I urge my federal, state, and local officials to call for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. This would prevent further loss of Israeli lives, and help halt what many human rights groups are rightfully calling genocide against the Palestinian people that started long before Hamas was founded in 1987. As someone with close Jewish and Palestinian friends, and someone who has witnessed firsthand the everyday violence of the occupation and the traumatic effects it ultimately has on both Israelis and Palestinian, I urge you to do the right thing. Demand an end to this genocide, the occupation, and apartheid. Please be the voice we elected you to be.

Nelson Mandela said that the freedom of South Africans was incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. Heed his words. True freedom will not come until the U.S. supports one secular democratic state where the religious freedoms of all are fiercely protected. More than 1,000 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza in in just over a week. Gaza is among the most densely populated places on the planet and two-thirds of its residents are already refugees from the the ethnic cleansing of 1948. They are being forced, once again, to flee, and are bombed when they do so. The third oldest Christian church in the world was just destroyed. A hospital was just bombed, killing nearly 500 people. Entire city blocks have been erased, as have, as of this writing, every last member of over 50 families in Gaza. Their entire bloodlines gone forever. I urge you to speak out and let the world know the people of Massachusetts do not support genocide, do not want this happening in our name, and want an immediate end to the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza. 

Jason Mizula

Greenfield