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May 13th, 2021 
Awake Goy Protests are being held in solidarity with Palestine around the world this week, with large demonstrations planned for this coming weekend. Thousands of people have hit the streets in cities throughout the United States.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Rep. André Carson (D-IN) joined the crowd outside the State Department in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, demanding an end the forced displacement of Palestinians in Jerusalem.
“Our freedom is interconnected with black, brown, and indigenous,” said Tlaib. “It is connected. What they are doing to the Palestinian people is what they continue to do to our black brothers and sisters here…I want you to know this, if you are marching for freedom for Palestine, please know that you must be marching for everybody’s freedom. It is all interconnected.”
“Today, I was honored to join @RepRashida and a diverse crowd of people at the State Department to demand justice for Palestinians,” tweeted Carson after addressing the crowd. “Americans of all backgrounds have a moral obligation to protect human rights wherever they are threatened — in #SheikhJarrah, and around the world!”
Rally organizers delivered a petition signed by over 220,000 people, urging the Biden administration to act. It quotes Mohammed El-Kurd, whose family was forcefully displaced from their home in Sheikh Jarrah. “This fate of dispossession looms over much of my neighborhood,” he said. “Our lives are consumed by the anxiety of living on the brink of homelessness.”
Mohammed El-Kurd, a writer fighting to save his family home in Sheikh Jarrah, appeared at multiple events over social media livestream.
Hundreds of protestors turned up in front of the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles and thousands gathered on the streets of midtown Manhattan.
“You might ask yourself, what can you do in New York City to make sure that our brothers, our sisters, our family beyond the binary in Palestine are safe and free and receive justice?” New York State Assembly member Zohran Mamdani told a crowd. “You can put pressure on every single elected officials. At the city council, at the state assembly, at the state senate. We have elected officials who are taking paid-for trips to Israel. They are going there paid for by your tax dollars. They show up at Israel Day parades and say, ‘We stand in solidarity. We want to let them know that there are three letters we have as an answer to what is happening in Palestine and it’s B-D-S.”
The progressive Jewish organization IfNotNow blocked traffic outside of Rep. Jerry Nadler’s (NY-D) office, demanding that the lawmaker sponsor Rep. Betty McCollum’s (D-MN) historic new bill. The legislation aims to end U.S. complicity in Israel’s human rights abuses.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Rep. Marie Newman (D-IL) are currently circulating a congressional letter that calls on the Biden administration to investigate whether U.S. aid is being used by Israel to displace Palestinians in Jerusalem.
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