Rep. Greg Landsman claims Iran poses an "existential threat" and that "diplomacy has been given every opportunity." Normally, we would demand accountability from our elected officials, but Landsman has made clear, time and again, that he does not serve his constituents. Instead, we call on the people to abandon Landsman, who continues to stand with empire, apartheid, and unending war.

Over the last decade, Pride has been professionalized and depoliticized: paid staff, marketing partnerships, VIP tickets, security trainings with the FBI. Pride is no longer a grassroots expression of queer struggle. It has become a PR-friendly festival designed to keep us passive and "proud," but only so long as we make no demands.

Corporate Pride is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which can be rejected. We do not have to accept the false representation of our identities, communities, or history of resistance by harmful corporate and government entities. The Pride of the future will represent queer struggle and queer joy. It will honor our past and present, and fight for the liberation of all oppressed and exploited peoples across the globe.

Every month, the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza reaches new levels of devastation. The so-called "aid corridor" at the Rafah border remains a PR stunt. Despite international promises, aid is not reaching the people who need it. Those who make their way to humanitarian aid sites are shot and killed in cold blood by the Israeli military.

While the state continues to shield Israel from accountability, the people of Ohio are making it clear: we do not consent to our tax dollars funding genocide. The laws may be written against us, but history is not. From Cincinnati to Gaza, liberation will be won by the organized and uncompromising struggle of the international proletariat.

Solidarity with the Palestinian resistance must be uncompromising. There is no middle ground between imperialism and liberation. The Palestinian cause demands internationalist, anti-imperialist, and socialist solidarity, not performative slogans and conditional support. 

Around the US, pro-Palestine students, organizers, and protesters are being arrested on trumped up immigration charges and other related offenses. From Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia University in New York to Rumeysa Ozturk at Tufts University in Massachusetts, student after student, teacher after teacher continues to stand up for the people of Palestine in the face of repression by the bourgeois police state. These arrests are being carried out in broad daylight by non uniformed officers.

Another Response to Rabbi Ari Jun

Cincinnati Socialists demands the release of Palestinian rights activist Mahmoud Khalil.

Ohio sends more taxpayer dollars to Israel’s military than almost any other state in the US.

Our organization has come under fire recently from Rabbi Ari Jun, the Director of Cincinnati’s Jewish Community Relations Council and an outspoken Cincinnati Zionist.

We are a coalition of organizers here to share the problems of Corporate Pride, Police in Queer spaces, and to expose that a number of the corporations sponsoring pride are directly linked to the oppression of queer communities and the genocide of Palestinians.