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EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE ON GAZA CRISIS, Doctors Call On Trump To End The Starvation And Killing Fields In Gaza
EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE ON GAZA CRISIS, Doctors Call On Trump To End The Starvation And Killing Fields In Gaza

Associated Press

time23-07-2025

  • Politics
  • Associated Press

EMERGENCY PRESS CONFERENCE ON GAZA CRISIS, Doctors Call On Trump To End The Starvation And Killing Fields In Gaza

Doctors Against Genocide call on Trump to demand shutdown of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution deathtraps 'Hundreds of thousands in Gaza face death from forced starvation within hours or days on our watch. President Trump can end this with one phone call, just as President Reagan did.'— Dr. Nidal Jboor WASHINGTON, DC, DC, UNITED STATES, July 23, 2025 / / -- Contact: Dr. Nidal Jboor, co-founder, Doctors Against Genocide, 313-354-1400; Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle, co-founder, Doctors Against Genocide, 617-818-5239; [email protected] Who: Medical professionals with Doctors Against Genocide; Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI); former diplomats, veterans and more. Where: House Triangle, The US Capitol. When: Thursday, July 24, 10am. Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals representing the global coalition of healthcare workers, Doctors Against Genocide (DAG), alongside Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and other allies, will hold an emergency press conference at the House Triangle on Capitol Hill at 10am on Thursday, July 24. The speakers will call on US President Donald Trump to end the starvation and slaughter in Gaza. They will also demand the removal of the US-Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which has turned the distribution of aid into target practice for the Israeli military. After the press conference, members of DAG will protest in front of the Egyptian Embassy at 11am, the Israeli Embassy at 12pm, and in Lafayette Park in front of the White House from 12pm-2pm. DAG speakers will be available for additional interviews at each of these locations. 'The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is not aid, it's a U.S.-funded slaughterhouse,' said Dr. Nidal Jboor, a DAG co-founder and Michigan-based internal medicine specialist. 'Hundreds of thousands in Gaza face death from forced starvation within hours or days on our watch. President Trump can end this with one phone call, just as President Reagan did.' Israel's intense bombardment of Beirut, Lebanon in August 1982 ceased 20 minutes after Reagan placed a call to then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, urging him to halt the attacks. 'The US can and must shut down these killing zones, flood Gaza with real aid, and stop the genocide now,' Jboor said. Doctors Against Genocide will call on the White House to end the starvation, replace the US-Israeli GHF with neutral aid distribution organizations, and block Israeli plans to drive the surviving Palestinian population into concentration camps. As many as 3,000 trucks laden with life-saving aid are stranded at the border, blocked by Israel from entering Gaza. 'Palestinians in Gaza including our own medical colleagues are collapsing from extreme hunger and catastrophic war injuries,' said Dr. Karemeh Kuemmerle, a DAG co-founder and pediatric neurologist in Boston. 'More than one thousand civilians have been killed while trying to access food since late May,' Kuemmerle said. 'Without immediate access to food, medicine, and rehabilitation, lives will continue to be lost. This genocide is reaching unimaginable and unprecedented levels of cruelty and depravity. We are living in an age of no humanity.' Doctors Against Genocide has seen members of their own profession abducted, imprisoned, tortured and assassinated. They hear daily from fellow doctors in Gaza who are now fighting starvation themselves, even passing out on the floors of their hospitals but who are still trying to help their patients. 'Our doctors in Gaza are calling to us, 'the world must move today before it is too late,'' Jboor said. 'It's time for President Trump to fulfill his mandate as the 'peace president' and end the Gaza genocide now.' ### Dr. Nidal Jboor Doctors Against Genocide +1 313-354-1400 email us here Visit us on social media: LinkedIn Instagram Facebook YouTube X Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.

Republican Insists His Colleagues Aren't a ‘Bunch of Little B****es' Doing Trump's Bidding
Republican Insists His Colleagues Aren't a ‘Bunch of Little B****es' Doing Trump's Bidding

Yahoo

time17-07-2025

  • Politics
  • Yahoo

Republican Insists His Colleagues Aren't a ‘Bunch of Little B****es' Doing Trump's Bidding

Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden has insisted that he and his GOP colleagues are not a 'bunch of little b---hes' who do exactly as President Donald Trump desires. Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have slammed their colleagues from the other side of the aisle for allowing the so-called 'Big Beautiful Bill' to pass to a floor vote, citing concerns about it adding to the national debt and killing off millions of Americans' insurance coverage. 'You should be ashamed,' Ocasio-Cortez told the House of Representatives chamber. Almost all Republican holdouts caved in during the 219-213 vote. But Van Orden, of Wisconsin, has held firm, insisting that he and his colleagues have not caved to pressure from Trump to get the bill through. 'The president of the United States didn't give us an assignment. We're not a bunch of little b---hes around here, OK? I'm a member of Congress. I represent almost 800,000 Wisconsinites,' he told reporters outside the Capitol building on Wednesday, according to Punchbowl News' Kenzie Nguyen via X. Politico reporters Mike DeBonis and Samuel Benson said that Van Orden made the comments in the context of confirming he would vote for Trump's mega bill, despite pushback. 'So this bill will pass. Am I happy about everything? No, but there's a difference between compromise and capitulation. We're not capitulating. We're compromising,' DeBonis reported him as saying. However, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib isn't convinced. The Michigan Democrat replied to Van Orden on X, writing simply: 'Yes, he did, and yes, you are.' Congressman Mark Pocan, a Democrat from Wisconsin, also tried to get in on the act. He asked his followers on X: 'Do you think Derrick Van Orden is right... that Congress is not a bunch of 'little b---hes'?' After hours of deadlock, all but one House Republican voted to pass the 'rule,' a procedural measure which sets up the debate before a final vote on passing Trump's bill, expected to take place later Thursday morning. Trump wants the bill on his desk by July 4.

