We reject Trump’s so-called “peace plan” and the annexation of the West Bank that blatantly dismisses the value of innocent Palestinian lives, violates international law, and aims to erase a reality and people as if they never existed.

The police brutality and murder we are witnessing in the United States is, unfortunately, not unknown to Palestinians.The methods law enforcement agents deploy are all too familiar to Palestinians living under military Israeli occupation. Through what has been coined “The Deadly Exchange,” U.S. police forces are being trained by Israeli forces, those who protect and maintain an illegal military occupation.

Nakba, in Arabic, means catastrophe and as terrifying as that word and its connotations are, it does not describe half of the pain and struggle Palestinians face until today.

In 2018, Israel approved 10,536 housing units in West Bank settlements and demolished 390 Palestinian homes. We asked: how can progressives struggle against the U.S. housing crisis while supporting the forcible eviction of hundreds of Palestinians? Soifer changed the subject.

Peace is unattainable without justice. We reject President Trump’s “Deal of the Century”.