Anti-war activists in Minnesota: 'Governor Walz has refused to meet Palestinian families'
Anti-war activists in Minnesota: 'Governor Walz has refused to meet Palestinian families'
One meeting was abruptly cancelled when Walz was told Palestinian participants wanted to discuss 'material solutions', not just share stories
Sana Wazwaz, the chapter lead and education coordinator for American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Minnesota, told MEE the Palestinian community had been trying for months to arrange a meeting with the governor to talk about the devastating losses in Gaza and their demands for an arms embargo on Israel.
When they did manage to arrange a meeting with the governor for early July through the Council on Islamic American Relations (Cair), it was cancelled even before it began.
Wazwaz says when the six-person contingent, made up of activists and representatives of families who had lost relatives in Gaza, made their way to the governor's office on 9 July, they were first asked to meet with his staff.
When they explained to the governor's staff that they had come to discuss "material solutions" with the governor and not merely to narrate "sob stories" about the loss of their loved ones - given that it was now almost a year since the war on Gaza began - the two staffers abruptly got up and returned 15-20 minutes later to inform them the meeting had been cancelled.'
Anti-war and pro-Palestinian activists in Minnesota have been routinely calling for divestment and an arms embargo on Israel.
Moreover, activists have been calling on the state to repeal the anti-boycott legislation installed in 2017. But Walz has shown little to no intention to repeal the law.
Pro-Palestine activists have also been urging the state of Minnesota to divest from its financial stakes in Israeli companies and bonds, said to be an estimated $119m.
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That's it, blame the Governor of Minnesota for Israel's bombing of Palestine. Makes sense.
This is Linkerbaan posting. Would you expect anything intelligent?
Removed, civility.
I dunno man. Maybe stop the troll and there won't be comments like this to remove.
Or, alternatively, you can report the troll.
The comments I remove, generally, all come through the report system. We don't police every comment, nobody has that kind of time.
Wasn't it always Biden's fault? Like Global inflation, Ukraine, climate change, lyme disease, and that damn pothole?
After failing with Walz, the mayor of Topeka may be the cause.
It must be when people ask more from nice old weed man than pretty words while Minnesota has anti BDS laws and invests $120Million in israel
This indecipherable nonsense cannot even be responded to.
A bunch of people who are not Tim Walz do something.
Linkerbaan and friends: Why would Walz personally do this? And why won't he ignore his actual duties as governor and serving his constituents to Virtue signal about our pet issue that we are over radicalized about?
Single issue voters. Even if it's an issue that I generally agree on. Will be the death of us. And what's up with them being back? A week or two ago that they were screaming all over lemmy about the mods of this community being Zionist genocide lovers.
Their rock must have become crowded and some crawled out.
Shills gotta do the job they're paid for, after all ...
And what’s up with them being back
Kamala openly stating she was not going to empose an arms embargo on israel like two days ago.
If you don't know his policies why type a comment.
You know nothing, are not American, and you comment all the time on American politics? Why are you here again?