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And that is what we are committed to doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:46] \u003c/em>So the district attorney ended up filing, like I said, felony conspiracy charges against seven and then a slew of misdemeanors against the other 18 involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:57] \u003c/em>And as I understand it, some of these protesters also had to pay the Golden Gate Bridge district for some of the interruptions that happened in terms of traffic that day, is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:12] \u003c/em>Yeah, so after the bridge shut down, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and the California Highway Patrol both put out messages essentially soliciting people to come forward if they feel like they were victims and that they may be entitled to restitution. The Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District filed a restitution claim for just over $160,000, arguing that that was the lost toll revenue that they had suffered for the shutdown. That was seen as a somewhat unprecedented move. As far as we can tell, the Bridge District has never filed a restitution claim against other protesters who have shut down the bridge. Ultimately, the bridge district and the protesters settled for an unspecified amount. And then the group of protesters who did not ultimately face felony charges, who were just facing a series of misdemeanors, settled with private individuals who said they suffered losses, mostly the day’s lost wages, and they ended up paying out a group of those claimants for just over five grand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:22] \u003c/em>Coming up, inside the courtroom for the Golden Gate Bridge protesters’ trial. By the way, if you appreciate these deep dives into local news in the Bay Area, consider becoming a KQED member. We can’t do this work without our listener donations, so consider joining the hundreds of thousands of your Bay Area neighbors today. KQed.org slash donate is the place to do it. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:57] \u003c/em>So let’s talk about this trial. What is the district attorney’s office arguing in court? And have they said anything in the media about how they’re approaching this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:06] \u003c/em>So in court, the prosecution’s main argument is they’ve been asking jurors to set aside how they feel about Gaza or how they feel about Israel’s war in Gaza and to just focus specifically on the actions and the consequences of those actions. In its opening statement, the prosecution argued that people were pretty significantly impacted, that they were trapped on the bridge for hours that people were late to work, including nurses at local hospitals, that people missed doctor’s appointments. And so they argue that these people really were kind of trapped on there. And so false imprisonment is a fitting charge for that reason. The DA’s office has been pretty tight-lipped outside of court. While the district attorney did make a public statement on this initially, not long after the first protest and did put out a statement explaining some of the charges. Uh, in recent months, the DA’s office has declined to comment. They said they’re not really going to litigate this in the media and they’re just going to focus on court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:06] \u003c/em>Walk me through the defense argument here, Juan Carlos. It sounds like they do feel like the consequences are perhaps unfair, and that these protesters were just exercising their First Amendment right, just as has been done on the bridge for many years before. Who’s defending these protesters, and what are they saying in court?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:27] \u003c/em>There are seven defendants and each one of them has their own attorney, which does make for a bit of a circus act in court because there are seven kind of all clamoring to object around the same time. And we heard seven opening statements kind of each tailored to each individual defendant. The protesters and their attorneys have definitely argued that these charges are unprecedented, that charges like false imprisonment or felony conspiracy should be reserved for very serious crimes, not people engaging in acts of civil disobedience. A good example of kind of the defense that they’ve been putting on so far came from Shafi Mouil, who’s the attorney for one of the defendants, and she went first during opening statements. The first words that she spoke when addressing the jury were, necessary, urgent, and life-saving. And essentially, the argument that she made was that her client and all of the other clients there had really made an earnest effort to try to engage with the government and try to facilitate some kind of change that they had, you know, written letters to their member of Congress and that they have participated in kind of permitted sit-ins and other kinds of acceptable protest and that nothing that they’d done had created the change that they thought was needed. And that they sincerely thought that by engaging in this act of protest that they could apply pressure to the government and successfully create some change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Manan Kocher: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:11:56] \u003c/em>My seven co-defendants are amongst the bravest, most beautiful and brilliant people that I know and they are in unwavering solidarity of Palestine always.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:10] \u003c/em>Manan Kocher was one of the misdemeanor defendants whose case was ultimately diverted and they are serving as sort of a communications person for the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Manan Kocher: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:20] \u003c/em>We’re here to remind everyone that we are more in solidarity, we are stronger together than we were two years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:28] \u003c/em>They, you know, like the defense have argued that the protesters had good intentions that they were hoping to create a positive change and that their intention was not to break the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Manan Kocher: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:39] \u003c/em>What the overprosecution in this case is intended to do is stifle dissent and prevent people from standing up against the U.S. War machine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:12:53] \u003c/em>And Juan Carlos, you’ve been in the courtroom the past few days. You were there for opening statements. I mean, what was it, what’s it like in there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:13:02] \u003c/em>Yeah, things in the courtroom have been, for the most part, pretty standard. The first day of trial before the jury, a large group of supporters for the protesters came out and sat in trial for most of the morning. And this was a group of people that I had recognized from many other demonstrations that I’ve covered in the last three years, including protests calling on local universities that I’ve asked from weapons manufacturers. There is this kind of undercurrent of tension because the judge, it seems, would prefer to focus on the specific acts of the case. But the defense is hoping to talk about the broader crisis in Gaza in order to justify the actions of their defendants. The judge at one point even said while talking to both sides, we’re not going to decide in this courtroom whether the U.S. Is violating international law. And so it seems like there is an effort to try to avoid the trial from being. Sucked up into this broader debate about the legality of the U.S. And Israel’s actions in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:08] \u003c/em>What happens if they’re found guilty?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:11] \u003c/em>If they’re found guilty the group of seven face up to 14 or 15 years in prison. Wow. We don’t know for sure whether the prosecution will seek such a steep sentence but their charge is taken together that is the that is the maximum that they’re facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:30] \u003c/em>You’re going back to the courtroom today, Juan Carlos. What are you gonna be watching for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:35] \u003c/em>This week the prosecution is expected to wrap up the witnesses that they’re gonna be calling. My understanding is that the remaining witnesses are going to be a few more law enforcement who can speak to kind of just asserting the basic facts of the case. But more significantly, the prosecution is expected to call people who were trapped on the bridge who were stuck in their cars To speak to the way that this impacted them And so really this is going to be a question of how much the that testimony impacts the jury\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:08] \u003c/em>I mean, what are the potential implications of this trial if these protesters are in fact found guilty of felony charges?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:17] \u003c/em>What some activists and lawyers for the defendants have argued is that this presents an effort by the district attorney’s office to create a chilling effect on similar demonstrations to essentially make an example out of these protesters and deter other protesters from engaging in similarly disruptive acts in the future. But protesters and Manan Kutcher argue that if that is the intention that it’s not going to work and that they won’t allow something like this to deter them from continuing to advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:15:51] \u003c/em>I have to say I’m talking to you now about this trial, Juan Carlos, but it reminds me a lot of the trial that happened for protesters in Stanford and this feeling that Gaza seems to be the exception, that the hand is sort of coming down heavy when it comes to protesters on this particular political issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:12] \u003c/em>That’s definitely something that some of the protesters involved in these demonstrations have also pointed out and argued, that they feel like the reactions to these demonstrations are disproportional and that it’s partially because of what they believe is a disagreement on, you know, perspectives regarding Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:36] \u003c/em>Well Juan Carlos, thank you so much for joining us on the show, I appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:16:40] \u003c/em>Thank you for having me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"\" title=\"\">\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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If convicted, they could face up to 15 years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sara Cantor: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:09] \u003c/em>I resolved that if I had been in that situation, or if I were to ever be in a similar situation, that I would resist, that I wouldn’t turn away, that I make sure to fight for the humanity of all people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:30] \u003c/em>Today, the Golden Gate Bridge protesters on trial in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:41] \u003c/em>Let’s start back in April of 2024. What happened on the Golden Gate Bridge?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:01:53] \u003c/em>Just before 8am, basically a group of cars drove southbound through Marin onto the Golden Gate Bridge and then stopped about halfway through. At that point some protestors got out of those cars and stopped up all southbound traffic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:12] \u003c/em>Juan Carlos Lara is a reporter for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:16] \u003c/em>A few of those people kind of connected themselves into these devices, essentially chaining themselves to their cars and to each other, and then others unfurled a big banner that read Stop the World for Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Protester: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:28] \u003c/em>Stop funneling U.S. Tax dollars to the Israeli occupation forces to continue the atrocities and genocide of the Palestinian people!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:44] \u003c/em>From before this point, they’d been describing Israel’s actions in Gaza as a genocide, and this was part of an international kind of day of action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:56] \u003c/em>Tax day. Is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:02:57] \u003c/em>Yeah, so this specifically happened on the tax filing deadline in the US. Protesters were hoping to apply economic pressure on the US to get US leaders to end military aid to Israel and, in effect, pressure Israel to stop its bombings of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:17] \u003c/em>And how did this protest eventually end?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:03:21] \u003c/em>There were dozens of people out there. 26 were charged, and they ended up blocking traffic for about four hours. 18 of them were charged with misdemeanors. There was one who initially was faced with felony charges, but whose charges were dismissed. And then there were seven who were charged with felonies. These are six who allegedly chained themselves to their cars and to each other using these things called. Lockboxes or sleeping dragon devices that makes it really hard to remove protestors and then there was a seventh who was allegedly the police liaison going back and forth between uh the police and those protesters and these seven are the ones going through trial facing a series of charges chief among them there’s felony conspiracy there’s also a series of misdemeanors including false imprisonment and refusal to disperse\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:10] \u003c/em>And I actually remember that day and in particular, I remember social media just being sort of a big mess. A lot of people being really upset about the traffic in the Bay Area on that particular day. Again, it was one of many actions, but it’s not an unprecedented thing to see a protest on the Golden Gate Bridge, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:04:35] \u003c/em>Yeah, that’s right. The bridge has been a frequent site of protest. There was actually another bridge shut down just two months prior to this in February, but that one only lasted for like 45 minutes and dispersed very quickly, so it didn’t make as big headlines. There was a Black Lives Matter march that crossed the bridge in 2020. There was an anti-war protest that happened there in 2002. Two other really big ones in 1996. Woody Harrelson and a bunch of other people engaged in this like Save the Redwoods protest and they climbed the cables and hung a huge banner. And there was also a protest over the US’s response to the AIDS crisis in the 80s. It’s an iconic structure, obviously, and people hoping to… Bring a lot of attention to what they feel is an urgent cause often see it as a great place to stage these demonstrations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:28] \u003c/em>This happened more than two years ago now. What was the response at the time and how did we get to this point where there are now seven people facing these felony charges?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:05:41] \u003c/em>I’d say the response at the time was pretty divided. This has been a contentious issue, not just in the Bay Area, but kind of internationally. This was kind of at the fever pitch of pro-Palestinian protests in the bay area. Like I said, this was just two months after a smaller bridge shut down. At this time, the student encampments across college campuses were starting to wind down, but we’re still present on at least a few campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Jenkins: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:09] \u003c/em>I want to make clear that San Francisco, as well as myself as the district attorney, support free speech. But where we must draw the line is when acts of free speech endanger public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:23] \u003c/em>In terms of local officials, San Francisco’s District Attorney Brooke Jenkins came out with very strong statements about this. She said that, you know, she encouraged people’s right to protest and to freedom of speech, but that this threatened the safety of people on the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Brooke Jenkins: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:38] \u003c/em>And we must make sure that public safety is observed in San Francisco. And that is what we are committed to doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:46] \u003c/em>So the district attorney ended up filing, like I said, felony conspiracy charges against seven and then a slew of misdemeanors against the other 18 involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:06:57] \u003c/em>And as I understand it, some of these protesters also had to pay the Golden Gate Bridge district for some of the interruptions that happened in terms of traffic that day, is that right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:07:12] \u003c/em>Yeah, so after the bridge shut down, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and the California Highway Patrol both put out messages essentially soliciting people to come forward if they feel like they were victims and that they may be entitled to restitution. The Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District filed a restitution claim for just over $160,000, arguing that that was the lost toll revenue that they had suffered for the shutdown. That was seen as a somewhat unprecedented move. As far as we can tell, the Bridge District has never filed a restitution claim against other protesters who have shut down the bridge. Ultimately, the bridge district and the protesters settled for an unspecified amount. And then the group of protesters who did not ultimately face felony charges, who were just facing a series of misdemeanors, settled with private individuals who said they suffered losses, mostly the day’s lost wages, and they ended up paying out a group of those claimants for just over five grand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:22] \u003c/em>Coming up, inside the courtroom for the Golden Gate Bridge protesters’ trial. By the way, if you appreciate these deep dives into local news in the Bay Area, consider becoming a KQED member. We can’t do this work without our listener donations, so consider joining the hundreds of thousands of your Bay Area neighbors today. KQed.org slash donate is the place to do it. We’ll be right back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:08:57] \u003c/em>So let’s talk about this trial. What is the district attorney’s office arguing in court? And have they said anything in the media about how they’re approaching this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:09:06] \u003c/em>So in court, the prosecution’s main argument is they’ve been asking jurors to set aside how they feel about Gaza or how they feel about Israel’s war in Gaza and to just focus specifically on the actions and the consequences of those actions. In its opening statement, the prosecution argued that people were pretty significantly impacted, that they were trapped on the bridge for hours that people were late to work, including nurses at local hospitals, that people missed doctor’s appointments. And so they argue that these people really were kind of trapped on there. And so false imprisonment is a fitting charge for that reason. The DA’s office has been pretty tight-lipped outside of court. While the district attorney did make a public statement on this initially, not long after the first protest and did put out a statement explaining some of the charges. Uh, in recent months, the DA’s office has declined to comment. They said they’re not really going to litigate this in the media and they’re just going to focus on court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:10:06] \u003c/em>Walk me through the defense argument here, Juan Carlos. 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The judge at one point even said while talking to both sides, we’re not going to decide in this courtroom whether the U.S. Is violating international law. And so it seems like there is an effort to try to avoid the trial from being. Sucked up into this broader debate about the legality of the U.S. And Israel’s actions in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:08] \u003c/em>What happens if they’re found guilty?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Juan Carlos Lara: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:11] \u003c/em>If they’re found guilty the group of seven face up to 14 or 15 years in prison. Wow. We don’t know for sure whether the prosecution will seek such a steep sentence but their charge is taken together that is the that is the maximum that they’re facing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/b>\u003cem>[00:14:30] \u003c/em>You’re going back to the courtroom today, Juan Carlos. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For 38 days, UC Berkeley computer science lecturer Peyrin Kao taught classes while on a hunger strike for Palestine. He’s also one of 150 people whose names were sent by UC Berkeley to the Trump Administration for its investigation into alleged antisemitism — an investigation that critics say is meant to silence opposition to Israel’s invasion and siege of Gaza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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=KQINC5206190486&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. 