution first introduced?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>To San Francisco supervisors Dean Preston and Hilary Ronen, who are both Jewish, officially introduced their resolution to the full Board of Supervisors in early December. So by that time, the violence that started after the October 7th attacks had already been going on for almost two months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>By the time they introduced the resolution, though, there was still plenty of controversy over it. At the same time, there was a little bit of a precedent for local governments to take this type of action, because places like Oakland and Richmond had already been taking those steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Right. So an idea like this is sort of gaining traction over the last few months. And in order to pass a cease fire resolution in San Francisco, it sort of had to go through some meetings, including one on Monday, where supervisors got to hear from the public, what was your sense of how people were feeling about this resolution, based on the public comment that you heard?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>I would say that the majority of speakers who came on Monday were in support of the resolution. First of all, it was a five hour long item, with most of that being public comment from people in the community. I mean, dozens of people were lined up. It was a completely full, chamber. You know, it was a little chaotic at times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of fear. I’m calling for some humility that after they’ve been after these. Me?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Excuse me. Stop for a second. Let the man speak. When everyone is speaking, let them speak. If you disagree, put your hand like this. If you agree, wave your hands. Do not taunt people when they’re speaking. Go ahead. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>We heard boos. We heard cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Free Palestine and thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>They often had to pound the gavel to bring things back to order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>And this is if you can also do this. I’m going to recess the meeting and there won’t be a vote. So just chill out and let everybody speak. And then we’re going to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Regardless of where folks are standing. There was clearly just this palpable energy and people feeling really fired up about this issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lara Kiswani: \u003c/strong>My name is Lara Kiswani, I’m the executive director of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center. I’m also the daughter of Palestinian refugees. And this is my daughter, Salma. Since I was last here, I learned that I lost 40 family members in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were many people who showed up talking about family members that they have who have died in the violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>My name is Manal Alcala, San Francisco resident, born and raised in district eight. More than 100 members of my family have been killed in Gaza, and the rest joined the 2 million made homeless by our tax money and our unlimited military aid. I’m here as a family medicine doctor who has taken an oath to do no harm. We are witnessing a.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There was also a large group of doctors who showed up. Part of this do no harm coalition that have really been, just calling for more humanitarian aid and medical support in Gaza as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>Should we tell you about Doctor Hammam, a law, a nephrologist who worked at Al-Shifa who said, this is not the medicine I thought I would be practicing? When asked why he continued to work at a hospital under threat, he replied and if I go, who treats my patients? And if I go, who treats my patients? Two weeks later, he was killed in an airstrike on Al-Shifa. How many more? How many more children? How many more doctors?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Where the rub really came down was over the language that was going to be used, and sort of how the call for a cease fire would be portrayed, quite literally, line by line and in the resolution itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>As long as we’re here, there are three things that must be included in this outrageous resolution. Number one, lay out the atrocities and detail that have been committed by Hamas on October 7th. In detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were some opponents that said that the resolution didn’t go far enough to call out Hamas for its role and the attack on October 7th that killed around 1200 Israelis. Several people said that they didn’t feel safe for expressing their criticisms, and they wanted to see more language added to support Jewish and Israeli communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>This resolution is bringing out, it’s legitimizing. It’s making it okay to call for the destruction of Israel and, threats to Jews. And I please ask you to focus on keeping us safe here, everyone, and not legitimizing hate speech. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, I know part of the work of things like this is definitely in the language, and I want to ask you about that. But before we get into that, how did the supervisors who introduced this resolution talk about why do this at all in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>I think it’s a great question, first of all, because there were people who spoke up during public comment saying that San Francisco should be focused on our local issues. You know, we have a housing crisis. We have an overdose crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>The only consideration of a cease fire really is in the hands of Qatar, Egypt, Hamas and Israel. Not by this board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, why would we be focusing hours of our government’s attention, on something that’s maybe to some, not directly affecting our backyard. But in response to that, there were plenty of people who said, actually, this is affecting people here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahsha Safaí: \u003c/strong>This is the most gut wrenching issue that I have dealt with on the Board of Supervisors. I have never received more calls, more emails, more people stopping me on the street, people grabbing me wherever I am to tell me how they feel about this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>Supervisor Ahsha Safaí, you know, he pointed out that he was supporting the resolution because