This October will mark two years since Israel launched its *ongoing* genocidal assault on Gaza, relentlessly bombarding, starving, and isolating over two million Palestinians. This is not a distant crisis. It is a U.S.-funded, U.S.-enabled catastrophe.

That’s why this year’s Palestine Advocacy Days are taking place from October 19-21 in Washington, D.C., with a clear focus on one message: Fighting U.S. Complicity.

We know none of this started on October 7th, but with full political and material support from our government, Israel has killed over 60,000 Palestinians, leveled entire neighborhoods, annihilated entire bloodlines, and turned Gaza into a graveyard in the last two years alone. The use of white phosphorus over densely populated areas. The targeting of journalists, medics, and aid convoys. The deliberate destruction of bakeries, universities, and the last remaining hospitals. Meanwhile, in the West Bank, Israel is doubling down on its settler-colonial agenda, and Palestinians are being displaced, assaulted, and imprisoned in record numbers under the cover of martial rule and settler violence. All of it made possible by U.S. weapons, vetoes, and diplomatic cover.

Even as our own democracy hangs by a thread, with the rise of authoritarianism, political violence, and the erosion of civil rights, the U.S. refuses to course-correct. Instead, it doubles down: shielding Israel from international accountability, sending billions in weapons, and justifying war crimes in the name of a “shared democracy” that doesn’t really exist, all while the rest of the world moves towards demanding accountability and condemning Israel.