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So yeah, you kind of get tossed around a bit as a lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Computer science, it’s not typically the kind of subject that I might imagine typically engaging with subjects like Palestine, the war in Gaza. When did you first feel the need to speak out about what’s happening in Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:03:13] To me, the reason why it’s so important to speak out about this topic in particular, and the reason I’m saying this is because sometimes people will say, well, you’re really outspoken about this issue, but why aren’t you outspoking about the crackdown on immigrants or the attempt to erase transgender people? And it’s like, these are also really important issues that we should be talking about. And one of the reasons that I felt the need to speak about Palestine in particular is because this is an issue where the information war angle and the disinformation angle. Is such a big part of the reason why the genocide can go on. Being pumped into our social media feeds, into our conversations here in the United States to try and dehumanize Palestinians to say, well, they’re not starving, that’s fake. Talking about this one issue is important because to me I think it’s one of the biggest moral issues of our time. But then it allows us to open up other conversations about how our tech is being used not just to fuel genocide in Gaza, but how it’s being used. To track and surveil immigrants here in the U.S. And you can start making these connections if you start talking about topics like this. So to me, that’s why it’s so important to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:19] It sounds like you think that this conversation is very much part of what your students in computer science should be learning right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:04:28] Right, exactly, and not only are these things that our students have to reckon with as they go into the workforce, a lot of the companies that our university and our department have close connections with are the companies that are directly complicit in Israeli genocide. Google and Amazon, these are companies that are students often go to work for, or they strive to work for Google or Amazon, and they come to our campus, and they do recruiting and career fairs and things like that. And it’s important to remember that these companies, even if they try to launder their reputation, they’re very much complicit in the genocide. And it is important to have these conversations to say, well, wait a minute, if you go and work for these companies where is your labor going? And when you’re building these things, like what is it being used for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] Was there a point in the last two years where you made the decision to really speak out about this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:21] The first time that I brought it up in the workplace was actually November of 2023, when I talked to students about it after a class and the department wasn’t super happy with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:32] Uh, at this point, uh, 61B Electra is over, by the way, like, if you want to go, you can go. But since this is my last chance to talk to you all, and also you all out in the recording in the world, uh, I have a couple things I want to say, and I just want to make it clear that this is, like only on my behalf. So, like nobody on 61B…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] They called it political advocacy or something like that. But really what it was, was an acknowledgement that, one, there is a genocide going on, something that has since been validated by… Genocide scholars and by human rights organizations, but also to have students think critically. Like, the U.S. Is the biggest backer of Israel and its current bombing campaign in Gaza, okay? Like, my tax dollars are being used to fund the bombing of children, hospitals, schools, universities, okay, safe zones. And so, as someone who is funding this, I think I have a right to say something against it. If you’re going to learn all these tools to write these programs and train these large AI models, what are those going to be used for? Are they going to used to mass surveil Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza? These are things that we have to be thinking critically about and I don’t think it’s necessarily political advocacy or that it’s controversial to say that we should have those conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:58] Tell me a little bit more about the reaction that you got from both students and, I mean, I’m also curious your department and also the university at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:07:09] And I would say the student reaction was largely positive. People want to talk about this because it’s such an important thing to talk about and not suppress it and say, Oh, you can’t even talk about it because that’s what the department did. They shut it down and they said, you’re not allowed to talk about this. They told all the students and they. Oh, what your instructor did was inappropriate. And, you know, he’s going to get in trouble for it and you should report him. This was sort of like record now that says, Oh well, you know, this guy got in trouble for a political advocacy. And they basically made it clear in no uncertain terms that if you do it again. You know, we’re not going to be very thrilled about it. And I would also mention that as a lecturer, I’m hired on year to year contracts. So I don’t have the same sort of job security that tenured faculty do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:52] In an email to KQED, UC Berkeley Assistant Vice Chancellor Dan Mogulof said the school always takes a quote, viewpoint neutral approach when it comes to supporting freedom of expression. Mogulof says staff and faculty speaking for themselves and on their own time have every right to voice their beliefs, but that it’s a different story in the classroom. When it came to Peyrin Kao’s lecture in November of 2023, Mogulof pointed to UC policy, which requires its universities to be non-partisan and quote, prohibits faculty from using the classroom or class time as venues or opportunities for political advocacy or indoctrination. One way you really pushed is you decided to go on a hunger strike. What was the goal of the hunger strike and when did you start that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] Yeah, the hunger strike started on the first day of class, which was August 27th, and it lasted until October 3rd or 4th, which was 38 days in. There were lots of different reasons we went into it, but one reason I think is, again, there’s this dehumanization of Palestinians that goes on, and that means that when Palestinians die, it’s written like a statistic. It doesn’t even read like these are people, but they are people. That’s someone’s mother, that’s someone child, that’s someones doctor, that someone’s nurse. One of the goals of launching an action, like a hunger strike specifically, is to bring that starvation to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:09:32] Effective today to protest this genocide, I am launching an open-ended hunger strike, and I call on all CSTech workers, students, and educators to do everything they can to stop the atrocities happening with our taxpayer dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:09:47] So that when people interact with me, you know, out on the street, or at a protest, or in the classroom, at office hours. They have to see someone starving in front of them and remember, well, the people that I see starving in Gaza, they’re just like this person that’s right in front of me and I mean, right around the time the hunger strike started, we read that one of the people that starved to death in Gaza. I looked at their job and it said university lecturer and that really hit me and it made me think, well, wait a minute, like that could have been me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] During the hunger strike, Kao pledged to live on a starvation diet of 250 calories per day. Organizers say that number mirrors the average amount of food available to Palestinians in Northern Gaza, based on a 2024 report by Oxfam. Kao vowed to remain on strike until the UC Berkeley administration met four demands. Which include acknowledging Israel’s occupation and genocide of Palestinians, as well as the university’s role in developing war technologies. He also asked that the university pledge to avoid any kind of relationship with the military and to create standards and practices around funding that aligned with international human rights law. When asked for comment about Kao’s hunger strike, UC Berkeley reiterated its “viewpoint neutral” approach to issues of free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:25] What was the response to your hunger strike, right? I mean, did you get the response that you anticipated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] Well, I’d say the response from the students and the community at large has been very positive. Again, I think people really see that they don’t want to be a part of a mass starvation campaign. From the university, their reaction was no more than sending me a nice letter saying, well, you’ve been reported to the Department of Education as part of the so-called anti-Semitism lawsuit. Have a nice day. And that was basically the only response I ever got from the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:00] And you’re referring to the story that came out in September about UC Berkeley sending the names of more than 150 students and faculty to the Trump administration as part of its investigation into alleged antisemitism on UC Berkeley’s campus and other universities around the country. Do you remember where you were when you learned that your name was shared\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] I was somewhere in the hunger strike. I was like day 12 or something like that. I don’t remember exactly where I was, but I do remember that the reaction I had was just not surprised at all. I think it’s very clear to me that the only reason why my name is on there has nothing to do with antisemitism and everything to do with the fact that I’m outspoken about Palestine and that I’ve talked about it before. I mean, with the Trump administration, we already know that they weaponized antisemitism to crack down on pro-Palestinian speech. I’m a lecturer in the CS department at UC Berkeley, I am on day 22 of a hunger strike to protest Israel’s starvation and stage five famine and genocide in Gaza. In the statement that I made to the UC regions where I went and told them that they had just reported me and that I wasn’t very pleased about it, I told them this action that they decided to take, it puts my safety at risk and it puts the safety of my family at risk. My family and I are a word for our safety because my name has been sold out to the Trump administration. And we’ve seen what they’ve done to try and crack down on pro-Palestinian speech. I call on the… You see what the Trump administration does when they want to suppress speech. They will abduct people off the streets. They will try and cancel people’s visas and try and deport them just for speaking out about Palestine. And not even doing any sort of action, just like talking about it is enough to get you deported or abducted or thrown into ice prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:44] You decided to stop your hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:13:48] Yeah, well, that was sort of on advice from the people who helped organize the hunger strike behind the scenes, like medical teams and things like that. And they said that if you go any longer, there’s going to be permanent damage to your health. And that’s why we made the difficult decision to stop. But as I stop, I’m very well aware that I have a choice to stop and one of the things we’ve transitioned toward as we sort of left the hunger strike as an action and started to move toward other actions, we launched this fundraiser for someone we found in Gaza. So we threw some organizations we met up with someone in Gaza named Nadal Mohammed, and Nadal Mohammad and his team, they are providing food and water and basic care to these displaced families that are arriving at the camps in central Gaza. So we started this fundraiser because Nadal mentioned, we really just need money right now to afford the astronomical prices of food and Water. And while I had the choice to stop and I had resources to help me recover, people in Gaza don’t have those resources. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For 38 days, UC Berkeley computer science lecturer Peyrin Kao taught classes while on a hunger strike for Palestine. He’s also one of 150 people whose names were sent by UC Berkeley to the Trump Administration for its investigation into alleged antisemitism — an investigation that critics say is meant to silence opposition to Israel’s invasion and siege of Gaza.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\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=KQINC5206190486&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This transcript is computer-generated. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:33] So you’ve been a lecturer for, you’ve here for nine years, you said a lecturer for how long?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:02:38] I’ve been teaching for eight years total, but I’ve been a full-time lecturer here for three.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:42] And what kind of classes do you have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] Yeah, so like this semester I’m teaching the kind of intro to artificial intelligence class. It’s one of the classes I’m teaching. So just I’ve also taught like the computer security class, the computer networking class. So yeah, you kind of get tossed around a bit as a lecturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Computer science, it’s not typically the kind of subject that I might imagine typically engaging with subjects like Palestine, the war in Gaza. When did you first feel the need to speak out about what’s happening in Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:03:13] To me, the reason why it’s so important to speak out about this topic in particular, and the reason I’m saying this is because sometimes people will say, well, you’re really outspoken about this issue, but why aren’t you outspoking about the crackdown on immigrants or the attempt to erase transgender people? And it’s like, these are also really important issues that we should be talking about. And one of the reasons that I felt the need to speak about Palestine in particular is because this is an issue where the information war angle and the disinformation angle. Is such a big part of the reason why the genocide can go on. Being pumped into our social media feeds, into our conversations here in the United States to try and dehumanize Palestinians to say, well, they’re not starving, that’s fake. Talking about this one issue is important because to me I think it’s one of the biggest moral issues of our time. But then it allows us to open up other conversations about how our tech is being used not just to fuel genocide in Gaza, but how it’s being used. To track and surveil immigrants here in the U.S. And you can start making these connections if you start talking about topics like this. So to me, that’s why it’s so important to speak up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:19] It sounds like you think that this conversation is very much part of what your students in computer science should be learning right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:04:28] Right, exactly, and not only are these things that our students have to reckon with as they go into the workforce, a lot of the companies that our university and our department have close connections with are the companies that are directly complicit in Israeli genocide. Google and Amazon, these are companies that are students often go to work for, or they strive to work for Google or Amazon, and they come to our campus, and they do recruiting and career fairs and things like that. And it’s important to remember that these companies, even if they try to launder their reputation, they’re very much complicit in the genocide. And it is important to have these conversations to say, well, wait a minute, if you go and work for these companies where is your labor going? And when you’re building these things, like what is it being used for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:14] Was there a point in the last two years where you made the decision to really speak out about this?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:21] The first time that I brought it up in the workplace was actually November of 2023, when I talked to students about it after a class and the department wasn’t super happy with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:32] Uh, at this point, uh, 61B Electra is over, by the way, like, if you want to go, you can go. But since this is my last chance to talk to you all, and also you all out in the recording in the world, uh, I have a couple things I want to say, and I just want to make it clear that this is, like only on my behalf. So, like nobody on 61B…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:05:50] They called it political advocacy or something like that. But really what it was, was an acknowledgement that, one, there is a genocide going on, something that has since been validated by… Genocide scholars and by human rights organizations, but also to have students think critically. Like, the U.S. Is the biggest backer of Israel and its current bombing campaign in Gaza, okay? Like, my tax dollars are being used to fund the bombing of children, hospitals, schools, universities, okay, safe zones. And so, as someone who is funding this, I think I have a right to say something against it. If you’re going to learn all these tools to write these programs and train these large AI models, what are those going to be used for? Are they going to used to mass surveil Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza? These are things that we have to be thinking critically about and I don’t think it’s necessarily political advocacy or that it’s controversial to say that we should have those conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:58] Tell me a little bit more about the reaction that you got from both students and, I mean, I’m also curious your department and also the university at large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:07:09] And I would say the student reaction was largely positive. People want to talk about this because it’s such an important thing to talk about and not suppress it and say, Oh, you can’t even talk about it because that’s what the department did. They shut it down and they said, you’re not allowed to talk about this. They told all the students and they. Oh, what your instructor did was inappropriate. And, you know, he’s going to get in trouble for it and you should report him. This was sort of like record now that says, Oh well, you know, this guy got in trouble for a political advocacy. And they basically made it clear in no uncertain terms that if you do it again. You know, we’re not going to be very thrilled about it. And I would also mention that as a lecturer, I’m hired on year to year contracts. So I don’t have the same sort of job security that tenured faculty do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:52] In an email to KQED, UC Berkeley Assistant Vice Chancellor Dan Mogulof said the school always takes a quote, viewpoint neutral approach when it comes to supporting freedom of expression. Mogulof says staff and faculty speaking for themselves and on their own time have every right to voice their beliefs, but that it’s a different story in the classroom. When it came to Peyrin Kao’s lecture in November of 2023, Mogulof pointed to UC policy, which requires its universities to be non-partisan and quote, prohibits faculty from using the classroom or class time as venues or opportunities for political advocacy or indoctrination. One way you really pushed is you decided to go on a hunger strike. What was the goal of the hunger strike and when did you start that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] Yeah, the hunger strike started on the first day of class, which was August 27th, and it lasted until October 3rd or 4th, which was 38 days in. There were lots of different reasons we went into it, but one reason I think is, again, there’s this dehumanization of Palestinians that goes on, and that means that when Palestinians die, it’s written like a statistic. It doesn’t even read like these are people, but they are people. That’s someone’s mother, that’s someone child, that’s someones doctor, that someone’s nurse. One of the goals of launching an action, like a hunger strike specifically, is to bring that starvation to Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:09:32] Effective today to protest this genocide, I am launching an open-ended hunger strike, and I call on all CSTech workers, students, and educators to do everything they can to stop the atrocities happening with our taxpayer dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:09:47] So that when people interact with me, you know, out on the street, or at a protest, or in the classroom, at office hours. They have to see someone starving in front of them and remember, well, the people that I see starving in Gaza, they’re just like this person that’s right in front of me and I mean, right around the time the hunger strike started, we read that one of the people that starved to death in Gaza. I looked at their job and it said university lecturer and that really hit me and it made me think, well, wait a minute, like that could have been me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:18] During the hunger strike, Kao pledged to live on a starvation diet of 250 calories per day. Organizers say that number mirrors the average amount of food available to Palestinians in Northern Gaza, based on a 2024 report by Oxfam. Kao vowed to remain on strike until the UC Berkeley administration met four demands. Which include acknowledging Israel’s occupation and genocide of Palestinians, as well as the university’s role in developing war technologies. He also asked that the university pledge to avoid any kind of relationship with the military and to create standards and practices around funding that aligned with international human rights law. When asked for comment about Kao’s hunger strike, UC Berkeley reiterated its “viewpoint neutral” approach to issues of free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:25] What was the response to your hunger strike, right? I mean, did you get the response that you anticipated?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:11:35] Well, I’d say the response from the students and the community at large has been very positive. Again, I think people really see that they don’t want to be a part of a mass starvation campaign. From the university, their reaction was no more than sending me a nice letter saying, well, you’ve been reported to the Department of Education as part of the so-called anti-Semitism lawsuit. Have a nice day. And that was basically the only response I ever got from the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:00] And you’re referring to the story that came out in September about UC Berkeley sending the names of more than 150 students and faculty to the Trump administration as part of its investigation into alleged antisemitism on UC Berkeley’s campus and other universities around the country. Do you remember where you were when you learned that your name was shared\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:12:25] I was somewhere in the hunger strike. I was like day 12 or something like that. I don’t remember exactly where I was, but I do remember that the reaction I had was just not surprised at all. I think it’s very clear to me that the only reason why my name is on there has nothing to do with antisemitism and everything to do with the fact that I’m outspoken about Palestine and that I’ve talked about it before. I mean, with the Trump administration, we already know that they weaponized antisemitism to crack down on pro-Palestinian speech. I’m a lecturer in the CS department at UC Berkeley, I am on day 22 of a hunger strike to protest Israel’s starvation and stage five famine and genocide in Gaza. In the statement that I made to the UC regions where I went and told them that they had just reported me and that I wasn’t very pleased about it, I told them this action that they decided to take, it puts my safety at risk and it puts the safety of my family at risk. My family and I are a word for our safety because my name has been sold out to the Trump administration. And we’ve seen what they’ve done to try and crack down on pro-Palestinian speech. I call on the… You see what the Trump administration does when they want to suppress speech. They will abduct people off the streets. They will try and cancel people’s visas and try and deport them just for speaking out about Palestine. And not even doing any sort of action, just like talking about it is enough to get you deported or abducted or thrown into ice prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:13:44] You decided to stop your hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peyrin Kao \u003c/strong>[00:13:48] Yeah, well, that was sort of on advice from the people who helped organize the hunger strike behind the scenes, like medical teams and things like that. And they said that if you go any longer, there’s going to be permanent damage to your health. And that’s why we made the difficult decision to stop. But as I stop, I’m very well aware that I have a choice to stop and one of the things we’ve transitioned toward as we sort of left the hunger strike as an action and started to move toward other actions, we launched this fundraiser for someone we found in Gaza. So we threw some organizations we met up with someone in Gaza named Nadal Mohammed, and Nadal Mohammad and his team, they are providing food and water and basic care to these displaced families that are arriving at the camps in central Gaza. So we started this fundraiser because Nadal mentioned, we really just need money right now to afford the astronomical prices of food and Water. And while I had the choice to stop and I had resources to help me recover, people in Gaza don’t have those resources. And the best thing we can do now is to mitigate that by giving them at least some limited resource to find some relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:14:55] What do you think your hunger strike accomplished?