Mamdani's stunning victory marks the rise of a new American Left
Mamdani's stunning victory marks the rise of a new American Left

Al Jazeera

time25-06-2025

  • Politics
  • Al Jazeera

Mamdani's stunning victory marks the rise of a new American Left

Zohran Mamdani's stunning win in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor signals a seismic shift in US politics. The victory of the Ugandan-Indian American state assemblyman confirms what has been quietly building for years: A new working-class immigrant politics, rooted in organising, solidarity, and a sharp critique of inequality, is taking hold within the Democratic Party. Mamdani's campaign – focused on rent freezes, universal childcare, public transit, and green infrastructure – galvanised multiracial working-class coalitions across the city. His win is a repudiation of corporate influence and local corruption, and a powerful endorsement of politics shaped by immigrants with deep ties to global struggles for justice. This movement is not limited to New York. In Congress, Ilhan Omar – refugee, former security guard, and daughter of Somali immigrants – has helped define this new left. Joining her is Rashida Tlaib, the first and only Palestinian American woman to serve in Congress. Tlaib, Omar and Mamdani represent a politics shaped not just by US inequality, but by personal or ancestral experiences of instability, austerity, and repression in the Global South. They have emerged as the public faces of a broader trend: Politicians from immigrant backgrounds forming the backbone of an ascendant, insurgent Democratic Left. That's not the version of immigration Donald Trump has in mind. In October 2019, then-President Trump addressed a campaign rally in Minneapolis – a city with a large Somali population, represented by Ilhan Omar. Drawing on familiar right-wing tropes, Trump warned that immigrants and refugees were changing the United States for the worse. The subtext was clear: This was a dog whistle to MAGA voters, particularly white working- and middle-class Americans who blamed immigration for the country's decline. This rhetoric previewed what is now commonplace – unlawful, often brutal deportations of thousands from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. In Trump's telling, immigration from 'shithole' countries was responsible for crime, economic stagnation, and the misuse of public benefits. What he didn't say was that many Somali immigrants in Minneapolis had fled violence – some of it triggered or worsened by US foreign policy. But Trump was at least partly right: migrants and their offspring are changing US political life – just not in the way he feared. In fact, just a year before Trump's speech, the outskirts of Minneapolis were the site of the first worker strikes against Amazon's exploitative labour practices. Led mainly by Somali immigrants, these actions helped catalyse a renewed national labour movement. What began in one warehouse soon spread, with other Amazon plants and industries following suit. This is what makes Mamdani's mayoral primary win so significant. Alongside figures like Omar, he exemplifies a new kind of leadership – grounded in lived experience, powered by grassroots organising, and capable of translating complex policy into plainspoken demands for justice. His campaign focused on economic dignity, tenant rights, childcare, climate resilience, and taxing the rich – all anchored in the real conditions of working-class life. Just take African immigrants, where Mamdani and Omar have roots: There are now roughly 2.1 million sub-Saharan African immigrants living in the US, making up about 5 percent of the total foreign-born population. Much coverage emphasises how well-educated or professionally successful African immigrants are – facts often highlighted by middle- and upper-class diasporas. But these narratives obscure the reality for most: Lower average incomes, more precarious work, and higher poverty rates than other immigrant groups. Yet it is from this working-class base that a new politics is emerging – one with the potential to reshape the Democratic Party from the ground up. As the founder of the website Africa Is a Country, I spent nearly a decade and a half tracing how Africans are reinventing democratic politics despite the pressures of neoliberalism, authoritarianism, and militarism. From Nigeria's EndSARS and Uganda's Walk to Work to the Arab Spring and South Africa's Fees Must Fall, African activists have offered bold critiques of injustice. These movements have also influenced global struggles – most clearly in the resonance between them and Black Lives Matter. Many African immigrants in the US draw on these traditions of resistance. Mamdani organised alongside New York City taxi drivers fighting debt. Omar has cleaned offices and worked on assembly lines. Both have built political careers by listening to, and organising with, communities pushed to the margins. In a nation still reeling from Trump-era xenophobia and inequality, these new leaders offer a hopeful alternative. They are building solidarity across divides – between immigrants and the native-born, Muslims and non-Muslims, Black Americans and new African arrivals, and the second-generation offspring of migrants from elsewhere – grounded not in assimilation, but in shared struggle. As political theorist Corey Robin recently noted on social media, Mamdani is a 'happy warrior' in the mould of Franklin Roosevelt: Sharp, grounded, and unafraid to engage in real debate. That he is Muslim and South Asian deepens his significance in a city and nation transformed by global migration. He represents a radically democratic future – one conservatives can neither contain nor comprehend. The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial stance.

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