When Abolitionists Say “Free Them All,” We Mean Palestine Too
With every escalation of United States wars — whether the post-9/11 war of terror or Genocide JoeBiden’s current war on Palestine — we witness an escalation in policing and the militarization of theU.S. border. It is no coincidence that the Senate is currently discussing changes to the U.S. migrationsystem as part of a military aid package related toIsrael and Ukraine, in the name of “national security.” Israel purchases more than 80 percent of its weapons andmilitary technology from the U.S., using the billions of dollars of military assistance it receives from the U.S.annually. The U.S. in turn supports Israel to operate as the police of the Middle East, North Africa, and the worldover. Leftists, abolitionists and antiwar activists need to understand that our struggles against policing, prisons andU.S. empire are inseparable. As my INCITE!Comrade Clarissa Rojas and I have written, just as U.S. empire has always reliedupon policing and containment as interconnected strategies for securing global power, it has always been militarist,existing in a permanent state of war and expansion, obsessively concerned with the extractive accumulation of land,resources, cultures and the people it commodifies into power and capital.(https://truthout.org/video/will-biden-cave-on-gops-immigration-demands-in-ukraine-funding-request/) (https://truthout.org/articles/to-abolish-prisons-and-militarism-we-need-anti-imperialist-abolition-feminism/) (https://www.abolitionfeminisms.org/volume-1.html)
