Food as a political weapon in Gaza and here at home.
The same government that’s halting food aid for Americans is still funding Israel’s military campaign, proving that starvation and suffering, whether at home or abroad, are political weapons used against the people.
Three months worth of aid are waiting outside the Gazan border waiting to be let in by Israel. A quarter of Gaza’s population is starving.
SNAP benefits won’t be loaded this November, even though contingency funds are available. That means 42 million people—one in every eight in the U.S.—may not have food on their tables.
The playbook to use food as political fodder was tested in Gaza. Now it’s coming home. When people question why Israeli policy impacts local government, this is why.
We’ve seen this logic before: in Gaza, where access to water, food, and medicine has been weaponized for nearly two decades, we have now seen this escalate into the genocide we are witnessing today.
Here at home, the same machinery of control is turning inward. ICE surveillance networks built with Israeli technology (1). Police forces trained alongside the IDF (2). The erosion of freedom of movement, the criminalization of dissent. This is facism.
The parallels are not coincidental. They’re structural. And they’re paid for with our tax dollars. Billions of our taxpayer money has been poured into Israel’s military while Americans go hungry, underinsured, and at risk of homelessness. We could fully fund ongoing ACA subsidies for every eligible U.S. household in 2026 for what we’ve sent to fuel Israel’s military in the two years (3)(4).
