As the news cycle fills with coverage of Iranian strikes on the Zionist state and vice versa, what is obscured is that the United States government, the European Union, and other allies are continuing to aid and abet the Zionists in facilitating a genocide against the Palestinian people. This is all directly funded by US taxpayer money, and flies in the face of the values of the American people.

Poll after poll shows that the American people view the Zionist state negatively and support Palestinian liberation, from the river to the sea. The Zionist escalation against Iran is not about Iran having nuclear weapons, it is not about Iran being a threat to the region, and it is certainly not about ‘defending human rights’. Our historical memory should not be so short as to forget that George W. Bush and his administration lied about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction in order to justify a war in which more than one million Iraqis were slaughtered.

In the end, the only winners were oil companies, weapons manufacturers, and the American ruling class. When US army veterans returned to this country, they were cast aside, VA funding was slashed, and they now represent a significant amount of the homeless population. This escalation against Iran is very dangerous, not because Iran might have an atomic bomb, but because the Zionists do have an atomic bomb and their nuclear doctrine–the Samson Option–states that they would rather nuke their enemies and significantly destroy the earth and its peoples than let their colonial state fall. The name of this doctrine is another example of the abuse of the Abrahamic faiths by the Zionists, who view themselves as Samson, David, and all of the believers who fought against the enemies of God in the Quran, the Bible, and the Torah. Rather they are the Pharisees, Jalut (Goliath), and the destroyers of faith.

This is a call on American workers to stand up against forever wars, to blend the movement against Trump with a movement against imperialism. Trump represents the worst of the American ruling class, but we cannot forget that the Democrats paved the way for Trump. The entire government apparatus is poised to send us head on into a war which has no winners. During the war in Vietnam, a large movement grew to stand against the war. The movement was not only conscientious objectors, but civil rights activists, women’s rights activists, and environmental activists, too. Even 20 years ago, the anti-war movement was full of the same crowds, only then they were agitating against war in Iraq. How will we honor their legacy? How will we Americans stand up against imperialism so that our nation is not scorned by the rest of the world because of the destruction of life and the planet that the ruling class has left behind in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Palestine, and countless other nations?