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>During the 2024 election season, Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D–Santa Cruz) received upward of $250,000 in campaign contributions from pro-Israel groups — far outpacing the amount given to any other congressional representative in the Central or Northern California region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that two-year period, during which the devastating war in Gaza erupted and pro-Israel groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016915/aipac-spent-big-in-the-2024-election-how-did-the-money-show-up-in-californias-congressional-races\">ramped up their political spending\u003c/a>, Panetta — who represents a coastal swath of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties — \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-public-affairs-cmte/recipients?id=D000046963&t2-Chamber=House&t2-search=panetta\">was given\u003c/a> $10,000 directly from the PAC affiliated with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee \u003c/a>(AIPAC), and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">more than $243,000\u003c/a> from donors closely linked to the group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-public-affairs-cmte/recipients?id=D000046963&t2-Chamber=House&t2-search=panetta\">according to Open Secrets\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan political finance tracker. OpenSecrets does not disclose the names of the individual donors, which it defines as “members, employees or owners of the organization, and those individuals’ immediate family members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta was the third-highest recipient of AIPAC-affiliated contributions among congressional incumbents in California, eclipsed only by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D–Redlands), who took in more than half a million dollars, and Rep. Ken Calvert (R–Corona), who received $471,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AIPAC-affiliated spending on congressional races \" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nfbaE\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nfbaE/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a substantial sum from donors affiliated with a group whose mission is to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aipac.org/about\">strengthen and expand the U.S.-Israel relationship” \u003c/a>has drawn scrutiny from many of Panetta’s constituents in Santa Cruz and some of the other left-leaning areas he represents, where pro-Palestinian protests against Israel — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988039/pro-palestinian-protests-block-uc-santa-cruz-entrances-pushing-classes-back-online\">particularly at UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a> — have been commonplace since the conflict began more than 16 months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pro-Palestinian activists in the district say they’re concerned about the contributions, pointing to the congressman’s \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024152\">vote last April in support\u003c/a> of sending billions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8034\">aid to the Israeli military. \u003c/a>They note that such support comes even as his father,\u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4578364-israelis-fire-then-ask-questions-my-experience-former-defense-secretary/\"> Leon Panetta, the former defense secretary and U.S. representative\u003c/a>, has publicly criticized some of Israel’s tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Longinotti, a Santa Cruz resident involved with \u003ca href=\"https://panetta-vigil.org/344-2/\">Panetta Vigil\u003c/a>, a nascent group of Panetta’s constituents who oppose his support for Israel, said the congressman’s position on Israel “more closely resembles Republican votes in the House of Representatives,” which he said is out of step with a largely “pro-peace” district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longinotti notes that Panetta was among a group of just 45 Democratic colleagues who joined every House Republican in supporting \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/20257\">a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC)\u003c/a> in response to arrest warrants it issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.aipac.org/resources/house-adopts-icc-act\">strongly backed by AIPAC\u003c/a>, passed the House but was \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/28/us-senate-blocks-bill-sanctioning-icc-over-israeli-arrest-warrants\">ultimately blocked\u003c/a> by Senate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related coverage\" postID=\"news_11999445,news_11997602,news_12023476\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, the congressman’s campaign staff did not specifically address the contributions but emphasized that Panetta has traveled to Israel on several occasions since the conflict began, “focusing on the release of hostages from Gaza, including six Americans, supporting the defense of our major non-NATO ally, ensuring humanitarian aid to Palestinians, and bringing a lasting peace in the region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement goes on to stress that Panetta “firmly believes that it is his responsibility to learn more about the people and issues of the region,” and the U.S. “must continue to support and stay engaged with our partners so that our shared values are upheld as we continue to work towards a peaceful resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also notes that “countless constituents in his district and numerous people throughout California and the United States have been grateful, appreciative, and supportive” of his efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/07/nx-s1-5066702/why-pro-israel-pacs-are-helping-oust-democrats-in-their-primaries\">role in American politics\u003c/a> has come into greater focus since the attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, in which Hamas-led militants killed more than 1,200 people and took roughly 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. In response, Israeli forces have since waged a relentless assault on Gaza, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/06/middleeast/palestinians-displaced-gaza-israel-intl/index.html\">displacing almost its entire population\u003c/a> and destroying some \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-damage-reconstruction-d120f8a0dc8b728c0d8332046a524a92\">two-thirds of its infrastructure\u003c/a>. As of mid-January, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/g-s1-43565/gaza-ceasefire-begins-after-delay\">a temporary ceasefire\u003c/a> went into effect, at least 46,000 residents of the enclave had been killed in the conflict, according to Gaza officials, a tally that many observers say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/health/gaza-death-toll.html\">a substantial underestimate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The siege galvanized fierce protests throughout the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">Bay Area and the country \u003c/a>against the war and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors\"> United States’ substantial aid and support for Israel\u003c/a>. Even with the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-02-17-2025-c20c9664938b267354c9ac4812621a1e\">fragile ceasefire still being observed\u003c/a>, many pro-Palestinian activists are continuing to demand that American elected officials be held accountable for supporting Israel, which they say helped to directly facilitate the mass destruction in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is Christine Hong, a professor of ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz, who said she and many other constituents are “appalled” by the contributions Panetta received from AIPAC-affiliated donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028188\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028188 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters stand in front of a banner opposing representatives who support funding for Israel.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters with the group Taxpayers Against Genocide stage a press conference in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Leon Kunstensaar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[Panetta] listens to one constituency and it is a pro-Israel constituency. It is a hawkish constituency,” Hong said. “He has obligingly implemented AIPAC’s foreign policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong was part of a class-action lawsuit against Panetta and seven other Northern California Democratic leaders, including Reps. Mike Thompson, Jared Huffman, Nancy Pelosi, Kevin Mullin, Anna Eshoo, as well as Sen. Alex Padilla and then-Sen. Laphonza Butler. The suit accused them of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-class-action-lawsuit-by-taxpayers-against-genocide?attribution_id=sl:37e8a0f8-f859-4798-a47a-ef5d60005be7&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link\">“illegally [using] tax dollars to fund the genocide in Gaza,” \u003c/a>citing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/releases/2025/01/leahy-law-fact-sheet\">Leahy law\u003c/a>, a set of statutes that prohibit the U.S. from using funds to provide aid to foreign security forces when there is credible evidence of “gross violations of human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a United Nations special committee found Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 10, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed the case, writing that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/56242583/DONNELLY_et_al_v_THOMPSON_et_al\">“presents a nonjusticiable political question.”\u003c/a> A similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973881/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland\">lawsuit against former President Biden\u003c/a> was also dismissed by an Oakland judge last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma City resident Seth Donnelly, who was part of the most recent lawsuit, said the group — who call themselves Taxpayers Against Genocide — is working with the National Lawyers Guild to bring the case to the United Nations Human Rights Council in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes publicized to the rest of the world,” Donnelly said. “It’s one other level of achieving documentation of our officials’ involvement in genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolla Alaydi, a Pacific Grove resident who lives in Panetta’s district, said it’s concerning that her representative has taken so much money from AIPAC-affiliated groups. Since the war began, Alaydi, who is Palestinian American, has been desperately trying to get her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">younger brothers and their families\u003c/a> out of Gaza, some of whom need urgent medical assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi said she had exchanged several emails with a staff member in Panetta’s office to try to expedite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">her request for humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for her family, first contacting his office in late November 2023, according to emails she shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997617\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997617 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman waves a Palestinian flag in a park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi waves a Palestinian flag at Window on the Bay Park in Monterey on June 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Panetta’s office told Alaydi that her case was still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need some help from my representative, from someone in the Congress or someone in a high-rank office to speak on my behalf,” Alaydi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi’s lawyer, Maria Kari, added that elected officials have “great leeway and a large role to play” when it comes to pushing through applications like humanitarian parole and hopes the significant contributions from AIPAC-related groups have not in any way influenced his willingness to help her client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sincerely hope that Rep. Panetta will not be unduly influenced by the AIPAC contributions he receives and that he will act fairly towards his Palestinian American constituents,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta’s office declined to speak on the record but told KQED that it has provided Alaydi with assistance and continues to work to resolve her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta’s office also added that Alaydi is among nearly 50 other constituents seeking help with visas and humanitarian requests, a process that can take more than a year to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Alaydi, time is of the essence — particularly in light of President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7212848/trump-gaza-own/\">recent highly controversial proposals\u003c/a> for the future of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I pay taxes. I’m a good citizen. I’m a very active member in the community,” Alaydi said. “I’m just asking — look to us as a human, and extend a hand of humanitarian assistance and bring them here for safety. Give them a chance to live.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>During the 2024 election season, Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D–Santa Cruz) received upward of $250,000 in campaign contributions from pro-Israel groups — far outpacing the amount given to any other congressional representative in the Central or Northern California region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that two-year period, during which the devastating war in Gaza erupted and pro-Israel groups \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016915/aipac-spent-big-in-the-2024-election-how-did-the-money-show-up-in-californias-congressional-races\">ramped up their political spending\u003c/a>, Panetta — who represents a coastal swath of Santa Cruz and Monterey counties — \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-public-affairs-cmte/recipients?id=D000046963&t2-Chamber=House&t2-search=panetta\">was given\u003c/a> $10,000 directly from the PAC affiliated with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee \u003c/a>(AIPAC), and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986412/aipac-israels-political-enforcer-in-the-u-s\">more than $243,000\u003c/a> from donors closely linked to the group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-public-affairs-cmte/recipients?id=D000046963&t2-Chamber=House&t2-search=panetta\">according to Open Secrets\u003c/a>, a nonpartisan political finance tracker. OpenSecrets does not disclose the names of the individual donors, which it defines as “members, employees or owners of the organization, and those individuals’ immediate family members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta was the third-highest recipient of AIPAC-affiliated contributions among congressional incumbents in California, eclipsed only by Rep. Pete Aguilar (D–Redlands), who took in more than half a million dollars, and Rep. Ken Calvert (R–Corona), who received $471,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AIPAC-affiliated spending on congressional races \" aria-label=\"Table\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-nfbaE\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/nfbaE/3/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"580\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a substantial sum from donors affiliated with a group whose mission is to “\u003ca href=\"https://www.aipac.org/about\">strengthen and expand the U.S.-Israel relationship” \u003c/a>has drawn scrutiny from many of Panetta’s constituents in Santa Cruz and some of the other left-leaning areas he represents, where pro-Palestinian protests against Israel — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988039/pro-palestinian-protests-block-uc-santa-cruz-entrances-pushing-classes-back-online\">particularly at UC Santa Cruz\u003c/a> — have been commonplace since the conflict began more than 16 months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some pro-Palestinian activists in the district say they’re concerned about the contributions, pointing to the congressman’s \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024152\">vote last April in support\u003c/a> of sending billions in \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/8034\">aid to the Israeli military. \u003c/a>They note that such support comes even as his father,\u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4578364-israelis-fire-then-ask-questions-my-experience-former-defense-secretary/\"> Leon Panetta, the former defense secretary and U.S. representative\u003c/a>, has publicly criticized some of Israel’s tactics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rick Longinotti, a Santa Cruz resident involved with \u003ca href=\"https://panetta-vigil.org/344-2/\">Panetta Vigil\u003c/a>, a nascent group of Panetta’s constituents who oppose his support for Israel, said the congressman’s position on Israel “more closely resembles Republican votes in the House of Representatives,” which he said is out of step with a largely “pro-peace” district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Longinotti notes that Panetta was among a group of just 45 Democratic colleagues who joined every House Republican in supporting \u003ca href=\"https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/20257\">a bill to sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC)\u003c/a> in response to arrest warrants it issued for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.aipac.org/resources/house-adopts-icc-act\">strongly backed by AIPAC\u003c/a>, passed the House but was \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/28/us-senate-blocks-bill-sanctioning-icc-over-israeli-arrest-warrants\">ultimately blocked\u003c/a> by Senate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement, the congressman’s campaign staff did not specifically address the contributions but emphasized that Panetta has traveled to Israel on several occasions since the conflict began, “focusing on the release of hostages from Gaza, including six Americans, supporting the defense of our major non-NATO ally, ensuring humanitarian aid to Palestinians, and bringing a lasting peace in the region.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The statement goes on to stress that Panetta “firmly believes that it is his responsibility to learn more about the people and issues of the region,” and the U.S. “must continue to support and stay engaged with our partners so that our shared values are upheld as we continue to work towards a peaceful resolution.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also notes that “countless constituents in his district and numerous people throughout California and the United States have been grateful, appreciative, and supportive” of his efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AIPAC’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/08/07/nx-s1-5066702/why-pro-israel-pacs-are-helping-oust-democrats-in-their-primaries\">role in American politics\u003c/a> has come into greater focus since the attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, in which Hamas-led militants killed more than 1,200 people and took roughly 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities. In response, Israeli forces have since waged a relentless assault on Gaza, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/06/middleeast/palestinians-displaced-gaza-israel-intl/index.html\">displacing almost its entire population\u003c/a> and destroying some \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-damage-reconstruction-d120f8a0dc8b728c0d8332046a524a92\">two-thirds of its infrastructure\u003c/a>. As of mid-January, when \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/g-s1-43565/gaza-ceasefire-begins-after-delay\">a temporary ceasefire\u003c/a> went into effect, at least 46,000 residents of the enclave had been killed in the conflict, according to Gaza officials, a tally that many observers say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/health/gaza-death-toll.html\">a substantial underestimate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The siege galvanized fierce protests throughout the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007970/1-year-later-the-impact-of-oct-7-siege-of-gaza-on-life-in-the-bay-area\">Bay Area and the country \u003c/a>against the war and the\u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors\"> United States’ substantial aid and support for Israel\u003c/a>. Even with the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-ceasefire-hostages-02-17-2025-c20c9664938b267354c9ac4812621a1e\">fragile ceasefire still being observed\u003c/a>, many pro-Palestinian activists are continuing to demand that American elected officials be held accountable for supporting Israel, which they say helped to directly facilitate the mass destruction in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among them is Christine Hong, a professor of ethnic studies at UC Santa Cruz, who said she and many other constituents are “appalled” by the contributions Panetta received from AIPAC-affiliated donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028188\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028188 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters stand in front of a banner opposing representatives who support funding for Israel.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/014-05025-Z8B_6780-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters with the group Taxpayers Against Genocide stage a press conference in San Francisco on Feb. 19, 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Leon Kunstensaar)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“[Panetta] listens to one constituency and it is a pro-Israel constituency. It is a hawkish constituency,” Hong said. “He has obligingly implemented AIPAC’s foreign policy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hong was part of a class-action lawsuit against Panetta and seven other Northern California Democratic leaders, including Reps. Mike Thompson, Jared Huffman, Nancy Pelosi, Kevin Mullin, Anna Eshoo, as well as Sen. Alex Padilla and then-Sen. Laphonza Butler. The suit accused them of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-class-action-lawsuit-by-taxpayers-against-genocide?attribution_id=sl:37e8a0f8-f859-4798-a47a-ef5d60005be7&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link\">“illegally [using] tax dollars to fund the genocide in Gaza,” \u003c/a>citing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.state.gov/bureau-of-democracy-human-rights-and-labor/releases/2025/01/leahy-law-fact-sheet\">Leahy law\u003c/a>, a set of statutes that prohibit the U.S. from using funds to provide aid to foreign security forces when there is credible evidence of “gross violations of human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a United Nations special committee found Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 10, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed the case, writing that it \u003ca href=\"https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/56242583/DONNELLY_et_al_v_THOMPSON_et_al\">“presents a nonjusticiable political question.”