he hoped that it would simply allow members of the community who have lost loved ones or have direct experience with violence in the Middle East, to feel seen and heard by their local leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahsha Safaí: \u003c/strong>I can tell you, as the only person on this board that was born in that part of the world, and my life began with gunshots ringing outside every single night. This is deeply, deeply personal to me, and I have thought about nothing else more every single day since October the 7th. And so I know this resolution. Some people think it’s not going to do anything. It will allow some people in our communities to feel heard and seen for the very first time, because they feel as though they’re not seen in our city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, the U.S. government funds a lot of military aid in Israel, and that’s something that Hillary Ronen and other supervisors who supported this said that they hope it will send a message to the Biden administration to shift its approach and policies on the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Speaker: \u003c/strong>I believe we’re going to start something here today that’s going to take off across cities all over the United States. And if enough of us speak out, President Biden will have to listen. And there is no doubt in my mind that without the weapons, money and backing of the United States, the far right government in Israel will not be able to continue its ethnic cleansing campaign against the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, the debate over how to word the ceasefire resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So, Sydney, I mean, I know other Bay area cities have considered resolutions like this and and part of what has made some of them very difficult to pass are these debates around language, and how do we sort of come to a consensus on that? What did those debates look like in San Francisco?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So San Francisco definitely had those debates as well. And this resolution was met with plenty of controversy. So in San Francisco, the language debates did mirror somewhat what we saw in places like Oakland and Berkeley. It was proposed by two supervisors who wanted to make a pretty broad call for a cease fire. That initial version did mention things like the October 7th attacks, but it did not explicitly condemn Hamas for its role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So there was some discussion about including language to label Hamas as a U.S. designated terrorist organization, and, also to include language calling on Hamas to surrender. This was still an issue that other supervisors were unsure of as well. There were multiple supervisors who wanted to see that condemnation of Hamas included in the language. And so on Tuesday, board President Aaron Peskin introduced a handful of changes to try to court skeptical supervisors and reach a unanimous vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Aaron Peskin: \u003c/strong>We have not. Succeeded. Arguably, we have failed to use this as an opportunity to bring our people on both sides of this divide together. I came to work and met with several of you, and heard different things, and as president wanted to see if we could bring at least the 11 of us together in a single, statement. And, to that end. I am offering amendments that turn this into a one page resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>That included explicitly condemning Hamas for its attacks on October 7th, but also condemning the Netanyahu administration for the ongoing invasion and airstrikes. It calls on the Biden administration to pursue a cease fire as well, and a handful of other considerations. But there were still some supervisors who said it wasn’t enough and they didn’t reach that consensus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Why is that? For at least the supervisors who still decided that they weren’t on board with this? What were some of the things they said at the meeting on Tuesday about why they weren’t supporting the resolution?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>The supervisors who voted no against this, and there were three, said that they still support some of the intention behind what the resolution was holding, but that they just felt it didn’t go hard enough to condemn some of the violence that Hamas has played a role in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Dorsey: \u003c/strong>What haunts me as much as anything I have encountered in more than 20 years of working in this building, is hearing the orchestrated denialism about what happened on October 7th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, Dorsey in particular, he was saying that it could risk sending a message that terrorism works. And that was something that resonated with, some of the other supervisors as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Dorsey: \u003c/strong>But I am troubled that the pain of some people is being denied. I can’t in good conscience support this resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So what is the language that they ultimately landed on and how did supervisors ultimately vote?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>So the final version condemns both Hamas and Netanyahu for the tens and thousands of deaths that have taken place in Israel and Gaza. It calls for release of all Israeli hostages, demands, an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza, and it condemns anti-Semitic, Anti-palestinian, Islamophobic rhetoric and attacks. The supervisors voted 8 to 3 for it to pass, with supervisors Dorsey, Stefani and Mandolin as the only no votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>There were so many cheers. The whole room just erupted. People were throwing scarves and papers in the air. It looked a little bit like a graduation. And yeah, there was just a lot of emotion. And there were, of course, people who were there who were upset to see this pass as well, feeling like they weren’t heard and represented by the language. But the vast majority of people that showed up on Tuesday were filling the halls of the chamber afterwards, cheering and supporting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Do we know anything about whether resolutions like these actually have an impact at all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sydney Johnson: \u003c/strong>You know, I think that the war in Gaza is one of the biggest humanitarian crises of our lifetime. And there are people here in our community that have fled that violence, that have family that is still in Israel and Gaza. 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