I can certainly appreciate them protesting outside of the Infernal Revenue Service building in Philadelphia. What they are protesting, however, is not something I support.

Protesters block traffic in Center City, calling for an end to war in Gaza

Organizers said the action is part of A15, a global campaign calling on U.S. officials to stop supplying arms to U.S. and end the taxpayer-funded siege in the Gaza Strip.

by Max Marin and Beatrice Forman | Income Tax Day, April 15, 2024 | 9:41 AM EDT

Dozens of protesters blocked traffic in Center City on Monday morning in the latest demonstration calling to an end the war in Gaza.

Waving Palestinian flags, demonstrators blanketed the road along the Market Street Bridge near Schuylkill Avenue around 8:15 a.m., disrupting the a busy intersection during the morning rush hour.

Organizers said the action is part of A15, a global campaign calling on U.S. officials to stop supplying arms to Israel and end the taxpayer-funded siege in the Gaza Strip. The timing on Tax Day in the U.S. was intentional, organizers said, as was the protest location outside Philadelphia’s IRS building in University City.

The article authors did not include the link to A15’s website; I added that myself.

In a news release, organizers pointed to public and private sector initiatives that they claimed helped finance Israeli’s siege over the last six months, singling out Pennsylvania state bond purchases as well as U.S.-contracted weapons manufacturers with offices in Philadelphia.

I have said it before: the United States should not be funding either Ukraine in its war with Russia, or Israel in its war with Hamas, and apparently Iran now. Ukraine cannot win against Russia, regardless of how much money and equipment we send them, unless the aid includes actual NATO troops on the ground to directly fight the Russians, and I’m pretty sure that direct war with a nation which has a strategic nuclear arsenal isn’t the best idea in the world. And Israel will not lose its war with Hamas, even if we send them nothing, so that spending would be useless as well. However, I absolutely support Israel, an outpost of Western civilization, in a region of Islamic barbarism. While American support for Israel is a benefit to them, Israel does not need our support to win.

I am also completely opposed to the cockamamie notion of ‘humanitarian’ aid to the ‘civilians’ in Gaza. Such aid prolongs the war, and much is seized by Hamas anyway. Did we send humanitarian aid to civilians in Germany and Japan during World War II? All armies, whether regular armies of guerrilla forces, depend on the larger civilian population for their support, and the ‘Palestinian’ civilians completely supported the Hamas terrorists with food, clothing, shelter, water, and concealment; they are no different from civilian munitions or railroad workers in the Third Reich.

And let’s face it: support for the ‘Palestinians’ is, in the end, support for Anti-Semitism. The A15 website tells you all that you need to know to understand that!

The proposal states that in each city, we will identify and blockade major choke points in the economy, focusing on points of production and circulation with the aim of causing the most economic impact, as did the port shutdowns in recent months in Oakland, California and Melbourne, Australia, as just a few examples.

There is a sense in the streets in this recent and unprecedented movement for Palestine that escalation has become necessary: there is a need to shift from symbolic actions to those that cause pain to the economy.

As Yemen is bombed to secure global trade, and billions of dollars are sent to the Zionist war machine, we must recognize that the global economy is complicit in genocide and together we will coordinate to disrupt and blockade economic logistical hubs and the flow of capital.

And:

We will act in solidarity with each other in the face of attacks from the media, politicians and the police and the Zionist project.

When the ‘pro-Palestinians’ start throwing around the word “Zionist” they are telling you exactly who they are. And, as liberals/leftists, which they also tell us by their words attacking the “global economy,” we can recognize that they are also idiots, supporting the most illiberal of cultures, the very people who would throw them in jail for their cultures and lifestyles if the Islamists gained governing power over them. At least Chick-fil-A used cows in their ads to encourage people to “eat mor chikin”; ‘Queers for Palestine’ is like ‘Chickens for KFC.’

But, I also support A15’s goal in one other respect: I, too, want to see an end to the war in Gaza. It’s just that I want to see it end with a complete Israeli victory.