\u003c/a> A similar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973881/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland\">lawsuit against former President Biden\u003c/a> was also dismissed by an Oakland judge last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma City resident Seth Donnelly, who was part of the most recent lawsuit, said the group — who call themselves Taxpayers Against Genocide — is working with the National Lawyers Guild to bring the case to the United Nations Human Rights Council in April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It becomes publicized to the rest of the world,” Donnelly said. “It’s one other level of achieving documentation of our officials’ involvement in genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rolla Alaydi, a Pacific Grove resident who lives in Panetta’s district, said it’s concerning that her representative has taken so much money from AIPAC-affiliated groups. Since the war began, Alaydi, who is Palestinian American, has been desperately trying to get her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">younger brothers and their families\u003c/a> out of Gaza, some of whom need urgent medical assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi said she had exchanged several emails with a staff member in Panetta’s office to try to expedite \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">her request for humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for her family, first contacting his office in late November 2023, according to emails she shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997617\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11997617 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A woman waves a Palestinian flag in a park.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-41_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi waves a Palestinian flag at Window on the Bay Park in Monterey on June 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, Panetta’s office told Alaydi that her case was still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need some help from my representative, from someone in the Congress or someone in a high-rank office to speak on my behalf,” Alaydi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi’s lawyer, Maria Kari, added that elected officials have “great leeway and a large role to play” when it comes to pushing through applications like humanitarian parole and hopes the significant contributions from AIPAC-related groups have not in any way influenced his willingness to help her client.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We sincerely hope that Rep. Panetta will not be unduly influenced by the AIPAC contributions he receives and that he will act fairly towards his Palestinian American constituents,” Kari said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta’s office declined to speak on the record but told KQED that it has provided Alaydi with assistance and continues to work to resolve her case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Panetta’s office also added that Alaydi is among nearly 50 other constituents seeking help with visas and humanitarian requests, a process that can take more than a year to resolve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for Alaydi, time is of the essence — particularly in light of President Donald Trump’s \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/7212848/trump-gaza-own/\">recent highly controversial proposals\u003c/a> for the future of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>When Rolla Alaydi saw the news on Saturday that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022344/israel-hamas-cease-fire-not-end-humanitarian-crisis-bay-area-activists-say\">the temporary Israel-Hamas ceasefire\u003c/a> in Gaza was actually going into effect, the Pacific Grove resident said she felt a surge of tentative relief that the 15-month onslaught of violence against her homeland was, at least for the moment, coming to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But amid the intense trauma and the lack of certainty about a permanent ceasefire, Alaydi knows it is not time to relax just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically, it’s known that [Israel] can stop it or violate it,” said Alaydi, a U.S. citizen who was born in Gaza and has been trying to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">evacuate 21 members of her family\u003c/a> from the enclave since the war began. “So I have that fear: like any minute, [the ceasefire is] going to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-week ceasefire — which former President Joe Biden claims mirrored \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-announces-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal-2025-01-15/\">his proposed plans from May\u003c/a> (and President Trump has since taken credit for) — entails an exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees over the next six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, when militants killed about 1,200 people and took some 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities, Israeli forces have waged a relentless assault on Gaza, displacing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/06/middleeast/palestinians-displaced-gaza-israel-intl/index.html\">almost its entire population \u003c/a>and destroying roughly\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-damage-reconstruction-d120f8a0dc8b728c0d8332046a524a92\"> two-thirds of its infrastructure\u003c/a>, including homes, hospitals, and schools. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-has-israels-gaza-offensive-killed-2025-01-15/\">More than 46,600 people\u003c/a> have been killed in the bombardment, according to Gaza officials, a number that many experts say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/health/gaza-death-toll.html\">a gross underestimate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a United Nations special committee found Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/middleeast/israel-gaza-genocide-un-special-committee-intl-latam/index.html\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid such devastation, Gaza’s future is still very much in limbo, even if the ceasefire is extended beyond the initial six-week period.\u003cbr>\nAnd it comes as violence continues to flare throughout the region, including on Wednesday, when Israeli settlers in the West Bank \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/22/israel-gaza-war-ceasefire-hamas-west-bank/\">rampaged through Palestinian villages\u003c/a>, killing 10 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if [the ceasefire] sticks, that doesn’t mean \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-students-future/\">those universities are coming back right away\u003c/a>. All the \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-body-issues-damning-report-israeli-attacks-gaza-hospitals-2024-12-31/\">hospitals have been destroyed\u003c/a>. There are tons and tons of people who have extraordinary wounds. People have been malnourished. People have been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-famine-biden-trump-fews-89b4a0d3ab684669ee4456566b406621\">starved\u003c/a>,” said Ussama Makdisi, a UC Berkeley history professor. “What is going to happen to them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/document/unctad-report-10sep24/\">UN report from September\u003c/a> backs these fears, finding it could take \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-gaza-reconstruction-un-0ac47ddba7401e102b2bb95e85f3e105\">over 350 years for Gaza’s economy to return to pre-war levels\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “huge questions” about the future “tempers any euphoria” that the ceasefire deal might bring, Makdisi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be happy in the sense that the immediate, intense, overwhelming killing, at least for now, has stopped in Gaza. But there’s still what’s going to happen next,” he said. “Are the Palestinians of Gaza going to be allowed to have a normal life? Are they going to live a life free of siege?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the announcement of the ceasefire, KQED followed up with four Palestinian Americans in the Bay Area who are grappling with these heavy questions, as they process the news and what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The drag artist suing their representatives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based drag performer Mama Ganuush, who lost multiple family members in Gaza over the past year, said they don’t trust the ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the recent news did at least allow Ganuush and their family time to mourn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have time to grieve,” they said. “The past year and a half, we were trying to stop the trauma, and now we [can] actually start processing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023268 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a white robe, purple scarf and hat sits for a photo.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush poses for a portrait in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the war, Ganuush has been working tirelessly to showcase \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990430/why-these-queer-pro-palestinian-advocates-are-calling-for-a-boycott-of-sf-pride\">queer Palestinian art and activism\u003c/a> — whether it be \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\">through performance\u003c/a> or by assisting efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2025/01/13/israel-gaza-war-hiv-aids-medication/\">send HIV medication to Gaza residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush is also part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/taxpayersagainstgenocide/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last week alleging that several Northern California congressional representatives, including Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Mike Thompson of Napa, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-class-action-lawsuit-by-taxpayers-against-genocide?attribution_id=sl:37e8a0f8-f859-4798-a47a-ef5d60005be7&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link\">“illegally [used] tax dollars to fund the genocide in Gaza.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush said the lawsuit is an opportunity to have their family’s story told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be really hard. I’m not forgetting them because I’m bringing them in court,” they said. “It’s part of my grieving, but also part of my responsibility towards my people — is to say their name and to remember them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush plans to travel to Egypt at the end of January in the hope that the border to Gaza will open and they can see their family and help them recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The doctor who is going back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mohammad Subeh, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">an emergency room doctor in the South Bay, with Palestinian roots, said \u003c/a>he plans to return to Gaza in early February to provide much-needed medical support to residents, where the \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1158741\">health care system has been utterly decimated\u003c/a> by Israeli airstrikes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010352/apocalyptic-horror-movie-what-bay-area-volunteers-witnessed-gaza-west-bank\">aid workers attacked\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">killed\u003c/a>. And while he hopes the ceasefire holds, he said the situation feels “fragile.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subeh has already made multiple medical trips to Gaza and Lebanon in the past year — and has witnessed the immense degree of destruction and pain.[aside label=\"Related coverage\" postID=\"arts_13967427,news_11999445,news_11997602\"]“As someone who lived through at least two-and-a-half months on the ground in Gaza [during] the constant bombardment by the Israelis, you really don’t know whether or not [the ceasefire] will hold up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On hearing of the ceasefire, Subeh said he initially felt a degree of frustration, knowing the conflict could have ended at least a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important for us to remember that this deal has been on the table for at least 13 months,” he said. “And just thinking of all the tens of thousands of lives that were taken during that time frame, all the destruction of Gaza, the starvation of the people there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said there is also a sense of relief among the doctors and nurses currently on the ground in Gaza that he has spoken to in recent days. They can now work without “fighter jets above our heads and drones dropping bombs,” said Subeh, who is also currently running for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DE3HjmsT0At/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&img_index=1\">a seat in the California State Assembly\u003c/a> on a platform focused on human rights and social justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “This \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/15/what-do-we-know-about-the-israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal\">pause\u003c/a> is necessary, but it’s insufficient to solve the problem of the colonization and occupation of Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The mother who fears for her children\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As someone who lost more than 50 family members in Gaza since the war began, Fatima said she wishes she could “feel some joy” from the news of the ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been an issue that we’ve had to live with our whole life,” said Fatima, a Santa Clara County resident, who asked that her name not be used out of concern for the safety of surviving family members in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it has been heartbreaking to see her pre-teen children process the tragedy in Gaza and see \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/28/jerusalem-al-aqsa-media-coverage-israeli-violence-palestinians/\">“dehumanizing” depictions of Palestinians\u003c/a> in Western media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been forced to have conversations with my children, especially at such a formative age, and see their spirit be broken,” she said. “It’s been one of the worst years of my life as a parent. The worst, I would say, hands down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fatima said her children’s friends, many of whom are Jewish and supported protests against Israel, helped them cope with the unfolding tragedy. It also enabled her to connect with other parents from diverse backgrounds who have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy/352663/anti-palestinian-racism-islamophobia-antisemitism\">struggled with institutional racism\u003c/a> and are committed to fighting “hate and bigotry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support that I’ve received came from the most amazing places,” she said. “And those places were not people who look like me or my children, but they were people who understand oppression … I actually felt heard as a Palestinian, and I didn’t feel like I was being dismissed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The eldest sister still fighting for her family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rolla Alaydi, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">the Pacific Grove resident\u003c/a>, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005005/its-just-killing-me-the-palestinian-americans-trying-to-get-family-out-of-gaza\">the minute the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza opens,\u003c/a> she intends to help evacuate her family so they can have stable shelter and seek medical attention. Her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">family in Gaza\u003c/a> includes her younger brothers and their families. One of her nieces, who is 12, has epilepsy. Another niece, a young student who has dreams of becoming a doctor, was recently shot, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months ago, Alaydi applied for humanitarian parole for her family, to allow them to come to the U.S., but now fears the Trump administration will block those options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023271\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023271 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a long robe poses for a photo in front of the ocean.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1536x1004.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1920x1255.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi stands for a portrait at Del Monte Beach in Monterey on June 23, 2024. Rolla traveled to Egypt in April to help her 21 family members try to escape Gaza but had to travel back to California without them when Israel’s attack on Rafah began and the border closed. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even the little hope that I have is gone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her son was excited to welcome his younger cousins to the U.S. — to buy them food, to show them the beauty of where they live and “give them a relatively normal human life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Alaydi said she is just looking to help them get anywhere outside Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want them to get to another place that’s relatively safe,” she said. “But that hope of coming to the US, it’s just vanished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz and Lakshmi Sarah contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Rolla Alaydi saw the news on Saturday that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022344/israel-hamas-cease-fire-not-end-humanitarian-crisis-bay-area-activists-say\">the temporary Israel-Hamas ceasefire\u003c/a> in Gaza was actually going into effect, the Pacific Grove resident said she felt a surge of tentative relief that the 15-month onslaught of violence against her homeland was, at least for the moment, coming to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But amid the intense trauma and the lack of certainty about a permanent ceasefire, Alaydi knows it is not time to relax just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically, it’s known that [Israel] can stop it or violate it,” said Alaydi, a U.S. citizen who was born in Gaza and has been trying to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">evacuate 21 members of her family\u003c/a> from the enclave since the war began. “So I have that fear: like any minute, [the ceasefire is] going to stop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-week ceasefire — which former President Joe Biden claims mirrored \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-announces-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal-2025-01-15/\">his proposed plans from May\u003c/a> (and President Trump has since taken credit for) — entails an exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees over the next six weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, when militants killed about 1,200 people and took some 240 hostages, according to Israeli authorities, Israeli forces have waged a relentless assault on Gaza, displacing \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/06/middleeast/palestinians-displaced-gaza-israel-intl/index.html\">almost its entire population \u003c/a>and destroying roughly\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-damage-reconstruction-d120f8a0dc8b728c0d8332046a524a92\"> two-thirds of its infrastructure\u003c/a>, including homes, hospitals, and schools. \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-has-israels-gaza-offensive-killed-2025-01-15/\">More than 46,600 people\u003c/a> have been killed in the bombardment, according to Gaza officials, a number that many experts say is \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/health/gaza-death-toll.html\">a gross underestimate\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a United Nations special committee found Israel’s actions \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/middleeast/israel-gaza-genocide-un-special-committee-intl-latam/index.html\">“consistent with the characteristics of genocide\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid such devastation, Gaza’s future is still very much in limbo, even if the ceasefire is extended beyond the initial six-week period.\u003cbr>\nAnd it comes as violence continues to flare throughout the region, including on Wednesday, when Israeli settlers in the West Bank \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/22/israel-gaza-war-ceasefire-hamas-west-bank/\">rampaged through Palestinian villages\u003c/a>, killing 10 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if [the ceasefire] sticks, that doesn’t mean \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/world/gaza-students-future/\">those universities are coming back right away\u003c/a>. All the \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-body-issues-damning-report-israeli-attacks-gaza-hospitals-2024-12-31/\">hospitals have been destroyed\u003c/a>. There are tons and tons of people who have extraordinary wounds. People have been malnourished. People have been \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-famine-biden-trump-fews-89b4a0d3ab684669ee4456566b406621\">starved\u003c/a>,” said Ussama Makdisi, a UC Berkeley history professor. “What is going to happen to them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.un.org/unispal/document/unctad-report-10sep24/\">UN report from September\u003c/a> backs these fears, finding it could take \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-gaza-reconstruction-un-0ac47ddba7401e102b2bb95e85f3e105\">over 350 years for Gaza’s economy to return to pre-war levels\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “huge questions” about the future “tempers any euphoria” that the ceasefire deal might bring, Makdisi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s be happy in the sense that the immediate, intense, overwhelming killing, at least for now, has stopped in Gaza. But there’s still what’s going to happen next,” he said. “Are the Palestinians of Gaza going to be allowed to have a normal life? Are they going to live a life free of siege?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the announcement of the ceasefire, KQED followed up with four Palestinian Americans in the Bay Area who are grappling with these heavy questions, as they process the news and what comes next.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The drag artist suing their representatives\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco-based drag performer Mama Ganuush, who lost multiple family members in Gaza over the past year, said they don’t trust the ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the recent news did at least allow Ganuush and their family time to mourn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t have time to grieve,” they said. “The past year and a half, we were trying to stop the trauma, and now we [can] actually start processing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023268\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023268 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a white robe, purple scarf and hat sits for a photo.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush poses for a portrait in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the start of the war, Ganuush has been working tirelessly to showcase \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11990430/why-these-queer-pro-palestinian-advocates-are-calling-for-a-boycott-of-sf-pride\">queer Palestinian art and activism\u003c/a> — whether it be \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\">through performance\u003c/a> or by assisting efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://theintercept.com/2025/01/13/israel-gaza-war-hiv-aids-medication/\">send HIV medication to Gaza residents\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush is also part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/taxpayersagainstgenocide/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D\">a class-action lawsuit\u003c/a> filed last week alleging that several Northern California congressional representatives, including Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco and Mike Thompson of Napa, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-class-action-lawsuit-by-taxpayers-against-genocide?attribution_id=sl:37e8a0f8-f859-4798-a47a-ef5d60005be7&utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link\">“illegally [used] tax dollars to fund the genocide in Gaza.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush said the lawsuit is an opportunity to have their family’s story told.