With scant political opposition, the new Republican-controlled Congress and Trump White House will undoubtedly only double down on material support for Israel's war crimes. And they are already threatening people who demonstrate publicly in support of an arms embargo with investigation, prosecution, deportation, or other kinds of attacks. Citing those and other threats, Ben Samuels of Haaretz anticipates that Trump's promise "to crack down on pro-Palestinian sentiment in America will be a defining factor of his administration's early days" and that "the fight against the pro-Palestinian movement might be one of the only things that has a clear path across the government" -- that is, the suppression could be bipartisan. For the people of Gaza and their American supporters, 2025 could turn out to be even more horrifying than the ghastly year just passed.
Copyright 2025 Stan Cox
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