Rep. Scholten displays fake empathy for people in Gaza being killed while trying to access food aid
On Monday, Rep. Hillary Scholten posted an article from Reuters News with the headline, Israeli fire kills 67 people seeking aid in Gaza, medics say, as hunger worsens.
While I agree that what is happening to people in Gaza is abhorrent, I’m going to call bullshit on the comment that Rep. Scholten wrote that was attached to the Reuters article. Rep. Scholten wrote:
“I’m heartbroken and deeply concerned about the loss of innocent lives this weekend in Gaza. Innocent people seeking aid and food MUST be able to do so without harm as we work toward an end to this humanitarian crisis.”
First, what is happening to the people of Gaza is NOT an humanitarian crisis, it is genocide, a genocide being perpetrated by the Israeli government/military.
Second, it is instructive that Rep. Scholten can’t even name the innocent lives being lost, the Palestinians. She can’t, not unless she wants to piss off the Israel lobby and the Democratic Party leadership, which pretty much do whatever the Israel lobby wants them to do. In addition, Rep. Scholten can’t even say that the Israeli military killed the 67 Palestinians over weekend.
Third, Rep. Scholten’s empathy is so ridiculously shallow, since she has supported every US military aid bill since October of 2023 and every weapons sales since then as well – as I have been methodically documenting. You can’t sign off on genocide and then claim to give a shit about innocent lives being killed while trying to access food aid.
Fourth, the Israeli military has been engaged in the strategy of attacking and killing Palestinians seeking food aid since last year. What happened last weekend was not new, so why is Rep. Scholten addressing it now. Again, fake empathy. Here is just a sampling of sources on how Israel has not only created starvation conditions for those in Gaza, but are attacking those seeking food aid.
THEY WENT TO GET FLOUR WITH THEIR MOTHER IN GAZA. “SHE CAME BACK IN A WHITE SHROUD.”
‘An Avoidable Disaster’: Israeli Blockade of Gaza Could Starve Hundreds of Premature Babies
ISRAELI SOLDIERS KILLED AT LEAST 410 PEOPLE AT FOOD AID SITES IN GAZA THIS MONTH
‘The Never-Ending Hunger Games of Gaza’: IDF Kills 70+ Palestinians Trying to Get Food Aid
Children Are Starving in Gaza, as Soldiers Kill People Looking for Food
US and Israel turn “aid” centers into slaughter zones
IN GAZA, FAMINE IS THE WEAPON — AND SO IS AID
THE RISING DEATH TOLL OF THE U.S.–ISRAEL AID DISTRIBUTION PLAN IN GAZA
“People Are Starving to Death”: Oxfam Warns Israel’s Blockade on Gaza Is Catastrophic
Surveillance Humanitarianism”: As Gaza Starves, U.S.-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food
We need to see through the fake empathy from Rep. Scholten and any other politicians who doesn’t support a tru ceasefire, an end to US military aid and weapons sales to Israel and for Israel to be tried in an international court for the crime of genocide. Anything less would betray the Palestinian people.
Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy 
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