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be really hard. I’m not forgetting them because I’m bringing them in court,” they said. “It’s part of my grieving, but also part of my responsibility towards my people — is to say their name and to remember them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush plans to travel to Egypt at the end of January in the hope that the border to Gaza will open and they can see their family and help them recover.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The doctor who is going back\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mohammad Subeh, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981941/hopeandlossingaza\">an emergency room doctor in the South Bay, with Palestinian roots, said \u003c/a>he plans to return to Gaza in early February to provide much-needed medical support to residents, where the \u003ca href=\"https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/01/1158741\">health care system has been utterly decimated\u003c/a> by Israeli airstrikes and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010352/apocalyptic-horror-movie-what-bay-area-volunteers-witnessed-gaza-west-bank\">aid workers attacked\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981650/world-central-kitchen-has-fed-crisis-zones-for-years-including-in-california\">killed\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“As someone who lived through at least two-and-a-half months on the ground in Gaza [during] the constant bombardment by the Israelis, you really don’t know whether or not [the ceasefire] will hold up,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On hearing of the ceasefire, Subeh said he initially felt a degree of frustration, knowing the conflict could have ended at least a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s important for us to remember that this deal has been on the table for at least 13 months,” he said. “And just thinking of all the tens of thousands of lives that were taken during that time frame, all the destruction of Gaza, the starvation of the people there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said there is also a sense of relief among the doctors and nurses currently on the ground in Gaza that he has spoken to in recent days. They can now work without “fighter jets above our heads and drones dropping bombs,” said Subeh, who is also currently running for \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DE3HjmsT0At/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&img_index=1\">a seat in the California State Assembly\u003c/a> on a platform focused on human rights and social justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added, “This \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/15/what-do-we-know-about-the-israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal\">pause\u003c/a> is necessary, but it’s insufficient to solve the problem of the colonization and occupation of Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The mother who fears for her children\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As someone who lost more than 50 family members in Gaza since the war began, Fatima said she wishes she could “feel some joy” from the news of the ceasefire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been an issue that we’ve had to live with our whole life,” said Fatima, a Santa Clara County resident, who asked that her name not be used out of concern for the safety of surviving family members in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said it has been heartbreaking to see her pre-teen children process the tragedy in Gaza and see \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/28/jerusalem-al-aqsa-media-coverage-israeli-violence-palestinians/\">“dehumanizing” depictions of Palestinians\u003c/a> in Western media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve been forced to have conversations with my children, especially at such a formative age, and see their spirit be broken,” she said. “It’s been one of the worst years of my life as a parent. The worst, I would say, hands down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fatima said her children’s friends, many of whom are Jewish and supported protests against Israel, helped them cope with the unfolding tragedy. It also enabled her to connect with other parents from diverse backgrounds who have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy/352663/anti-palestinian-racism-islamophobia-antisemitism\">struggled with institutional racism\u003c/a> and are committed to fighting “hate and bigotry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support that I’ve received came from the most amazing places,” she said. “And those places were not people who look like me or my children, but they were people who understand oppression … I actually felt heard as a Palestinian, and I didn’t feel like I was being dismissed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The eldest sister still fighting for her family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Rolla Alaydi, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997602/in-an-oceanside-town-a-woman-fights-for-her-familys-survival-in-gaza\">the Pacific Grove resident\u003c/a>, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12005005/its-just-killing-me-the-palestinian-americans-trying-to-get-family-out-of-gaza\">the minute the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza opens,\u003c/a> she intends to help evacuate her family so they can have stable shelter and seek medical attention. Her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">family in Gaza\u003c/a> includes her younger brothers and their families. One of her nieces, who is 12, has epilepsy. Another niece, a young student who has dreams of becoming a doctor, was recently shot, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Months ago, Alaydi applied for humanitarian parole for her family, to allow them to come to the U.S., but now fears the Trump administration will block those options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023271\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023271 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a long robe poses for a photo in front of the ocean.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1307\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1536x1004.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20240623_GazaEvacuation_GC-38-1920x1255.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi stands for a portrait at Del Monte Beach in Monterey on June 23, 2024. Rolla traveled to Egypt in April to help her 21 family members try to escape Gaza but had to travel back to California without them when Israel’s attack on Rafah began and the border closed. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Even the little hope that I have is gone,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her son was excited to welcome his younger cousins to the U.S. — to buy them food, to show them the beauty of where they live and “give them a relatively normal human life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, Alaydi said she is just looking to help them get anywhere outside Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want them to get to another place that’s relatively safe,” she said. “But that hope of coming to the US, it’s just vanished.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Thousands of people rallied in San Francisco Sunday, protesting the incoming Trump administration a day before the president-elect is set to be inaugurated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A large crowd sprawled across Civic Center Plaza, dotted with information tents from a few of the dozens of groups that endorsed the “We Fight Back” event. Signs on sticks written in several languages jutted over the masses, advocating for a number of causes from immigrants’ rights, women’s rights and a just end to the war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023081\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023081\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in a large crowd hold signs and flags.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protestors march on Grove St. during a “We Fight Back” rally, ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, on Jan. 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re standing alongside and protecting the rights of our immigrant students and families, of our LGBTQ students and families, and also protecting the rights of workers,” said Yajaira Cuapio, an executive board member with the United Educators of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The SFUSD teachers’ union also endorsed the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trump’s coming in and his agenda, his billionaire agenda, does not represent the needs of those in the working class, the majority of us in society,” Cuapio said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023083\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 889px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-5_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023083\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-5_qed.jpg\" alt='A woman holds a sign that says \"Immigrant Power\" near a crowd.' width=\"889\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-5_qed.jpg 889w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-5_qed-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-5_qed-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 889px) 100vw, 889px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanika Mahajan with Mission Action poses for a photo during a “We Fight Back” rally. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the issues that’s top of mind for Cuapio and the union: mass deportations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It doesn’t just impact our students, but it also impacts our families. And also, we have some educators as well in the immigrant community,” Cuapio said. “For example, me. I was raised by two undocumented parents.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023079\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023079\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in a large crowd hold signs and flags as they walk down the street.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-3-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protestors march on Geary St. during a “We Fight Back” rally. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_12022830,forum_2010101908347,news_12014627\" label=\"Related Stories\"]One by one, speakers standing on the bed of a large truck took the microphone to voice their concerns about a second Trump administration and the many communities they say may be adversely impacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speakers at the event came from a diverse coalition, each sharing one message: those worried about what a second Trump term will bring, should get involved in local activism and start organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, our task is to fight and build our muscles for this ultimate fight,” said Ramsey Robinson, a social worker and an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation. “To do that, we’ve got to be organized because the right wingers [are] organized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023082\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023082\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in a large crowd hold signs and flags.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-20_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousand of protesters march on Market St. during a “We Fight Back” rally against President-elect Donald Trump. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over 100 volunteers passed out flyers, collected donations, and informed people of a meeting planned for later in January, according to organizers with the ANSWER Coalition. At that meeting, which is set to take place in Oakland, activists say they will discuss strategies for pushing back against the incoming administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023078\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12023078\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a blue shit raises his right hand in the air as several people walk past him holding signs.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250119_AntiTrumpProtest_GC-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thousands of protesters march on Geary St. during a “We Fight Back” rally. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmta.com/travel-updates/no-trump-protest-sunday-january-19-2025\">The SFMTA issued an alert\u003c/a> to commuters that the march could cause “minor” delays on the 1, 8, 12, 14, 14R, 15, 19, 21, 27, 30, 31 and 45 bus lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Rachael Vasquez, Spencer Whitney and Gina Castro contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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We wanted to honor them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not far away is their second tree, dedicated to the West Bank, with images of the wall between Israel and Palestinian territories, ornaments with Palestinian traditional dress and an olive branch at the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and the volunteers spent a month preparing ornaments and printing out images to adorn the trees to honor those who have died and shine a light on continuing violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt that it was actually imperative to recognize, honor and raise awareness on what is actually happening in Gaza — which is a genocide,” Saba said. The United Nations found \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide\">Israel’s warfare in Gaza\u003c/a> “consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palestinians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019013\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019013\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"2000\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241218_Palestinian-Christmas-Trees_0064-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tree decorated with photos and other ornaments to raise awareness of the plight of children in Gaza is one of the many trees decorated by members of the community at this year’s Christmas in the Park celebration at Plaza de Cesar Chavez in downtown San José on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. 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It is said to be where Jesus was crucified and laid to rest, then rose again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though normally she celebrates Christmas every year, Saba said this marks the second year in a row she won’t be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saba says it’s mentally and emotionally exhausting to grapple with the idea that U.S. tax dollars, that she contributes to, are “killing her own people,” as she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re devastated. Our people are being annihilated,” she said. “It’s hard for us to celebrate while knowing that our family, our community, our people are being completely slaughtered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trees are on display until January 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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She framed it as a fight for freedoms — to vote, to be safe from gun violence, to love freely, and to have control over one’s own body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reality is that if Donald Trump were to win this election, he would sign a national abortion ban,” she said. “If a national abortion ban is in play, California, and many other states that have protected that right, will not be immune.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris promised to put “middle-class families and working-class families first,” declaring that “when the middle class is strong, our whole nation is strong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And what we know is, while we are focused on a future with optimism and with a sense of yes, ambition, about what is possible, Donald Trump has a different plan,” she said. “Just look at his \u003ca href=\"https://www.project2025.org/\">Project 2025\u003c/a> agenda.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"presidential-election\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris was referring to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">the 900-page Project 2025 plan created by the conservative Heritage Foundation,\u003c/a> which calls for consolidating presidential power, sidelining critics and pursuing a long list of right-wing policy priorities. Democrats have seized on the plan while Trump has tried to distance himself from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turning toward Pelosi, who was seated in the audience, Harris went on, to laughter, “Nancy, I just joke sometimes that — can you believe that they actually put that thing in writing? I mean, they had the gall to put it, like — it’s bound, and then they distributed it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tickets for the event ranged from $3,300 to $500,000. In addition to the who’s who of Bay Area Democratic politicians and donors, it attracted dozens of wealthy Democrats eager to support a potentially history-making presidential ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendees began showing up hours before Harris took the stage, lining up in the fog along California Street for the security queue. The crowd milled around under giant crystal chandeliers, sipping coffee and mimosas while they waited for the event to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris was introduced by Pelosi, who praised Harris and stressed the work ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She makes us all so proud. She brings us so much joy,” Pelosi said. “Personally, I know Kamala is a person of great strength, great faith. … She knows the issues. She knows the strategy. She has gotten an enormous amount done working with Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holly Ward attended the fundraiser and said afterward she was particularly struck by one thing Harris said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re voting for a country of freedom and compassion and the rule of law. And I just thought, that’s right. No one is above the law,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in attendance: San Francisco Board of Supervisors president and mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin. He went to elementary school with Harris in Berkeley more than 50 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has laid out a very clear case for what is before American voters and what the choices are, and has clearly shown that she is strong enough and smart enough and experienced enough to lead America forward and not go backward,” he said after the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over 100 protesters marched from Union Square up the steep hills to the Fairmont, calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel and a cease-fire to what they repeatedly referred to as the genocide in Gaza. Protesters, shouting chants through bullhorns, accused Harris of being a “killer” for her and Biden’s ongoing support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999796\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 100 protesters marched to the Fairmont Hotel on Aug. 11, 2024, calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel. Vice President Kamala Harris was at the Fairmont Hotel to fundraise in her first San Francisco event since the unexpected launch of her presidential campaign three weeks ago. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rami Abdelkarim, a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-releases-35-billion-israel-spend-us-weapons-military-equipment-cnn-reports-2024-08-09/\">the Biden Administration’s recent approval of $3.5 billion in aid to Israel\u003c/a> is a consistent pattern seen “throughout the last 10 months of this genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our demands are unignorable. We’ve been in the streets for 10 months. Every massacre, every time hundreds of Palestinians are killed, we’re in the streets demanding an arms embargo,” he said. “At every single rally, [Harris] says she wants a cease-fire, but her words are empty. Her promises are empty unless she completely cuts ties with Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Khoury, a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, criticized the fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris on Aug. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/10/harris-tells-pro-palestine-protesters-now-is-time-for-ceasefire-in-gaza\">Arizona on Saturday\u003c/a>, Harris told protesters at her rally that “now is the time to get a cease-fire deal and get the hostage deal done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the microphone on Sunday before marching to the hotel, Omar Khoury — also a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement — said while Harris was fundraising with tickets up to $500,000 “our working class and poor people are suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How can they say they care about the working class people when we know the true agenda behind Democratic establishment, behind the Republican establishment, and behind the U.S. Empire as a whole. It’s shameful,” Khoury said. “So we’re here after 300 days of genocide to show that whether it’s Kamala Harris in office or anybody else who’s supporting the Israeli genocide, we are the people, and we hold the U.S. empire to account.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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In addition to the who’s who of Bay Area Democratic politicians and donors, it attracted dozens of wealthy Democrats eager to support a potentially history-making presidential ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendees began showing up hours before Harris took the stage, lining up in the fog along California Street for the security queue. The crowd milled around under giant crystal chandeliers, sipping coffee and mimosas while they waited for the event to begin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harris was introduced by Pelosi, who praised Harris and stressed the work ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She makes us all so proud. She brings us so much joy,” Pelosi said. “Personally, I know Kamala is a person of great strength, great faith. … She knows the issues. She knows the strategy. She has gotten an enormous amount done working with Joe Biden.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holly Ward attended the fundraiser and said afterward she was particularly struck by one thing Harris said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re voting for a country of freedom and compassion and the rule of law. And I just thought, that’s right. No one is above the law,” Ward said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in attendance: San Francisco Board of Supervisors president and mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin. He went to elementary school with Harris in Berkeley more than 50 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She has laid out a very clear case for what is before American voters and what the choices are, and has clearly shown that she is strong enough and smart enough and experienced enough to lead America forward and not go backward,” he said after the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, over 100 protesters marched from Union Square up the steep hills to the Fairmont, calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel and a cease-fire to what they repeatedly referred to as the genocide in Gaza. Protesters, shouting chants through bullhorns, accused Harris of being a “killer” for her and Biden’s ongoing support of Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999796\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999796\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0438-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over 100 protesters marched to the Fairmont Hotel on Aug. 11, 2024, calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel. Vice President Kamala Harris was at the Fairmont Hotel to fundraise in her first San Francisco event since the unexpected launch of her presidential campaign three weeks ago. