Rep. Scholten engages in performative act in support of Israeli hostages and has yet to condemn the 33,000 plus Palestinians who have been murder by the Israeli military in the past 6 months

The world is watching genocide unfolding before its very eyes. Palestinians, aid workers and journalists are being murdered by the Israeli military, often using US weapons, and still the US Congress and the Biden Administration continue to send weapons and voted for more military aid to Israel.

Just yesterday, in a story from Aljazeera, their reporter stated, “At least 33,545 Palestinians have been killed and 76,094 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens still held captive.”

There was also a recent story about two US trauma surgeons who just came back from Gaza. They stated in a recent opinion piece they wrote, entitled, As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel’s Genocide in Gaza.

As humanitarian trauma surgeons we have both seen incredible suffering. Collectively, we were present at Ground Zero on 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the Boston Marathon bombing, and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti on the first day of these disasters. We have worked in the deprivation of southern Zimbabwe and the horrors of the war in Ukraine. Together we have worked on more than 40 surgical missions in developing countries on three continents in our combined 57 years of volunteering. This long experience taught us that there was no greater pain as a humanitarian surgeon than being unable to provide needed care to a patient.

But that was before coming to Gaza. Now we know the pain of being unable to treat a child who will slowly die, but also alone, because she is the only surviving member of an entire extended family. We have not had the heart to tell these children how their families died: burned until they resembled blistered hotdogs more than human beings, shredded to pieces such that they can only be buried in mass graves, or simply entombed in their former apartment buildings to die slowly of asphyxia and sepsis.

This is why I was so disgusted to see a recent post on Facebook from Rep. Hillary Scholten who engaged in a hypocritical and performative act centered around the Israeli hostages, despite the fact that she has never publicly condemned the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Here is what she wrote:

Today, I’m wearing blue to show my support for the hostages who have been held by Hamas since the horrific attacks on October 7th. We continue to pray for their safe return and must do everything in our power to bring peace to the region.

AIPAC must really have Rep. Scholten in their pocket to get such a disgusting display out of her in the midst of the Israeli genocide against the Palestinians.