If we condemn Hamas for its October 7 attacks in Israel, we’re not accused of anti-Arab bigotry. Nor should we be. Nothing could possibly justify the atrocities that Hamas committed against hundreds of civilians, who were the majority of the 1,200 people killed as a result of the attacks by Hamas forces. And nothing can justify the taking of civilian hostages.

When the foreign policy of a country as large and significant as the United States is governed by a case of cognitive dissonance, terrible things happen. 

 These terrible things are, in fact, already taking place in the Gaza Strip, where well over 100,000 people have been killed, wounded or are missing, and an outright famine is currently ravaging the displaced population. 

Probably fewer ideas are treated with more contempt in today’s world than . . . ahem: a one-state solution for Palestine and Israel, with, good God, every resident equally valued, equally free.

“Snort! No one wants this! It’s not possible — it’s not true!”

My reply to the cynics is this: We will not enter the future with closed minds. We will not find security — we will not evolve — if we choose to remain subservient to linear, us-vs.-them thinking. We will not become our fullest selves or have access to our own collective human consciousness if we choose to stay caged in our own righteous certainty. Our god is better than your god!

I acknowledge from the start: This is not a simple process, any more than America’s reluctant embrace of the civil rights movement was, or is, simple. But armed dehumanization — which is to say war, hatred, ethnic cleansing, cultural erasure, endless slaughter, the murder of children, genocide — is neither “simple” nor the least bit effective in creating a world that is safe for anyone. War and hatred perpetuate nothing but themselves. You know that, right?

Chart about missing voters

Nearly 25 million Black and Latino people are missing or incorrectly listed in the voter databases sold by the political industry and used by campaigns to conduct voter outreach, according to a report from the Democracy & Power Innovation Fund. While 40 percent of Black and Latino people were effectively invisible in the vendor databases, only 18 percent of white people were missing or mislisted. 

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Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan has demonstrated long standing support of Israel Bonds. The treasurer has attended multiple of the company’s events, both before and during her time in office including one that featured Netanyahu and was personally recognized by Israel Bonds at an event in 2019 for her investments.   

Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan has demonstrated long standing support of Israel Bonds. The treasurer has attended multiple of the company’s events, both before and during her time in office including one that featured Netanyahu and was personally recognized by Israel Bonds at an event in 2019 for her investments.

  

Michael Broidy (representing Jay Schottenstein, Israel Bonds Columbus general chairman),  Municipal Court Judge Cynthia Ebner, and Franklin County Treasurer Cheryl Brooks Sullivan 

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Ohio Families Unite Against Police Brutality & OFUPAC are launching our new volunteer program!! Join us to learn more about our organizations and areas where you can plug in and help impacted families!  

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