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rami Abdelkarim, a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-releases-35-billion-israel-spend-us-weapons-military-equipment-cnn-reports-2024-08-09/\">the Biden Administration’s recent approval of $3.5 billion in aid to Israel\u003c/a> is a consistent pattern seen “throughout the last 10 months of this genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our demands are unignorable. We’ve been in the streets for 10 months. Every massacre, every time hundreds of Palestinians are killed, we’re in the streets demanding an arms embargo,” he said. “At every single rally, [Harris] says she wants a cease-fire, but her words are empty. Her promises are empty unless she completely cuts ties with Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11999812\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11999812\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/IMG_0388-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar Khoury, a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, criticized the fundraiser for Vice President Kamala Harris on Aug. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Brian Krans/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/10/harris-tells-pro-palestine-protesters-now-is-time-for-ceasefire-in-gaza\">Arizona on Saturday\u003c/a>, Harris told protesters at her rally that “now is the time to get a cease-fire deal and get the hostage deal done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the microphone on Sunday before marching to the hotel, Omar Khoury — also a Palestinian and a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement — said while Harris was fundraising with tickets up to $500,000 “our working class and poor people are suffering.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: On July 18, the full board approved the webpage policy, with one “No” vote.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seven months and three voting delays, the University of California Board of Regents is on the verge of approving a \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2.pdf\">pared-down policy (PDF)\u003c/a> outlining how academic departments should publish political and social opinions on university websites — largely embracing a set of standards that faculty themselves adopted in 2022. The journey to a consensus reenergized longstanding debates about academic freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While entirely a faculty matter, some pro-Palestinian students condemned previous versions of the regents’ proposed policy, which they interpreted as part of a crackdown on free speech that punished protests against Israel. Student anguish over the war in Gaza — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike/\">and their anger\u003c/a> with UC leadership for so far not calling for a cease-fire or divesting from weapons manufacturers and companies tied to Israel — helped to amplify the faculty’s alarm over the regents’ initial proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university will need to clarify its rules on speech and expression further by this fall. The latest state budget is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB108#:~:text=Of%20the%20funds%20appropriated%20in%20this%20item%2C%20%2425%2C000%2C000%20shall%20be%20released%20only%20if%20the%20Director%20of%20Finance%20certifies\">withholding $25 million\u003c/a> from the UC until system leadership\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB108#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20California%20Office%20of%20the%20President%20will%20develop%20a%20systemwide%20framework%20to%20provide%20for%20consistency%20with%20campus%20implementation%20and%20enforcement.\"> sends a report to the governor’s office\u003c/a> explaining its policies for public demonstrations and other free speech matters. While the two concepts — what faculty can do under academic freedom and how students can express themselves under free speech rules — are distinct issues, they’re often enmeshed publicly, especially over themes as contentious as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/11/israeli-palestinian-conflict-california-college/\">Islamophobia, antisemitism and its connection to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most regents were vague about the impetus for the plan, but one regent, Hadi Makarechian, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-homelessness-count/#:~:text=Mikhail%E2%80%99s%20story.-,Also%20from%20Mikhail%3A,-The%20undocumented%20students\">said in January\u003c/a> that the proposal emerged “because some people were making some political statements related to Hamas and Palestinians.” That meeting was occasionally testy, with another regent urging his peers to practice “decorum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the new policy would do\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new rules, passed on Wednesday by a joint committee that will be voted on by the full board on Thursday, require that writings which depart from research, course information and other administrative announcements not be posted on the homepages of academic departments and other divisions. Instead,\u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach1.pdf#page=2\"> they can appear (PDF)\u003c/a> on other departmental web pages designated for opinions. Full-board approval is likely; the rules would take hold immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one regent, student member Josiah Beharry, voted no on the measure on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These so-called “discretionary expressions,” which are writings “that comment on institutional, local, regional, global or national events, activities or issues,” also need to be clearly labeled as opinions that don’t necessarily reflect the position of the university or campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach1.pdf\">specifically avoids (PDF)\u003c/a> restricting academic research, course content or other “scholarly endeavors” — an undefined term — that may touch on political or social matters from appearing on the homepage. This was\u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach2.pdf\"> new wording (PDF)\u003c/a> that emerged since the last \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-crime-expungement-victims/#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20California%20regents%20decided%20Wednesday%20to%20postpone%20a%20vote%20on%20a%20policy%20to%20restrict%20how%20academic%20departments%20at%20its%20campuses%20publish%20%E2%80%9Cpolitical%20or%20controversial%E2%80%9D%20statements%20on%20their%20websites.%C2%A0\">draft in March\u003c/a>. Nor does the policy proscribe speech on non-campus websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were satisfied that the current policy does not violate principles of academic freedom or free speech,” said James Steintrager, chair of the Academic Senate, in an interview with CalMatters in May, when the proposal was on the agenda but ultimately never heard. “We’re still concerned about the drive for and necessity of a policy in this area, but we think that with the input of the senate, the Board of Regents has ended up in a much better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is a departure from how faculty initially received the policy proposal in January, which was saddled with confusion over the scope of the measure and what it sought. One possible takeaway was that the January plan intended to bar any expression of faculty opinion on administrative websites, “a draconian policy,” Steintrager said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regents also postponed votes in January and March after discussing the matter publicly each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s regents meeting, Steintrager reaffirmed his praise and critique of the rules, adding that “public comment assertions to the contrary, this is not a ban on discretionary or political statements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Leib, a regent member and former chair of the board who has viewed some of the chants at student protests against the war in Gaza as antisemitic, said that “this whole topic about free speech is all BS because what we’re trying to do is show transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does it go too far or not far enough?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But if it were up to senate members, including most full-time professors across the system, the regents would just adopt the policy the senate approved in 2022. Unlike the regents’ approach, the 2022 policy provided guidance — using words like “should” rather than “must” to encourage academic departments to distinguish their opinions from the positions of the university. The Academic Senate policy also recommended that departments “\u003ca href=\"https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/rh-senate-divs-recs-for-dept-statements.pdf\">solicit minority or opposition statements” as well (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academic Senate believes that “the UC community at the level of departments and other units of the sort largely governs itself appropriately, and we favor policies that enable successful self-regulation over more restrictive measures,” Steintgrater \u003ca href=\"https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/js-rl-regents-policy-discretionary-statements.pdf\">wrote to the regents May 1 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regents’ proposal stopped short of that, preferring a mandatory set of publishing guidelines in part because few academic units or campuses “have followed the June 2022 Academic Senate advisory guidance,” a board document representing the regents said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.jfrg.org/home\">Jewish faculty\u003c/a> wanted the regents to ban all department statements and said the proposed rules don’t go far enough. “A claim that a department of a public university takes as a political position will be taken as the official stance of the university, no matter how it is delivered and no matter what qualifications are added,” said Jeffrey Young, a clinical psychologist at UCLA, during public comment on Tuesday. Several other professors voiced similar sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Focus on ethnic studies departments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regent Jay Sures pushed for the policy, arguing in January that opinions on homepages “will be mistaken as the position of the institution itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Statement-on-bias-in-UC-statements-1.pdf\">In late October (PDF)\u003c/a>, he excoriated an Oct. 16 letter by UC ethnic studies faculty that faulted the UC for calling Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel an act of terrorism. \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1053yck657ENep688zvPTs6njfAGWBvE6/view\">The ethnic studies letter,\u003c/a> which didn’t name Hamas, said that “to hold the oppressed accountable for ‘terrorism’ reinscribes a colonial narrative that seeks to have the world believe that history began on Oct. 7, 2023.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sures wrote that the council’s members should “commit to learning more about antisemitism and all forms of hate and how it lives on our campuses where you are tasked and trusted with educating our next generation of students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homepage for UC Santa Cruz’s critical race and ethnic studies department as of Wednesday still contains language calling on scholars and organizers to “act now to end Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza,” a statement that’s been appearing since at least Oct. 25 of last year, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231025234505/https://cres.ucsc.edu/\">web archiving tool Wayback Machine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department was following Academic Senate guidance, department chairperson Felicity Amaya Schaeffer said in an interview, as the guidance wasn’t mandatory and deferred to campus departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the regents committees’ backing of a mandatory rule, Schaeffer said key questions remain unanswered, mainly whether the department’s call to action counts as discretionary speech that needs to be moved to a different webpage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the regents policy is an attack on academic freedom. She also believes the regents are overreaching rather than deferring to faculty expertise on their own subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have three faculty who work specifically on Palestine, who were hired by the university to do this kind of research,” she said. “So for us, this is not at all opinion, this is about the expertise of the department in which many of us write critically about state power, war, genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rule like the one the regents is proposing is a poor fit for an ethnic studies department, Schaefer said, because “the lines between what gets called political or discretionary and research are completely entangled and inseparable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s ethnic studies department, however, appears to have relocated its statements of support for Palestinians to a secondary page reserved for “statements and commentaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 4, 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231204215827/https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/\">snapshot of its homepage\u003c/a> shows a statement calling “for an immediate end to the war crimes and genocide taking place against the Palestinian people (50% of whom are children).” But by Dec. 14, the homepage \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231214080803/https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/\">underwent an overhaul\u003c/a>, with political statements moved from the homepage to the new “statements and commentaries” section beneath the “About Us” tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic department leaders will be responsible for implementing the rules. “The expectation then is that the unit leadership enforce the policy,” said Charlie Robinson, general counsel for the UC, at Wednesday’s regents meeting, “and if there are any concerns about it, then you go up the hierarchy to make sure that it’s being enforced properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: On July 18, the full board approved the webpage policy, with one “No” vote.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After seven months and three voting delays, the University of California Board of Regents is on the verge of approving a \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2.pdf\">pared-down policy (PDF)\u003c/a> outlining how academic departments should publish political and social opinions on university websites — largely embracing a set of standards that faculty themselves adopted in 2022. The journey to a consensus reenergized longstanding debates about academic freedom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While entirely a faculty matter, some pro-Palestinian students condemned previous versions of the regents’ proposed policy, which they interpreted as part of a crackdown on free speech that punished protests against Israel. Student anguish over the war in Gaza — \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2024/05/uc-strike/\">and their anger\u003c/a> with UC leadership for so far not calling for a cease-fire or divesting from weapons manufacturers and companies tied to Israel — helped to amplify the faculty’s alarm over the regents’ initial proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university will need to clarify its rules on speech and expression further by this fall. The latest state budget is \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB108#:~:text=Of%20the%20funds%20appropriated%20in%20this%20item%2C%20%2425%2C000%2C000%20shall%20be%20released%20only%20if%20the%20Director%20of%20Finance%20certifies\">withholding $25 million\u003c/a> from the UC until system leadership\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB108#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20California%20Office%20of%20the%20President%20will%20develop%20a%20systemwide%20framework%20to%20provide%20for%20consistency%20with%20campus%20implementation%20and%20enforcement.\"> sends a report to the governor’s office\u003c/a> explaining its policies for public demonstrations and other free speech matters. While the two concepts — what faculty can do under academic freedom and how students can express themselves under free speech rules — are distinct issues, they’re often enmeshed publicly, especially over themes as contentious as \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2023/11/israeli-palestinian-conflict-california-college/\">Islamophobia, antisemitism and its connection to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most regents were vague about the impetus for the plan, but one regent, Hadi Makarechian, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-homelessness-count/#:~:text=Mikhail%E2%80%99s%20story.-,Also%20from%20Mikhail%3A,-The%20undocumented%20students\">said in January\u003c/a> that the proposal emerged “because some people were making some political statements related to Hamas and Palestinians.” That meeting was occasionally testy, with another regent urging his peers to practice “decorum.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What the new policy would do\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new rules, passed on Wednesday by a joint committee that will be voted on by the full board on Thursday, require that writings which depart from research, course information and other administrative announcements not be posted on the homepages of academic departments and other divisions. Instead,\u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach1.pdf#page=2\"> they can appear (PDF)\u003c/a> on other departmental web pages designated for opinions. Full-board approval is likely; the rules would take hold immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one regent, student member Josiah Beharry, voted no on the measure on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These so-called “discretionary expressions,” which are writings “that comment on institutional, local, regional, global or national events, activities or issues,” also need to be clearly labeled as opinions that don’t necessarily reflect the position of the university or campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The policy \u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach1.pdf\">specifically avoids (PDF)\u003c/a> restricting academic research, course content or other “scholarly endeavors” — an undefined term — that may touch on political or social matters from appearing on the homepage. This was\u003ca href=\"https://regents.universityofcalifornia.edu/regmeet/july24/j2attach2.pdf\"> new wording (PDF)\u003c/a> that emerged since the last \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/newsletter/california-crime-expungement-victims/#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20California%20regents%20decided%20Wednesday%20to%20postpone%20a%20vote%20on%20a%20policy%20to%20restrict%20how%20academic%20departments%20at%20its%20campuses%20publish%20%E2%80%9Cpolitical%20or%20controversial%E2%80%9D%20statements%20on%20their%20websites.%C2%A0\">draft in March\u003c/a>. Nor does the policy proscribe speech on non-campus websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were satisfied that the current policy does not violate principles of academic freedom or free speech,” said James Steintrager, chair of the Academic Senate, in an interview with CalMatters in May, when the proposal was on the agenda but ultimately never heard. “We’re still concerned about the drive for and necessity of a policy in this area, but we think that with the input of the senate, the Board of Regents has ended up in a much better place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment is a departure from how faculty initially received the policy proposal in January, which was saddled with confusion over the scope of the measure and what it sought. One possible takeaway was that the January plan intended to bar any expression of faculty opinion on administrative websites, “a draconian policy,” Steintrager said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regents also postponed votes in January and March after discussing the matter publicly each time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During Wednesday’s regents meeting, Steintrager reaffirmed his praise and critique of the rules, adding that “public comment assertions to the contrary, this is not a ban on discretionary or political statements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Leib, a regent member and former chair of the board who has viewed some of the chants at student protests against the war in Gaza as antisemitic, said that “this whole topic about free speech is all BS because what we’re trying to do is show transparency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Does it go too far or not far enough?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>But if it were up to senate members, including most full-time professors across the system, the regents would just adopt the policy the senate approved in 2022. Unlike the regents’ approach, the 2022 policy provided guidance — using words like “should” rather than “must” to encourage academic departments to distinguish their opinions from the positions of the university. The Academic Senate policy also recommended that departments “\u003ca href=\"https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/rh-senate-divs-recs-for-dept-statements.pdf\">solicit minority or opposition statements” as well (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Academic Senate believes that “the UC community at the level of departments and other units of the sort largely governs itself appropriately, and we favor policies that enable successful self-regulation over more restrictive measures,” Steintgrater \u003ca href=\"https://senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/reports/js-rl-regents-policy-discretionary-statements.pdf\">wrote to the regents May 1 (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regents’ proposal stopped short of that, preferring a mandatory set of publishing guidelines in part because few academic units or campuses “have followed the June 2022 Academic Senate advisory guidance,” a board document representing the regents said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.jfrg.org/home\">Jewish faculty\u003c/a> wanted the regents to ban all department statements and said the proposed rules don’t go far enough. “A claim that a department of a public university takes as a political position will be taken as the official stance of the university, no matter how it is delivered and no matter what qualifications are added,” said Jeffrey Young, a clinical psychologist at UCLA, during public comment on Tuesday. Several other professors voiced similar sentiments.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Focus on ethnic studies departments\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regent Jay Sures pushed for the policy, arguing in January that opinions on homepages “will be mistaken as the position of the institution itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Statement-on-bias-in-UC-statements-1.pdf\">In late October (PDF)\u003c/a>, he excoriated an Oct. 16 letter by UC ethnic studies faculty that faulted the UC for calling Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel an act of terrorism. \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1053yck657ENep688zvPTs6njfAGWBvE6/view\">The ethnic studies letter,\u003c/a> which didn’t name Hamas, said that “to hold the oppressed accountable for ‘terrorism’ reinscribes a colonial narrative that seeks to have the world believe that history began on Oct. 7, 2023.