RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE have voiced their solidarity with Palestine after Israeli airstrikes killed at least 51 people in Gaza and the West Bank.
Early this morning, the RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Twitter account shared the following statement: “The violence and atrocities we are witnessing in Sheikh Jarrah, the Al Aqsa compound and Gaza are a continuation of decades of Israel’s brutal apartheid and violent occupation of Palestine. We stand with the Palestinian people as they resist this colonial terror in all its forms”.
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello also retweeted several messages from Jeremy Scahill, co-founder and editor-at-large of The Intercept, that were critical of the Biden administration’s response to the conflict.
According to RT, militants in Hamas-run Gaza have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel since Monday night, with some projectiles even reaching Tel Aviv. The attacks have killed at least five civilians, including two Arab-Israelis: a woman and a child. In response to the rocket barrages, the Israel Defense Forces has carried out a series of airstrikes in Gaza.
On Wednesday, U.S. president Joe Biden told reporters that Israel has a right to respond with military force “when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory.” He added that his “hope is that we’ll see this coming to a conclusion sooner than later.”
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE will be hitting the road for their first tour in more than a decade later on in 2021 and throughout 2022.
The violence and atrocities we are witnessing in Sheikh Jarrah, the Al Aqsa compound and Gaza are a continuation of decades of Israel’s brutal apartheid and violent occupation of Palestine. We stand with the Palestinian people as they resist this colonial terror in all its forms pic.twitter.com/6viSp4nZRs
— Rage Against The Machine ???? (@RATM) May 13, 2021