I was curious about Episcopal Bishop of Washington Mariann Budde, who's being treated as a hero for her "courage" confronting Trump over immigration. Did she speak up about the Holocaust of our time in Gaza? By her own admission she mostly stayed "silent," and when she did speak it was to spread "Israeli" atrocity propaganda about mass rapes, denounce and smear resistance, demand that Palestinians be "held accountable," but never Israeli war criminals, and she offers only both-sidesy sympathy for Palestinians, while carefully avoiding direct criticism of Israel. And of course while repeatedly citing the moral fraud Elie Wiesel, she never recognizes what happened in Gaza as genocide. If this is the "courage" we can look forward to from hand-wringing liberals under Trump, then they have learned nothing and will be of no use to anyone.

Ali Abunimah

* i am glad of the idea of mercy in the face of the cruelty of the death cult of power in the forsaken country, but the compartmentalization, and the denial of the murderous cruelty of the zionists is sickening. the u.s. of israhell shows no mercy.