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sures wrote that the council’s members should “commit to learning more about antisemitism and all forms of hate and how it lives on our campuses where you are tasked and trusted with educating our next generation of students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The homepage for UC Santa Cruz’s critical race and ethnic studies department as of Wednesday still contains language calling on scholars and organizers to “act now to end Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza,” a statement that’s been appearing since at least Oct. 25 of last year, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231025234505/https://cres.ucsc.edu/\">web archiving tool Wayback Machine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department was following Academic Senate guidance, department chairperson Felicity Amaya Schaeffer said in an interview, as the guidance wasn’t mandatory and deferred to campus departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the regents committees’ backing of a mandatory rule, Schaeffer said key questions remain unanswered, mainly whether the department’s call to action counts as discretionary speech that needs to be moved to a different webpage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the regents policy is an attack on academic freedom. She also believes the regents are overreaching rather than deferring to faculty expertise on their own subjects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have three faculty who work specifically on Palestine, who were hired by the university to do this kind of research,” she said. “So for us, this is not at all opinion, this is about the expertise of the department in which many of us write critically about state power, war, genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rule like the one the regents is proposing is a poor fit for an ethnic studies department, Schaefer said, because “the lines between what gets called political or discretionary and research are completely entangled and inseparable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC San Diego’s ethnic studies department, however, appears to have relocated its statements of support for Palestinians to a secondary page reserved for “statements and commentaries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Dec. 4, 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231204215827/https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/\">snapshot of its homepage\u003c/a> shows a statement calling “for an immediate end to the war crimes and genocide taking place against the Palestinian people (50% of whom are children).” But by Dec. 14, the homepage \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20231214080803/https://ethnicstudies.ucsd.edu/\">underwent an overhaul\u003c/a>, with political statements moved from the homepage to the new “statements and commentaries” section beneath the “About Us” tab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic department leaders will be responsible for implementing the rules. “The expectation then is that the unit leadership enforce the policy,” said Charlie Robinson, general counsel for the UC, at Wednesday’s regents meeting, “and if there are any concerns about it, then you go up the hierarchy to make sure that it’s being enforced properly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Amid the ongoing siege in Gaza, several pro-Palestinian queer activists and artists are \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">calling for a boycott of official San Francisco Pride events\u003c/a> by both performers and attendees. The SF Pride Parade, scheduled for Sunday, June 30, is one of the largest LGBTQ+ parades in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a now-removed \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">May 23 Instagram post\u003c/a>, African Palestinian drag artist Mama Ganuush called for the boycott on several grounds: corporate sponsors with ties to Israel, the potential for a pro-Israel presence at the parade, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917710/sfpd-officers-to-march-in-pride-amid-complicated-feelings-uniform-compromise\">long-controversial attendance of police at the Pride Parade\u003c/a>, and the appointment of actor Billy Porter — who has made several public statements in support of Israel — as the 2024 Pride Parade’s grand marshal. Ganuush told KQED that this video was removed by Instagram in the week of June 17, and said that the platform cited reports by other users as the reason for the removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride Executive Director Suzanne Ford and President Nguyen Pham responded publicly to the calls for a boycott in \u003ca href=\"http://sfpride.org\">a June 4 statement\u003c/a>, rebuffing what they called “comments and misinformation about our current policies and practices.” San Francisco’s annual Pride celebration, they wrote, “has evolved for more than a half-century, transforming from a protest honoring a riot to a vibrant celebration of the worth and humanity of all queer individuals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gazetteer.co/calls-to-boycott-sf-pride-pop-up-from-drag-queens-and-activists-in-protest-of-police-presence-and-israel-ties\">several drag artists\u003c/a> and local groups such as \u003ca href=\"https://quitpalestine.org/\">Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism\u003c/a> (QUIT) and the Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits (BAAITS) have publicly stated their intent to boycott. \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7zb0uhPq3g/?hl=en\">BAAITS, in its social post,\u003c/a> characterized its actions as “standing in solidarity with indigenous struggles impacting our kin worldwide.” One performer, The Dragon King, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7xQk3tSO3z/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&img_index=1\">wrote on Instagram\u003c/a> that they were withdrawing from SF Pride appearances “because Pride is a riot. Because I will not be bought.”[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>After months of protest, a call to boycott\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The proposed SF Pride boycott is the latest of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza\">many pro-Palestinian actions, protests and rallies around the Bay Area\u003c/a> over the last eight months. Israeli forces have killed over \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/6/10/several-killed-in-israeli-attacks-as-gaza-hospitals-appeal-for-help\">37,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in which militants killed some 1,200 people and took 240 hostages, according to Gazan and Israeli authorities respectively. Israel’s attacks have now displaced about \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-30-2024-f5e14fd176d69f9c4e23b48f3ab5af6a#:~:text=The%20war%20in%20Gaza%20has,to%20the%20brink%20of%20famine.\">80% of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents\u003c/a>, resulting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.rescue.org/article/collapse-gazas-health-system\">little to no medical care\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/02/children-die-malnutrition-rafah-famine-gaza-israeli-troops-aid-strip\">severe malnutrition\u003c/a> for tens of thousands of Gazans.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"gaza\"]Recently, \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\">queer communities in the Bay Area and across the country\u003c/a> have ramped up their mobilization for Palestinians. Some of these activists argue that \u003ca href=\"https://www.queerartistsforpalestine.org/\">the LGBTQ+ struggle is often co-opted by those with anti-Arab sentiment\u003c/a> to justify the oppression of Palestinians and ignore queer Palestinians. The proposed SF Pride boycott mirrors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott\">several protest actions in the local art scene\u003c/a>, in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit\">Jewish artists have played a leading role\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush, the boycott’s originator, has lost family members in Gaza and is currently raising funds to help \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">their surviving relatives\u003c/a> leave for Egypt and the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pride is something that the LGBTQ+ community earned,” Ganuush told KQED, noting the importance of having a month of recognition. But, they added, “Zionist and pro-Israel lobbyists and sponsors … are using SF Pride as a way to normalize genocides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taking a closer look at corporate sponsors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ganuush’s initial social media post, the call for a boycott led with criticism of some of \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">SF Pride’s corporate sponsors,\u003c/a> like Amazon and Gilead, and what Ganuush called their “significant business operations in Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">Amazon\u003c/a> signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/what-is-project-nimbus-and-why-are-google-workers-protesting-israel-deal\">a billion-dollar contract\u003c/a> alongside Google Cloud to provide technology (including artificial intelligence) to the Israeli government and military. Current and former employees at both companies staged protests this year against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986743/the-tech-employees-who-want-to-sever-silicon-valleys-deep-ties-with-israel\">Silicon Valley’s deep ties to Israel\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_11969701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/Queer-Palestinian-Artists_2-1020x659.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, queer communities have grappled with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17476850/pride-month-lgbtq-corporate-explained\">increased corporatization of Pride\u003c/a> as companies sponsor events and employees march in the parade. \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/\">Boycotting companies with ties to Israel\u003c/a> has long been a tactic among pro-Palestinian activists, with many citing U.S. schools and universities’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">divestment from companies with ties to South Africa\u003c/a> during apartheid as an inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s request for an interview or comment. However, the nonprofit’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> asserts that “SF Pride’s sponsors, corporate and otherwise, have no influence over the content of our programming or the stance of the organization … Receiving corporate funding and paying it forward to our community reflects our mission to center queer people and is not tied to any programming decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian artist Yaffa A.S., Ganuush’s drag daughter and executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Muslim Alliance for Sexual And Gender Diversity (MASGD)\u003c/a>, said this statement rings hollow for her. Since October, members of Yaffa A.S.’s extended family members in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces. (She has curated a memorial at SOMArts \u003ca href=\"https://somarts.org/exhibition/insolidarity/\">to Palestinians killed in Gaza\u003c/a>, some of whom are queer and trans.) As part of her work with MASGD, she has created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Pride Toolkit\u003c/a> to challenge official parade organizers across the country on their stances on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yaffa A.S., Pride’s funding cannot be separated from its sources. “Our lives do not matter when you are receiving money from the same people who will kill me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian poet Yaffa A.S. was one of the lead curators of the memorial ‘In Solidarity: Queer and Trans Artists for a Free Palestine,’ which opened on June 7 at SOMArts in San Francisco. The memorial includes the names of Gazans killed by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, some of whom are trans Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yaffa A.S.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The parade in the spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13834307/new-yorks-drag-ball-scene-strikes-a-pose-in-fx-drama\">\u003cem>Pose\u003c/em>\u003c/a> actor Billy Porter, grand marshal of the SF Pride parade, has made several\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/15/those-friends-people-make-100m-a-year-im-getting-six-cent-cheques-its-not-ok-billy-porter-on-race-recognition-and-the-middle-east\"> public statements supporting Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was among the celebrities who signed a support letter for \u003ca href=\"https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/over-200-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel/\">Israel shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks; he also \u003c/a>opposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.jta.org/2021/10/27/israel/mila-kunis-neil-patrick-harris-helen-mirren-and-over-200-other-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel\">a cultural boycott of a Tel Aviv film festival in 2021.\u003c/a> (Porter is slated to portray iconic American writer James Baldwin in an upcoming movie, who was himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/society/open-letter-born-again/\">deeply critical of Israel and invested in Palestinian rights\u003c/a>.)[aside postID=news_11976415 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/231213-Pinkwashing-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Another point of contention for pro-Palestinian activists like Ganuush is the presence of what they term an “Israeli float” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mamaganuush/reel/C76adimxwPN/\">specifically referring\u003c/a> to the participation of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) in the SF Pride parade. “The participation of the Israeli float in Pride is distressing for many, especially Palestinians,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">Ganuush wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “It is seen as a symbol of oppression and a trigger for psychological trauma among those affected by the ongoing conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, SF Pride’s Executive Director Ford and President Pham replied, “There is no Israeli float in the SF Pride Parade.” The organization, they wrote, “values the contributions of Jewish queer individuals in advocating for peace and acknowledge their enduring efforts” and was “careful not to conflate Jewish groups and Jewish people living in America with the state of Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On X, formerly known as Twitter, JCRC Bay Area said it was “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798483717239050373\">disheartened” by the SF Pride statement\u003c/a>, calling on the organization to “clarify that everyone, including LGBTQ+ Israelis, are welcome at Pride.” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798847995330601399\">JCRC Bay Area later responded with approval\u003c/a> to SF Pride’s subsequent online update titled “\u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/all-are-welcome-at-pride\">All are Welcome at Pride\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC Bay Area CEO Tyler Gregory told KQED that the float is a joint effort by several Jewish organizations in the Bay Area and that it will be “a family-friendly Jewish communal float for queer Jews and allies.”[aside label=\"more stories about SF Pride\" tag=\"san-francisco-pride\"]“People are welcome to come as their full selves, but the focus is LGBTQ Jews here in the Bay Area,” Gregory said. “And if that includes Israelis, absolutely, they should come — but this is by no means an Israeli float and anyone that tries to attack our delegation is engaging in antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaffa A.S. said she found the SF Pride statement to be “incredibly malicious,” arguing that \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/bay-area-united-with-israel-resources/\">JCRC has been openly pro-Israel in previous public statements\u003c/a>. She pointed to actions and statements that Jewish Voice for Peace — a pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist Jewish advocacy group — has issued against JCRC in the last eight months, which include criticizing JCRC Bay Area for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3eHX4BLkgI/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">running a cancellation campaign\u003c/a>” against pro-Palestinian advocates. SF Pride’s statement, she said, “basically try to put out there that ‘the trans Palestinian [referring to Mama Ganuush] does not know what they’re talking about.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, Ford and Pham said that SF Pride “welcomed and continue[s] to welcome pro-Palestinian groups to the SF Pride Parade,” suggesting that interested groups could join the parade’s Resistance Contingent with the SF Pride Board or request a fee waiver to have their own float. SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s questions about whether such contingents had indeed requested to appear in the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if some, we’ll say, ‘well-intentioned allies’ will try to do a Palestine float on their own,” Yaffa A.S. said. “But I think, from our end, we’ve told people not to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Policing at Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The issue of police being present at Pride — including as participants in official events — has been a decadeslong point of contention, especially for queer people of color who police officers have targeted. Ganuush’s boycott proposal invoked the origins of Pride in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which started when patrons \u003ca href=\"https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/stonewall-era\">pushed back against a police raid at a gay bar\u003c/a>. A police presence at Pride is an active contradiction, Ganuush wrote, to the “foundational anti-police-brutality ethos of Pride.”[aside label=\"More Coverage\" tag=\"pro-palestinian-protest\"]According to \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/lgbq-people-six-times-more-likely-than-general-public-to-be-stopped-by-police/\">a 2021 study by UCLA\u003c/a>, queer people are six times more likely than the general public to be stopped by the police, with “heightened risk” for transgender women of color. At a 2020 SF Pride march, police officers raised their batons at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826511/police-raise-batons-at-sf-pride-marchers-oakland-passes-torch-in-solidarity\">a group of SF Pride marchers and Black Lives Matter protesters\u003c/a>. In 2022, marching queer police officers were asked by SF Pride organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917710/sfpd-officers-to-march-in-pride-amid-complicated-feelings-uniform-compromise\">not to wear their uniforms\u003c/a>. Recently, police officers have also been criticized for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">their intense crackdowns on pro-Palestinian student protesters\u003c/a> on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, SF Pride said it has never called for an increased police presence. “The City of San Francisco required increased police presence in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 and again after the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in 2019,” the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> reads. “SF Pride and San Francisco’s other large events do not dictate law enforcement responses and security strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC CEO Gregory said his organization was worried about their float being targeted and was working with SF Pride to discuss security. Gregory pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://phillypride365.org/\">Philly Pride\u003c/a>, where pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the parade — an action which he called “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/tyegregory/status/1797412053386457119?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">homophobic and transphobic\u003c/a>” on X. (As reported by queer online news site Them, these \u003ca href=\"https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-activists-are-disrupting-pride-events-for-palestine\">pro-Palestinian protesters were themselves part of the LGBTQ+ community\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory said that JCRC “wants to be deferential to SF Pride, and also to queer communities of color as to how security can work.” He added that “we have Jews of color that are going to march with us that have the same concerns as queer people of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Do I turn down this gig?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before this year’s calls for a pro-Palestinian boycott of SF Pride, some artists planned to avoid official SF Pride events — and turn down paid performance opportunities — due to the organization’s stance on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard ethical thing for drag performers and queer entertainers. … Do I pay my rent this month, or do I turn down this gig?” said Mama Celeste, the executive director of Oaklash, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957872/oaklash-drag-festival-oakland-lgtbq-events-2024\">a drag festival based in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King LOTUS BOY, an Oakland drag king who serves on the Oaklash board, wrote in an Instagram story that he has dropped several gigs “due to them having ties to [Israel].” As a result, he said he lost $1,000 in gigs for June — events that he told KQED by email were associated with biotech company Gilead, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gileadisrael.co.il/en/about/gilead-in-israel\">financial ties to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t attended the SF Pride Parade or any official SF Pride events in over seven years for many reasons — increasingly militarized police presence, \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\">pinkwashing\u003c/a>, harmful corporate sponsorships — to name a few,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklash is one of the facilitators of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thebadfund/%20\">BAD (Bay Area Drag) Fund\u003c/a>, a mutual aid fund created to support artists who choose to opt out of gigs that may clash with their support of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste, who is Jewish, said the BAD Fund “gives people the ability to say no … because that’s not a luxury that many of us are afforded.” The fund, Celeste points out, is a way to lessen artists’ dependency on the wealthy, especially amid the economic disparity that has pushed many queer and trans artists out of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Celeste said they and their colleagues were not out to shame performers who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> take these gigs. Instead, they wanted people to think about “ where our money comes from and where our money is going to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush poses for a portrait in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush is hosting events, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bay2gazamutualaid/p/C7-Dfmzym6C/\">Cabaret Palestina\u003c/a> to assist the BAD Fund, featuring drag artists like King LOTUS BOY and Papi Churro — joining a list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C79_Q8eyeUF/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">alternative Pride events this month\u003c/a> that show solidarity with Palestinian activism. For example, during the SF Pride Parade, there will be a pro-Palestinian queer and trans march hosted by Jewish Voices for Peace, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT) and the\u003ca href=\"http://brassliberation.org/\"> Brass Liberation Orchestra\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In SF Pride’s statement, Ford and Pham wrote that “while we encourage resistance against oppressive systems and governments that fail to recognize our humanity as queer people, we cannot achieve liberation by fighting other queer and trans people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, it’s a sentiment Celeste pushes back on. “[SF Pride] should be listening rather than resisting these voices who are telling them that they’re doing something wrong,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re not listening to the smallest voice in your community,” Celeste said, “you’re not working for the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Recently, \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\">queer communities in the Bay Area and across the country\u003c/a> have ramped up their mobilization for Palestinians. Some of these activists argue that \u003ca href=\"https://www.queerartistsforpalestine.org/\">the LGBTQ+ struggle is often co-opted by those with anti-Arab sentiment\u003c/a> to justify the oppression of Palestinians and ignore queer Palestinians. The proposed SF Pride boycott mirrors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13953032/ybca-pro-palestinian-artist-protest-censorship-allegations-boycott\">several protest actions in the local art scene\u003c/a>, in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955613/pro-palestinian-jewish-artists-withdraw-from-contemporary-jewish-museum-exhibit\">Jewish artists have played a leading role\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush, the boycott’s originator, has lost family members in Gaza and is currently raising funds to help \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976509/california-palestinian-americans-seek-safety-for-loved-ones-in-gaza\">their surviving relatives\u003c/a> leave for Egypt and the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pride is something that the LGBTQ+ community earned,” Ganuush told KQED, noting the importance of having a month of recognition. But, they added, “Zionist and pro-Israel lobbyists and sponsors … are using SF Pride as a way to normalize genocides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taking a closer look at corporate sponsors\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Ganuush’s initial social media post, the call for a boycott led with criticism of some of \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">SF Pride’s corporate sponsors,\u003c/a> like Amazon and Gilead, and what Ganuush called their “significant business operations in Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/sponsors\">Amazon\u003c/a> signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/23/what-is-project-nimbus-and-why-are-google-workers-protesting-israel-deal\">a billion-dollar contract\u003c/a> alongside Google Cloud to provide technology (including artificial intelligence) to the Israeli government and military. Current and former employees at both companies staged protests this year against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986743/the-tech-employees-who-want-to-sever-silicon-valleys-deep-ties-with-israel\">Silicon Valley’s deep ties to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, queer communities have grappled with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17476850/pride-month-lgbtq-corporate-explained\">increased corporatization of Pride\u003c/a> as companies sponsor events and employees march in the parade. \u003ca href=\"https://bdsmovement.net/\">Boycotting companies with ties to Israel\u003c/a> has long been a tactic among pro-Palestinian activists, with many citing U.S. schools and universities’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">divestment from companies with ties to South Africa\u003c/a> during apartheid as an inspiration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s request for an interview or comment. However, the nonprofit’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> asserts that “SF Pride’s sponsors, corporate and otherwise, have no influence over the content of our programming or the stance of the organization … Receiving corporate funding and paying it forward to our community reflects our mission to center queer people and is not tied to any programming decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian artist Yaffa A.S., Ganuush’s drag daughter and executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Muslim Alliance for Sexual And Gender Diversity (MASGD)\u003c/a>, said this statement rings hollow for her. Since October, members of Yaffa A.S.’s extended family members in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces. (She has curated a memorial at SOMArts \u003ca href=\"https://somarts.org/exhibition/insolidarity/\">to Palestinians killed in Gaza\u003c/a>, some of whom are queer and trans.) As part of her work with MASGD, she has created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.themasgd.org/pride-toolkit\">Pride Toolkit\u003c/a> to challenge official parade organizers across the country on their stances on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Yaffa A.S., Pride’s funding cannot be separated from its sources. “Our lives do not matter when you are receiving money from the same people who will kill me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1371\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240614-YaffaASEdits-04-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinian poet Yaffa A.S. was one of the lead curators of the memorial ‘In Solidarity: Queer and Trans Artists for a Free Palestine,’ which opened on June 7 at SOMArts in San Francisco. The memorial includes the names of Gazans killed by Israeli forces since Oct. 7, some of whom are trans Palestinians. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yaffa A.S.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The parade in the spotlight\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13834307/new-yorks-drag-ball-scene-strikes-a-pose-in-fx-drama\">\u003cem>Pose\u003c/em>\u003c/a> actor Billy Porter, grand marshal of the SF Pride parade, has made several\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/15/those-friends-people-make-100m-a-year-im-getting-six-cent-cheques-its-not-ok-billy-porter-on-race-recognition-and-the-middle-east\"> public statements supporting Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Porter was among the celebrities who signed a support letter for \u003ca href=\"https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/over-200-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel/\">Israel shortly after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks; he also \u003c/a>opposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.jta.org/2021/10/27/israel/mila-kunis-neil-patrick-harris-helen-mirren-and-over-200-other-celebrities-sign-letter-denouncing-cultural-boycott-of-israel\">a cultural boycott of a Tel Aviv film festival in 2021.\u003c/a> (Porter is slated to portray iconic American writer James Baldwin in an upcoming movie, who was himself \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenation.com/article/society/open-letter-born-again/\">deeply critical of Israel and invested in Palestinian rights\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Another point of contention for pro-Palestinian activists like Ganuush is the presence of what they term an “Israeli float” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/mamaganuush/reel/C76adimxwPN/\">specifically referring\u003c/a> to the participation of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) in the SF Pride parade. “The participation of the Israeli float in Pride is distressing for many, especially Palestinians,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7U1blVS6tX/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D\">Ganuush wrote on Instagram\u003c/a>. “It is seen as a symbol of oppression and a trigger for psychological trauma among those affected by the ongoing conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, SF Pride’s Executive Director Ford and President Pham replied, “There is no Israeli float in the SF Pride Parade.” The organization, they wrote, “values the contributions of Jewish queer individuals in advocating for peace and acknowledge their enduring efforts” and was “careful not to conflate Jewish groups and Jewish people living in America with the state of Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On X, formerly known as Twitter, JCRC Bay Area said it was “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798483717239050373\">disheartened” by the SF Pride statement\u003c/a>, calling on the organization to “clarify that everyone, including LGBTQ+ Israelis, are welcome at Pride.” \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/SFJCRC/status/1798847995330601399\">JCRC Bay Area later responded with approval\u003c/a> to SF Pride’s subsequent online update titled “\u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/all-are-welcome-at-pride\">All are Welcome at Pride\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC Bay Area CEO Tyler Gregory told KQED that the float is a joint effort by several Jewish organizations in the Bay Area and that it will be “a family-friendly Jewish communal float for queer Jews and allies.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“People are welcome to come as their full selves, but the focus is LGBTQ Jews here in the Bay Area,” Gregory said. “And if that includes Israelis, absolutely, they should come — but this is by no means an Israeli float and anyone that tries to attack our delegation is engaging in antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaffa A.S. said she found the SF Pride statement to be “incredibly malicious,” arguing that \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/bay-area-united-with-israel-resources/\">JCRC has been openly pro-Israel in previous public statements\u003c/a>. She pointed to actions and statements that Jewish Voice for Peace — a pro-Palestinian, anti-Zionist Jewish advocacy group — has issued against JCRC in the last eight months, which include criticizing JCRC Bay Area for “\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C3eHX4BLkgI/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">running a cancellation campaign\u003c/a>” against pro-Palestinian advocates. SF Pride’s statement, she said, “basically try to put out there that ‘the trans Palestinian [referring to Mama Ganuush] does not know what they’re talking about.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their June 4 statement, Ford and Pham said that SF Pride “welcomed and continue[s] to welcome pro-Palestinian groups to the SF Pride Parade,” suggesting that interested groups could join the parade’s Resistance Contingent with the SF Pride Board or request a fee waiver to have their own float. SF Pride did not respond to KQED’s questions about whether such contingents had indeed requested to appear in the parade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know if some, we’ll say, ‘well-intentioned allies’ will try to do a Palestine float on their own,” Yaffa A.S. said. “But I think, from our end, we’ve told people not to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Policing at Pride\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The issue of police being present at Pride — including as participants in official events — has been a decadeslong point of contention, especially for queer people of color who police officers have targeted. Ganuush’s boycott proposal invoked the origins of Pride in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, which started when patrons \u003ca href=\"https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/stonewall-era\">pushed back against a police raid at a gay bar\u003c/a>. A police presence at Pride is an active contradiction, Ganuush wrote, to the “foundational anti-police-brutality ethos of Pride.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/lgbq-people-six-times-more-likely-than-general-public-to-be-stopped-by-police/\">a 2021 study by UCLA\u003c/a>, queer people are six times more likely than the general public to be stopped by the police, with “heightened risk” for transgender women of color. At a 2020 SF Pride march, police officers raised their batons at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826511/police-raise-batons-at-sf-pride-marchers-oakland-passes-torch-in-solidarity\">a group of SF Pride marchers and Black Lives Matter protesters\u003c/a>. In 2022, marching queer police officers were asked by SF Pride organizers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11917710/sfpd-officers-to-march-in-pride-amid-complicated-feelings-uniform-compromise\">not to wear their uniforms\u003c/a>. Recently, police officers have also been criticized for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984845/pro-palestinian-protests-on-california-college-campuses-what-are-students-demanding\">their intense crackdowns on pro-Palestinian student protesters\u003c/a> on college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, SF Pride said it has never called for an increased police presence. “The City of San Francisco required increased police presence in the wake of the Pulse Nightclub shooting in 2016 and again after the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting in 2019,” the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpride.org/press-releases/statement-from-san-francisco-pride\">June 4 statement\u003c/a> reads. “SF Pride and San Francisco’s other large events do not dictate law enforcement responses and security strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>JCRC CEO Gregory said his organization was worried about their float being targeted and was working with SF Pride to discuss security. Gregory pointed to \u003ca href=\"https://phillypride365.org/\">Philly Pride\u003c/a>, where pro-Palestinian protesters blocked the parade — an action which he called “\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/tyegregory/status/1797412053386457119?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\">homophobic and transphobic\u003c/a>” on X. (As reported by queer online news site Them, these \u003ca href=\"https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-activists-are-disrupting-pride-events-for-palestine\">pro-Palestinian protesters were themselves part of the LGBTQ+ community\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gregory said that JCRC “wants to be deferential to SF Pride, and also to queer communities of color as to how security can work.” He added that “we have Jews of color that are going to march with us that have the same concerns as queer people of color.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Do I turn down this gig?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even before this year’s calls for a pro-Palestinian boycott of SF Pride, some artists planned to avoid official SF Pride events — and turn down paid performance opportunities — due to the organization’s stance on the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really hard ethical thing for drag performers and queer entertainers. … Do I pay my rent this month, or do I turn down this gig?” said Mama Celeste, the executive director of Oaklash, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13957872/oaklash-drag-festival-oakland-lgtbq-events-2024\">a drag festival based in Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King LOTUS BOY, an Oakland drag king who serves on the Oaklash board, wrote in an Instagram story that he has dropped several gigs “due to them having ties to [Israel].” As a result, he said he lost $1,000 in gigs for June — events that he told KQED by email were associated with biotech company Gilead, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gileadisrael.co.il/en/about/gilead-in-israel\">financial ties to Israel\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t attended the SF Pride Parade or any official SF Pride events in over seven years for many reasons — increasingly militarized police presence, \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\">pinkwashing\u003c/a>, harmful corporate sponsorships — to name a few,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oaklash is one of the facilitators of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thebadfund/%20\">BAD (Bay Area Drag) Fund\u003c/a>, a mutual aid fund created to support artists who choose to opt out of gigs that may clash with their support of Palestinians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Celeste, who is Jewish, said the BAD Fund “gives people the ability to say no … because that’s not a luxury that many of us are afforded.” The fund, Celeste points out, is a way to lessen artists’ dependency on the wealthy, especially amid the economic disparity that has pushed many queer and trans artists out of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Celeste said they and their colleagues were not out to shame performers who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> take these gigs. Instead, they wanted people to think about “ where our money comes from and where our money is going to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240126-GazaImmigration-03-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush poses for a portrait in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mama Ganuush is hosting events, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/bay2gazamutualaid/p/C7-Dfmzym6C/\">Cabaret Palestina\u003c/a> to assist the BAD Fund, featuring drag artists like King LOTUS BOY and Papi Churro — joining a list of \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C79_Q8eyeUF/?igsh=MWQ1ZGUxMzBkMA%3D%3D&img_index=2\">alternative Pride events this month\u003c/a> that show solidarity with Palestinian activism. 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"content": "\u003cp>At Pomona College in eastern Los Angeles County, commencement ceremonies are scheduled for this weekend on the college’s central Marston Quad, with events planned Friday through Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of late Thursday, a pro-Palestinian encampment on the quad was growing in the exact location where commencement is supposed to be held. Dozens of students have set up tents, Palestinian flags and barricades around the college’s graduation stage, making it unclear whether the college will be able to proceed with commencement activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters said Thursday that they have no plans to leave the encampment until the college meets their demands to divest its endowment funds from companies supporting Israel and its war in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These schools love their pageantry and their ceremonies, so seizing the commencement plaza was really just a strategic move to show the college that we will continue to disrupt business as usual until they divest,” said Kwame Nkrumah, a sophomore at the college studying political sociology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The elite liberal arts college of about 1,700 students is one of several campuses across California with commencement events scheduled this weekend that protests could disrupt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of Southern California canceled its main stage commencement ceremony altogether, citing security concerns. It does have other events planned, including a celebration for graduating students and their families at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum that was held Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At UC Berkeley, which will hold its main ceremony on Saturday morning, campus officials acknowledge protests are possible but said they are moving ahead with commencement like business as usual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They are some of the first graduations to be held since pro-Palestinian encampments and protests popped up last month across California and the rest of the country, sparked by the arrests of more than 100 protesters at Columbia University on April 18. Protesters have demanded their campuses divest from Israel. Protesters at one campus in California declared success earlier this week when Sacramento State changed its investment policy to state that the college will no longer invest “in corporations and funds that profit from genocide, ethnic cleansing and activities that violate fundamental human rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Pomona, campus officials said they remain committed to holding their commencement events this weekend. The first event scheduled to take place on the quad is Friday at 5 p.m. when the college plans to hold an induction for its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, an honor society. On Saturday evening, the college plans to hold a celebratory dinner on the quad for graduates and their families before the main commencement ceremony on Sunday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the year, college leaders have offered to meet with student protesters and will continue to do so. We will promote safety for all members of our community and pursue our educational mission, considering the full range of viewpoints. We are committed to holding commencement to honor the Class of 2024 with their loved ones, and preparations are continuing,” a college spokesperson said in a statement to EdSource.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College officials, who were not made available for an interview, have not disclosed how or whether they plan to clear the encampment to hold the commencement activities. Nkrumah said students are prepared for the possibility that police will attempt to clear the encampment. Last month, 20 students were arrested while occupying the college president’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mattin Khoshzaban, a graduating senior at Pomona, said he and his classmates have heard little from administrators ahead of this weekend’s ceremonies. Khoshzaban said he supports the protesters and their message but added he’s frustrated by the possibility that commencement could be disrupted. Like many current college seniors, he graduated from high school in 2020 and didn’t get an in-person graduation ceremony because of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although they’re trying to protest the administration, it feels like a protest against the students. And especially because we didn’t get our first graduation,” he said. “We have our families flying in. We literally don’t know what’s going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khoshzaban, who is studying economics, has a dozen family members who were expected to fly into the Los Angeles area starting Thursday night from Oregon, including his parents, grandparents, siblings and even aunts and uncles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family has protested other things at different times, but they are upset for me because they know I didn’t have a high school graduation,” said Khoshzaban, who added that it would be “very meaningful” for him to be able to walk across the commencement stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anwar Mohamed, another graduating senior, feels differently. He also had his high school graduation in Chicago canceled because of the pandemic, but he isn’t worried about whether he walks across the stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demanding that Pomona divest is a personal issue for Mohamed, who is one of the organizers of the encampment. 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This year, like every year in the past, our efforts will focus on ensuring the ceremony can be successfully held, and on supporting the ability of graduating students, their friends and families to safely enjoy and take part in an incredibly meaningful day,” said Dan Mogulof, a spokesperson for the campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christopher Ying, a graduating senior at UC Berkeley, said he appreciates that Berkeley is moving ahead with a typical commencement. Ying is this year’s recipient of the University Medal, Berkeley’s top honor for graduating seniors, and will give a speech at the ceremony. He received the honor in part for his work with incarcerated people, including tutoring them and helping them edit and publish news stories distributed at prisons statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ying doesn’t plan to address Israel’s war in Gaza during his speech, saying that it wouldn’t be genuine to talk about it because none of his extracurriculars while in college related to the conflict. 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